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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 ...

  • Actress Amanda Bynes arrested in NYC on marijuana charge police say she threw bong out window

    FILE - This 2012 police booking photo released by Los Angeles Conty Sheriff's Department shows actress Amanda Bynes, 26, who was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after allegedly hitting a sheriff's patrol car. Bynes was been arrested in midtown Manhattan Thursday May 23, 2013 after she heaved a marijuana bong out of a window. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Conty Sheriff's ...

  • Seach for Ithaca man who went missing on Cayuga Lake to resume authorities say

    Christopher Dennis, of Cayuga Heights Road, left a campsite around 5 a.m. Wednesday in the town of Covert and put a canoe into Cayuga Lake alone. When Dennis didn't return later in the day, his friends began looking for him and found an overturned canoe in the middle of the lake around 12:30 p.m., the sheriff's office said. The friends called 911. On Thursday searchers from the ...

  • I-5 bridge collapses in NW Wash. no fatalities reported

    An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol ...

  • New York tour operator cancels Bronx ghetto tours

    NEW YORK, NY - A New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. The tour's controversial description states that when thinking of the Bronx, people envision ...


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Movie Review

The Fourth Man (De vierde man)

The opening scene of Paul Verhoeven's Dutch erotic comedy/thriller "The Fourth Man" is none too subtle: in queasy close-up it shows a large spider capturing and devouring a helpless fly that has become caught in its web. For a film that deals with a blond femme fatal who may or may not have knocked off three husbands and may or may not be positioning herself to get a fourth, this is not a good sig ... ...

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  • New York biker events May 24-26

    The D.U.P.A. event which was held last Sunday was a great success, with about 30 people in attendance at Petrocelli Photography studio in Latham, NY. Participants learned some valuable information from Attorney Ben Rabin from the Rabin Law Firm in Syracuse, and Hank McGrath of Bikers Against Discrimination, as well as compelling stories of police aggression suffered by their own peers in the ...

  • Man survives kidnap ordeal in New York

    Police have rescued a businessman from a New York City warehouse where he had been held captive for a month by kidnappers who demanded a $3-million ransom from his family in ...

  • Obama defends use of drones offers to cut some slack for heckler from anti-war group

    Obama defended his controversial drone-strikes program as a linchpin of the U.S. response to the evolving dangers. He also argued that changing threats require changes to the nation's counterterrorism ...

  • Bloomberg accused of threatening to destroy New Yorks taxi industry

    USA New York mayor Michael Bloomberg has found himself at the center of unwanted media attention after allegedly unleashing a profanity-laced tirade against the CEO of a large taxi fleet company over his opposition to the city's "Taxi of Tomorrow" plan. The altercation, which is said to have occurred last Thursday during a basketball game at Madison Square Garden's private ...

  • Hail destroys West Monroe farmers berry crop

    Greg Levkefech, of Syracuse, with pails of blueberries he picked for S.G. & S. Farms in Cato in 2008. On Wednesday, a severe thunderstorm produced hail that destroyed this year's berry crop for one farm in West ...

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