Kathleen Horan

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Art appraiser and auctioneer Kathleen Guzman lost her full-time job nearly a year ago. Since then she's been putting her 30 years of experience to good use for Housing Works, the non-profit that funds programs for people in the city living with HIV and AIDS.

She ...

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Queens Senator Hiram Monserrate has received probation for assaulting his girlfriend.

REPORTER: He won't serve jail time for the misdemeanor. Instead, he's been sentenced to 250 hours of community service and domestic abuse counseling. The head of New York's National Organization of Women, Sonja Ossorio says ...

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This time of year, kids who believe in Santa often write to him requesting presents. But now adults who are broke and have a bed bug infestation might want to skip Santa and send an e-mail to"Bed Bug Betty."

A New Jersey company ...

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A federal investigation has found conditions at the Westchester County Jail violated the constitutional rights of inmates. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more on the US Department of Justice's two-year probe.

REPORTER: The scathing report doesn't mince words: it finds that the jail not only deprives some ...

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The old Meatpacking District will soon be home to a new 10-story glass, mixed-use, retail and commercial building.

The structure received the green light from the city to go 24 percent higher than current zoning allows. Andrew Berman with the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation ...

As air travel heats up this holiday weekend, so will enforcement of unlicensed cabbies at the city's airports.

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As air travel heats up this holiday weekend, so will enforcement of unlicensed cabbies at the city's airports. A new state law now makes it a misdemeanor for non-cabbies to offer rides for a fee.

Queens district attorney Richard Brown says drivers could face up to ...

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New York is among 26 cities that hosted an "Emergency Day of Outrage" to remember victims of gun violence. In Times Square, signs with faces of victims were held over a coffin to call attention to all the lives that have been lost. Director Spike ...

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Elected officials and community leaders in Brooklyn are rallying around the family of three victims in Wednesday's Crown Heights fire. Rose Etienne Jean was working when the fire claimed the lives of her two young children and her partner, Myrtel Jean.

Councilwoman Letitia James says a ...

Brooklyn Marine Lance Corporal Julian Brennan was killed in Afghanistan last January. Contrary to the image of the tough soldier, Brennan was also a trained actor, singer and a budding writer. Brennan's parents spoke to WNYC’s Kathleen Horan about his 25 years of life. This Veterans Day, Horan returns to talk to his family.

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Brooklyn Marine Lance Corporal Julian Brennan was killed in Afghanistan last January. His parents spoke to WNYC 10 months ago, after hearing that their beloved 25-year-old son died in a roadside bombing. This Veteran's Day, reporter Kathleen Horan is checking back in with Brennan's mother ...

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A Congressional subcommittee will hold a hearing later this month about whether Wall Street employees and other privileged individuals are getting the swine flu vaccine before people from high-risk groups.

New Jersey Congressman Frank Pallone says he wants to find out if the distribution process favors ...

Photo courtesy of Merce Cunningham Dance Company by Stephanie Berger

A memorial for dancer, choreographer, and artist Merce Cunningham was held last night at the Park Avenue Armory. Cunningham was considered at ...

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A memorial for dancer, choreographer, and artist Merce Cunningham was held last night at the Park Avenue Armory. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more:

REPORTER: Cunningham was considered at the forefront of the American avant garde, especially during the last half of the 20th century. So it ...

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With a week to go before the election, the city's mayoral candidates are urging New Yorkers to get out and vote.

The Bloomberg campaign has phone numbers for hundreds-of-thousands of city residents. Each will be getting an automated call that will urge them to go to ...

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Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson is doing his best to keep the term limits issue in the minds of voters. Referring to opponent Michael Bloomberg's move to change the law so he could run for a third term, Thompson said in a campaign speech last night ...

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New York is overhauling the way it collects forensic evidence from sexual assault victims. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more.

REPORTER: Medical experts, lab techs, rape crisis programs and law enforcement officials have collaborated to update the way forensic evidence is collected from rape victims in the ...

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Former New York City police commissioner Bernard Kerik is behind bars, after a federal judge revoked his bail for leaking sealed information in advance of his trial next week.

Kerik is accused of accepting apartment renovations from a construction company in exchange for recommending the company ...

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The city's largest police union is giving Mayor Bloomberg its endorsement. It's the first time the PBA has backed Bloomberg in his three campaigns.

PBA President Patrick Lynch says the mayor's record on crime and his administration's successful contract negotiations with cops last year won them ...

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Stella D'oro, the nearly 80-year-old bakery plant, has baked its last cookie in the Bronx. When the second shift of employees reported to work yesterday afternoon they were told production had been shut down for good. WNYC's Kathleen Horan has more.

REPORTER: The bakery was sold ...