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The Cellist of Sarajevo Plays in his City Again

Thursday, April 05, 2012

Twenty years ago, as mortar shells began raining down on Sarajevo, killing his friends and neighbors, Vedran Smajlovic did what he knew best to help the city: he played his cello at funerals, in bomb shelters and in the streets.

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Romney Sweeps Primaries

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Mitt Romney has won the Wisconsin primary. And that means he's gone three for three over chief GOP rival Rick Santorum in Tuesday's contests.

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NY Senator Espaillat Announces Run Against Rangel

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

New York State Sen. Adriano Espaillat  has announced he will run against Rep. Charles Rangel.

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Garodnick Says He'll Run to Replace Liu

Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Councilman Daniel Garodnick has announced his candidacy to replace embattled New York City Comptroller John Liu.

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NY Suburban County Tackles Growing Budget Deficit

Monday, April 02, 2012

Officials on eastern Long Island say a change in how Suffolk County pays pension benefits is just one of many proposals to reduce a looming budget deficit.

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Air Force Debated Disposal of 9/11 Remains

Friday, March 30, 2012

Newly released Pentagon documents show that U.S. Air Force officers debated briefly about burial at sea before concluding that 1,321 unidentifiable fragments of remains from the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon should be treated as medical waste and incinerated.

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Bloomberg: Stop-And-Frisk Program Is Working

Friday, March 30, 2012

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the fact that officers are recovering fewer guns through stop-and-frisks is an indication the program is working.

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Protesters: Village Voice Helps Sell Kids for Sex

Thursday, March 29, 2012

The son of Norman Mailer has joined an anti-sex-trafficking protest against the Village Voice, the New York City weekly his late father co-founded.

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Port Authority to Cut Nonunion Benefits

Thursday, March 29, 2012

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey voted Thursday to cut bonuses and other benefits for its nonunion employees in a move expected to save $41 million over 18 months.

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Witnesses Complicate Corzine's Testimony on Money

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

A former MF Global executive has refused to answer lawmakers' questions about about $200 million that was transferred out of a customer account days before the firm collapsed, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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Cuomo, Lawmakers Reach Deal on NY Budget

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Governor Andrew Cuomo, Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver announced Tuesday they had reached a deal on the New York state budget.

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NYPD Officer Convicted of Sex Assault

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

An off-duty police officer was convicted Tuesday of grabbing a schoolteacher off a street and sexually assaulting her, and jurors have been told by the judge to keep deliberating on some unresolved counts, including rape.

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Tebow the Jet: Celebrity Backup QB Meets Media

Monday, March 26, 2012

Tim Tebow got his first New York close-up Monday.

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Immunity in Spotlight in Suit vs. Strauss-Kahn

Monday, March 26, 2012

After the New York criminal sexual assault case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn dissolved in prosecutors' doubts about his accuser's reliability, she vowed to get her day in another court.

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Hoodies Worn at City Church in Memory of Slain Teen Trayvon Martin

Monday, March 26, 2012

A Manhattan pastor took to the pulpit Sunday to argue that the fatal shooting of an unarmed black Florida teenager demands secular action from the faithful, since Jesus was a Jewish rabbi who challenged the rule of the Romans in Palestine.

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Newly Discovered Mozart Piece Performed

Friday, March 23, 2012

A piano work experts attribute to Mozart as a child prodigy was performed for the first time Friday since it was found last year after apparently being left in an attic for centuries.

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Rutgers Webcam Defendant Dharun Ravi: 'I Was Stupid'

Friday, March 23, 2012

The former Rutgers student convicted of using a web cam to spy on his roommate during an intimate encounter with a man said he was “stupid” when he spied on Tyler Clementi, who committed suicide days after the incident.

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Asian-American NJ Supreme Court Nominee Rejected

Thursday, March 22, 2012

A Senate panel has rejected Gov. Chris Christie's Asian-American nominee to the New Jersey Supreme Court.

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Construction Collapse Kills 1, Injures 2

Thursday, March 22, 2012

Officials say one person has died and two others were injured in a construction collapse at a one-story commercial building in New York City.

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Hundreds Rally in Union Square in Memory of Trayvon Martin

Thursday, March 22, 2012

The parents of a black teenager shot to death by a Hispanic neighborhood watch captain in Florida told demonstrators in New York they will keep fighting to get justice for their son.

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