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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 ...

  • Cops kill armed thug in shootout after responding to Brooklyn robbery NYPD

    Brooklyn cops gunned down a thief who fired at them while responding to a robbery in progress, the NYPD said.The officers were on patrol in East New York when a livery cab driver approached the cops at around 1:08 a.m. near Hinsdale Street and Dumont Avenue and alerted them to the incident.The responding officers heard gunshots before pulling up and seeing two men struggling over a gun.The ...

  • Man fighting for life 3 others hurt after car jumps curb in East Village and plows into deli

    A man is fighting for his life after a car jumped a curb and smashed into a deli in the East Village, authorities said.The driver lost control of his white Nissan Altima on Second Avenue near Fourth Street about 7 a.m., and drove into the East Village Grocery, hitting four people, according to witnesses and police.Three of those injured worked at the deli, which had recently reopened after a ...

  • Man charged in West Village slay allegedly said he targeted gay man

    An accused killer told cops he shot a man dead in the West Village because the victim was gay, authorities said yesterday. "Guy thought he was tough in front of his bitch so I shot him. Diagnosis is dead, doctor," Elliot Morales heartlessly told cops after the May 18 shooting of Mark Carson, 32, according to court papers released at the accused killer’s arraignment yesterday. ...

  • Redford to promote energy industry environmental performance in New York

    Premier Alison Redford says she's prepared for "frank" talk in New York on Wednesday as she promotes Alberta's energy sector in the face of environmental black eyes for the province and uncertainty over the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline.Redford is slated to be the keynote speaker at the Foreign Policy Association's North American Energy Independence Conference.The ...


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Red Eye

Red Eye

Red Eye is a B-movie extraordinaire, a taut exercise in jangly thrills that is exactly as long as it should be and punches all the right buttons. In a sleek 80 minutes, it manages to combine elements of a political thriller, a slasher movie, and a deferred rape-revenge fantasy into a claus ... ...

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  • SUNY Oswego Onondaga Community College to host visiting Fulbright scholar

    SYRACUSE, N.Y., -- SUNY Oswego and Onondaga Community College have been selected to host a Fulbright scholar-in-residence from India who will teach courses and engage with the Central New York community during the 2013-14 academic year. Paula Banerjee, an associate professor of South and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Calcutta, was awarded the Fulbright grant by the J. William ...

  • North Syracuse voters approve revised school budget

    North Syracuse, NY -- North Syracuse Central School District voters approve the district's revised 2013-14 school year budget proposal with a 58 percent approval. More than 5,600 votes were cast, with 3,329 "yes" votes and 2,365 "no" votes on the $143,525,985 proposal. The approved budget proposal includes a tax levy increase of 3.45 percent. The tax increase would ...

  • Bill bars payments to tax-delinquent landlords

    The state Senate on Tuesday approved legislation sponsored by Sen. John DeFrancisco to prevent public welfare agencies from paying rent to tax-delinquent landlords. The Assembly is not expected to act on the legislation this ...

  • Car crashes into New York City grocery store eight injured

    A car collided with another car, jumped a curb and smashed into a grocery store in New York City Wednesday, injuring eight people, police said. The cars crashed at 7:30 a.m. near Second Avenue and East Fourth Street in the East Village, WNBC-TV reported. Fire officials said eight people were hospitalized, three of them in serious condition. Five of the injured had been inside the vehicle that ...

  • Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling

    Riverkeeper Calls on Governor to Declare new York City Watershed Off-Limits to Natural Gas Drilling NEW YORK - August 8 - At a press conference with Queens City Councilman Gennaro today, Riverkeeper called on Governor Paterson to designate the New York City Watershed ...

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