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  • Anthony Weiner gets supportive reception in Harlem

    FILE - In this June 16, 2011 file photo, Anthony Weiner speaks at a news conference in New York. The Democratic ex-congressman who resigned over raunchy tweets said late Tuesday, May 21, 2013, that he's in the New York City mayoral race. Although the field is crowded for September's primary, Weiner is arriving with some significant advantages, including a $4.8 million campaign war ...

  • Cicadageddon escalates as insects emerge on Staten Island New York – video

    Millions of cicadas are emerging across the US east coast for the first time in 17 years. The Guardian traveled to the New York City borough of Staten Island where Adam Gabbatt found cicadas and their exoskeletons littering the area as the insects prepare to mate -and then ...

  • Gov. Andrew Cuomos SUNY tax-free zones blasted by Empire Center CSEA

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced his plan to establish tax-free zones on and around college campuses. A pro-business think tank and a labor union don't like the ...

  • Company news Scott L. Harris named vice presidentrelationship manager for KeyBank

    has been named vice president/relationship manager for KeyBank's Central New York district. Prior to joining Key, Harris was a wealth planning advisor for Sagemark Consulting/Lincoln Financial Advisors and was a select member of Sagemark Private Wealth Services. Harris earned a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College. He is FINRA Series 6 and 63 securities registered and holds life, ...

  • Hofstra home invader won praise from state parole panel before 2011 release

    UNIONDALE - The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from prison.Newsday, citing a transcript of the hearing, says Dalton Smith of Hempstead was released after completing nine years of his 10-year sentence for armed robbery. The panel praised him for completing a program to curb ...


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Vanilla Sky [DVD]

Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's faithful Hollywood remake of Alejandro Amenabar's (The Others) 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), is many things all at once. It is a romantic melodrama, a murder mystery, an existential thriller, and a perplexing dream-logic puzzlebox, not to mention a barely disguised cinematic meditation on the larger-than-life perfection ... ...

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  • Cicadas spotted in NJ

    TRENTON, NJ - New Jersey's invasion of cicadas has started in the wake of two days of warm weather.The insects have started to emerge from the soil in droves for the first time in 17 years and that could make for a noisy and buggy Memorial Day holiday weekend cookout.They've been spotted in Tenafly, Wayne, Colonia, Fanwood, Mendham and Montclair.Rutgers University entomologist George ...

  • Upstate NY man pleads guilty in wifes suicide

    QUEENSBURY, N.Y. (AP) -- An upstate New York man who bought the shotgun his wife used to commit suicide has pleaded guilty to a manslaughter ...

  • LIs North Fork angry over helicopter noise

    The Southold Town Board this week passed a resolution calling the airport's flight management plan "unacceptable discrimination" against the North Fork. It called for curfews at East Hampton Airport on evenings and ...

  • Paper Battery Co. of Troy wins Silicon Valley hot 50 tech startup honor

    The Paper Battery Co., a Troy, NY startup developing a paper-thin energy technology, has been named to a Silicon Valley list for the 50 hottest early-stage tech companies. ...

  • Former chef and owner of Siros is opening new Saratoga restaurant

    Tom Dillon , the former owner of Siro's trackside restaurant in Saratoga Springs, NY will open a new restaurant in the city. Dillon is leasing the former Big Apple Restaurant on Route 9, which has sat ...

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