Killing of gay man in NYC draws protesters

Associated Press - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

NEW YORK (AP) -- The killing of a gay man who police say was taunted with homophobic slurs drew thousands of people to the scene of the crime to restore a sense of safety to one of the nation's most gay-friendly ...

Marcellus families navigate contaminated drinking water

The Post-Standard - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

After his well was contaminated by cow manure, Chris Sgouris of Amber Road in Marcellus became a one-man water department. Here he moves a hose from one water storage container to another to keep water flowing into his home. Sgouris said he pays about $80 a week to have water trucked to his ...

CNYers head to the polls to vote on school budgets elect board of education members

The Post-Standard - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The legs of 3-year-old Elizabeth Feulner appear beneath the voting booth last year while mom Katie Feulner votes on the school budget at Fayetteville Elementary School in this 2012 file photo. Thousands of voters will head out to the polls today to vote on the 2013-14 school ...

Thunderstorms in Central New York today and Wednesday

The Post-Standard - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The dividing line between these two air masses will at least in part, be the focus point for thunderstorm development over Central New York through ...

Big jump in HIV among Navajo in New Mexico

Middle East Times - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A Navajo reservation near Gallup, N.M., had a 20 percent increase in HIV diagnoses in 2012 from 2011, a doctor says. Dr. Jonathan Iralu, an infectious disease specialist who runs an HIV clinic in Gallup, said he compiled the report for the federal Indian Health Service because he used to treat a small number of Navajo men with human immunodeficiency virus each year. However, the 47 new cases ...

Bourbon Outfitters Hipster chain out to sell booze in Williamsburg

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Soon, the hipsters in Williamsburg will be able to down their Pabst while buying their ironic T-shirts.A new Urban Outfitters site on North Sixth Street in the trendy Brooklyn ’hood is applying for a liquor and restaurant license to serve booze in the store.The clothing chain is to unveil its plan May 30 before Brooklyn Community Board 1’s State Liquor Authority review committee. It ...

Kiss that perv goodbye Rape teach wife snog in court before jail

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

He has no shame.A married Queens teacher and dad who repeatedly had sex with a 13-year-old girl in his family’s home openly made out with his lawyer wife in court yesterday - minutes before landing a sweetheart jail deal for his rape charge.As a Queens judge dispensed criminal cases feet away, Daniel Reilly, 36, shared long, passionate kisses with wife Annemarie, 28, who rubbed his knee ...

‘Pic’-a-boo Stolen phone snaps ‘thief’

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A stolen smartphone was able to do its own detective work - by taking a photo of the man who might have snatched it. Police want to talk to this "person of interest" (pictured), who was photographed holding a phone stolen from a man in the Inwood section of Manhattan, cops said. The victim was inside a pedestrian walkway at the 190th Street A-train station on Sunday when three men ...

Chinese ‘spy’ busts at NYU

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Three Chinese citizens engaged in industrial espionage while conducting federally funded research at NYU Langone Medical Center, authorities charged yesterday.The men - one of whom was called an "innovator" in MRI technology" - allegedly funneled "nonpublic information" financed by taxpayers to a rival university in China and a company backed by the Chinese ...

Sal Squeeze Weiner for cost of election

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

With Anthony Weiner about to pop into the race for mayor, one of his Democratic rivals demanded yesterday that he pony up $350,000 for the cost of the election required to fill his hastily vacated congressional seat two years ago.Weiner resigned under pressure in June 2011 after it was disclosed he was tweeting lewd pictures of himself to women he’d met on the Internet. In the special ...

Caroline Kennedys jury acquits accused drug dealer

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

An accused crack dealer is singing "Sweet Caroline" today.Former First Daughter Caroline Kennedy and her fellow jurors took just over an hour yesterday to acquit the Harlem man of charges that he sold four "nickel bag" crack rocks at $5 each to an undercover officer.Violent predicate felon Nelson Chatman, 31, smiled as the jury foreman rendered the verdict in the 2011 case ...

Poor li’l rich kids Posh schools scold parents who send nannies

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

EXCLUSIVE Wealthy New Yorkers are shunning their parental duties - choosing instead to send nannies to their children’s private schools to take part in everything from "safety patrol" to accompanying the kids on their entrance interviews. "They’re sending nannies for bake sales, book clubs, for the ice-skating group," Amanda Uhry of Manhattan Private School ...

Bronx ghetto tour ditched

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

The Bronx "ghetto" tour is no more.A tour company exposed by The Post on Sunday for bringing tourists to the South Bronx to gawk at food pantry lines, a "pickpocket" park and a housing project, yesterday announced it would stop all tours "effective immediately.""Good riddance," said Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. "The Bronx is more than what ...

Sheldon Silver Ban hush money for sex-harass complaints

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

ALBANY - Better late than never!In a last-ditch effort to hold on to power, embattled Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver yesterday proposed sweeping changes to the way the Assembly handles sexual-harassment complaints - banning the same type of secret settlements he approved 16 months ago for two victims of pervy ex-Assemblyman Vito Lopez. With a gaggle of willing Democratic Assembly members ...

Hide the council interns if Gropez wins

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

Pervy pol Vito Lopez could have as many as 100 interns to hit on should he bring his governmental groping act to the City Council, staffers said yesterday.Dozens of paid and unpaid interns from colleges and high schools throughout the city roam the City Hall and legislative corridors every year under a lax vetting process that puts only paid staffers through the council’s human-resources ...

Council GOP boss wants candidate cash slashed

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

As the city prepares to dish out tens of millions of dollars to political candidates this year, the City Council’s Republican minority leader wants to scale back the generous taxpayer giveaway.Councilman James Oddo (R-SI) is renewing a push for legislation requiring that a more stringent standard be put in place before the city Campaign Finance Board hands taxpayer funds over to candidates ...

Vaccine mom has no shot

New York Post - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

A judge denied a request by a devout Catholic mom on Staten Island for an injunction that would allow her daughter to return to school while the family’s lawsuit against the city over vaccines is heard.Dina Check, of West Brighton, is suing to force the city to let her 5-year-old daughter into class even though the child hasn’t had her shots. Check, who says she is against ...

Hughes looks to bounce back keep Orioles reeling

New York Yankees - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

It took a few days for Phil Hughes to get over his last start, a disaster against the Mariners in which he gave up seven runs and recorded only two outs. That's the way things have been going lately for the Yankees right-hander, who allowed six runs in his prior outing. He'll have a chance to put his last two starts completely out of mind Tuesday night, when he leads the Yankees ...

South Africa Jansen to Be Honoured in New York

All Africa - Tuesday 21st May, 2013

South Africa's Professor Jonathan Jansen will receive the Education Africa Lifetime Achievement Award for Africa at a gala ceremony in New York on 3 June, it was announced at the weekend. Jansen, the vice-chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State, played a key role in turning the university "away from its apartheid legacy into an institution that is truly ...

Hawkins Collins ejected for arguing hit-by-pitch call

New York Mets - Monday 20th May, 2013

Mets reliever LaTroy Hawkins argues with home-plate umpire Tom Hallion. (Seth Wenig/AP) NEW YORK -- Mets reliever LaTroy Hawkins and manager Terry Collins were ejected from Monday night's game against the Reds after arguing a call by home-plate umpire Tom Hallion. With two outs in the top of the seventh inning, Hawkins appeared to hit Brandon Phillips in the hand with a pitch. Hawkins ...

Lack of run support hurts Marcum Mets

New York Mets - Monday 20th May, 2013

CIN@NYM: Byrd smashes a three-run homer to left field NEW YORK -- Even while winning three games in four tries to end their last road trip, the Mets averaged fewer than four runs per game. They entered Monday's contest averaging 4.2 runs over the season, a number that has decreased steadily since the early days of April. So although the Mets seem to be improving in other areas -- ...

Hafner delivers clutch homer before Yanks win in 10th

New York Yankees - Monday 20th May, 2013

NYY@BAL: Hafner ties game with ninth-inning home run BALTIMORE -- Travis Hafner's ninth-inning homer tied the game and Vernon Wells' ground-rule double provided the lead an inning later, powering the Yankees to a 6-4 victory over the Orioles on Monday at Camden Yards. Hafner's opposite-field homer, his eighth, came as Jim Johnson blew his third consecutive save opportunity for ...