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  • Sarah Michelle Gellar shares best parenting advice

    Sarah Michelle Gellar shared her best parenting advice ever as she showed up at the CBS Upfront event for her new comedy series, The Crazy Ones, in New York City. When it comes to her parenting style, the Vampire Slayer actress said she likes to keep it simple, Us magazine reported. The mom of two told the publication that her parenting tip is not too original but it works. The 36-year-old ...

  • NY bar to host smallest penis contest

    King's County Bar in Brooklyn, New York is set to host the first ever 'Smallest Penis Contest', on July 20. According to an advertisement on Craigslist, the contest invites 'less endowed men' who can prove that 'good things can come in small packages,' the Huffington Post reported. The 'pageant style' contest would involve 'talent, evening wear, and swimsuit elements.' A 'small member expert ...

  • Marquee miracle Man tumbles out of theater window but sign breaks fall

    A man miraculously survived a plunge out a window above Broadway’s Lyceum Theater on West 45th St. this afternoon - landing on the theater’s marquee, which broke his fall, fire officials said.Witnesses told The Post that the older man was standing against the window when it somehow opened around 2:50 p.m. and he tumbled about 2 or 3 feet down, onto the marquee, fire officials ...

  • CC opens Yankees three-game series in Baltimore

    The Orioles were supposed to miss CC Sabathia during their three-game series against the Yankees, which starts on Monday night at Camden Yards. The weather had other plans. Sunday's rainout at Yankee Stadium pushed back Sabathia's start and thrust him right into Baltimore's path. The big lefty will get the ball against former teammate Freddy Garcia in the series opener. The ...

  • Suspect in cold-blooded murder of gay man laughed and boasted Yeah I shot him in the head prosecutors say

    The bigoted ex-con accused with a hate crime for shooting dead a gay man in Greenwich Village laughed and boasted about the murder shortly after he was arrested, prosecutors said yesterday."Yeah, I shot him in the head," sneered Elliot Morales, 33, while "laughing on the ground" when cops were handcuffing him for shooting Mark Carson, 32, early Saturday morning.Morales today ...


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Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

Now that the Iron Man movies have reached entry number 3 (if we can consider, ala Federico Fellini, that the characters appearance in last summers The Avengers counts as at least half a movie), we can safely say that the series has matured into one of the more resili ... ...

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  • Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor addresses Le Moyne graduates

    Syracuse, NY - Syracuse University Chancellor Nancy Cantor addressed Le Moyne College graduates Sunday at the school's 63rd commencement ceremony. The school also gave honorary degrees to Cantor, former Syracuse Mayor Tom Young and Peter Major. The student speaker was Caitlin McGuire, a communications major from Newport News, Va. There were 603 students eligible for graduation. The event ...

  • Suspect in NY bias shooting is charged with murder

    Armando Morales can be a dangerous man, whichever side he’s on. Once Morales handled illicit business for the Fresno, Calif., Bulldogs street gang. Then his compelling testimony against a former cellmate secured the conviction of the man accused of killing Chandra Levy. Now the former gang-enforcer-turned-prison-snitch is back in the hot seat. What happens next might turn the Levy murder ...

  • Female hostage died from police bullet in New York standoff official

    (Reuters) - A 21-year-old university student who was taken hostage in her apartment and then shot to death during a police standoff with an armed robber on New York's Long Island was killed by a bullet fired from an officer's gun, investigators said on ...

  • NY teacher delves into mystery of Indian Ovens

    That trek eventually led to confirmation that Native Americans indeed used the site as its name suggests, but it left unsolved another mystery: For what did they use the six soccer ball-sized ...

  • SUNY Upstate Medical University graduation Sunday

    Syracuse, NY - SUNY Upstate Medical University held graduation ceremonies Sunday at the Crouse-Hinds Theater at the John Mulroy Civic Center. There were three ceremonies for the College of Graduate Studies, the College of Nursing and the College of Health Professions. Joyce P. Griffin-Sobel, dean of the college of nursing, wrote in the program, "Share your knowledge. Involve ...

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