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Neighboor Fatal fire gave little warning before erupting...
Douglass Dowty | ddowty@syracuse.com Only after returning to her apartment at 7 a.m. did Shinaman find out that someone had died. She called it heartbreaking. Her neighbor was a young woman who had moved in about three weeks ago and kept to herself, Shinaman said. "She went to work, come home and went into the apartment," Shinaman said. "It wasn't that she was unfriendly, I ...
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Cahill in top form in New York
Tim Cahill has continued his top form ahead of Australia's World Cup qualifiers in June with the winner in New York Red Bulls' 1-0 triumph over Los Angeles Galaxy.Cahill notched his fourth goal in five games in Major League Soccer to give the Red Bulls their fifth victory in six matches, keeping the New York-based side at the top of the Eastern Conference standings.In classic Cahill ...
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Henry Galaxy were better than New York
New York Red Bulls striker Thierry Henry has conceded his team were lucky to defeat Los Angeles Galaxy 1-0 in Major League Soccer.Tim Cahill struck for New York in the first minute of second-half stoppage time on Sunday, stealing victory at the Red Bull Arena but Henry claimed after the match that the Galaxy 'were better'.Henry praised the Red Bulls for their ability to grind out wins ...
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Cayuga County firefighters wrestle with large house fire in Sennett
Sennett, NY -- Numerous fire departments battled a raging house fire for more than an hour Sunday night in the town of Sennett. The house at 8407 Jericho Road was reported vacant, emergency responders said. When firefighters arrived around 9:30 p.m., flames had engulfed the entire front of the residence. The fire had not yet been contained by 10 45 p.m. Firefighters were battling the blaze ...
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Afrojack Calvin Harris Shake New York at Electric Daisy Carnival
It goes without saying that dance music festivals Stateside are finally catching up to their European counterparts – this year, each leg of the two-day Electric Daisy Carnival New York attracted 50,000 people, paltry compared to the sold-out 325,000 who will descend on Vegas when the main festival hits in late June. Even so, the vastness of the experience was impressive and, at times, ...
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Pacers knock out Knicks
Indiana Pacers guard D.J. Augustin passes to center Roy Hibbert (55) around New York Knicks center Amar'e Stoudemire (1) while Knicks guards Jason Kidd (right) and J.R. Smith (8) watch the play during the first half of their NBA Eastern Conference second-round playoff game in Indianapolis, Indiana, on Saturday. Brent Smith / ...
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Dryden man 101 not injured after rollover crash in Cayuga County
Venice, NY -- A 101-year-old man suffered no injuries tonight after his car rolled over on state Route 34 in southern Cayuga County, deputies said. He was taken by Onondaga County Air One helicopter to Upstate University Hospital as a precaution given his age, deputies said. The man, whose name was not released by deputies, was driving home to Dryden at 7:27 p.m. when he became tired and ...
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On Pro Basketball For Knicks Already Out of Playoffs Magic May Run Out
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Shooting of armed intruder hostage haunts New York police officer
NEW YORK -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...
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Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment
Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned ...
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Pacers knock out Knicks
/enpproperty--> Defense the key as Indiana advances to conference showdown with Miami Indiana spent the entire season perfecting its defense. On Saturday, it produced the biggest payoff for the Pacers in nearly a decade. Roy Hibbert's block of Carmelo Anthony's dunk attempt midway through the fourth quarter spurred an 11-2 run that rallied the Pacers to a 106-99 ...
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Shooting death of gay man rocks New York community
A view of fog over the New York skyline. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) NEW YORK - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32, was shot dead in Greenwich Village around midnight on Friday in what police are calling a ...
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Officer who mistakenly shot Hofstra student faced harrowing choice expert says
The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...
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Syracuse weather warmth humidity and thunderstorms
Dave Eichorn/Plymouth State Universit Mid summer-like warmth and humidity is widespread across the central and eastern United States. Around 5 p.m. today, while it was 68 degrees in Syracuse, it was near 80 in Buffalo. That's how close the warm air is to us. The advancing or leading edge of that tropical air mass is a warm front which will slowly migrate northward across Central New York ...
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Small changes coming for New York Knicks
Photo credit: Don't count on J.R. Smith giving the Knicks a discount. (Getty) While the Knicks' 2012-13 season was easily the team's most successful campaign in more than a decade, the fact remains that it fell well short of a championship or even a conference finals berth against LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Surely, they'll be in the thick of things again next season, ...
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Marcum seeking elusive first win with Mets
After more than a month on the disabled list, Reds ace Johnny Cueto will make his return to the mound on Monday against the Mets at Citi Field. It will be the right-hander's first Major League start since April 13, when he left the game in the fifth inning and hit the DL with a strained right lat two days later. "I'm happy," Cueto said through translator Tomas Vera. ...
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Hot-hitting Murphy does it again in Mets win
NYM@CHC: Lagares hits first MLB homer, ties game at 3 CHICAGO -- Daniel Murphy hit a go-ahead solo home run in the eighth inning, capping a late rally for a 4-3 victory and series win over the Cubs on Sunday afternoon at Wrigley Field. It was just the third time in their last 13 games that the Mets scored more than three runs. Two of those games have been wins. It's the Mets' ...
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Commuters warned of traffic mess for up to 1 week
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) - Gov. Dannel P. Malloy is warning commuters that a traffic mess awaits them in southwest Connecticut for as long as a week until service is restored to Metro-North following a derailment that injured scores of ...
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Marquee miracle Man tumbles out of theater window but sign breaks fall
A man miraculously survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th St. this afternoon - landing on the theater’s marquee, which broke his fall, fire officials said.Witnesses told The Post that the older man was standing against the window when it somehow opened around 2:50 p.m. and he tumbled about 2 or 3 feet down, onto the marquee, fire officials ...
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CC opens Yankees three-game series in Baltimore
The Orioles were supposed to miss CC Sabathia during their three-game series against the Yankees, which starts on Monday night at Camden Yards. The weather had other plans. Sunday's rainout at Yankee Stadium pushed back Sabathia's start and thrust him right into Baltimore's path. The big lefty will get the ball against former teammate Freddy Garcia in the series opener. The ...
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Suspect in cold-blooded murder of gay man laughed and boasted Yeah I shot him in the head prosecutors say
The bigoted ex-con accused with a hate crime for shooting dead a gay man in Greenwich Village laughed and boasted about the murder shortly after he was arrested, prosecutors said yesterday."Yeah, I shot him in the head," sneered Elliot Morales, 33, while "laughing on the ground" when cops were handcuffing him for shooting Mark Carson, 32, early Saturday morning.Morales today ...
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Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor addresses Le Moyne graduates
Syracuse, NY - Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor addressed Le Moyne College graduates Sunday at the school's 63rd commencement ceremony. The school also gave honorary degrees to Cantor, former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young and Peter Major. The student speaker was Caitlin McGuire, a communications major from Newport News, Va. There were 603 students eligible for graduation. The event ...
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Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder
Armando Morales can be a dangerous man, whichever side he’s on. Once Morales handled illicit business for the Fresno, Calif., Bulldogs street gang. Then his compelling testimony against a former cellmate secured the conviction of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy. Now the former gang-enforcer-turned-prison-snitch is back in the hot seat. What happens next might turn the Levy murder ...
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NY teacher delves into mystery of Indian Ovens
That trek eventually led to confirmation that Native Americans indeed used the site as its name suggests, but it left unsolved another mystery: For what did they use the six soccer ball-sized ...
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SUNY Upstate Medical University graduation Sunday
Syracuse, NY - SUNY Upstate Medical University held graduation ceremonies Sunday at the Crouse-Hinds Theater at the John Mulroy Civic Center. There were three ceremonies for the College of Graduate Studies, the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions. Joyce P. Griffin-Sobel, dean of the college of nursing, wrote in the program, "Share your knowledge. Involve ...
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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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