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  • Worlds largest Star Wars Lego model unveiled in NYC

    A massive Lego model of the Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter was unveiled in Times Square, New York City on Thursday. Made out of a whopping 5.3 million Lego pieces, the craft weighs in at nearly 46,000lbs and is 43 feet (13.1 metres) long. Its wingspan measures 44 feet (13.44 metres) across, and is the largest Lego model ever built, Sky News reported. The ship is the work of 32 master Lego ...

  • Frontier Communications moves 27 jobs from NY to Texas

    Frontier Communications is pulling 27 union jobs out of its Gloversville, NY operations center and moving them to Allen, Texas. The telecommunications company, which employs 2,300 people in New York state, is searching for ways to operate more efficiently, according to ...

  • Senate immigration deal loosens foreign hiring restrictions

    Charles Schumer played a leading role in brokering a compromise to ease harsh restrictions on hiring foreign workers that was part of the immigration reforms taking shape in Washington. The compromise will make it easier for companies, especially tech companies, to hire skilled foreign ...

  • How could rising interest rates affect student loans

    The debt crisis among college students and recent grads could get worse as they encounter a new threat: It's possible that interest rates on student loans will climb under a new bill passed by the House on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal's Market Watch reports. The bill ties student loan interest rates to the financial markets, and experts say the low-interest rate environment ...

  • Todays obituaries John B. Carpenter Jr. was an F-M school bus driver involved in Boy Scout leadership

    John B. Carpenter Jr., 73, of South Onondaga, died Wednesday, May 22, 2013, at Upstate University Hospital at Community General. Born in Syracuse, he retired in 2002 from J. B. Brady as a technician and in 2008 from Fayetteville-Manlius School District as a school bus driver. He served the Boy Scouts of America Hiawatha Council on various committees and was a Master for 25 years of South ...


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Movie Review

Deep Impact

Last year it was the battle of the dueling volcano movies, "Dante's Peak" and "Volcano." This year, history repeats itself, except volcanoes have been replaced with giant meteors on collision courses for Earth. Michael Bay's "Armageddon" isn't due until July, but for those who just can't wait to see Earth destroyed by fire from the heavens, the Steven Spielberg-produced "Deep Impact" has arrived. ... ...

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  • Man found fatally stabbed in Manhattan

    Police say the victim was found around 2 a.m. Friday after police responded to a 911 call of a male stabbed at 8th Avenue and 26th Street in the Chelsea ...

  • A Bethpage drinking supply well shut down

    Bethpage Water District officials say the amount of radium does not exceed federal or state drinking water standards. They will run tests to try to determine where the radioactive element is coming ...

  • Hedge hog No mamas

    Hedge funds may be the last bastion of white male privilege - and that’s just the way these Neanderthals like it."I don’t think you’ll ever see as many great women investors or traders as men, period," said billionaire Tudor Investment Corp. founder Paul Tudor Jones, adding that children are the kiss of death for an investment career. "As soon as that ...

  • ‘F-bombed’ taxi big slaps harder at Mike

    The taxi magnate who said he was cursed out by Mayor Bloomberg has added the alleged F-bomb-laced tirade to a lawsuit accusing the mayor of harassing him for opposing the "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan.The amended suit, filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday, charges that Bloomberg and Taxi and Limousine Commission chief David Yassky orchestrated a blizzard of bogus tickets on cabs ...

  • Heat on Kelly for cam jam

    NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly was grilled yesterday over the delay in installing $300,000 worth of security cameras in the Rockaways - and e-mails obtained by The Post show that the paperwork is on his desk. Correspondence between the NYPD’s grant department and a Queens assemblyman indicate the ball is in Kelly’s court. A source said the only thing holding back the cameras is ...

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