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  • Moscow safer than New York Russian minister

    Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US. Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly. "We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in ...

  • Shocking lawsuit claims NY high schools admissions policy racially biased

    New York City high school admissions policies are racially biased against black and Hispanic students. A lawsuit filed in a federal civil rights complaint said that parents and activists have charged the school. According to the New York Daily News, in the complaint, filed with the federal Office of Civil Rights, the parents and their lawyers call for a federal investigation and overhaul of a ...

  • US charges three NYU researchers for taking bribes from Chinese company

    Three New York University researchers from China divulged results from a federally funded study to Chinese competitors in exchange for tuition, rent and other expenses. Federal prosecutors said that Yudong Zhu, a U.S.-educated NYU professor, and Xing Yang, a lab engineer, were released on bail after appearing in federal court in Manhattan to face commercial bribery and other charges. ...

  • Correx officer faces life in prison in ex-girlfriends shooting death

    A correction officer faces life in prison for shooting to death his ex-girlfriend to dodge "child support obligations," prosecutors said in opening statements in Queens court today. Christopher Clavell, 48 of Staten Island, is accused of killing Barbara Perez almost 13 years ago behind The Power Factory Gym in Ridgewood where she worked as an assistant manager. "The defendant ...

  • De La Hoya wins legal battle against model

    Boxer Oscar De La Hoya won round two of his legal battle against a former Maxim model today when an appeals court called her $5 million assault suit "baseless." The 100-pound bottle blonde's claims that the retired welterweight imprisoned her in his Ritz Carlton hotel room during a kinky, cocaine-fueled tryst in 2011 "were without merit," a five-judge panel at ...


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Movie Review

Machine Gun McCain (Gli intoccabili) [Blu-Ray]

Machine Gun McCain (Gli intoccabili) [Blu-Ray]

At no point in Machine Gun McCain is John Cassevetess character Hank McCain actually referred to by that marquee-ready nickname, and he only wields a machine gun twice in the film, but its still a great, trashy title that grabs your attention, even if its for all the w ... ...

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  • Randolph among Yankees reps for Draft

    Email BALTIMORE -- Willie Randolph and Andy Cannizaro will serve as the Yankees' representatives for the 2013 First-Year Player Draft, which begins on June 6. Randolph spent the majority of his 18-year big league playing career with the Yankees, appearing in pinstripes for 13 seasons as a sure-handed second baseman from 1976-88. A six-time World Series champion as a player and also as a ...

  • Wright focused on trying to not do too much

    Email NEW YORK -- Above him, the lineup card has changed almost nightly. The Mets have received almost no production out of their leadoff hitters this season and have gone long stretches without production from the two-hole as well. Through it all, third hitter David Wright has tried to not do more than he is capable. "For me, it's a constant battle to not do that," Wright said. ...

  • Empathetic Robertson donates to tornado victims

    Email BALTIMORE -- Yankees reliever David Robertson is offering his support to the victims of the Oklahoma tornado tragedies, pledging to donate $100 for every strikeout he records this season. Robertson founded a charity, High Socks for Hope, after his hometown of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was ravaged by tornadoes in April 2011. Watching television coverage of the devastation centered in Moore, Okla., ...

  • Strawberry McPhail to rep Mets at Draft

    Email NEW YORK -- Darryl Strawberry and Marlin McPhail will represent the Mets at next month's First-Year Player Draft, Major League Baseball announced Tuesday. Strawberry, the No. 1 overall pick in the 1980 Draft, will join McPhail at Draft headquarters in Secaucus, N.J., where the Mets are slated to pick 11th overall. McPhail also knows a thing or two about Drafts, having scouted ...

  • First home run ball finds its way to Adams

    Email BALTIMORE -- When David Adams connected on a high, arcing drive toward the left-field foul pole on Monday, his biggest concern was that the ball would stay fair. Once it landed in fair territory for his first Major League home run, Adams said he didn't expect to see the ball again. But two members of the Yankees' security team were able to retrieve the souvenir for Adams, who ...

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