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  • NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot

    The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...

  • New York Men Charged with Conspiracy to Provide Material Support to Terrorists

    ALBANY, NY-The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of York announced that Glendon Scott Crawford, age 49, of Galway, New York; and Eric J. Feight, age 54, of Hudson, New York, have been arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. The arrests followed a lengthy investigation by the Albany FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force that began in April ...

  • Two charged in New York X-ray weapon plot to sicken opponents of Israel

    This Wednesday, June 19, 2013 photo shows the home of Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, in Galway, N.Y. Federal authorities accused Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight, of Hudson, N.Y. of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel. Investigators said Crawford approached Jewish organizations last year looking for funding and people to help ...

  • New addition Young slots in leadoff for Mets

    Email ATLANTA -- Had he not simply been a fan of his father's big league teams, Eric Young, Jr. would have grown up a Mets fan. Raised in Piscataway, N.J., Young still has family in the area and travels there often. "I definitely still go back and visit on holidays, so pretty much the whole state has been calling me up so far," Young said Wednesday, hours after the Mets acquired ...

  • With Atchison to DL Mets recall Brown

    Email ATLANTA -- As expected, the Mets placed right-handed reliever Scott Atchison back on the 15-day disabled list Wednesday, recalling outfielder Andrew Brown from Triple-A Las Vegas. Atchison suffered a strained right groin while warming up during Game 2 of Tuesday's doubleheader. It would have been his first appearance since returning from a month-long DL stint with right elbow ...


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Waking Ned Devine

Except for a brief dream sequence, we never see the titular character of the Irish comedy "Waking Ned Devine" alive. No, Ned is dead from the beginning of the film--sitting in his armchair in front of his television set, a winning lottery ticket worth 6.8 million pounds clutched in his fingers. Dead of shock we are left to assume, a smile plastered across his face, his joyful eyes indicating that ... ...

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  • Mets ink first-rounder Smith plus dozen more

    Email ATLANTA -- In addition to first-round Draft pick Dominic Smith, who made his signing with the organization official on Wednesday, the Mets announced that they have inked a dozen more of their Draft picks. The latest batch of signees includes second-round right-handed pitcher Andrew Church, third-round outfielder Ivan Wilson, third-round right-hander Casey Meisner, fifth-round outfielder ...

  • Official ruling gives Wright another career hit

    Email ATLANTA -- David Wright's latest souvenir is not quite what he thought. Major League Baseball made an official scoring change to last Wednesday's game against the Cardinals, ruling that Wright's bouncing ball in the eighth inning -- originally an error on Cards third baseman David Freese -- was in fact an infield single. That means that when Wright saved the ball from his ...

  • NYC teachers union endorses Thompson for mayor

    NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's massive teachers' union backed former City Comptroller William Thompson for mayor Wednesday, giving a sizeable campaign boost to a onetime school board chief who made an unexpectedly strong showing in the last mayoral ...

  • In Westvale Alumni gather Thursday to honor a legend at Cherry Road

    A ceramic mural unveiled in 1997, when the Cherry Road Elementary School celebrated its 70th anniversary. Thursday evening, alumni will gather to honor the memory of fabled Principal Marion ...

  • Will Gov. Andrew Cuomos deals with lawmakers revive Upstate New York

    Albany, N.Y. - Gov. Andrew Cuomo says this year's end-of-session lawmaking ranks as one of the best for reviving Upstate New York's sluggish economy, which has deteriorated for more than two decades. By the end of the week, state legislators are expected to approve: *Four new Upstate casinos and require existing Indian-run casinos to share revenues with New York, ...

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