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Syracuse police investigate double shooting
Daquan Dowdell and Nakim Whorely were taken to Upstate University Hospital after they were shot in a drive by shooting on the 900 block of South Avenue, police ...
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Fired family member to show at Servo company meeting
Things could be tense Friday afternoon at the downtown offices of Jaeckle, Fleischmann and Mugel LLP, where the Servotronics Inc. annual shareholders meeting will be held. That's because Nicholas Trbovich Jr., the company's former president and chief operating office, will be present. That gathering will also likely including Trbovich Jr.'s father the company's founder, board ...
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A sneak peek into Tribeca peeping photographer’s apartment
The Post yesterday turned the tables on a sneaky photographer who snapped pictures of his unwitting neighbors in Tribeca - by pointing a camera at his own windows."It would be funny if we ...
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Report Knicks’ Carmelo Anthony Has Partial Tear In Shoulder
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – New York Knicks star Carmelo Anthony has a partially torn labrum in his left shoulder that may require surgery if it doesn’t heal on its own, according to the New York Daily News. An MRI revealed the tear, the Daily News reported. The team previously announced ...
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Union blasts FDNY for underreporting response time
Union head Steve Cassidy on Wednesday blasted the agency for not releasing to the public information that tracks emergency response calls from the moment a 911 call is answered by an ...
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Cuomo cabinet pushing his tax-free NY proposal
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) -- Gov. Andrew Cuomo and his cabinet are hitting the road to push his proposal to create tax-free zones for businesses that set up shop on or near public college campuses in New ...
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Small band of Sound Garden supporters sits mutely through Syracuse council session
SYRACUSE, N.Y. - They did not "flood city council chambers'' as planned, but roughly a dozen fans of The Sound Garden attended Wednesday's session of the Syracuse Common Council to support the popular record store's quest for relief from the city's secondhand dealer law. Led by David Andrew Gay, a candidate for city council, the group sat quietly ...
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Todays obituaries Jack A. Barwind worked at Syracuse University from 1985 to 2001
Jack A. Barwind, 70, died May 16, 2013. He was a well known educator, administrator, scholar, and consultant. Jack began his career in 1969 as an assistant professor and director of graduate studies at Cornell University's School of Communication Arts. He also worked at Montana State University and in 1985 joined Syracuse University as area director of the speech communication department in ...
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Claudio Reyna named director of football at New York City Football Club
Manchester City and United States international midfielder Claudio Reyna was named as the first director of football for new Major League Soccer (MLS) team New York City Football Club, the team confirmed yesterday. The new club, which will start playing in 2015, was announced on ...
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Anthony Weiner hides from the tough questions and serves up pizza for reporters
Andrea Peyser Shame-faced, prickly and evasive, Anthony Weiner stayed in hiding yesterday, the day he announced he’s running for mayor. But the disgraced ex-congressman materialized on the telephone - so terrified of talking to me, a known pussycat, that he refused to speak unless another reporter was on the line to deflect hard questions. Nice try. Weiner camped out inside his Park Avenue ...
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New U.S. Census report Syracuse area shows more signs of stability
This is an aerial view of downtown Syracuse, looking to the southeast from Clinton Square. The city has halted five decades of steep population losses, according to U.S. Census Bureau reports. As of July 2012, the city had a population of 144,170, new Census Bureau estimates show ...
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Angered over bathroom fan request Syracuse man defecates in roommates car police say
Syracuse, NY -- Roommates sometimes fight. Other times, they share things from deep within themselves. James V. Palmieri did both one day in March, according to Syracuse police. Palmieri, 59, was suffering from severe diarrhea March 10 in the apartment he shared at 473 Pleasantview Ave. with David Utt, 62, according to a Syracuse police report. "I asked him to use the bathroom fan so ...
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Obama to limit drone strikes restart Guantanamo closure
Obama will say Thursday. The president will also announce new limits to unmanned combat drone strikes, the officials said of the program that has been central to White House efforts to combat terrorism. Obama's 2 p.m. speech at the Defense Department's National Defense University in Washington will lay out how he intends to bring his counter-terrorism policies in line with the legal ...
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Bronx ghetto tours stop amid residents outrage
A young man runs under an elevated section of subway tracks in The Bronx borough of New York, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A company that offered tourist treks to the Bronx "ghetto" has shut down under scathing criticism from neighborhood leaders offended by the tours that took mostly European and Australian tourists past food-pantry lines and "pickpocket" park. But other New ...
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With Weiner NYC mayor race takes on new dynamic
FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...
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Qns. kid hangs herself
A 12-year-old Queens girl hanged herself in her family home yesterday after being relentlessly cyberbullied by her middle-school classmates, sources told The Post. Gabrielle Molina was found hanging by a belt from a ceiling fan at about 2:15 p.m. on 220th Street in Queens Village, cops said.The troubled tween left behind a heartbreaking note that recounted the torture she endured at the hands of ...
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2G ‘junk’ fine tossed
It was a big win for the little guy and common sense. A Manhattan appeals court this week overturned a $2,000 fine levied in 2011 against Brooklyn carpenter Albert Prince for taking a TV antenna from a pile of curbside trash. Prince, 58, who makes art out of recyclables, said he didn’t realize his scavenging activity was illegal. The Appellate Division panel called the penalty ...
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Gambling suspect’s ‘safe’ bet
What happens in Vegas can’t happen at the Bellagio for a co-defendant in the high-stakes, illegal gambling case against Upper East Side art dealer Helly Nahmad.Professional poker player Abe Mosseri won permission from a judge yesterday to travel to Sin City for the upcoming World Series of Poker - but not to stay at the luxury casino.Defense lawyer Michael Bachner told the judge that ...
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‘Cats’ in jam over legal fees
Mayoral hopeful and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis has to fork over nearly $3.9 million to the lawyers of workers who sued him for shortchanging them at his Gristedes stores, a Manhattan appeals court ruled yesterday.The billionaire Republican candidate sought to slash the hefty legal bill on grounds that it exceeded the $3.5 million settlement he struck with his employees on the eve of ...
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‘Wired’ pol eyes old seat
Maybe he’ll run on the clean-up-Albany platform!Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who worked as an undercover informant against fellow Albany legislators, may run for his old Bronx seat, The Post has learned."To be honest, I’m really considering it," Castro said last night. He resigned April 8 as part of a perjury-charge plea deal that also required him to wear a ...
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Life or death on 20th floor
Police officers yesterday rescue a woman who threatened to jump from a West 38th Street building’s 20th-floor balcony. It was not known why she wanted to kill herself. The officers finally came through the window and onto the balcony and grabbed the startled woman, whisking her to safety. She was taken to Roosevelt Hospital for observation. "Everything went according to plan," ...
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Derek’s had Phil of fame
Also listed on the hotel tab were Bruce Almighty (then-coach Don Mattingly) and Ricky Ricardo (Jorge Posada).Johnny Drama, of course, may not fit well on a coffee cup.Instead, Jeter might be using names based on a rotating cast of Yankee Hall of Famers - and yesterday could have been the turn of late Bomber shortstop Phil Rizzuto. Holy cow!Or, perhaps, Jeter was just a victim of the infamous ...
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Pols move to stab TSA plan
All four senators from New York and New Jersey joined forces yesterday to introduce a bill blocking a TSA plan to allow small knives on to planes. New York Democrats Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand teamed with New Jersey’s Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, also Democrats, in pushing for a halt to a plan to allow blades less than 2.36 inches onto commercial flights. The ...
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Borders gift cards useless
The defunct Borders bookstore chain owes nothing to holders of roughly $210.5 million of gift cards that had not been used by the time it shut down, a Manhattan federal judge ruled yesterday.US District Judge Andrew Carter said it would be unfair to other creditors of the former Borders Group Inc. to let gift-card holders pursue recoveries.To do so, Carter explained, could upset a liquidation by ...
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Queens man in 32-day torture nightmare
Three men abducted and tortured a Queens immigrant, demanding $3 million ransom from his relatives in Ecuador as they held him captive in a Long Island City warehouse for more than a month, officials said yesterday. During the 32-day ordeal, captors burned Pedro Portugal’s hand with acid, threatened to cut off his fingers, and beat him so viciously that he lost teeth before he was finally ...
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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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