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  • Worlds largest Star Wars Lego model unveiled in NYC

    A massive Lego model of the Star Wars X-Wing Starfighter was unveiled in Times Square, New York City on Thursday. Made out of a whopping 5.3 million Lego pieces, the craft weighs in at nearly 46,000lbs and is 43 feet (13.1 metres) long. Its wingspan measures 44 feet (13.44 metres) across, and is the largest Lego model ever built, Sky News reported. The ship is the work of 32 master Lego ...

  • US Park Police to end furloughs next week

    National Park Service Director Jonathan B. Jarvis says the furloughs will end on June 3, after just three days off, because the agency has found other ways to offset automatic budget cuts imposed by ...

  • Port Authority fires treasurer 2 top staffers after accepting valuable gifts from vendors sources

    The Port Authority’s veteran treasurer and two of her top associates were summarily fired yesterday morning after it was revealed that they had accepted valuable gifts, meals and theater tickets from vendors doing business with the agency during their local and international travels, The Post has learned.The treasurer, Anne Marie Mulligan, a 35-year veteran, was dismissed, along with ...

  • Sandy-damaged New York Aquarium reopens this weekend

    Playful sea lions and trusty penguins are welcoming visitors back to the New York Aquarium for the first time since the Coney Island marine haven was damaged by Superstorm Sandy.The shorefront aquarium will partially reopen on Saturday.Visitors will be able to peer down into pools containing walruses, harbor seals and other mammals. Sea lions will perform in the renovated aquatheater.And there ...

  • Pedro Portugal Ecuadorean businessman found in New York after kidnapping

    NEW YORK – Police have rescued an Ecuadorean businessman who was kidnapped in New York City and held hostage for a month while his captors demanded his family pay ...


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Movie Review

Swimming Pool

Swimming Pool

Franois Ozons much-talked-about Swimming Pool features one of those Huh? endings that people love to discuss in serious tones as they walk out of the theater and drive home, as if theyre deconstructing some great philosophical paradox. Its an ending that calls into question everything that came before, and it will make many want to go back for a repeat viewing to relive the films narrative ... ...

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  • Exclusive New York claims more proof of bank mortgage abuses

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said there is mounting evidence that Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo and Co and other banks violated the terms of a settlement designed to end mortgage servicing ...

  • Finch Paper changes CEOs

    Debabrata Mukherjee . Finch Paper reported $280 million of revenue in 2012. The mill has about 500 hourly workers and another 200 salaried employee, making it among the largest manufacturers in the 11-county Capital Region. Raccuia, a Wilton resident, was hired in February 2009--as the recession and Internet were beating margins to a pulp. He cut 100 jobs that year, ...

  • Cicero-North Syracuse student suspended after speaking out against failed budget on Twitter

    Twitter about the district's failed 2013-14 school budget. Brown, who has never been in trouble with the district before, started a hashtag on Twitter Wednesday to discuss things the district could cut in its budget for next year. The ...

  • Syracuse woman who saved her family from fire dies 10 years later in another fire

    Natasha McGlown was 13 when she saved her family from a house fire in 2002 but 10 years later she couldn't save herself when her own apartment caught fire, police ...

  • Syracuse fourth-grader taken to hospital after incident on school bus

    Syracuse -- A 10-year-old girl was taken by ambulance to Upstate University Hospital Tuesday after an incident on a school bus at Dr. Weeks Elementary in Syracuse, police say. The girl, an Ethiopian whose family arrived in the United States from Kenya recently, was taken to the hospital as a precaution after she was kicked and choked by a 10-year-old boy, the girl's father said. The girl, ...

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