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2G ‘junk’ fine tossed
It was a big win for the little guy and common sense. A Manhattan appeals court this week overturned a $2,000 fine levied in 2011 against Brooklyn carpenter Albert Prince for taking a TV antenna from a pile of curbside trash. Prince, 58, who makes art out of recyclables, said he didn’t realize his scavenging activity was illegal. The Appellate Division panel called the penalty ...
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Gambling suspect’s ‘safe’ bet
What happens in Vegas can’t happen at the Bellagio for a co-defendant in the high-stakes, illegal gambling case against Upper East Side art dealer Helly Nahmad.Professional poker player Abe Mosseri won permission from a judge yesterday to travel to Sin City for the upcoming World Series of Poker - but not to stay at the luxury casino.Defense lawyer Michael Bachner told the judge that ...
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‘Cats’ in jam over legal fees
Mayoral hopeful and supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis has to fork over nearly $3.9 million to the lawyers of workers who sued him for shortchanging them at his Gristedes stores, a Manhattan appeals court ruled yesterday.The billionaire Republican candidate sought to slash the hefty legal bill on grounds that it exceeded the $3.5 million settlement he struck with his employees on the eve of ...
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‘Wired’ pol eyes old seat
Maybe he’ll run on the clean-up-Albany platform!Disgraced ex-Assemblyman Nelson Castro, who worked as an undercover informant against fellow Albany legislators, may run for his old Bronx seat, The Post has learned."To be honest, I’m really considering it," Castro said last night. He resigned April 8 as part of a perjury-charge plea deal that also required him to wear a ...
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Life or death on 20th floor
Police officers yesterday rescue a woman who threatened to jump from a West 38th Street building’s 20th-floor balcony. It was not known why she wanted to kill herself. The officers finally came through the window and onto the balcony and grabbed the startled woman, whisking her to safety. She was taken to Roosevelt Hospital for observation. "Everything went according to plan," ...
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Derek’s had Phil of fame
Also listed on the hotel tab were Bruce Almighty (then-coach Don Mattingly) and Ricky Ricardo (Jorge Posada).Johnny Drama, of course, may not fit well on a coffee cup.Instead, Jeter might be using names based on a rotating cast of Yankee Hall of Famers - and yesterday could have been the turn of late Bomber shortstop Phil Rizzuto. Holy cow!Or, perhaps, Jeter was just a victim of the infamous ...
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Pols move to stab TSA plan
All four senators from New York and New Jersey joined forces yesterday to introduce a bill blocking a TSA plan to allow small knives on to planes. New York Democrats Sens. Charles Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand teamed with New Jersey’s Frank Lautenberg and Robert Menendez, also Democrats, in pushing for a halt to a plan to allow blades less than 2.36 inches onto commercial flights. The ...
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Borders gift cards useless
The defunct Borders bookstore chain owes nothing to holders of roughly $210.5 million of gift cards that had not been used by the time it shut down, a Manhattan federal judge ruled yesterday.US District Judge Andrew Carter said it would be unfair to other creditors of the former Borders Group Inc. to let gift-card holders pursue recoveries.To do so, Carter explained, could upset a liquidation by ...
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Queens man in 32-day torture nightmare
Three men abducted and tortured a Queens immigrant, demanding $3 million ransom from his relatives in Ecuador as they held him captive in a Long Island City warehouse for more than a month, officials said yesterday. During the 32-day ordeal, captors burned Pedro Portugal’s hand with acid, threatened to cut off his fingers, and beat him so viciously that he lost teeth before he was finally ...
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Surprising AL East-leading Yanks visit rival Rays
One year ago on May 22, the roles were reversed: The Rays had a 26-18 record and a 3 1/2-game lead over the Yankees for second place in the American League East. Yet it was the Yanks who ended up taking the division title. As the two teams prepare to start a three-game series on Friday, the Yankees find themselves in first place with a four-game lead over the fourth-place Rays. "I think ...
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo to businesses Yes I said tax free
The governor's plan would give qualifying businesses that move onto New York state college campuses a free ride - no property taxes, no corporate taxes, no sales taxes and no income taxes for their ...
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More rain for Central New York today quite a change coming up this evening Your morning...
There is a chance that the worst of the thunderstorms today may end up being east of Syracuse over the eastern 1/2 of New York State. Still though, locally we will need to keep an eye on the temperature this afternoon. If we get up into the mid 80s again, then some storms could easily occur in Central New ...
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Video Weiner launches bid to become New York mayor
In running for mayor, Anthony Weiner is seeking to get past the tawdry-tweeter punch line that has dogged him since his congressional career imploded two years ...
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GOP women Dump Silver
ALBANY - GOP assemblywomen urged their Democratic sisters to stop the "war on women" by booting Sheldon Silver as speaker for mishandling the Vito Lopez sex scandal. "As female members of the Assembly, we hope that our colleagues in the Democratic majority will call for a vote and elect a new speaker - someone untarnished by the corrupt culture of Albany and who will not tolerate ...
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Twin sis’ farewell to ‘angel’
Hofstra student Andrea Rebello’s heartbroken twin sister sobbed uncontrollably as she said goodbye to the slain beauty at a funeral in Westchester yesterday. Jessica Rebello, 21, trailed her sister’s metal casket - leaning on her dad to keep from collapsing (pictured) - outside St. Teresa of Avila church in Sleepy Hollow.Instead of speaking, she clutched a hand-penned note addressed ...
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Anthony getting his chain yanked
Anthony Weiner’s mayoral rivals don’t want voters to forget about his sexting scandal, and several even greeted his candidacy with some hard-edged humor."If he can penetrate the [Democratic] field, I’ll be ready for him in November," chuckled Independence Party candidate Adolfo Carrion.Democrat Sal Albanese drew laughter at a Crain’s forum in Midtown when he ...
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Rome woman who had her 4 children in car charged with drunken driving
Monica L. Gonzalez, 35, of Rome, was charged with aggravated DWI, endangering the welfare of a child and multiple traffic infractions. Troopers in Lee pulled Gonzalez over around 11:35 p.m. Tuesday night on state Route 26 in the town of Lee for failure to keep right. A breath test showed Gonzalez's blood alcohol content to be .24, or three times the legal limit, state police said. ...
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New York Times threatens tech startup over web design tool
future of online journalism and reportedly took months to code and create. But entrepreneur Cody Brown had been working on a simpler way to create a similar effect. He decided to build a replica of Snow Fall to demonstrate what his web design ...
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Kuroda hit hard in more ways than one vs. Os
NYY@BAL: Kuroda exits game an inning after being hit BALTIMORE -- Right-hander Hiroki Kuroda was hit hard and forced to leave early with a bruised right calf and the Yankees never recovered, suffering a 6-3 defeat to the Orioles on Wednesday at Camden Yards. Kuroda was charged with five runs in two-plus innings after being struck by a Manny Machado liner in the second. He recovered to finish ...
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Camden man charged with animal cruelty after dog dies
The dog was taken from West's home by the Camden animal control officer on May 17, and the animal died on May 20 due to its deteriorated health, the sheriff's office ...
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At least 20 injured as trains collide north of New York after derailment
Two trains collided after one of them derailed during the Friday evening rush hour in Fairfield, the U.S. state of Connecticut, injuring at least 20 people, local authorities said. The Fairfield police estimated that 20 to 25 people were injured in the accident, but no fatalities had been reported so far, media reports here said. An New York-bound train from New Haven derailed at around 6 p.m. ...
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Kenyas Beijing 1500 champion makes comeback in New York league
Beijing Olympic 1,500m champion Nancy Jebet Lagat and London 800m winner David Rudisha led a group of Kenyan athletes heading to New York for the Diamond league meet on Saturday.Whereas Rudisha, will be one of the biggest stars in the Adidas Grand Prix, which is third stop in the 2013 IAAF Diamond League, the return to action of Lagat has tilted the equation over the four lap race."I have ...
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Seneca deputies search for missing Ithaca man who was canoeing on Cayuga Lake
Christopher T. Dennis, 22, of Cayuga Heights Road, left a campsite around 5 a.m. in the town of Covert and put a canoe into Cayuga Lake alone. When Dennis didn't return later in the day, his friends began looking for him and found an overturned canoe in the middle of the lake around 12:30 p.m., the sheriff's office said. The friends called 911. The Seneca County Sheriff's ...
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What Gov. Andrew Cuomo has to say about Anthony Weiner
Syracuse, N.Y. - Want to know what Gov. Andrew Cuomo thinks about former Congressman Anthony Weiner's bid for New York City mayor? We have a bit of insight for you. Today, in an editorial board meeting with Cuomo and The Post-Standard and Syracuse Media Group, the governor was asked whether he thought the New York State Legislature should ...
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Memorial Day weekend in New York Heres what to do
The kickoff to summer may be a soggy one, as the city could be in for "significant rainfall" this Memorial Day weekend. The storm that rocked the Midwest this week is on a direct course for New England, but the city may see some of the worst of it, according to AccuWeather. But this is still Memorial Day weekend, so if the clouds clear up, these are a few of the many things you can ...
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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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