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Cops Western NY bar owner found slain in his home
KENMORE, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say the death of a bar owner whose body was found inside his Buffalo-area home is being investigated as a ...
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Patchwork plan in place to replace train service
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) -- Metro-North says its morning commute in Connecticut is going as well as can be expected following Friday's train collision outside Bridgeport that has shut down service in that ...
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Andrew Cuomo getting his popularity back
Andrew Cuomo is beginning to recover some of the popularity he lost over the gun control issue. The Journal is reporting the Siena College poll that will be released today shows Cuomo's popularity ...
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Assemblyman will resign today amid sexual harassment scandal
report by the Associated Press . Democrat Vito Lopez of Brooklyn, who is not charged with any crimes, has been under pressure to resign following reports by a special prosecutor and ethics commission involving allegations with four of Lopez's female staff ...
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Average CEO salary climbs 3.6
No need to cry for your average corporate CEO. With a compensation package of $10 million, the boss is just fine. Our online affiliate Upstart takes a look, and considers other things that have surpassed the 10 million ...
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Baker McCullough to lead new Saratoga Springs restaurant
Chef Jason Baker (left) and Paul McCullough will team up at a new Saratoga Springs restaurant. Experimental chef Jason Baker and Paul McCullough, the former manager of Creo and McGuires, will open 15 Church in Saratoga Springs, NY. The restaurant is backed by developer Tom Burke of Malta-based Burke Cos. Burke paid $440,000 for the 1870s-era, three-story building and property at 15 Church St. ...
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Anheuser-Busch sued by New York distributor
McCraith Beverages, a beer and wine distributor in New York, is suing Anheuser-Busch for assigning new beers to a rival distributor. In the lawsuit, McCraith alleges it was granted exclusive distribution rights between 1994 and 2004 to distribute Rolling Rock, Stella Artois, Becks, Bass and other beers by Labatt USA, which was later bought by InBev USA, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. In ...
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Most voters believe government is becoming more dysfunctional poll
ALBANY – Gov. Cuomo might think "government is working again," but a new survey out today shows the public isn't so sure. In the Siena College survey, more than two-thirds, or 67 percent, of registered voters say government is becoming more dysfunctional every day while a quarter, or 26 percent, say it's more effective. And after the spate of lawmaker arrests and a ...
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Live QA with Green Partys Howie Hawkins
By Mike Greenlar | mgreenlar@syracuse.com Syracuse, NY - Join us for a live chat with Green Party activist Howie Hawkins over lunch today. Hawkins is trying to decide whether to run for Syracuse mayor this year. Discuss the pros and cons with him in a live chat at 11:30 a.m. He will also take questions on issues, including campaign finance reform, in the wake of ongoing Albany corruption ...
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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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Barbie eyeing a Manhattan penthouse in search for new dream home
EXCLUSIVE Move over, Malibu - Barbie’s hunting for a dream house in Manhattan!Barbie is moving from her California mansion and embarking on a quest for new digs that could land her in a posh penthouse with Central Park views, makers of the doll say. Toymaker Mattel has hired a team of top-notch interior designers to create three "dream houses" - in New York, California 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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Gay man gunned down in New York
The man who police say hurled homophobic slurs at a gay man on a Manhattan street before firing a single fatal shot at his head appeared in court on Sunday to face a charge of murder as a hate ...
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Civil rights trial on NYPD tactic closing
In this Friday, May 17, 2013, photo, U.S. District Court Judge Shira Scheindlin is interviewed in her federal court chambers, in New York. Scheindlin is the federal judge presiding over civil rights challenges to the stop-and-frisk practices of the New York Police Department. (AP Photo/Richard ...
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Split-second choice ended with NY student dead
CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High ...
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NY town eyes limit on use of Plum Island
ILE - In this Oct. 6, 2010 file photo, people on a tour of Plum Island, N.Y., off the coast of Long Island, watch seals relaxing on the rocky shore. Selling an island where scientists have experimented with infectious animal diseases since the dawn of the Cold War was going to be difficult enough. But it now appears any prospective buyer won't be able to do much with Plum Island anyway. As ...
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Conn. derailment to cause greatly slowed commute
View Photo Associated Press/The Connecticut Post,Brian A. Pounds - A derailed Metro-North rail car is hoisted back on to the tracks in Bridgeport. Conn. on Sunday, May 19, 2013. Crews will spend days rebuilding ...
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Yahoo poised to buy New York-based blogging service
It is reported the board of Yahoo has green-lighted a deal to buy the New-York based blogging service Tumblr for more than 850 million euros. The news is expected to be officially announced later. If confirmed, the plan would give Yahoo a larger social media presence and enhance its appeal to younger ...
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Syracuse weather more like mid June with thunderstorms Your morning forecast
Dave Eichorn | deichorn@syracuse.com The front is the leading edge of some mid-summer-like weather and after it moves through here, not only will the temperature climb, but so will the humidity. Warmth and humidity, these are two important ingredients for thunderstorms with only one other ingredient needed to complete the recipe. We need a trigger. We need something to give the atmosphere a ...
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Syracuse weather for this evening and the weekend rain Sunday
The air is dry and the clouds will be thin. With light winds, the air will cool quickly. If you are headed out this evening, the temperature will be down into the lower 50s by midnight, even cooler in outlying areas. This weekend does have a few weather glitches in it. In particular, on ...
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Brooklyn principal’s 92G bonus
Good grades earned him more than just a spot on the fridge.PS 172 Principal Jack Spatola has raked in $92,000 in bonus pay from the city since 2008 for his Brooklyn school’s good performance, making him the top earner under a revamped merit-pay system, data show.In all, 40 public-school principals have each earned cumulative bonuses in excess of $50,000 over the life of the four-year ...
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Grads pay sad tribute
Tears and a moment of silence marked Hofstra University’s graduation ceremony yesterday in memory of slain classmate Andrea Rebello. Many of the nearly 700 grads bore the initials "RIP" on their mortarboards and wore white ribbons on their blue gowns as Hofstra President Stuart Rabinowitz paid tribute to Rebello, 21, who had wrapped up her junior year a day before she was shot ...
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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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