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  • Lady Gaga ready for live gig in August

    Pop star Lady Gaga, who underwent a hip operation earlier this year, is likely to perform on stage at a Beyonce Knowles' show in New York in August. Gaga is said to be planning her live return at the said show. If the news turns out to be true, it will be her first major gig following an operation on her hip in February. The grapevine is abuzz after a reported email sent by concert listings ...

  • 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 ...

  • New York fast-food workers protest Wendys in latest labor rights demo

    USA Fast-food workers continued demonstrating for better conditions Friday, protesting a Wendy's shareholder meeting just one week after the New York Attorney General announced an investigation into claims of widespread wage theft in the industry. Two labor rights groups, Fast Food Forward and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, organized rallies Thursday and Friday outside the Sofitel ...

  • Syracuse police Public help crucial to solving brutal homicide

    Police said 51-year-old Michael Daniels was standing alone around 9:40 p.m. Thursday outside the Los Amigos Market at the corner of West Brighton and Cannon streets when he was attacked by a group of ...

  • Trucker who bumped I-5 bridge in Washington state watched in horror as span collapsed behind him

    A collapsed section of the Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River is seen in an aerial view Friday, May 24, 2013. Part of the bridge collapsed Thursday evening, sending cars and people into the water when a an oversized truck hit the span, the Washington State Patrol chief said. Three people were rescued from the water. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee on Friday declared a state of emergency in ...


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Movie Review

October Sky

"October Sky" tells the true story of Homer Hickam, a West Virginia teenager who eventually realized his dream of becoming a NASA science engineer. It was a long road to that accomplishment, though, because Homer (Jake Gyllenhaal) grew up in the mining-dominated town of Coalwood in the late fifties, where all the boys either escape on football scholarships or follow their elders' footsteps into th ... ...

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  • Associate of arms dealer Viktor Bout extradited to New York

    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A U.S-Syrian citizen accused of conspiring with jailed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout has been extradited to New York from Australia to face charges he conspired to buy aircraft in violation of economic sanctions, federal prosecutors said on ...

  • C-NS student suspended after Twitter comments

    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 ...

  • Man dies after attack by teens outside Syracuse store...

    Syracuse, NY -- A 51-year-old man who was attacked and beaten outside a Syracuse store Thursday night has died. Syracuse police said Michael Daniels, of Syracuse, was standing alone around 9:40 p.m. outside the Los Amigos Market at the corner of West Brighton and Cannon streets when he was attacked by a group of teenagers. Police said the teens repeatedly punched Daniels and then kicked him in ...

  • Horace Mann School apologizes for decades of sexual abuse

    The elite Horace Mann prep school today apologized for decades of sexual abuse suffered at the hands of teachers and administrators and pledged reforms to improve student safety, in its first public comments addressing the sex scandal."We sincerely apologize for the harm that was caused by the teachers and administrators who abused anyone during their years at Horace Mann School," the ...

  • Prison $233M in fines for LIRR gravy train doc

    A doctor at the heart of the massive LIRR "gravy train" scandal was sentenced to eight years in federal prison yesterday for his central role in the audacious $1 billion pension scam - which the judge condemned as "a large pool of corruption."Dr. Peter Ajemian, 63, was also ordered to pay back $233 million for falsely diagnosing hundreds of greedy Long Island Railroad workers ...

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