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NYC man gets prison for stripping church van
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced Wednesday that Benjamin Livermore has been sentenced as a "second felony offender" - meaning it wasn't his first conviction for stripping a ...
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Pa. Constitution Center to display Bill of Rights
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- One of the 12 surviving copies of the Bill of Rights that may have been pilfered from Pennsylvania in the late 1800s will be on display in Philadelphia for three years, beginning with the 225th anniversary next year of the drafting of the country's highest ...
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Land swap would create more developable land in downtown Troy
Russell Sage College in downtown Troy, NY would be available for redevelopment if City Hall is able to do a land swap with the city's public housing authority. The two buildings are part of the Taylor Apartments complex owned by the Troy Housing Authority. They have been empty for about eight years since residents were moved out to other subsidized housing in the city. The red-brick ...
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Oswego County school budgets for 2013-14 pass with flying colors
Voters in all nine school districts in Oswego County approved budgets for the 2013-14 school year. Voters in the Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Central School District approved a $32,135,954 budget with a 1.31 percent tax levy decrease. The public voted 186 to 56. The district's bus proposition also passed with a vote of 178 to 65. The in-ground floor lift proposition passed with a vote of 167 ...
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Autopsy provides details on mans death inside Dullys Express Market in Syracuse
Basilio R. Ortiz Jr. had been smoking crack cocaine, became disruptive in a Syracuse store and was restrained by four employees, the autopsy report ...
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Company news Kimberly A. Steele awarded Oswego Countys Forty Under 40 award
Also in company news, Beardsley Design Associates, Dollar General Literacy Foundation, Eric Mower & Associates, The Eldercare Foundation, INFICON, Inc., ICS Solutions ...
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Critics of Oneida nation-New York settlement hold panel discussion tonight in Sherrill
Gov. Andrew Cuomo, left, and Ray Halbritter of the Oneida Indian Nation talk while signing an agreement on the Oneidas' Turning Stone casino during a news conference May 16 in Albany. Critics of the deal have organized a meeting at 7 tonight at Sherrill City ...
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Relatives charged in case of wandering 5-year-old Syracuse girl
Syracuse, NY -- Two relatives supposed to be watching a 5-year-old girl took naps Wednesday morning, allowing the girl to walk out of the residence, Syracuse police said. The relatives didn't call 911 for at least 2 1/2 hours, after police ...
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Homeowners sue NY over $4.6M in flood damage
Paul DeLorenzo, one of the attorneys representing property owners, said the lawsuit seeks $4.6 million for damage not covered by insurance. "Some of these people lost everything; others lost personal belongings or parts of their homes," DeLorenzo said Wednesday. "We maintain that this was foreseeable. The state didn't take any action to prevent ...
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Oneonta lender eying Albany market
NBT Bank or M&T or KeyBank," he said. "I help businesses through the short term and send them back to the banks." Kleszczewski does not plan to open a full-time office in the Albany area. His business model is based on keeping overhead low and doing as much online as possible. He said he may take a "traveling salesman office" approach, spending a day or two a week ...
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State DOT announces new traffic pattern for Route 370 bridge closure over Seneca River
Lysander, NY -- A new traffic pattern will open up the Route 370 bridge over Seneca River to eastbound and westbound traffic at different times during the day, the New York State Department of Transportation announced this afternoon. The new traffic pattern represents a compromise between the needs of the community and the goals of the state DOT to replace the bridge deck. Hundreds of residents ...
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Hilton Albany unveils $14 million renovation slideshow
Celebrating the completion of the renovations at the Hilton Albany are (left to right) Chris Shaffer, food and beverage director; Miten Negandhi, conference services director; and Michael Melnick, manager of Charter restaurant The new Hilton Albany was unveiled this week after more than a year of renovations that cost $14 million. The 385-room hotel, the largest in the Albany, NY, region, ...
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Should Anthony Weiner Run for New York City Mayor
video on his website . Weiner resigned from Congress two years ago following the revelation that he had sent inappropriate photos of himself to young women via ...
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Train service back on track after Conn. derailment
Metro North employees, in orange vests, help transfer westbound commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., to buses Monday, May 20, 2012, after a train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. (AP ...
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Anthony Weiner hides from press after mayoral bid vid prematurely leaks online
Anthony Weiner was lying low this morning after releasing a video announcing his last-minute entry into the race for mayor.A crush of reporters was camped outside his Park Avenue South apartment for so long that campaign aides treated them to three boxes of pizza and made plans for individual interviews later in the day.Some of Weiner's rivals, meanwhile, wasted no time poking fun at the ...
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Tick Tock diner manager charged with plotting to kill uncle co-owner freed on bail
CLIFTON, NJ - The manager of a New Jersey diner is free on bail six weeks after he was charged with plotting to kill the co-owner of the restaurant, his ...
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Jay-Zs Roc Nation Sports Signs New York Jets QB Geno Smith
Kimberly Ann Miale to make her mark as a part of Jay-Z's Roc Nation Sports. Miale, who has failed to negotiate any active players' contracts in the NFL, signed New York Jets rookie quarterback Geno Smith and will now be tasked with negotiating his contract with the team that selected him in the 2013 NFL ...
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A SUNY address now means no taxes—for a decade
State University of New York system. Eligible companies include startups, out-of-state companies that move into New York, and also existing companies that expand while maintaining jobs. The announcement means commercial real estate firms and local economic developers have a new competitor: New York state itself. It's not clear how much tax revenue localities and the state will forgo as a ...
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QA This man just won $250000 for his startup
Rutvik Mehta 's childhood science experiments once included trying to ferment oranges. These days, in Troy, he's doing something far less odorous--and more important. Mehta, 28, is president, CEO and co-founder of ...
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Few New York school districts beat the property tax cap in this years voting
Kate Walsh and her son, 4-year-old Jack, exit the voting booth at Liverpool High School Tuesday. The Liverpool school district's budget ...
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Syracuse police locate grandparents of 4-year-old girl found wandering DeWitt Street
Syracuse, NY -- Syracuse Police have located the grandparents of the 4-year-old girl who was wandering DeWitt Street this morning. Police said the young girl wandered up to a group of Department of Public Works employees on ...
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The National Play Three Surprise Gigs in New York
The first venue, announced on Twitter, was a tiny bar (and flower shop) in Ditmas, Brooklyn, called Sycamore. ("Care to to join us for a liquid lunch? Doors at noon, show at 12:30," the band posted on Facebook.) The second was at Public Assembly in Brooklyn, at 5 p.m., for which tickets were raffled to fans online. The third, at 10 p.m., was at Manhattan's Mercury Lounge, a ...
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Mourners remember Hofstra student killed by friendly fire while taken hostage
Weeping mourners said tearful good-byes today to the beautiful Hofstra University coed accidentally killed by police during a confrontation with a violent thug.Loved ones of Andrea Rebello, 21, packed St. Theresa of Avila in Sleepy Hollow to honor the young woman shot in the head early Friday morning in a house blocks away from Hofstra."During this tragedy a question comes to mind - why? ...
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50-year-old man struck by Q train being treated for head trauma
A man was struck by a train in Brooklyn this morning, authorities said.The 50-year-old was hit by a Queens-bound Q train about 10:30 a.m. at the Avenue J station near 15th Street, according to an MTA spokeswoman and FDNY.He is being treated for head trauma at Kings County Hospital, the FDNY spokesman said.It was not immediately clear how he was struck, authorities ...
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White People Stopped By New York Police Are More Likely To Have Guns Or Drugs Than Minorities
just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New ...
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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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