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Port Authority fires treasurer 2 top staffers after accepting valuable gifts from vendors sources
The Port Authority’s veteran treasurer and two of her top associates were summarily fired yesterday morning after it was revealed that they had accepted valuable gifts, meals and theater tickets from vendors doing business with the agency during their local and international travels, The Post has learned.The treasurer, Anne Marie Mulligan, a 35-year veteran, was dismissed, along with ...
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Sandy-damaged New York Aquarium reopens this weekend
Playful sea lions and trusty penguins are welcoming visitors back to the New York Aquarium for the first time since the Coney Island marine haven was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The shorefront aquarium will partially reopen on Saturday.Visitors will be able to peer down into pools containing walruses, harbor seals and other mammals. Sea lions will perform in the renovated aquatheater.And there ...
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Pedro Portugal Ecuadorean businessman found in New York after kidnapping
NEW YORK – Police have rescued an Ecuadorean businessman who was kidnapped in New York City and held hostage for a month while his captors demanded his family pay ...
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Fitch Rates New York City NYs GO Bank Bonds AA Outlook Stable
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'AA' rating to bank bonds corresponding to the following New York City variable rate general obligation (GO) bonds: -- $275,000,000 GO bonds, fiscal 2006 series I, Subseries I-4, I-5, and I-6. The Rating Outlook is Stable. The ratings are being assigned in connection with issuance of letters of credit provided ...
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Exclusive New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses
NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing ...
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Finch Paper changes CEOs
Debabrata Mukherjee . Finch Paper reported $280 million of revenue in 2012. The mill has about 500 hourly workers and another 200 salaried employee, making it among the largest manufacturers in the 11-county Capital Region. Raccuia, a Wilton resident, was hired in February 2009--as the recession and Internet were beating margins to a pulp. He cut 100 jobs that year, ...
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Cicero-North Syracuse student suspended after speaking out against failed budget on Twitter
Twitter about the district's failed 2013-14 school budget. Brown, who has never been in trouble with the district before, started a hashtag on Twitter Wednesday to discuss things the district could cut in its budget for next year. The ...
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Syracuse woman who saved her family from fire dies 10 years later in another fire
Natasha McGlown was 13 when she saved her family from a house fire in 2002 but 10 years later she couldn't save herself when her own apartment caught fire, police ...
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Syracuse fourth-grader taken to hospital after incident on school bus
Syracuse -- A 10-year-old girl was taken by ambulance to Upstate University Hospital Tuesday after an incident on a school bus at Dr. Weeks Elementary in Syracuse, police say. The girl, an Ethiopian whose family arrived in the United States from Kenya recently, was taken to the hospital as a precaution after she was kicked and choked by a 10-year-old boy, the girl's father said. The girl, ...
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Seneca County sheriff Search for missing Ithaca man suspended Friday due to weather
A continued search for Christopher T. Dennis, who went canoeing alone on Cayuga Lake has been called off for the day due to increasing bad weather, Seneca County Sheriff Jack Stenberg ...
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Making the case for lower property values grievance day is coming up in Onondaga County
Syracuse, NY - In retailing the busiest day of the year is called Black Friday, for property assessors the busiest is Grievance Day. This year grievance day for most municipalities is Tuesday. That's the day owners go before a local board of assessment review to make the case that their property assessment has been set too high. A sampling of tax assessors in Onondaga County said they ...
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Company news First Niagara Financial Group recognized by Preservation Association of Central New York
Also in company news, McClurg Remodeling & Construction Services, American Fashion Network, Rural/Metro Medical Services, Meier Supply Company, Taylor-Brown Auxiliary, Le Moyne College, Michels ...
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Political newcomer Ronnie Bell to challenge Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon
courtesy of Kate Szrom SYRACUSE, N.Y. - Ronnie Bell is jumping into the deep end of the pool with his first political campaign, in which he will challenge Onondaga County Legislature Chairman Ryan McMahon to represent the Legislature's 15th District. Until a few days ago, Bell, a Democrat, had campaigned for a seat on the Syracuse school board. Having failed to win his party's ...
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Crystal Co. Exec Moves to Hub International in New York
Chicago-based broker Hub International's Northeast division hired Scott Konrad as senior vice president and not-for-profit business practice leader. Based in Hub's New York City office, Konrad will be responsible to build, brand, grow and lead a specialty practice serving the insurance, risk management, and employee benefit needs of nonprofit organizations throughout Connecticut, New ...
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Palace Theatre collects $58000 at fundraising event
Holly Brown, general manager of the Palace Theatre. A fundraiser generated $58,000 for The Palace Theatre in Albany, NY, officials said. The May 9 fundraiser, called Salute to the Palace, featured a live performance by Sandy Hacketts Rat Pack Show. The fundraiser is an important event for the non-profit theater, which is on track to finishing its second consecutive season with a surplus after ...
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Motion Filtering Ability Correlated to High IQ
Researchers at the University of Rochester in New York state say they can predict a person’s intelligence quotient, or IQ, using some simple visual tests. Test subjects were asked to watch brief video clips of black and white bars moving across a computer screen within three different sized circles. They were asked to identify in which direction the bars drifted. The exercise ...
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Ringleader of burglary crew that murdered NYPD officer Figoski convicted
Nelson Morales A Brooklyn jury convicted the ringleader of a burglary crew that murdered a NYPD cop on felony murder and burglary charges today.Nelson Morales organized the armed crew that broke into the home of an East New York drug dealer in 2011. One of the other burglars, Lamont Pride, was convicted of fatally shooting responding police officer Peter Figoski earlier this year.Figoski's ...
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Woman injured in last weeks Conn. train crash suing Metro-North Railroad for negligence
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. - Attorneys for a 65-year-old woman injured in last week's train crash in Connecticut say they have filed a lawsuit alleging negligence by the Metro-North Railroad.Attorney Joel Faxon says the suit was filed Friday in federal court in Bridgeport to gain access to witnesses and allow victims and their families to be involved in the investigation. He said it was the first ...
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Bloomberg Public financing wont solve Albanys scandal problem
Placing himself on the opposite side of Gov. Cuomo, Mayor Bloomberg argued today that public financing won't get rid of the corruption that pervades Albany. "Public financing wouldn't have cured anything," the mayor declared on his weekly WOR radio show."What is clear is that they have a lot of corruption. Most of the things that have been in the paper would not be cured ...
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Unusual condition seen before Conn. train wreck
Train service from New York to Boston was back on schedule Wednesday on one of the nation's oldest and most heavily traveled railways, five days after a derailment in Connecticut injured scores of commuters and damaged ...
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Citi Bikes land in New York what to expect from the long-awaited scheme
New York in the early hours of Friday, greeted with a combination of curiosity, puzzlement, and not a little suspicion.Which is hardly surprising, as it's not been plain cycling so far. Residents of the West Village think the docking stations will destroy the area's historic character. In Brooklyn, treasured parking spots have been usurped. Tabloid columnists fear the city's ...
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About New York Turning Lives Around and Saving Money Too
"I'd have them come around the store and order a sandwich or something, and stuff it in the sandwich when I wrapped it," Mr. Ramos said this week. "Or when I gave a book of matches. Be creative when giving it to them, instead of just being ...
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Two Siro’s veterans have big plans for former Joe Collins restaurant in Saratoga
Sean Sheehan , another Siro's veteran. Dillon tells me the pair plan to open when they receive a liquor license, which he expects is four or five weeks out. They are leasing their new place, Jack Dillon's Farm to Fork Cuisine, from El Mondo Properties ...
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Albany County starts all over on SCCC contract
Albany County's newest construction job has an unusual twist: Everyone already knows the winning bid. County legislators voted May 23 to re-bid a contract to create new classrooms ...
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Onondaga County Grand Jury clears Sheriffs deputy involved in shooting of handcuffed...
shooting of a handcuffed burglary suspect by an Onondaga County Sheriff's deputy on May 7 has been ruled justified by a grand jury. The shooting happened after Sheriff's detectives took Arcadio Figueroa, 58, to his residence at 207 Ervingham Road to recover allegedly stolen property, according to the Onondaga County District Attorney's Office. Despite being handcuffed, Figueroa ...
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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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