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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 ...

  • FBI hunt for Jimmy Hoffas remains enters 3rd day

    OAKLAND TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) -- FBI agents plan a third day of digging Wednesday in suburban Detroit for the remains of former Teamsters union leader Jimmy Hoffa, who disappeared 38 years ...

  • Ex-Marine to be reunited with bomb dog in RI

    SCITUATE, R.I. (AP) -- Rhode Island state police will hold a ceremony this week that will reunite a retired Marine injured in an explosion in Afghanistan with the bomb-detecting dog he used to ...

  • West at a glance Auburn opts out of ice at rink and Moravias budget passes

    Syracuse, NY -- Auburn's rink going without ice and Moravia voters passing the school budget are stories impacting the Western suburbs this morning. Auburn's manager proposed not putting ice in the Casey Park rink this winter as the city struggles to put together a budget for next year. City Manager Doug Selby has also proposed more cuts to fire and police, as well as cuts in planning ...

  • NY Minute Gov. Andrew Cuomo breaks up Womens Act into 10 bills

    Gov. Andrew Cuomo discusses his proposed Women's Equality Act at a news conference in Albany in this file photo. Late Tuesday night, Cuomo broke up his 10-point bill into separate legislation to try and force both houses to vote separately on a range of pay equity, child care, domestic violence and other issues -- including ...


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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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  • Todays obituaries Lorraine Anita Coleman was a librarian for Syracuse city schools for 30 years

    Lorraine Anita Coleman died Friday, June 7, 2013. Born in Talladega, Ala., she graduated from Talladega College in 1961 with a bachelor's degree in English. After completing her undergraduate studies, she moved to Brooklyn and was employed by the Brooklyn Library. She later enrolled at Syracuse University earning a master's degree in library science and completing 30 years of service ...

  • World in Pictures June 19 2013 The Wanted in London and Madonna in New York

    TODAY'S World in Pictures features photographs of Nathan Sykes, Tom Parker, Jay McGuiness, Max George and Siva Kaneswaran at the premiere of their reality E! TV series Wanted Life in London and Madonna at the world premiere of 'Madonna: The MDNA Tour' at the Paris Theatre in New ...

  • NY GOPer buying home of US rep. he called chicken

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) -- A Republican county official who once called a central New York congressman a "chicken" for skipping a televised debate is buying the Democratic lawmaker's suburban Syracuse ...

  • Meg OConnell attends last Onondaga Community College board meeting as interim president

    Syracuse, N.Y. -- Nearly a year has passed since Margaret "Meg" O'Connell was named interim president at Onondaga Community College. Tuesday she attended her last board meeting in that role, and the board of trustees praised her for her accomplishments. She'll be replaced ...

  • Troopers confirm identities of two killed in Vienna car fire after crash June 8

    Vienna, NY -- Investigators have confirmed the two people who died in a fatal crash in Vienna June 8, state police said. Angelo J. Gonzalez, 21, of Camden was originally thought to be a passenger in the vehicle, troopers said. The investigation revealed that Gonzalez was driving and Tyler Laplante, 20, was the passenger. A third passenger, Justin T. Didio, 22, from Oneida, was able to get out ...

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