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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 ...

  • Shooting of armed intruder hostage haunts New York police officer

    NEW YORK -- The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...

  • Weeklong traffic mess possible after CT derailment

    Traffic in southwest Connecticut could be a mess for as much as a week until service is restored to the commuter rail line affected by a derailment that injured scores of passengers, Gov. Dannel P. Malloy warned ...

  • Pacers knock out Knicks

    /enpproperty--> Defense the key as Indiana advances to conference showdown with Miami Indiana spent the entire season perfecting its defense. On Saturday, it produced the biggest payoff for the Pacers in nearly a decade. Roy Hibbert's block of Carmelo Anthony's dunk attempt midway through the fourth quarter spurred an 11-2 run that rallied the Pacers to a 106-99 ...


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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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  • Shooting death of gay man rocks New York community

    A view of fog over the New York skyline. (REUTERS/Lucas Jackson) NEW YORK - Greenwich Village, the birthplace of the U.S. gay rights movement, remained in shock on Sunday over the shooting death of a gay man by a gunman who police said uttered anti-gay slurs before targeting the victim. Mark Carson, 32, was shot dead in Greenwich Village around midnight on Friday in what police are calling a ...

  • Officer who mistakenly shot Hofstra student faced harrowing choice expert says

    The police officer who accidentally killed a Long Island college student along with an armed intruder faced perhaps the most harrowing decision of a law enforcement career: choosing the split-second moment when the risk is so high that you must act to save a ...

  • Syracuse weather warmth humidity and thunderstorms

    Dave Eichorn/Plymouth State Universit Mid summer-like warmth and humidity is widespread across the central and eastern United States. Around 5 p.m. today, while it was 68 degrees in Syracuse, it was near 80 in Buffalo. That's how close the warm air is to us. The advancing or leading edge of that tropical air mass is a warm front which will slowly migrate northward across Central New York ...

  • Small changes coming for New York Knicks

    Photo credit: Don't count on J.R. Smith giving the Knicks a discount. (Getty) While the Knicks' 2012-13 season was easily the team's most successful campaign in more than a decade, the fact remains that it fell well short of a championship or even a conference finals berth against LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Surely, they'll be in the thick of things again next season, ...

  • Marcum seeking elusive first win with Mets

    After more than a month on the disabled list, Reds ace Johnny Cueto will make his return to the mound on Monday against the Mets at Citi Field. It will be the right-hander's first Major League start since April 13, when he left the game in the fifth inning and hit the DL with a strained right lat two days later. "I'm happy," Cueto said through translator Tomas Vera. ...

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