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Fayetteville Fire Department awarded $75000 federal grant
Washington -- The Fayetteville Fire Department has been awarded a competitive grant of $75,291 from the federal government to help upgrade the village's fire hydrants, U.S. Rep. Dan Maffei said today. The grant from a firefighter assistance program run by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be used to update and standardize fire hydrant threads throughout the village's fire ...
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Emily VanCamp on Living in New York Working with Samuel L. Jackson and the Intimidating Set of Captain America
Emily VanCamp has been working in New York this summer. "I'm shooting a couple of movies, actually," she said at Clinique's Dramatically Different party on Tuesday. "I'm wrapping up Captain America on Monday. I'm also, at the same time, shooting a little indie film here in New York, called The Girl in the Book, which I'm really passionate about and ...
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Like father like daughter Joe Torres gal bravely catches tot dangling from store awning
A young boy was saved today by Joe Torre's daughter, Cristina, after the child fell out of his apartment. It was the catch heard round Brooklyn!The daughter of former Yankee manager, Joe Torre, made an amazing catch this morning when a baby who fell from a storefront awning in Bay Ridge, authorities and witnesses said.Cristina Torre, 44, was biking to work when she spotted the 1-year-old ...
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Did a missile bring down TWA Flight 800 off New York Former investigators urge probe reopened based on new evidence
Researchers say a vaccine for a sexually spread virus has cut infections in teen girls by half. This is the first evidence of how well the HPV vaccine works since it came on the market seven years ...
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Casino Referendum Planned by New York Leaders
ALBANY -- Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and legislative leaders have agreed to ask voters in November to amend the New York State Constitution to allow a significant expansion of casino ...
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Feds 2 upstate NY men tried to make X-ray weapon so they could secretly harm Israel foes
ALBANY, N.Y. - Federal authorities on Wednesday accused two upstate New York men of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Prosecutors said 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight have been charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists following a yearlong undercover investigation. Investigators ...
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Route 370 bridge closure over Seneca River now underway
Workers prepared the traffic lights for the one way traffic across Route 370 over the Seneca River this morning. The 24-week project to replace concrete on the bridge began this ...
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Cuomo NY legislative leaders announce deal to authorize 4 new casinos
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, D-Manhattan, left, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, and Senate Co-Leader Dean Skelos, R-Rockville Centre, along with Senate Co-Leader Jeff Klein (not pictured) have agreed to a deal to expand casino gambling in Upstate New York. They are shown in a file photo from earlier this ...
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Oneida City police Three charged in connection with selling crack cocaine in Oneida
Oneida, NY -- Three people were arrested in connection with selling nearly $9,000 worth of crack cocaine, Oneida City police said. On Monday, police searched 230 Stoddard St., following a lengthy investigation. They seized 90 individual packaged pieces of crack cocaine, approximately 45 grams with a street value of about $9,000 and less than $1,000 cash. Carl L. Martin, 28, of 611 Morris Park, ...
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NJ Gov. Christie is still a Dallas Cowboys fan
SAYREVILLE, N.J. -; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie surprised some schoolchildren when he told them his favorite football team is the Dallas ...
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A-Rod reportedly sought Boschs advice last year
The Yankees hope Alex Rodriguez is ready after the break. NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez allegedly reached out to Biogenesis founder Anthony Bosch for help while struggling in last year's American League Championship Series, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Miami New Times. Porter Fischer, a former business associate of Bosch's, told the weekly newspaper that Rodriguez ...
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Almonte set to debut in Yankees nightcap
10th-best prospect according to MLB.com, is expected to make his Major League debut on Wednesday for the club. Manager Joe Girardi said that he plans to start Almonte in the second game of Wednesday's day-night doubleheader against the Dodgers, though he could also use Almonte as a substitute in the afternoon contest. "We really believe this kid is going to hit," Girardi said. ...
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Police respond to overturned sailboat on Owasco Lake
Owasco Lake, NY -- Authorities are responding to an overturned sailboat on Owasco Lake, near Emerson Park, according to emergency dispatchers. The four people on the boat were all wearing life vests, dispatchers said. No injuries have been reported. A fire rescue boat is on the way, dispatchers said. Emergency calls came in at about 1:30 p.m. ...
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DeWitt police arrest multiple suspects in large counterfeit check cashing scheme
Syracuse, NY -- Multiple suspects from Georgia were arrested Tuesday in connection with a counterfeit check cashing scheme connected to tens of thousands of dollars in thefts across Central New York, DeWitt police said. Around 11 a.m., police were called to the M&T Bank on Erie Boulevard. A man was trying to cash a counterfeit check in the name of a local commercial business, police said. ...
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Destiny tenants gain recognition for sustainable building practices
New tenants in the mall's expansion section are required by lease to obtain LEED certification. More than 60 tenants at Destiny are going through the certification process ...
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Video Car crash in New York City injures eight
A car rocketing down an avenue in Manhattan's dense East Village swerved out of control, plowed down a sidewalk and smashed through a storefront flower stand Wednesday morning, injuring eight ...
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Wooden beam could be detached part of shipwreck
FAIRPORT, Mich. -; Archaeologists say a wooden beam found embedded in the floor of Lake Michigan wasn't attached to a larger vessel, but that it could be a detached piece of wreckage from a ship that disappeared while exploring the Great Lakes in the 17th ...
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Hanson Celebrate 21st Birthday as a Band in New York
Hanson turned 21 this year, and the brotherly trio celebrated with a birthday party last night in New York at Irving Plaza as fans swarmed to see the band perform. The brothers started the group as pre-teens, and released their sixth studio ...
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Perv teacher convicted after turning 8 and 9-year-olds into personal sex toys
A Queens jury convicted a teacher for using five elementary students as his "personal sex toys" inside their third and fourth-grade classrooms. Simon Watts, a former teacher at the Jackie Robinson Elementary school, appeared shocked when the foreperson read "guilty" on all eleven counts for forcing four little girls to inappropriately touch his crotch and molested a ...
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Alleged drunk driver going 75 mph jumps curb and injures 5 in street race witnesses
An allegedly wasted driver racing another car in the East Village jumped a curb and injured five people when his car smashed into a deli and caused a fire hydrant to torpedo through the air and strike a Citi Bike rider, cops and witnesses said.Shaun Martin, 32, of Queens, was charged with DWI when his white Nissan Altima lost control on Second Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets and smashed ...
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Nine more things to know about Start-Up NY the new NY Tax-Free program
Albany, N.Y. -- First things first: before Gov. Andrew Cuomo even got approval from the New York State Legislature for creating tax-free zones around colleges, he's renamed one of his top agenda items from this session. ...
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Albany-area men planned to use radiation device to commit terrorism FBI says
Albany, NY -- Two Albany-area men, including an employee of General Electric, were charged today with conspiring to provide material support to terrorists through the use of a lethal radiation device. The FBI and U.S. Attorney's office announced the arrests today in Albany and they were reported today by ...
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Syracuse community group to protest store before it opens
Syracuse United Neighbors will protest a planned corner store at Oxford Street and Midland Avenue in the former Midgley Printing building. Across the street is the Oxford Inn, a men's shelter of last resort run by Catholic ...
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Admitted father-son pimps with family of happy hookers cleared of sex trafficking - could still spend 15 years behind bars for prostitution raps
My son Maddox gets shot in head during 'World War Z,' says Brad Pitt Adults were left terrified at the end of Brad Pitt’s zombie thriller ...
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NY Gov. Cuomos Abortion Plank Back in Play in New York Senate
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo arrives at a meeting with Appropriations Committee Chairman and Vice-Chairman Senator Daniel Inouye and Senator Thad Cochran on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 3, ...
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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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