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School Closings, Flight Cancellations After Snow Storm

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 12.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Flight Delays, Snow Storm, Winter Storm, East Coast, New York, School Closings, Flight Cancellations, Snowpocalypse, New York News

NEW YORK — Millions of East Coast commuters returned to work Monday over slick roads and icy sidewalks after a weekend winter storm dropped reco...

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Belmont Stakes Over? Triple Crown In Jeopardy Due To Budget Mess

Posted 12.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Belmont Stakes, Saratoga, Budget Crisis, Triple Crown, New York, Horse Racing, Double Crown, New York News

Forget about not getting out of the gate -- the horses may not even get to the gate at this year's Belmont Stakes race. Due to the ongoing budget cri...

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Winter Storm BLASTS East Coast (PHOTOS)

Posted 12.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Slidepoll, Football, Jogging, Washington, Photos That Make Me Cold, Washington DC, Skiing, Snow, Snowball Fight, Pennsylvania, Running, Photos, New York, Pictures, East Coast Storm, Cold, Storm, East Coast, D.C., Images, Green News

A major snowstorm has been blasting the east coast, leaving people stranded in airports and travel plans in disarray. What's a person (or First Dog) t...

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Things to do this week in NYC Dec 19-Dec 26: Outdoor Activities

City Guide. | City Guide | Posted 12.19.2009 | Home

Read More: New York, New York City-New York, Home News

New York City is not only home to great cultural institutions, shops and events; it's also a place where there are plenty of things to do outside. ...

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NY Mom Gets Sight Back, Sees Daughter For First Time

Posted 12.18.2009 | Impact

Read More: Sight, New York, Surgery, Blindness, New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Impact News

With some help from The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Brooklyn mother has regained her sight through surgery and was able to see her two-year-old ...

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Joseph Petcka, Actor Who Stomped Girlfriend's Cat To Death, Resolves Case With 500 Volunteer Hours

AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Animal Cruelty, New York City, New York, Joseph Petcka, Cat Deaths, New York News

NEW YORK — An actor who stomped his girlfriend's cat to death has resolved his case with 500 hours of volunteering. Joseph Petcka worked at a N...

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Sharon McDonough Held On $100,000 Bail For Suspected Pet Torture

AP | FRANK ELTMAN | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Animal Cruelty, Pet Torture, Sharon McDonough, Suffolk County, New York, New York News

CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. — A judge ordered a New York woman held on $100,000 bail Friday after prosecutors cited evidence that some of the 42 dead an...

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Hector Quinones Shot Family, Then Fell To Death

nypost.com | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Hector Quinones, Manhattan, Upper West Side, Four Dead Upper West Side, Upper West Side Shooting, New York City, New York, New York News

The holiday-season cheer of the trendy Upper West Side was shattered yesterday when a career criminal slaughtered three members of a family in their a...

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Marc Anthony Bookal, 4-Year-Old Boy, Still Missing

AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Newburgh, Missing Persons, Marc Anthony Bookal, Missing Children, New York, Upstate New York, New York News

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Officers in upstate New York are pressing their search for a 4-year-old boy who police say wandered away from the family apartm...

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Wayne Mitchell, Former Mailers Union Head, Charged With Embezzling $200,000

AP | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Newspapers, New York Daily News, New York Post, New York Times, New York, New York City, Communication Workers of America, New York News

NEW YORK — The former head of a union representing mailroom employees of New York-based newspapers has been charged with embezzling more than $2...

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Snow Storm Headed For New York, New Jersey

wins.com | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Weather, New Jersey, New York, Snow Storm, Snow, New York News

The National Weather Service says much of the Tri-State area could receive a blanket of snow, along with heavy winds, over the weekend....

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The South Bronx Gets Serious About Green

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Green Living, Sustainable South Bronx, Bronx, South Bronx Green, New York City, New York, South Bronx, New York News

The Point community center held the South Bronx Food and Film Expo on a rainy Saturday in early December, and packed the room with activists while pro...

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Freddy's Bar To Chain Patrons To Bar To Fight Atlantic Yards Land Grab

Runnin' Scared | By Camille Dodero (4:43PM 09/21) | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Atlantic Yards, Atlantic Yards Brooklyn, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, Freddy's Bar, Bruce Ratner, New York News

Freddy's Bar manager Donald O'Finn says the bar will have a chain-fastening at "high noon" on Sunday to protest the Atlantic Yards land grab....

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Garry Veeder, Forensic Scientist, Failed To Perform Mandatory Tests, Committed Fraud

AP | VALERIE BAUMAN | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Joseph Fisch, Forensic Tests, Garry Veeder, Criminal Cases Reviewed, Crime, Forensic Science, New York, New York News

ALBANY, N.Y. — Prosecutors across New York had to review closed criminal cases because a now-dead forensic scientist routinely failed to perform...

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Downtown Dispatch: Fear and Anxiety Grip Lower Manhattan as It Braces for the Terror Trials

Julie Menin | Posted 12.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Militray Tribunal, New York, Eric Holder, Terrorism, Torture, KSM Trial, 9/11, Lower Manhattan, World Trade Center, Ksm, New York News

Emotions bubbled to the surface in lower Manhattan this week. Neighborhood activists lambasted Eric Holder's decision to hold the KSM trial in the shadow of the World Trade Center site.

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Tiger Woods Is So, So, So Much Bigger Than Golf

Matthew DeBord | Posted 12.24.2009 | Sports

Read More: Michael, Phil Mickelson, Img, Masters, Kennedy, The Golf Channel, Pros, Mistresses, Vegas, New York, Tag Heuer, Tony Galea, Accenture, Tim Rosaforte, Charles Pierce, Golf, Milton, Charles, Nike, Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods, Phil Knight, Elin Nordegren, Paradise Lost, Roswell, Nixon, National Enquirer, Oswald, Sports News

Woods orchestrated a decade of deception. Nixon wasn't this good.

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Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian Billionaire, One Step Closer To Owning Nets

AP | TOM CANAVAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Sports, New Jersey Nets, New Jersey, Mikhail Prokhorov, Russian Billionaire to Own Nets, Basketball, New York, Nba, New York News

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — A Russian billionaire has moved a step closer to becoming the NBA's first non-North American owner. Mikhail Prokhorov's...

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Stewart Airport Workers Charged With Using Fake Immigration Documents

AP | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Newburgh, New York, Illegal Immigration, Immigrants, Airplanes, Tsa, Stewart Airport, New York News

NEWBURGH, N.Y. — Authorities say a dozen workers at a warehouse at an upstate New York airport have been charged with using forged immigration d...

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Petrous Maldovin, Russian Tea Room Chef, Hit With Sexual Harassment Lawsuit

nydailynews.com | By Jose Martinez | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Russian Tea Room Lawsuit, New York City, New York, Petrous Maldovin Charged With Sexual Harassment, New York News

Petrous Maldovin, the chef at the Russian Tea Room, is a nipple-pinching, crotch-grabbing, foul-mouthed bully, three kitchen workers claim in a $15 mi...

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Mott Haven's "Swamp" Drained

nytimes.com | SEWELL CHAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Mott Haven Swamp Drained, Bronx, New York City, New York, New York News

Using hydraulic pumps, the Department of Environmental Protection removed more than 625,000 gallons of stagnant water from a mile-long stretch of long...

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New York's Juvenile Prisons Are a Crime

David A. Love | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Youth, Abuse, Child Abuse, Cradle to Prison Pipeline, Criminal Justice System, Prison, New York Times, Criminal Justice, Department of Justice, Juvenile Justice System, Sexual Abuse, Justice Department, New York, Children's Defense Fund, Juvenile Justice, Politics, New York News

If you can judge a society by the way it treats its children, then New York fails in a big way. In fact, the Empire State should be found guilty of child abuse and neglect.

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Welfare Rolls Climb In New York

nytimes.com | JULIE BOSMAN | Posted 12.17.2009 | New York

Read More: Financial Crisis, Welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps, New York City, New York, New York News

Last month, nearly 355,000 people in the city received welfare payments, a 4 percent increase over the year before, according to city officials, who p...

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