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Allstate Sues 6 Physicians Medical Corporations in New York
Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations in its third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013. Since 2003, Allstate has filed 47 fraud lawsuits in New York State seeking more than $235 million in damages. Allstate alleges that the defendants routinely submitted fraudulent billing for medical examinations and ...
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NFP PC Services Hires 2 Account Executives in New York
NFP Property & Casualty Services (NFPPC) recently hired two account executives in its New York office. NFPPC said Janine Fleury joined the firm as a senior account executive in the commercial lines department, handling a $6 million book of business. For eight years prior to NFPPC, Fleury was employed at York International Agency LLC, specializing in property and casualty lines of business, ...
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NYC No racial motivation in stop-frisk tactic
By Colleen Long Associated Press NEW YORK - The federal civil rights challenge to the contentious New York Police Department tactic of stop, question and frisk is winding down after more than nine weeks of testimony from men who say they were wrongly stopped because of their race and police officials who believe the nation's largest force operates with integrity. City attorney Heidi ...
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$2M in meth heroin seized in Queens
Almost 20 pounds of heroin and crystal meth -- worth a combined $2 million -- have been seized from a trio of Queens drug dealers, prosecutors announced today.The dealers had operated out of a stash house on 96th Street in Corona, Queens, officials said, and were arrested after an alleged drug and cash exchange last month in a car at East 212th St. and Dekalb Avenue in the Bronx. . Miguel ...
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Two Albany-area schools ask voters to override tax cap
The affluent Niskayuna School District is among two districts in the region that are seeking to exceed the state's 2 percent tax cap. Pictured here is a class of second graders from Craig Elementary School in ...
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I-81 open house Tuesday will present plans proposals for highways future
Traffic crosses Harrison Street on the Interstate 81 overpass in this file photo. State and local transportation officials will hold their third open house Tuesday on I-81 ...
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Police release photos of Syracuse bank robbery suspect
Syracuse police are investigating a bank robbery attempt at the Chase Bank located at 801 James St. about 10:25 this morning, according to Syracuse police. A man handed over a threatening note to the teller that demanded money. The teller refused to give the man any money, police said. The suspect then ran out of the bank. He fled ...
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New York Pennsylvania Rank High for Opioids Among Injured Workers
Opioid Epidemic Plagues Workers' Comp The epidemic of opioid abuse and its impact on workers’ compensation in the Northeast is particularly noticeable in New York and Pennsylvania, where the percentages of injured workers that become longer-term users of opioids are among the highest in the nation. In its recent study, the Workers Compensation Research Institute found that in New ...
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Suspect in Greenwich Village ‘gay slay’ was laughing when arrested
The homophobic ex-con accused of "executing’’ a gay man in Greenwich Village laughed and boasted about the murder, prosecutors said yesterday."Yeah, I shot him in the head," Elliot Morales, 33, sneered while "laughing on the ground" as cops were handcuffing him for fatally shooting Mark Carson, 32, early Saturday morning, according to prosecutors.Morales ...
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Stray Bullet Kills Girl On New York Bus
A 14-year old girl was the victim of a random act of gun violence on Saturday after a gunman opened fire when a city bus was stopped at a traffic light. The gunman fired ten shots into the bus, one of which hit Deja Robinson in the head. New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly commented on the girl’s tragic death, saying, "Terrible - this is, as I say, another senseless ...
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Plug Power closes sale of preferred shares to Air Liquide
Plug Power, a Latham, NY company that makes fuel cells used to power fork lifts, sold 10,000 shares of preferred stock to Air Liquide for $2.6 million. Pictured here are Plug Power CEO Andy Marsh and a senior technician Bill Farrell on the company's manufacturing room ...
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Reported bank robbery attempt in Syracuse on James Street
Syracuse police are investigating a bank robbery attempt at the Chase Bank located at 801 James St., according to 911 dispatchers. The call came in at 10:29, according to dispatchers. A man handed the teller a note. He wasn't given any money and showed no weapons, according to reports. According to the police scanner, the man was wearing a tan hat and sunglasses when he entered the bank. ...
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Ready to vote on your school budget Tuesday See how it compares to others in CNY New York state
Thousands of Central New Yorkers will vote Tuesday on their school budgets for 2013-14. We've created two databases that let you compare your districts budget and spending to other districts in Central New York and across the ...
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Gillette Road Middle School student to be honored with Civilian Life Saving Award
North Syracuse -- The Clay Fire Department and the North Area Volunteer Ambulance Corps will honor a Gillette Road Middle School student for her role in saving her grandfather's life. Samantha Duvall, a fifth grade student in the North Syracuse Central School District, will receive the Civilian Life Saving Award at the board of education meeting tonight. The meeting will be held at 7 p.m. ...
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Experts officials China has resumed hacking U.S. companies agencies
Computer security experts and U.S. officials say Chinese hackers have resumed attacks on companies and agencies they stole data from three months ago. A unit of China's People's Liberation Army had stopped computer intrusions in February after the administration of ...
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New York investor buys Fairborn senior living facility
Fairborn Senior Housing, located near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, sold last week for $1.9 million. A senior living facility in Fairborn now has a new owner. Fairborn Senior Housing, located at 221 North Central Ave. near Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, sold last week for $1.9 million. DHorn Fairborn Senior Housing LLC, an investor in New York, bought the 84-unit independent living facility ...
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Wolfgang Puck catering firm slammed for skimming tips suit
EXCLUSIVE One of the country’s highest earning chefs is nickel and diming his staff, according to a class action lawsuit filed in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday. A Wolfgang Puck catering company was allegedly sticking venues like Irving Plaza and the Gramercy Theater with a 22 percent service charge and then denying its bartenders and servers tips, the suit states. The company has a ...
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Lapid tells New York Times I hope to succeed Netanyahu
"To say Yair Lapid has been on a roller coaster would be an understatement," states the lead in "The New York Times" interview with Minister of Finance Yair Lapid. It goes on to say, "One recent headline blared about his 'meteoric rise and fall,' another said he had gone from 'political darling to national whipping boy'." The newspaper says that ...
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Seamless and GrubHub to combine no terms revealed
CHICAGO (AP) -- Seamless North America and GrubHub on Monday announced plans to combine and create an online food ordering service covering more than 20,000 restaurants in 500 cities across the ...
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Oneida Indian Nation Leader Ray Halbritter discusses the Cuomos casino competition
he was going to site three casinos in Upstate New York if the Indian nations did not start sharing revenue. From the outside, it looked like a direct threat to the Oneidas, who own the Turning Stone Casino Resort in Verona and want to protect it from competition. Oneida Indian Nation Representative Ray Halbritter said in an interview Friday that he did not see it that way. Here is his response ...
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Syracuse firefighters couldnt get enough water at fatal fire
fatal blaze on Clairemonte Avenue early Sunday couldn't get enough water, said Syracuse fire union president Lonnie Johnson. Johnson said he didn't think the lack of water pressure contributed to the fire being fatal or to the injuries of five firefighters. The first firefighters on the scene were able to get into the building with what's called an attack hose with no problem, he ...
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Today in Washington House votes on new Stolen Valor Act
A Marine Corps veteran who served in the Vietnam War displayed his service ribbons and medals during the Central New York Veterans Parade at the New York State Fairgrounds. John Berry / The ...
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Route 370 bridge construction over Seneca River set to begin in June
Lysander, NY -- The state Department of Transportation has selected a contractor to repair the Route 370 bridge over Seneca River. Vector Construction Corporation was awarded the project on May 9. The company will start doing preliminary work on the project this week and significant bridge work is scheduled to being the week of June 10, according to Gene Cilento, a state DOT spokesman. The ...
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Race for the Cure How did your co-worker friend do
more than 6,200 runners and walkers to the state fairgrounds in Geddes Saturday, according to organizers. The fastest runner in the 5K was Matt Giannino, 20, of Syracuse with a time of 17:44. The fastest female runner was Eillen Ferguson, 35, of Baldwinsville, with a time of 19:12. The fastest cancer survivor in the 5 K was Holly Heinze-Coolican, 51, of Syracuse, with a time of 24:06. The ...
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Robots may care for aging baby boomers as number of home aides dwindles
The New York Times reports researchers have developed a robotic nurse gentle enough to bathe elderly patients and a robotic butler that fetches household objects like cups and can even clean a kitchen. They are also working on a robot that can remind patients to take their medicine, keep track of their eyeglasses and assist in the event of a fall. "There are two trends that are going in ...
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Buffalo Zoo goes ape for the gorillas
The Buffalo Zoo is a historic landmark in Buffalo city. It is the third oldest zoo in the United States and has an amazing array of over 1000 species of animal. The zoo is also a tourist attraction, bringing in 400 000 visitors each year.
Zoos are an important educational facility for children, a means by which younger generations can see wild and endangered animals in real life, in an environment as close as is reasonably possible to what their natural surroundings would be, and by seeing a real-life image, rather than a picture in a text book, children develop a more intimate understanding of the challenges facing these rare and beautiful creatures. Read more
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