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Costas calls Mets to apologize for comments
Email ATLANTA -- Terry Collins heard the quip. How could he not? NBC broadcaster Bob Costas generated headlines Sunday when he called the Mets' walk-off celebration evidence of "the decline of Western civilization." "All right, civilization's over," Collins jabbed back Monday afternoon. "We'll have to rebuild it." Running through highlights during ...
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Turner could land on DL with left intercostal strain
Email ATLANTA -- Mets infielder Justin Turner is dealing with a left intercostal strain that could land him on the disabled list as soon as Tuesday. Turner stayed in New York after Sunday's game, receiving an MRI on Monday morning before joining his teammates in Atlanta. Though the Mets may not reach a resolution before the start of Tuesday's doubleheader, manager Terry Collins ...
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Syracuse man goes one block with stolen table saw before arrest police say
Syracuse, NY - A Syracuse man made it about one block with a stolen table saw before he was stopped and arrested Monday afternoon, according to police. Luis Dejesus, 20, of 1303 Lodi Street, reportedly took the 10-inch table saw, still in a box, from a locked shed on the 1900 block of Lodi Street shortly before 1 p.m. Monday, according to police. Within minutes, police arrived at the ...
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Wrong birth date on Ed Kochs tombstone
How’s Ed Koch tombstone doin’. Horrible!In a major blunder, the former mayor’s tombstone at Trinity Church in Washington Heights was mistakenly engraved with the wrong birth date.The date of birth given is Dec. 12, 1942 instead of 1924.The gaffe is enough to bring Koch -- a proud World War II veteran and stickler for details - right out of his grave, after a brief chuckle and ...
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Mayor Stephanie Miner speaks out for Womens Equality Agenda
Jim McGregor | The Post-Standard SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Mayor Stephanie Miner on Tuesday will reiterate her support for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's 10-point Women's Equality Agenda, which faces significant opposition in the state Senate because of its abortion provision. The powerful Independent Democratic Caucus, which includes Sen. David Valesky, D-Oneida, today submitted for a floor vote a ...
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Syracuse weather this evening a few more Thunderstorms
Scattered thundershowers are developing over the Finger Lakes this evening, roughly along Route 20 south of Syracuse. They will track southeast into southern New York this evening and weaken. Another cluster of showers and thunderstorms will develop over Michigan tonight. That area of rain will track southeast from Michigan into Central New York around sunrise. It does not appear that this last ...
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Oswego man charged with rape
Oswego, NY -- A 21-year-old Oswego man was charged with rape in the third degree after reportedly having sex with a minor, according to police. Micheal Johnson of 136 E. Second Street in Oswego was seen with a 16 year old on May 31, police said. A police investigation later the same day revealed that Johnson had sex with the minor, Oswego police said. Johnson did not force the minor to have ...
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New York University forcing me out China dissident
New York University was forcing him and his family to leave at the end of this month because of pressure from the Chinese government. The university denied Chen's allegations. Chen said in a statement that China's Communist Party had been applying "great, unrelenting pressure'' on NYU to ask him to leave, though he did not provide details or evidence to back his claim. ...
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Pineda making strides on rehab assignment
NEW YORK -- Right-hander Michael Pineda's next Minor League rehabilitation start will come on Thursday for Class A Advanced Tampa in Dunedin, Fla. Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that the 24-year-old is expected to throw about 80 pitches in the outing against the Blue Jays' Florida State League affiliate, and Pineda's reports have been positive coming off right labrum ...
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Teixeira could be headed to disabled list
Email NEW YORK -- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Monday that he is leaning toward placing first baseman Mark Teixeira on the 15-day disabled list, but a final decision has not yet been made. Cashman said on a conference call that he has been told Teixeira will not be available to play for at least seven days after having a cortisone injection to treat inflammation in his right ...
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Cashman not counting on Youkilis to return
Email NEW YORK -- Kevin Youkilis is on the 15-day disabled list for the second time this season with a back ailment, and Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said that the team cannot count on his return. "Back issues usually don't get better," Cashman said on a conference call Monday. "They can, but they're very debilitating and hard to get a handle on. It's ...
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Cuomo legislative leaders talk casinos jobs
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- New Yorkers could see huge, resort casinos upstate and an influx of new employers lured by the promise of tax-free operations for a decade under several deals in the works in ...
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New York City settles lawsuit over police pension benefits
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City has settled a lawsuit in which the federal government accused it of improperly reducing retirement benefits for current and former police officers who served in the military after September 11, ...
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Obama calls NSA secret data gathering transparent in PBS interview
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent -- even though they are authorized in secret. "It is transparent," Obama told PBS's Charlie Rose in an interview to be broadcast Monday. "That's why we set up the FISA court," he added, referring ...
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6 Northern NY border agents require decontamination after 2 become ill
Customs and Border Protection officials say two officers were examining a 2002 BMW around 6 a.m. Saturday at the Champlain crossing when they began to feel ill. Four other officers who went to help them didn't become ...
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Your Comments on Clyde vandalism case Punish the boys scold their parents move on
Syracuse.com readers weigh in on report that police had charged a man after he confined four boys in a closet after he allegedly caught them vandalizing his father-in-law's ...
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Albany leaders agree on last day of session but not necessarily all legislation
It's unclear whether leaders will agree on Gov. Andrew Cuomo's Women's Equality Act, which includes language to codify the Roe v Wade decision into state ...
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Arizona proof-of-citizenship law is illegal U.S. Supreme Court rules
People wait in line to vote at polling place located in a church in Phoenix in this Nov. 6, 2012, file photo. The Supreme Court ruled Monday, June 17, 2013, that states cannot on their own require would-be voters to prove they are U.S. citizens before using a federal registration system designed to make signing up easier. The justices voted 7-2 to throw out Arizona's voter-approved ...
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High school graduation rates remain steady in New York college-ready rates lag
Conductor Andrew Perry leads the band as students enter West Genesee High School's graduation ceremony at SRC Arena and Events Center at Onondaga Community College Saturday. The school's 2012 graduation rate was 87 ...
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Chinese Pro-Life Dissident Chen Booted From New York University
Chinese pro-life activist Chen Guangcheng, who was released by Beijing's communist government a year ago and allowed to re-locate to the United States, is leaving New York University, and Chen claims the school is being pressured by China's regime to boot him out. ...
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Port Authority retirees get free tolls and parking -- for life judge rules
Port Authority retirees get to keep the lifetime perk of free tolls and parking, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled. The Port Authority sued in Manhattan Supreme Court last year after an arbitrator ruled that about a 100 former lieutenants should receive the benefits, equivalent to a $2,000 a year bump in their pensions if used daily. The PA's board had voted to pull the perk for all ...
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Woman sues Spin City actor over alleged dog attack
A poodle mix owned by an actor best known for the ‘90s sitcom "Spin City" viciously attacked an Upper East Side woman in Central Park, according to a new lawsuit. Alexander Chaplin, 42, who played the mayoral aide James Hobert in the Michael J. Fox TV show from 1996-2000, allegedly allowed his goldendoodle Freddy to "approach, menace and attack" Denise Shaw, 61, during ...
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New York man facing criminal charges for stopping vandals
USA A New York man was arrested and charged for endangering the welfare of four children who allegedly broke into and vandalized his father-in-law's home, causing property damage in excess of $40,000 The man locked the children into a closet until police arrived, and claims he made no threats to hurt them. Jesse Daniels, a 53-year-old resident of Clyde, N.Y. is facing felony ...
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Critics Notebook Proven in Britain Two Comics Try to Take New York
Dylan Moran likes to start with a pang. In his last two stand-up shows, Mr Moran, an internationally popular comic who has been making a determined push into the American market, began with a greeting, then an anguished stammer, before mumbling the same sentence: ...
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Astors son 89 going to New York jail after losing mercy plea
NEW YORK (Reuters) - The 89-year-old son of late New York socialite Brooke Astor on Monday lost a final plea that because of old age and illness he should avoid prison time for his conviction on charges he cheated his ailing mother before her ...
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New York's community gardens creating tension once more
Community gardening in New York is under threat again, but what are the ideas and opinions surrounding this ongoing battle between the people and the city?
Community gardening is a well-known term and idea in New York City thanks to the much-publicized opposition between former Mayor Giuliani and members of the New York City public, who brought a lawsuit to have the gardens protected. The issue was eventually resolved when Mayor Bloomberg replaced Giuliani and introduced the Garden Settlement of 2002. Read more
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