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New York mayoral candidate Weiner uses Pittsburgh as backdrop
New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner, a former U.S. House member and tweeter of lewd selfies, inexplicably splashed a photograph of Pittsburgh's Downtown across his campaign ...
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Summer Heat Is Going To Make New York Deadly
Summer heat waves can transform East Coast cities likes New York and Washington, DC, into humid, odiferous swamps of misery and stagnation. But with climate change conspiring toward increasingly hotter summers, New York and other towns won't just be more unpleasant; they'll be deadlier. ...
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Andrew Cuomos take on Anthony Weiner catches fire across news media
Gov. Andrew Cuomo was in Syracuse Wednesday and met with editorial board of the Syracuse Media Group's Post-Standard and syracuse.com to talk about a proposal for tax-free zones on colleges and other state issues. The conversation led briefly to the campaign of Anthony Weiner while talking with Syracuse Media Group's President Timothy R. Kennedy (center) and Chairman Stephen A. ...
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A look at weekend Thoroughbred racing
The Memorial Day weekend kicks off summer and, with no Triple Crown hopes to extend the spring, also kicks off a "second season" of racing. There are important turf races at Churchill Downs, Belmont Park, Hollywood Park and Arlington Park. Some of the nation's top steeds will be on display in the Grade I Met Mile at Belmont. Fillies and mares are in action from coast to coast and ...
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REFILE-BRIEF-New York Co reports Q1 earnings per share $0.03
Thu May 23, 2013 4:46pm EDT May 23 (Reuters) - New York & Co Inc : * Announces first quarter 2013 EPS of $0.03 * Q1 earnings per share $0.03 * Q1 same store sales fell 2 percent * Q1 earnings per share view $-0.07 -- Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S * Q1 sales $227.5 million versus I/B/E/S view $216.8 million * Says expects positive low to mid single-digit comparable store sales for the second ...
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New York Posts guide to Memorial Day Weekend
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the perfect time to get out and about in the gorgeous weather. Check out the Post's guide to plan your perfect ...
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New Yorks best beaches
Memorial Day weekend is the unofficial start to summer and the perfect time to start working on that tan. Here is a list of the best local beaches so break out the sun block, pack a picnic and call your ...
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New York man held captive for a month in warehouse rescued by police
By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Police rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3 million ransom from his family in Ecuador, authorities said. Acting on a tip from the victim's mother, police ...
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87-year-old woman loses to Trump in civil case
Jurors sided with the real estate mogul-turned-TV showman in a weeklong civil trial focused on Jacqueline Goldberg's claim that Trump cheated her in a condo bait-and-switch ...
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NYPD says 3 kidnapping suspects fled to Ecuador
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says three accomplices to the brutal monthlong kidnapping of a businessman have fled to ...
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NY girl 12 kills herself cites cyber bullying
Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott has spoken with the family and offered condolences. Education officials did not comment on reports of cyber bullying because of the ongoing ...
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NY sheriffs fault new gun law seek to join suit
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- County sheriffs have asked to join the federal lawsuit challenging New York's tough new gun restrictions, calling some provisions vague and impossible to enforce ...
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New York State museum adds Lincoln artifacts to war exhibit
ALBANY, N.Y. – The New York State Museum has added two artifacts to its exhibition marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Now in the exhibit, entitled "An Irrepressible Conflict: The Empire State in the Civil War," are the notes taken by two physicians who attended President Abraham Lincoln on his death bed. Also added to the collection is the only existing oil painting ...
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Delcath shareholders negative on CEO pay
Eamonn Hobbs and other top executives. Public companies are required by law to give shareholders a "say on pay" at least every three years, although many have shareholders cast their votes every year. The vote is non-binding, but board compensation committees do take them into consideration. Delcath, a medical device manufacturer in Queensbury, NY, has been struggling to get U.S. ...
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The Monroe apartments fill quickly in downtown Albany
Marc Paquin, president of Cass Hill Development Cos. outside The Monroe, a 44-unit apartment building that straddles Sheridan Avenue and Monroe Street downtown. Cass Hill converted the former Boyd printing plant into apartments. Paquin said he's pursuing other projects in the city, but has no imminent ...
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Turbine business snags new space
A company that services turbines, primarily those made by General Electric Co., has leased new space in the Glenville Business and Technology Park. PAL Turbine Services LLC has its headquarters in Clifton Park. That will remain. The 14-year-old business is now also taking 60,000 square feet in the Glenville park, where employees will upgrade and modernize gas and steam turbines, as well as ...
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Police Four teens arrested after stolen car chase through Syracuse and neighboring towns
The four teenagers led police on a stolen car chase that went for several miles through the city and to Lafayette N.Y. for more than a half hour, police ...
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Cuomo will make decision on hydrofracking before next years election
In an editorial board meeting at The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com, Gov. Andrew Cuomo also talked about enforcing the NY Safe Act, Indian gaming compacts and Interstate ...
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Albert Sales is Green Party candidate for 3rd District Syracuse Common Council
Syracuse, NY - The Green Party has designated Albert Sales to run for the 3rd District on the Syracuse Common Council against incumbent Bob Dougherty, a Democrat. Sales, 39, of 216 May Ave., said he left the area in 1992 and, when he returned in 2011, it seemed to lack the strong sense of community pride that he remembered. He said he does not know Dougherty, but believes he could be doing ...
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315 p.m. update on showers and thunderstorms in Central New York
At 3:00 p.m. a line of heavy showers and a few thunderstorms stretched from Brewerton southwest to Watkins Glen. To the southwest of that, showers and thunderstorms are beginning to mass over western New York. This new area of developing weather will need to be monitored during the ...
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New York Senate seeks 5 casinos video slots on Long Island
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- Senate Republicans are proposing five Las Vegas-style casinos including up to three in the Catskills with two video slot machine sites on Long Island. The bill released Thursday also calls for a casino in the Southern Tier's Tioga County, one near Albany, and one in Westchester County or Queens. The bill sponsored by Sen. John Bonacic (BAH'-nah-chek) calls for ...
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Court rejects unions effort to block sale of Onondaga Countys Van Duyn nursing home
Syracuse, N.Y. - A judge has rejected a lawsuit seeking to block the transfer and eventual sale of Onondaga County's Van Duyn nursing home. The legal challenge ...
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Judge to Pat Bombard Pay victim in 90 days or go to prison
ADA Beth VanDoran (kneeled) explains to Erma Jerva and family members what happened in court in the Pat Bombard case. Bombard swindled Jerva out of thousands of ...
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Ononondaga County agrees to pay $15000 in jail deputys sexual harassment complaint
Syracuse, NY -- Onondaga County officials have agreed to pay $15,000 to a Justice Center jail deputy to settle her claim that she was sexually harassed on the job. The county legislature voted two weeks ago to pay that amount to Deputy Susan Drew, who filed a sexual harassment complaint with the state Division of Human Rights. The legislative motion proposing the settlement says only that Drew ...
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230 PM Strong thunderstorms approaching Onondaga County
National Weather Service/weatherTap As of 2:30 PM, showers and thunderstorms were lining up from Fulton in Oswego County southwestward across western Onondaga County to around Penn Yan in the Finger Lakes. The storms are moving northeast at about 35 mph. They will be accompanied by frequent lightning and gusty winds. If you get some storm photos, pass them ...
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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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