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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 ...

  • Hughes and Yankees fall flat in nightcap

    LAD@NYY: Adams makes an impressive diving stop NEW YORK -- Phil Hughes' troubles within the not-so-friendly confines of Yankee Stadium continued on Wednesday, as the right-hander allowed five runs and heard boos as the Yankees fell to the Dodgers, 6-0, in the second game of a day-night doubleheader. Hughes completed six innings and kept Los Angeles' lineup in the yard, but he was ...

  • Latest loss puts Marcums starting spot in question

    NYM@ATL: Duda comes down with liner in mid-air ATLANTA -- Zack Wheeler is no longer some vague thought for the future, an idea without a face. As of Tuesday, Wheeler has officially arrived in the big leagues, and his presence is about to make a real impact on others. Because of Wheeler, their top pitching prospect, the Mets will soon need to dump someone from what is now a six-man rotation. ...

  • Roundup By Earning Split Dodgers Salvage Mattinglys New York Return

    Chris Davis cleared the fences twice, giving him a major league-leading 26 homers, to help the Baltimore Orioles defeat the Tigers, 13-3, on Wednesday in Detroit. Davis hit a two-run homer in ...

  • Hundreds gather to remember Lori Bresnahan

    Hundreds attended a candlelight vigil for murder victim Lori Bresnahan near the Griffin Visitor Center at Onondaga Lake Park Wednesday night. At right center in orange is Lori's cousin Mary Holland, at left, is her husband Bill ...


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Movie Review

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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  • Your comments on community group protesting corner store Why not work together

    Syracuse United Neighbors will protest a planned corner store at Oxford Street and Midland Avenue in the former Midgley Printing building. Across the street is the Oxford Inn, a men's shelter of last resort run by Catholic ...

  • Jersey town mourns loss of regular guy Gandolfini

    Working-class Westwood, New Jersey mourned the loss of their hometown hero, TV mob boss James Gandolfini. The Emmy Award winner, who was born in the town’s Pascack Valley Hospital in 1961, still visited the town and was remembered as a regular guy."We’ve known him for a very long time, since he was a teenager," said Mike Meidanis, the owner of Ridge Diner. "He came ...

  • New York KKK member designs death ray against enemies of Israel

    A KKK member from upstate New York was arrested on Tuesday after he allegedly designed a "death ray" that is meant to kill Muslims and other "enemies of ...

  • Wanda to launch $1b New York hotel project

    Dalian Wanda Group Corp Ltd, one of China's largest property developers, plans to invest about $1 billion to build a five-star hotel in New York as its third major investment outside its home market, Wang Jianlin, chairman of Wanda said on Wednesday. Wang said that Wanda is negotiating with potential partners for ...

  • NY baseball greats daughter catches falling baby

    NEW YORK (AP) -- The daughter of former New York Yankees manager Joe Torre made a quick-thinking save Wednesday when she caught a baby who had tumbled off of a second-floor Brooklyn apartment's fire escape, the baseball great has ...

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