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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 ...
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. ...

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Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) [DVD]

If for no other reason, Akira Kurosawa's Drunken Angel (Yoidore tenshi) is a landmark film because it marked the director's first collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, who would go on to star in 15 more of Kurosawa's films over the next two decades. Kurosawa immediate ... ...

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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 ...
India might be Americas next big trade problem

India is America's 11th-largest trading partner, but U.S. manufacturers are concerned that India is now favoring its own companies over foreign ...
NY Minute Cuomos tax-free zones to headline talks around the state today

A hundred people show up at meeting critical of Cuomo's deal with the Oneida Indian Nation; state Democrats tell Vito Lopez to step down from party post; and Syracuse Mayor Miner and Cuomo meet ...
Syracuse police investigate early morning stabbing

Durrill Young, 36, told officers he was approached by three men from behind who stabbed him. Police didn't find a crime scene and said Young gave detectives conflicting ...
Syracuse police investigate double shooting

Daquan Dowdell and Nakim Whorely were taken to Upstate University Hospital after they were shot in a drive by shooting on the 900 block of South Avenue, police ...

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Moscow safer than New York: Russian minister

Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US.

Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in the number of residents and police personnel responsible for ensuring security," Kolokoltsev explained.

He claimed that, in some respects, parts of Moscow are even safer than New York, although he did not cite concrete statistics.

Kolokoltsev is in the US for a series of meetings with law enforcement officials on a range of issues from day-to-day crime, to drug trafficking and terrorism, a press release posted on the interior ministry web site Tuesday says.

Kolokoltsev also praised the recent reforms of Russia's police service, highlighting that they built on the New York police's experience, particularly in "the direct responsibility of a commanding officer for his subordinates' actions, including suspension or even dismissal".

In 2011, Russia launched sweeping reforms of the 1.2-million-strong police force, which has long been notorious for corruption and abuse of authority. ...