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  • Claudio Reyna is director of football at New York City Football Club

    Manchester City and United States international midfielder Claudio Reyna was named as the first director of football for new Major League Soccer (MLS) team New York City Football Club, the team confirmed yesterday. The new club, which will start playing in 2015, was announced on ...

  • Senators bill to block TSA bigs plan to allow small knives on planes

    Transportation Security Administration Commissioner John Pistole is poised to lose a knife fight.A new bill introduced today on Capitol Hill by Sen. Chuck Schumer and three other senators would permanently block Pistole’s plan to permit passengers to carry small knives aboard commercial air flights from going into effect.Schumer, joined by New York Sen. Kristen Gillibrand and New Jersey ...

  • Harlem man acquitted of trying to murder cop

    A Manhattan jury this afternoon acquitted a 24-year-old Harlem gunslinger of attempting to murder a police officer during a foot chase last year at 144th Street and Eighth Avenue.The jury cleared Franklin Nunez in the alleged March, 2012 shootout after sidewalk surveillance video and witness testimony suggested that his gun -- a Smith & Wesson loaded with .45-cal hollow point bullets -- may ...

  • Crackdown on AirBnB host in New York serves as cautionary tale

    Fallout from a case in which AirBnB activities have been deemed 'illegal' in New York is being felt around the world, driving hosts to re-read their city's bylaws, tourists to look for alternative accommodations and other short-term rental services throwing their support behind the company. It's a story that's being felt among hosts across 30,000 cities and which may ...

  • Workhorse Rice mindful of getting enough rest

    Email NEW YORK -- Just because Mets manager Terry Collins has used Scott Rice out of the bullpen seemingly without discretion, it does not mean he is deaf to the limitations of muscles and tendons. Collins approached Rice earlier this season with a message: "Heroes die fast here." "If you want to go out there, and you think you're hurt and you're going to try to get ...


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The Savages

The Savages

Like Tamara Jenkins' first feature, Slums of Beverly Hills (1998), The Savages is a pitch-black comedy about the pitfalls of growing up. Slums was a more conventional maturation comedy in that the protagonist was a 14-year-old girl, but Jenkins brings many of the same in ... ...

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  • Mets aim to improve everywhere -- not just Citi

    Email NEW YORK -- With their 4-0 loss to Cincinnati on Tuesday night, the Mets fell to 2-10 in their past 12 home games going back to April 25. Obviously, few of their recent struggles have been alleviated when playing on their own field. But it might not have anything to do with the Mets trying too hard in front of their own fans. Rather, they might be trying too hard in general. New York is ...

  • NYC man gets prison for stripping church van

    Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced Wednesday that Benjamin Livermore has been sentenced as a "second felony offender" - meaning it wasn't his first conviction for stripping a ...

  • Pa. Constitution Center to display Bill of Rights

    PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- One of the 12 surviving copies of the Bill of Rights that may have been pilfered from Pennsylvania in the late 1800s will be on display in Philadelphia for three years, beginning with the 225th anniversary next year of the drafting of the country's highest ...

  • Land swap would create more developable land in downtown Troy

    Russell Sage College in downtown Troy, NY would be available for redevelopment if City Hall is able to do a land swap with the city's public housing authority. The two buildings are part of the Taylor Apartments complex owned by the Troy Housing Authority. They have been empty for about eight years since residents were moved out to other subsidized housing in the city. The red-brick ...

  • Oswego County school budgets for 2013-14 pass with flying colors

    Voters in all nine school districts in Oswego County approved budgets for the 2013-14 school year. Voters in the Altmar-Parish-Williamstown Central School District approved a $32,135,954 budget with a 1.31 percent tax levy decrease. The public voted 186 to 56. The district's bus proposition also passed with a vote of 178 to 65. The in-ground floor lift proposition passed with a vote of 167 ...

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