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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. ...

  • Schumer Over $240 million in security money to NY

    NEW YORK (AP) -- More than $240 million in security grant money is coming to New York, an increase of almost $34 million from the previous fiscal year, Sen. Charles Schumer said ...

  • Climate Change-Related Heat Deaths To Spike In New York City Study Projects

    An increasing number of New Yorkers are likely to die from heat-related causes as global warming causes more extreme heat events, according to a new study released Sunday. The study found that heat-related mortality may rise 20 percent by the 2020s, and in some worst-case scenarios, it could increase by 90 percent or more by the 2080s, and the net temperature-related mortality, which includes ...


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Movie Review

Repo Man [Blu-Ray]

Repo Man [Blu-Ray]

The life of a repo man is always intense, the experienced veteran tells the rookie at one point in Alex Coxs 80s cult classic Repo Man. Of course, the rookie, a suburban teenage punk named Otto (Emilio Estevez), has no idea just how intense his life is about to get. And, despite his 20 y ... ...

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  • Will The Troy Record building be the new City Hall

    The Troy Record building at Broadway and 5th Avenue in Troy, NY. The original city hall at 1 Monument Square was demolished to make way for a waterfront redevelopment ...

  • Crews dig through night after deadly Oklahoma tornado

    Crews continued their desperate search-and-rescue effort throughout the night at Plaza Towers Elementary, where the storm had ripped off the school's roof, knocked down walls and turned the playground into a mass of twisted plastic and metal as students and teachers huddled in hallways and ...

  • Father son missing after fishing on NY lake

    BROADALBIN, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say they're searching an upstate New York lake for a father and son who went fishing last weekend and didn't ...

  • Pregnant teenager shot wounded in Rochester

    ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) -- Authorities say a pregnant teenager has been wounded by gunfire in the same Rochester neighborhood where a young woman was fatally shot during a graduation party last ...

  • Judge Skeptical of New York Police Stops’ Effectiveness

    "A lot of people are being frisked or searched on suspicion of having a gun and nobody has a gun," Judge Scheindlin, of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said on Monday during closing arguments in the trial. "So the point is: the suspicion turns out to be wrong in most of the ...

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