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  • NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

    The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...

  • TWA Flight 800 investigators Missle may have downed jet

    The seats, foreground, and the wreckage of TWA Flight 800 sit in a hangar in Calverton, Long Island, on July 16, 2001. Former investigators now say new evidence points to the often-discounted theory that a missile strike may have downed the jumbo jet and are calling on the National Transportation Safety Board to re-examine the case. The plane crashed off the coast of Long Island on July 17, ...

  • Tech Tales From New York

    Mayoral NYC Tech Forum where four of NYC's mayoral candidates attempted to show off their technology chops -- no Quinn, Thompson or Catsimi-whatsits -- I was able to snag a seat at the (always) ...

  • New York Muslims Mount Legal Challenge To Ubiquitous NYPD Surveillance

    filing a lawsuit on behalf of Muslim New Yorkers to challenge the surveillance they say amounts to racial profiling and violates their religious liberties. Under the aggressive program, undercover informants infiltrate Mosques, restaurants, bookstores, and Muslim student associations without any particular suspicion of the places being monitored or the people being surveilled. Officers also ...

  • Father son acquitted in NY of sex trafficking

    NEW YORK (AP) -- A father and son who admitted they were pimps have been acquitted in New York of sex trafficking after several prostitutes testified they were treated ...


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Red Eye

Red Eye

Red Eye is a B-movie extraordinaire, a taut exercise in jangly thrills that is exactly as long as it should be and punches all the right buttons. In a sleek 80 minutes, it manages to combine elements of a political thriller, a slasher movie, and a deferred rape-revenge fantasy into a claus ... ...

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  • Development agency approves tax breaks for container factory at former New Venture Gear plant

    DeWitt, NY -- The Onondaga County Industrial Development Agency on Wednesday approved $3.3 million in tax breaks and agreed to issue up to $95 million in bonds for a planned container factory that will employ up to 189 people. The agency's directors voted 5-0 at a special meeting to grant property tax exemptions worth an estimated $2 million over 10 years to the American Intermodal ...

  • Second retail tenant lined up for Pike Block

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. - The Pike Block development in downtown Syracuse picked up another retail tenant. Jimmy John's will open a restaurant on West Fayette Street, next door to Pike Block's planned Tim Hortons Cafe & Bake Shop. Jimmy John's is a national sandwich franchise based in Illinois. ...

  • Scarsdale mom Andrea Sanderlin accused in Queens pot-growing operation is indicted in...

    This May 20 Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Strike Force photo shows some of the marijuana plants the DEA said were grown by Andrea Sanderlin in a warehouse in Queens. Sanderlin was indicted ...

  • Cops kill armed thug in shootout after responding to Brooklyn robbery NYPD

    Brooklyn cops gunned down a thief who fired at them while responding to a robbery in progress, the NYPD said.The officers were on patrol in East New York when a livery cab driver approached the cops at around 1:08 a.m. near Hinsdale Street and Dumont Avenue and alerted them to the incident.The responding officers heard gunshots before pulling up and seeing two men struggling over a gun.The ...

  • Man fighting for life 3 others hurt after car jumps curb in East Village and plows into deli

    A man is fighting for his life after a car jumped a curb and smashed into a deli in the East Village, authorities said.The driver lost control of his white Nissan Altima on Second Avenue near Fourth Street about 7 a.m., and drove into the East Village Grocery, hitting four people, according to witnesses and police.Three of those injured worked at the deli, which had recently reopened after a ...

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