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Human bones at Goodfella’s Qns. home
Human remains that may be tied to a decades-old Mafia murder have been dug up at the Queens home of "Goodfellas" mobster James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, law-enforcement sources said yesterday. "Unknown remains have been recovered and we are examining them," said city Medical Examiner’s spokeswoman Ellen Borakove. The discovery comes two days after FBI and NYPD ...
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Documentary revives theory that TWA Flight 800 was brought down by missile
The New York-to-Paris flight crashed July 17, 1996, minutes after it took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 230 people ...
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Pimps pumped by ‘acquittals’
The ho’s got action. Cheered on by their loyal hookers, father-and-son pimps Vincent George, Sr. and Jr., were acquitted of the top sex-trafficking charges, with a Manhattan judge apparently swayed by testimony from the prostitutes, who claimed the men were swell bosses. Happy hookers Desiree Ellis and Danielle Geissler - who have attended the trial in support of the pimps and their ...
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Pettitte up as Rays make first trip to Bronx
The Yankees faced a pair of left-handers in their doubleheader against the Dodgers on Wednesday, and they'll oppose another on Thursday night when they open a four-game set against the American League East-rival Rays at Yankee Stadium. Not that the slew of southpaws should bother the Yankees much. In 23 games this season against left-handed starters, New York is 15-8. It's Matt Moore ...
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Michael Hastings Wife Obliterates New York Times For Dismissive Obituary
Michael Hastings of Buzzfeed and Rolling Stone died Tuesday morning in a car crash. His wife has asked The New York Times to correct its obituary. (Photo by Paul Morigi/Getty Images for The ...
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New Hartford police charge 19 in high school pranks that caused $23K in damage
Students damaged 18 door locks, 10 light switches and one water fountain by filling them with super glue, police said, and two exterior surveillance cameras were shot out with a paintball gun. They also spray painted at least 19 lockers and 11 ...
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Syracuse man charged with raping 15-year-old in Madison County
The Madison County Child Advocacy Center and the New York State Police said Donald Eckhoff, 23, of 301 Scott Ave., was charged with third-degree ...
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Hughes and Yankees fall flat in nightcap
LAD@NYY: Adams makes an impressive diving stop NEW YORK -- Phil Hughes' troubles within the not-so-friendly confines of Yankee Stadium continued on Wednesday, as the right-hander allowed five runs and heard boos as the Yankees fell to the Dodgers, 6-0, in the second game of a day-night doubleheader. Hughes completed six innings and kept Los Angeles' lineup in the yard, but he was ...
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Latest loss puts Marcums starting spot in question
NYM@ATL: Duda comes down with liner in mid-air ATLANTA -- Zack Wheeler is no longer some vague thought for the future, an idea without a face. As of Tuesday, Wheeler has officially arrived in the big leagues, and his presence is about to make a real impact on others. Because of Wheeler, their top pitching prospect, the Mets will soon need to dump someone from what is now a six-man rotation. ...
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Roundup By Earning Split Dodgers Salvage Mattinglys New York Return
Chris Davis cleared the fences twice, giving him a major league-leading 26 homers, to help the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Tigers, 13-3, on Wednesday in Detroit. Davis hit a two-run homer in ...
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Hundreds gather to remember Lori Bresnahan
Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil for murder victim Lori Bresnahan near the Griffin Visitor Center at Onondaga Lake Park Wednesday night. At right center in orange is Lori's cousin Mary Holland, at left, is her husband Bill ...
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Your comments on community group protesting corner store Why not work together
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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Jersey town mourns loss of regular guy Gandolfini
Working-class Westwood, New Jersey mourned the loss of their hometown hero, TV mob boss James Gandolfini. The Emmy Award winner, who was born in the town’s Pascack Valley Hospital in 1961, still visited the town and was remembered as a regular guy."We’ve known him for a very long time, since he was a teenager," said Mike Meidanis, the owner of Ridge Diner. "He came ...
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New York KKK member designs death ray against enemies of Israel
A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of ...
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Wanda to launch $1b New York hotel project
Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda said on Wednesday. Wang said that Wanda is negotiating with potential partners for ...
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NY baseball greats daughter catches falling baby
NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has ...
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Academy 3 midshipmen charged with sexual assault
The U.S. Naval Academy has charged three midshipmen - all current or former football players - with sexually assaulting a female student at an off-campus house in Annapolis more than a year ago. The ...
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Former outfielder Kidd throws first pitch in Bronx
Email NEW YORK -- Hours before throwing the first pitch prior to the nightcap of Wednesday's twin bill between the Yankees and Dodgers, Jason Kidd reminisced about what made him confident the throw would be a success. In high school, Kidd was a highly regarded baseball player and even worked out with the team at California when he first arrived in Berkeley, Calif. "That was part of ...
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Turkish parade in New York is a show of power Turkish Minister
Turkey's EU Minister Egemen Bagis said Turkish parade was a cultural show of power NEW YORK - Turkey's EU Minister and Chief Negotiator Egemen Bagis said, " Turkish Day Parade is a signal of Turkey's power, a cultural show of power." Federation of Turkish American Associations (FTAA) organized the 32thTurkish Day Parade in New York.Addressing the crowd after the parade, ...
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New York Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists
ALBANY, NY-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of York announced that Glendon Scott Crawford, age 49, of Galway, New York; and Eric J. Feight, age 54, of Hudson, New York, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that began in April ...
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New addition Young slots in leadoff for Mets
Email ATLANTA -- Had he not simply been a fan of his father's big league teams, Eric Young, Jr. would have grown up a Mets fan. Raised in Piscataway, N.J., Young still has family in the area and travels there often. "I definitely still go back and visit on holidays, so pretty much the whole state has been calling me up so far," Young said Wednesday, hours after the Mets acquired ...
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With Atchison to DL Mets recall Brown
Email ATLANTA -- As expected, the Mets placed right-handed reliever Scott Atchison back on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, recalling outfielder Andrew Brown from Triple-A Las Vegas. Atchison suffered a strained right groin while warming up during Game 2 of Tuesday's doubleheader. It would have been his first appearance since returning from a month-long DL stint with right elbow ...
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Mets ink first-rounder Smith plus dozen more
Email ATLANTA -- In addition to first-round Draft pick Dominic Smith, who made his signing with the organization official on Wednesday, the Mets announced that they have inked a dozen more of their Draft picks. The latest batch of signees includes second-round right-handed pitcher Andrew Church, third-round outfielder Ivan Wilson, third-round right-hander Casey Meisner, fifth-round outfielder ...
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Official ruling gives Wright another career hit
Email ATLANTA -- David Wright's latest souvenir is not quite what he thought. Major League Baseball made an official scoring change to last Wednesday's game against the Cardinals, ruling that Wright's bouncing ball in the eighth inning -- originally an error on Cards third baseman David Freese -- was in fact an infield single. That means that when Wright saved the ball from his ...
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NYC teachers union endorses Thompson for mayor
NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's massive teachers' union backed former City Comptroller William Thompson for mayor Wednesday, giving a sizeable campaign boost to a onetime school board chief who made an unexpectedly strong showing in the last mayoral ...
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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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