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Syracuse Universitys legal fees double during year that Bernie Fine was fired
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Will Albany party be first Cuomo Miner meeting in seven months
The Associated Press Albany, NY - Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner could have the opportunity to see each other Tuesday night for the first time since their public back-and-forth over the governor's proposed pension smoothing ...
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Onondaga County judgments May 6 to 10
These judgments of $5,000 or more have been filed and docketed at the Onondaga County clerk's office. Debtors are listed first, then creditors and the ...
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Xbox One Microsoft touts next-generation console as all-in-1 entertainment
Microsoft Corp.'s Don Mattrick unveils the next-generation Xbox entertainment and gaming console system, Tuesday, May 21, 2013, at an event in Redmond, Wash. It's been eight years since the launch of the Xbox 360. The original Xbox debuted in 2001, and its high-definition successor premiered in ...
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Knicks not sure what to expect from Amare Stoudemire next season
New York Knicks head coach Mike Woodson talks with Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony during the second half of an NBA Eastern Conference second round playoff basketball game versus the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis, Indiana May 18, 2013. (BRENT ...
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Thugs arrested for attack on gay couple in hours after hate-crime protest
Two thugs were arrested today for attacking a gay couple in SoHo, just hours after demonstrators filled the streets of the nearby West Village to protest the hate-crime shooting death of another gay man, cops said.Steven Dixon, 42, and Michael Coleman, 41 were walking along Broadway near Houston Street at about 5 a.m. when two men started yelling anti-gay remarks in English and Spanish.Both ...
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Georgetown grad gets probation after threatening French actress Marion Cotillard
A Queens woman beset by mental health problems and diagnosed with bi-polar disorder was sentenced today to five years probation for sending threatening videos to Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard.Teresa Yuan, 33, apologized for sending the rambling and incoherent videotaped threats to the film star, who won an Academy Award for best actress in 2008 for her role as Edith Piaf in ...
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Library honors Carole King with US pop music prize
WASHINGTON -- Carole King isn't done with music - not yet anyway.The 71-year-old singer-songwriter known for such hits as "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" and "You've Got A Friend" is being awarded the nation's highest prize for popular music Tuesday. She'll receive the Gershwin Prize for Popular Song at the Library of Congress and will be ...
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Feds NYU researchers from Westchester leaked study results to Chinese
Three New York University researchers from China who all live in Westchester divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses, federal prosecutors said ...
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Former High-Ranking Official and New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison
Earlier today, Michael Provenzano, formerly director of Construction Services for the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD), was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of 18 months followed by three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay $30,000 restitution to the city of New York and a $5,000 fine following his corruption conviction for taking bribes. As ...
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More questions in NY Assembly sex harass case
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Details of a sexual harassment scandal that is hitting powerful Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver are leading to more criticism of the investigation that appeared to stop at an already disgraced ...
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NY art dealer charged with tax fraud
NEW YORK (AP) -- A Long Island based art dealer has been charged with tax fraud in connection with the sale of fake works attributed to famous ...
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Bike Share in New York Built From Ideas Around World
Clockwise from top left: Ed Alcock for The New York Times; Alex Wong/Getty Images; Facundo Arrizabalaga/European Pressphoto Agency;and Lourdes Segade for The New York ...
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New York Accounting Foundation Awards $183750 in Scholarships
New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants' (NYSSCPA) Foundation for Accounting Education (FAE) has announced the sixty-seven New York State students who will receive Excellence in Accounting Scholarships for the 2013-2014 school year. scholarships are awarded in order to provide financial assistance and encouragement to accounting majors. Sixty college students received a ...
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Needed 350000 mid-level skilled workers in NY by 2018
New York state faces a shortage of 350,000 mid-level skilled workers, and the Capital Region is especially vulnerable because its technology sector is growing so quickly. That was the message Tuesday from a group of businesses and educational leaders citing a report from America's Edge. The national organization, with 150 members in the Albany area, supports early education as a means for ...
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This company got the most IDA benefits--and its not GlobalFoundries
GlobalFoundries Inc. computer-chip factory in Saratoga County does not receive the most benefits from the Capital Region's industrial development agencies, or IDAs. In 2011, anyway, that title went to a gas-fired generating plant in the town of Athens, in Greene County. The plant received benefits from the Greene County IDA worth $25.8 million, tops of all of the roughly 450 IDA-backed ...
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Saratoga Springs financial advisor establishing $5 million fund for startups
Robert Manasier , managing director of Diamond Point Advisory Group in Saratoga Springs, NY, is looking to raise $5 million to support the entrepreneurs coming out of the state's universities. Manasier was one of the organizers ...
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Citing union rule Albany County scraps bids for SCCC work
SCCC chairwoman Denise Murphy McGraw has said she's worried about "crippling" delays. Albany County says that re-bidding will not prevent renovations from beginning in June or July, as originally ...
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Mild relief in Capital Region unemployment
Unemployment in the core Capital Region dropped last month to its lowest point since the start of the recession. The unemployment rate stood at 6.5 percent, the state labor department says. That's lower than the U.S. and statewide rates. It's also better than nine of the 10 other metro areas upstate (except for the much smaller market of Ithaca, ...
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Survivor tales emerge from rubble of tornado-ravaged Moore Okla.
Moore, Okla. -- Teachers are being hailed as heroes Tuesday for saving the lives of their pupils as a deadly twister bore down Monday on two elementary schools in Moore, Okla. Sixth-grade teacher Rhonda Crosswhite told viewers on NBC's "Today" how she and some students braved the storm that destroyed Plaza Towers Elementary School, ...
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Geddes police investigate robbery at Bank of America
Geddes, NY -- Geddes police are investigating a robbery at the Bank of America on Onondaga Boulevard this morning. Around 10:15 a.m., a man walked into the bank and handed the teller a note demanding money, Geddes Police Chief Vic Gillette said. The suspect did not display a weapon and no one was injured in the incident. A customer and a delivery man were inside the bank at the time of the ...
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Police defend officer who shot NY college student
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...
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Iconic Clubs Team Up to Grow US Soccer League
Major League Baseball's New York Yankees and English Premier League football club Manchester City are joining together to enter an expansion team in U.S. Major League Soccer (MLS). The new team will be named New York City Football Club and expects to begin play in 2015 as MLS's 20th franchise. MLS Commissioner Don Garber said "this is a transformational development that will ...
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Muppets creators items head to NY museum
NEW YORK (AP) — The Muppets may have taken Manhattan, but they're getting a spiffy new home in Queens.Muppet creator Jim Henson's family is donating about 400 puppets, costumes, props and other items to the Museum of the Moving Image.Mayor Michael Bloomberg was on hand for the announcement Tuesday.The museum plans to build a new gallery to house the new contributions. The city is ...
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Knicks unsure about Stoudemires role
New York Knicks' Amare Stoudemire argues with referee Monty McCutchen after being called for a technical foul during the first half of Game 4 of an Eastern Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series against the Indiana Pacers on Tuesday, May 14, 2013, in Indianapolis. The Pacers won 93-82. (AP Photo/Darron ...
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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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