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Totally Biased Turns Knicks Gay Protest Into Fashion Show At Madison Square Garden
"Totally Biased" sent two correspondents, comedians Guy Branum and Aparna Nancherla, to Madison Square Garden to interview people protesting gay-bashing that recently occurred at Knicks games -- interview them about their fashion choices, of course. Check out the clip above to see what happens when a protest turns into a red ...
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Vietnam memorial wall replica on display in Oswego County
New Haven, NY -- The Vietnam Moving Wall will be on display in Oswego County until Monday evening. The memorial wall is being hosted by the New Haven American Legion Post #1532 and the Mexico American Legion Post #384. The original replica is half the size of the Vietnam Wall in Washington D.C. and will be at the New Haven Fire Station until Monday. The wall will be open to the public 24 hours ...
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No injuries in Davis Street fire Syracuse firefighters say
a house fire on Davis Street in the city of Syracuse Friday afternoon. Firefighters responded to a three-apartment house at 219 Davis St. around 3 p.m. after a caller reported smoke coming from the windows. The first floor of the house is vacant, but the second floor is occupied, a fire official said. No one was home at the time of the fire. The fire was out by 3:30 p.m. and no one was ...
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NYPD street stop policys critics seek big changes
NEW YORK -; It once was an accepted tactic as old as policing itself and, according to the New York Police Department, a key to the city's dramatic drop in crime: patrol officers stopping young men on the street to see if they're up to no ...
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Teen arrested for having illegal handgun
Police collared a teen for an illegal handgun during a police stop in Jamaica, authorities said.Plainclothes cops spotted Nicholas Morris, 17, adjusting an object in his waistband about 1:40 p.m. yesterday near Sayres Avenue and 167th Street during a surveillance operation, police said.They identified themselves and asked Morris what he had in the waistband, cops said.When he said he a gun, ...
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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Haynes Johnson dies
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Haynes Johnson has died in Bethesda, Md., of a heart attack, his wife said. He was 81. The former Washington Post journalist, who won acclaim for his coverage of the civil rights movement in the 1960s, died Friday at Suburban Hospital, his wife, District of Columbia Court of Appeals Judge Kathryn Oberly, said. Johnson began his career as a ...
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Teenager dead after drowning in Kasoag Lake in Oswego County
Williamstown, NY -- A 17-year-old is dead after his boat overturned in Kasoag Lake in Oswego County, Oswego County sheriff's deputies said. Around 1:10 a.m., deputies responded to the lake after a reported drowning. Nicholas Curtis Bastable, of Camden, died after his paddle boat overturned on the lake. Bastable was one of three occupants on a two-man paddle boat, deputies said. The two ...
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Sister of high-ranking Chinese diplomat busted for shoplifting
EXCLUSIVE The sister of a high-ranking Chinese diplomat was busted for alleged shoplifting from the Herald Square Macy’s - and her well-connected family caused a huge scene trying to get her out of police custody, The Post has learned.Guo Wang, 37 - whose brother Bangfu Wang is a section chief in the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs - walked into the Macy’s flagship store ...
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Weiners rivals in mayoral race may use Cuomos shame on us remark
Gov. Cuomo’s smackdown of Anthony Weiner’s mayoral bid is "political gold" for the shamed sexter’s rivals, campaign sources told The Post. "This is exactly the kind of stuff you’d use if you need to take Weiner down," an operative in an opposing mayoral camp crowed yesterday, after Cuomo bluntly declared "shame on us" if voters elect Weiner. ...
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Knicks Acquire Four-Time All-Star Carmelo Anthony
from Minnesota. At 26 years old, Carmelo is in the prime of his NBA career having already established himself as a one of the games elite players and the opportunity to add him to our roster was one we could not pass up, Walsh said. I feel we now have a great frontcourt tandem in Amare and Carmelo and this is an exciting day for the New York Knicks and all our fans. It is extremely difficult ...
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NY Knicks vs. Miami Heat Sweepstakes Official Rules
NY KNICKS VS. MIAMI HEAT SWEEPSTAKES (The Sweepstakes) OFFICIAL RULES NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED. A PURCHASE WILL NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. 1. PERIOD: Sweepstakes begins at 12:00pm (noon) Eastern Time (ET) on Monday, January 24, 2011 and ends at 8:00pm ET on Wednesday, January 26, 2011 (the Sweepstakes Period). 2. ELIGIBILITY: Sweepstakes is open to ...
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Knicks Roster Coming Together
The New York Knicks roster is starting to fill out nicely. A day after the Knicks officially obtained five-time All-Star Amare Stoudemire, the team announced the acquisition of Anthony Randolph, Ronny Turiaf and Kelenna Azubuike from Golden State in a sign-and-trade deal for David Lee on Friday. The Knicks roster, including the three drafted rookies, now stands at 12. This trade gives us an ...
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Knicks Complete Sign Trade for Stoudemire
has been officially acquired from the Phoenix Suns, via sign-and trade, in exchange for a protected future second-round draft selection. Stoudemire, 6-10, 249-pounds, has career averages of 21.4 points, 8.9 rebounds, 1.40 blocks and 34.3 minutes in 516 career games (499 starts) in eight NBA seasons with the Phoenix Suns. The Lake Wales, FL-native has been named an NBA All-Star five times and ...
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Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling
Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling NEW YORK - August 8 - At a press conference with Queens City Councilman Gennaro today, Riverkeeper called on Governor Paterson to designate the New York City Watershed ...
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Angel Flight Crashes in NY 2 Killed 1 Missing
The crash of a volunteer Angel Flight in upstate New York that killed at least two people is under investigation, and the search for the missing pilot is ongoing, authorities said. Fulton County Sheriff Thomas Lorey said the flight's two passengers were found dead near where the twin-engine plane crashed in a wooded area in Ephratah, about an hour west of Albany. He said the search for ...
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Bikes rack up protests
Opponents of the city’s bike-sharing program have plastered East Village kiosks with copies of a Post article headlined, "Get the rack outta here," that shows a crew moving a rack across town. A gadfly scribbled, "Call 311!" over the photocopied posters. "This is not a good location," resident Tallia Herrara, 29, said of bike racks on East 13th Street and ...
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B’klyn drug and gun raid
Cops busted two heavily armed Brooklyn drug dealers yesterday, scoring three guns and a cache of cocaine and heroin, authorities said.David Etienne, 27, and Brian Johnson, 25, were caught off guard when officers from the NYPD’s Brooklyn North Gang Squad stormed their building on Clifton Place in Bedford-Stuyvesant at 9:30 a.m., and gave up without a fight.Cops said they recovered a .22- ...
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Bynes is a brat gone bong-kers
Andrea Peyser Sometime-actress and full-time train wreck Amanda Bynes took her pocketful of crazy into Manhattan Criminal Court yesterday, where the disturbed and potentially hazardous actress caught a major break. In a ratty, platinum-blond wig that looked as if something had died in it, Bynes did her best impersonation of that competing four-car pileup, Lindsay Lohan.This is just what the city ...
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Clues in Conn. train derailment
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The engineer of the commuter train that derailed last week in Connecticut observed an "unusual condition" on the track before the wreck, federal officials said yesterday.They didn’t explain what the condition was, though they did say repair work had been done last month in the area of the crash. The National Transportation Safety Board said it has not yet ...
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Hot dog hooker busted
Long Island’s hot-dog hooker is back to selling her buns, cops said yesterday. Catherine Scalia, 47 - who got seven days in prison last year for selling sex out of her hot-dog truck - was busted again yesterday for prostitution, Nassau County cops said.Sacalia was caught during a prostitution sting when she responded to a police officer’s call for a masseuse at an East Garden City ...
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Court’s a real hair raiser for Amanda
Troubled starlet Amanda Bynes wore a tangled peroxide-blond wig and sweat pants yesterday to a Manhattan courtroom, where she answered to drug charges - then had to bum $20 off her lawyer for the cab ride home. The dazed former Nickelodeon actress had allegedly flung a bong out of her Times Square apartment’s 36th-floor window on Thursday as she was being interviewed by uniformed ...
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Mayor Quinn in air clash
In a bizarre scene at JFK Airport, Mayor Bloomberg yesterday toasted a new terminal - while mayoral race front-runner Christine Quinn was outside protesting the airline that helped build it. Hizzoner held court with Virgin Atlantic boss Richard Branson and the Rockettes at Gate 41 in Terminal 4, touting the $1.4 billion facility for bringing jobs to New Yorkers and promoting "the great ...
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New GOP Kelly push
Police Commissioner Ray Kelly was the talk of the political world yesterday, with sources saying Republican power brokers are in a "full-court press" to get him to enter the mayor’s race."There are people who are unhappy with the field of candidates who badly want Kelly to get in," one said.Sources said state GOP Chairman Ed Cox is part of the push. Kelly maintained ...
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Crooked doc gets 8 years
A doctor at the heart of the massive LIRR "gravy train" scandal was sentenced to eight years in federal prison yesterday for the audacious $1 billion pension scam - which the judge condemned as "a large pool of corruption."Dr. Peter Ajemian, 63, was also ordered to pay back $233 million for falsely diagnosing hundreds of greedy Long Island Rail Road workers with disabilities ...
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Sex school Manns up
The elite Horace Mann School yesterday publicly apologized for the decades-long sexual abuse of dozens of students - but officials did not say they’d support an outside investigation of the scandal as some victims had demanded.In a joint statement, Board of Trustees Chairman Steven Friedman and Principal Thomas Kelly said "it is clear that between 1962 and 1996, former teachers and ...
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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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