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Parole escapee identified as shooter in Hofstra home invasion
A career criminal who fled parole last month has been identified as the shooter in the stunning death of a Hofstra University student in a home invasion robbery just off campus.Dalton Smith, 30, was identified by his fingerprints after he was shot dead during the early Friday morning encounter with cops inside the Uniondale home, Nassau County police said.Police had issued a warrant for ...
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Granderson plays right field for first time in Majors
Email NEW YORK -- Curtis Granderson's versatility is only matched by his affability. The Yankees lined Granderson up for his first Major League game in right field Saturday against Toronto, and the longtime center fielder assured his manager that he wouldn't have a problem at the new position. "When I talked to him about it, he was like, 'Fine. No problem,'" said ...
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Joba moving closer toward rehab assignment
Email NEW YORK -- Joba Chamberlain may be getting closer to a return to the mound. Chamberlain, who has spent the last two weeks on the disabled list with a strained right oblique muscle, threw a long-toss session Saturday and will throw one more bullpen session before going out on a rehab assignment. Chamberlain, who has been limited to less than 30 innings in each of the last two seasons, ...
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CNY Komen Race for the Cure Results by name age division hometown
Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure drew more than 6,200 runners and walkers to the state fairgrounds in Geddes Saturday, according to organizers. The event - which included a 5K run/walk, along with a one-mile Kids for the Cure Dash, followed by a fun walk over that distance - has been held for 19 years. The fastest runner in the 5K was Matt Giannino, 20, of Syracuse with a time of 17:44. The ...
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Onondaga Community College celebrates 50th commencement ceremony
Syracuse, NY -- Onondaga Community College celebrated its 50th commencement ceremony today. Approximately 1,367 students were eligible to receive their diplomas this afternoon at the SRC Arena. Graduating student Garrett Sisson, a humanities major, was the keynote speaker. Sisson is one of six OCC students who earned a SUNY Chancellor's Award for student excellence. Sisson plans to ...
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Amazing no one died in devastating Conn. Metro-North train crash officials say
FAIRFIELD, Conn. - Officials described a devastating scene of shattered cars and other damage where two trains packed with rush-hour commuters collided in Connecticut, saying Saturday it's fortunate that no one was killed and that there weren't even more injuries.Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, which damaged the tracks and threatened to ...
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Mets appealing earned-run call from Friday
Email CHICAGO -- The Mets are appealing to Major League Baseball to have Matt Harvey's second first-inning earned run from Friday's game switched to an unearned run. On the play, Starlin Castro was on third base and Anthony Rizzo was on second base when Alfonso Soriano hit a ground ball sharply up the middle. Ruben Tejada ranged to his left, spun and his throw to first base got away ...
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Collins impressed by Parnells performance
Email CHICAGO -- Terry Collins has been impressed by Bobby Parnell this year, perhaps so much so that he wanted to actually hold the closer back from an early appearance on Friday. With two outs and the Cubs threatening in the eighth, Collins opted to go to right-hander Greg Burke instead of the right-handed Parnell, though Parnell would come in and close out the game with a perfect ninth. ...
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NYC mayor urges courage at Ohio commencement
GAMBIER, Ohio (AP) -- New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg told college graduates in Ohio that success in life requires courage, curiosity and hard ...
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New York politician accused of serial sex harassment to resign
ALBANY, N.Y.-A New York assemblyman accused of sexually harassing young female staffers for years says he will resign before he's expelled from the Legislature. Assemblyman Vito Lopez informed leaders on Saturday he will resign effective Monday morning. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had planned a rare expulsion proceeding against Lopez beginning Monday. Lopez was once a powerful Brooklyn ...
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Official `Amazing no one died in train crash
Seventy-two people were sent to the hospital Friday evening after the crash, which damaged the tracks and threatened to snarl travel in the Northeast ...
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Curfew in place as Nigeria presses Boko Haram insurgents
The Nigerian military Saturday ordered a partial curfew in the city of Maiduguri amid a government offensive against Islamist militants. The 24-hour curfew was implemented in neighborhoods considered to be Boko Haram strongholds in the northeastern city, in a region that has been a hotbed of the Boko Haram guerrilla movement. The military said in a written statement it had the rebels on the run ...
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UAE Host UN High-Level Thematic Debate on Energy-Water Nexus in New York
WAM NEW YORK: May 18th, 2013 (WAM): The United Arab Emirates (UAE) partnered with the President of the 67th Session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly to host a high-level, thematic debate titled "Sustainable Development and Climate Change: Practical Solutions in the Energy-Water Nexus" on 16 May 2013 at the UN Headquarters in New York. Government leaders and a diverse ...
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UPDATE 1-Investigators seek cause of New York commuter train crash
Sat May 18, 2013 2:05pm EDT (Updates with car safety, ridership numbers) By Karen Brooks May 18 (Reuters) - Federal investigators on Saturday searched for the cause of a rush-hour train crash in Connecticut that injured dozens of people commuting home from New York City, three of them critically. More than 60 people were hospitalized Friday night after an eastbound commuter train derailed and ...
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Metro-North train crash probe may take 10 days
Emergency workers respond Friday to a Metro-North Railroad train collision in Fairfield, Conn. The railroad said it derailed and hit a westbound train near Bridgeport, Conn. Some cars on the second train also derailed. / Christian ...
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Queens Councilman bashes Delta terminal concessionaires after taking donation from airline
Talk about biting the hand that feeds you!City Councilman Donovan Richards turned up at a ceremony Thursday morning to accept a $100,000 donation from Delta Airlines for the opening of a YMCA in his Rockaways district.That night, the Queens Democrat turned up at a community rally to protest that concessionaires at the new $1.4 billion Delta terminal at JFK were paying wages as low as $8 an ...
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Soccer-Vilanova needs more cancer treatment in New York
At 16 years old, Jack Andraka is already a superstar in the field of science. Earlier this year, he won Intel's prestigious Gordon E. Moore Award, when he created a groundbreaking testing method that can detect pancreatic cancer in its earliest stages. His work is expected to save thousands of ...
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Todays MLB starting lineups May 18
Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Chicago Cubs: 1. ...
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Onondaga County Republican Committee designates candidates for city and county races
No surprises emerged at today's joint meeting of the Syracuse and Onondaga County Republican committees, Syracuse Republican Chairman Bob Andrews ...
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Hard days fight Founders of Beatles tribute band sue co-producer for allegedly knocking off their act
An imitation Beatles band is upset that another bunch of Fab Four fakers could soon be here, there and everywhere.The founding members of "Rain - A Tribute to The Beatles" sued their co-producer yesterday for allegedly knocking off their act for a British production called "Let It Be" that’s expected to open on Broadway in July.Court papers also allege that Jeff Parry ...
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State spending $90M upgrading parks historic sites
ALBANY — The Cuomo administration says about $90 million will be spent this year on construction projects at 50 of the ...
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Heights transports you to New York neighborhood
May 18--BOSTON -- SpeakEasy Stage Company's "In the Heights" so convincingly envelops the audience in a corner of a not-so-long-ago Washington Heights neighborhood in New York City that it might take a minute to get your bearings when you leave Boston Center for the Arts and find yourself in the South End. The sense of elsewhere is due in part to Jenna McFarland Lord's scenic ...
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First Rentals Native New York Style
Back to New York for Julio Gomez, 22, center, means an address not in his boyhood Bronx, but in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. For Harris Meyers, 21, left, it's the old parental abode in Gramercy Park. For Floy Salembier, 22, it's Peter Cooper Village, many blocks south of her childhood ...
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Yoshitomo Nara Exhibit Surveys His Unique Brand Of Kute Kulture In New York
On the surface, [Nara's works are] pretty damn cute. But Nara has stepped outside that world in a big way, " Byrne wrote in the catalogue essay for Nara's newest exhibition in New York. "The kids and dogs in his pictures and bronzes are defiant, angry, annoyed, and pissed off. They have rebelled against their roots, and their big eyes are cold." The exhibit, on view now ...
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Three bargaining units want Pres. Larson to resign
In this 2011 photo, Cayuga Community College president Daniel P. Larson stands outside the former P&C store at River Glen Plaza, in Fulton, NY. which has since become a campus for the ...
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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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