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Todays obituaries Harold V. Jack Hudson Jr. was a Scoutmaster for Boy Scout Troop 150
Harold V. "Jack" Hudson Jr., 68, of Cicero, passed away unexpectedly on Sunday. A 1963 graduate of Baker High School, he retired as master sergeant after over 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. For over 20 years he was a claims adjuster for Allstate Insurance. He belonged to the American Legion, the VFW and had been a Knight of Columbus member and Boy Scout Master for Troop ...
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Troy startup ThermoAura secures investment
Rutvik Mehta created ThermoAura along with two Rensselaer professors. ThermoAura Inc., a startup in Troy, NY, has won more venture funding to commercialize something a mere one-thousandth of the width of a human hair. The company closed an agreement May 21 with Eastern New York Angels LLC. That Capital Region fund will invest $250,000 in ThermoAura over the course of this year. The money will ...
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Court Rules Vacation Rental Site Illegal In New York
In New York, a judge has dealt a setback to Airbnb, the popular website for short term apartment rentals. The judge ruled an Airbnb user violated a New York City law when he rented a room to a visitor from out of town. The judge's decision casts doubt on New Yorkers' ability to make use of the site ...
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NJ diner manager charged in plot freed on bail
CLIFTON, N.J. (AP) -- 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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City College brings back ROTC
At a ceremony Tuesday, the chancellor of the City University of New York Matthew Goldstein said the ROTC program "reinforces the very ideals of our ...
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Past disasters inspire tech-based Oklahoma tornado relief
Technology is playing an increasingly important role in disaster relief, and has inspired even more sophisticated efforts in response to this week's horrific and deadly tornadoes in suburbs of Oklahoma City. Our affiliate Upstart looks at how several startups are reshaping the relief ...
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Conn. Rail Service Returns to Normal
Regular train service is returning to Connecticut, five days after a derailment injured scores of commuters and damaged tracks. Commuter rail service from Connecticut to New York City, along with Amtrak service between Boston and New York, was scheduled to resume Wednesday morning on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways. Metro-North had been using buses to ...
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Sound Garden supporters plan city hall demonstration today
Supporters of The Sound Garden record store, who plan to demonstrate today at Syracuse City Hall, are shown at a May 8 rally outside city hall. Among the supporters were (L-R) Vincent Wisehoon, Glendon Allen, and Tori ...
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W.Va.s local-food movement a model for Appalachia
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. - With eight in 10 farmers making less than $10,000 a year, West Virginia will never rival big Midwestern factory farms in producing food. But creative collaborations with food entrepreneurs are seeding a new kind of economy that federal officials say could become a model for 12 other Appalachian states.Officials with the Appalachian Regional Commission, the U.S. Department of ...
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New York Times accused of treating Latin political leaders differently
New York Times has yet to carry. A petition, signed by 23 leading US academics, authors and film-makers, has been launched which urges the paper's "public editor" to examine the Times's inconsistent coverage of two Latin American countries.They argue that there are disparities between its largely negative reporting ...
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Major League Soccer announces New York New York City Football Club
WAM NEW YORK, May 22nd, 2013 (WAM): Major League Soccer Commissioner Don Garber announced today that a partnership of global sports powers, Manchester City Football Club and the New York Yankees, has acquired the League's 20th expansion club. The new team will be named New York City Football Club (NYCFC) and expects to begin play in 2015. "We proudly welcome two of the most ...
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Kerry Kennedys trying time Drugged-drive rap stands
Kerry Kennedy must stand trial for drugged driving, a Westchester judge said yesterday in rejecting a bid by the former wife of Gov. Cuomo to dismiss the misdemeanor charge.North Castle Town Court Judge Elyse Lazansky set Oct. 8 for the next court date in the case of Kennedy, 53, who was allegedly under the influence of a sleeping pill when she swerved her Lexus into a tractor-trailer on I-684 ...
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CUNY salutes ROTC return
After a nearly four-decade absence, the same army officer training program that launched the legendary career of Gen. Colin Powell is back at CUNY.Powell, a City College of New York alum and former Secretary of State, was on hand yesterday for the return of the Army Senior Reserve Officers Training Corps program - which disappeared from CUNY and most colleges amid the Vietnam War protests.ROTC ...
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Conn. rail service returning to normal
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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Too close Shock as bullet blasts into girls window landing in her hair — shes fine
A 12 year-old girl got the scare of a lifetime Monday night, when a bullet went flying through her bedroom window and somehow landed in her hair without wounding her, cops said.The victim was in her bedroom around 9:00 p.m. when shots were fired near the Morningside Heights apartment on Seventh Avenue near Adam Clayton Boulevard, cops said.That’s when her sixth floor bedroom window was ...
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Backpedaling Bike racks removed after Post’s queries
City workers swooped in Monday night and yanked out part of a bike-share rack blocking the front of a West Village co-op - just hours after The Post called the Department of Transportation over complaints that an ambulance crew had trouble getting to a 92-year-old resident in distress.A good 15 feet of the 80-foot kiosk - with slots for 31 Citi Bikes - was hauled away, opening up access from the ...
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Weiner’s running for mayor leaked video bares bid
Anthony Weiner announced his campaign for mayor early this morning with - what else? - a leak.Shortly after midnight, the disgraced ex-congressman’s campaign accidentally posted online a 2-minute, 16-second video in which he throws his hat into the ring, lays out his platform - and even acknowledges the scandal that ended his days in DC."Look, I made some big mistakes and I know I let ...
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Bill of Rights stuff
They’re making a new "case" for the Bill of Rights.The New York Public Library will put its original copy of the historic document on public display in 2017, thanks to a new state-of-the-art case that will protect it from decay, the library was set to announce today. In 1896 a donor gave the NYPL an original copy of the Bill of Rights, which consists of the first 10 amendments to ...
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Diet pro Cut sugar lose 17 pounds fast
Now you can have your cake and eat it, too. Diet expert Jorge Cruise promises that you can eat pancakes, muffins and cakes in his new weight-loss book "The 100," as long as you substitute wheat flours with coconut and almond flours and flax meal. Losing up to 17 pounds in two weeks is easy as pie, Cruise claims, if you take in just 100 sugar calories per day - which one can calculate ...
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Jailer’s trial in ex’s slay
A correction officer shot his ex-girlfriend to death almost 13 years ago to dodge "child-support obligations," prosecutors said in opening statements at his murder trial in Queens yesterday. Christopher Clavell, 48, of Staten Island, is accused of killing Barbara Perez in August 2000 behind the Ridgewood gym where she worked. "The defendant complained about his financial woes and ...
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Det. ‘hacked’ cop e-mails
A jealous NYPD detective paid thousands of dollars to get his fellow officers’ e-mail log-in information because he thought someone was sleeping with his baby mama, law-enforcement sources told The Post. Edwin Vargas, 42, shelled out more than $4,000 to a Los Angeles company to obtain information on 20 of his NYPD colleagues including his cop ex-girlfriend, the sources said yesterday.He ...
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$12M ‘artful tax dodger’ bust
An art dealer accused of peddling phony modern-art masterpieces painted herself into a corner when she hid at least $12.5 million she made from the sales, the feds charged yesterday.Glafira Rosales was busted by the IRS for allegedly filing false tax returns and failing to disclose an overseas account where she stashed most of the dough."The sale of a piece of art for profit is a taxable ...
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Critter gets drivers’ goat
A renegade goat and a four-vehicle crash snarled traffic on New Jersey’s Pulaski Skyway yesterday.It took 90 minutes for emergency services to corral the goat as it ran along the four-lane bridge between Jersey City and Kearny Point, said Jersey City Police Capt. Edgar Martinez. While that was taking place, there was an accident involving four vehicles, he said. It wasn’t clear where ...
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Bigots hit back Gay-bashings plague Village after march
A few hours earlier, Dan Contarino and another man went out for drinks at the Yuca Bar on Avenue A and then to the Boiler Room, a gay bar on East Fourth Street, where they drank shots and beer, police said. After a pizza stop ar around 11 p.m., they started up a conversation about homosexuality while walking back to a homeless shelter where they both were staying. That’s when the other man ...
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Shock freedom for bribes plot at Rikers
A crooked Rikers guard offered to break into jail computers and advance the release dates of no fewer than five inmates - demanding to be paid in cocaine or cash, according to shocking testimony in a Manhattan bribery trial."The officer said he preferred drugs because he could make more money with drugs," inmate Rafael Montadoca told jurors of disgraced correction officer Robert ...
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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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