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Remember him Anthony Weiner bets on political forgiveness ahead of New York mayoralty run

Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) holds a press conference about sending photos of himself to other women, in New York on June 6, 2011. (RICHARD ...
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Anthony Weiner put down his smartphone and picked up a baby stroller today, pressing flesh with Harlem commuters he hopes will overlook his personal indiscretions and support him at the polls.Weiner apologized to commuters for causing a huge stir at 125th Street and Lenox Avenue, as an army of TV cameras followed the mayoral hopeful’s every move."I'm sorry about the hoopla," ...
Lawyer NY man at center of HIV scare not positive

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) -- The attorney for a New York man imprisoned amid accusations he infected 13 young women with HIV in the 1990s says his client doesn't have the ...
Health care costs now exceed grocery bill for typical U.S. family report shows

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The cost of medical care now exceeds the cost of groceries for the typical American family with employer-sponsored health insurance ...
4Q profits rise at Columbus McKinnon

Columbus McKinnon Corp. closed its 2012 fiscal year with a significant jump in profits, citing a tax change as well as improved productivity. Net income for the 2012 fourth quarter rose to $52.0 million, or $2.67 per share, up from $8.9 million, or 47 cents per share, a jump of 478.3 percent. Columbus McKinnon (NASDAQ: CMCO) said the results include an income tax benefit of $40.2 million. Sales ...

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Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's faithful Hollywood remake of Alejandro Amenabar's (The Others) 1997 Spanish film Abre los ojos (Open Your Eyes), is many things all at once. It is a romantic melodrama, a murder mystery, an existential thriller, and a perplexing dream-logic puzzlebox, not to mention a barely disguised cinematic meditation on the larger-than-life perfection ... ...

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Cicadageddon escalates as insects emerge on Staten Island New York – video

Millions of cicadas are emerging across the US east coast for the first time in 17 years. The Guardian traveled to the New York City borough of Staten Island where Adam Gabbatt found cicadas and their exoskeletons littering the area as the insects prepare to mate -and then ...
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday announced his plan to establish tax-free zones on and around college campuses. A pro-business think tank and a labor union don't like the ...
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has been named vice president/relationship manager for KeyBank's Central New York district. Prior to joining Key, Harris was a wealth planning advisor for Sagemark Consulting/Lincoln Financial Advisors and was a select member of Sagemark Private Wealth Services. Harris earned a bachelor's degree from Ithaca College. He is FINRA Series 6 and 63 securities registered and holds life, ...
Hofstra home invader won praise from state parole panel before 2011 release

UNIONDALE - The parolee shot and killed along with a Hofstra University student by police won praise from a state parole panel in 2011 before his conditional release from prison.Newsday, citing a transcript of the hearing, says Dalton Smith of Hempstead was released after completing nine years of his 10-year sentence for armed robbery. The panel praised him for completing a program to curb ...
Cicadas spotted in NJ

TRENTON, NJ - New Jersey's invasion of cicadas has started in the wake of two days of warm weather.The insects have started to emerge from the soil in droves for the first time in 17 years and that could make for a noisy and buggy Memorial Day holiday weekend cookout.They've been spotted in Tenafly, Wayne, Colonia, Fanwood, Mendham and Montclair.Rutgers University entomologist George ...

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Moscow safer than New York: Russian minister

Russian police reforms have proved so successful that, in some areas, Moscow outperforms New York on safety, Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev has boasted while on a visit to the US.

Kolokoltsev made the claims during a meeting in New York late Monday with New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly.

"We have compared the crime situation in Moscow and New York, factoring in the number of residents and police personnel responsible for ensuring security," Kolokoltsev explained.

He claimed that, in some respects, parts of Moscow are even safer than New York, although he did not cite concrete statistics.

Kolokoltsev is in the US for a series of meetings with law enforcement officials on a range of issues from day-to-day crime, to drug trafficking and terrorism, a press release posted on the interior ministry web site Tuesday says.

Kolokoltsev also praised the recent reforms of Russia's police service, highlighting that they built on the New York police's experience, particularly in "the direct responsibility of a commanding officer for his subordinates' actions, including suspension or even dismissal".

In 2011, Russia launched sweeping reforms of the 1.2-million-strong police force, which has long been notorious for corruption and abuse of authority. ...