New York police shut down a mall appearance by teen pop singer Justin Bieber (BEE'-ber) after thousands of young girls showed up and got a little too wild.Nassau County police say girls and adults in the crowd of nearly 3,000 started pushing and shoving as they waited for the 15-year-old sensation to arrive Friday at the Roosevelt Field Mall in Garden City.
Jim Boeheim has always made a point of telling the media not to get too caught up in runs because basketball, especially on the college level, is a game of runs.He could only smile as he was asked about Syracuse's 22-1 run to open the second half of an 87-71 victory over No. 6 North Carolina on Friday night in the championship game of the 2K Sports Classic."That's about as good as it gets," he said, "and it was against North Carolina and it was here.
An on-the-job mishap has claimed the life of a worker on Staten Island. It happened just before 2:20 p.m., Friday, at the intersection of Rockland and Richmond Avenues. Police say a ten-wheel dump truck was backing up when it struck a 53-year-old worker. Staten Island man Jody Reese was rushed to Staten Island North Hospital, where he later died. No criminality is suspected at this time.
With state lawmakers out of Albany this weekend without an agreement to close New York's budget gap, Governor Paterson warns furloughs and layoffs are on the horizon for state workers if a deal is not done. The governor is now floating the possibility of cuts to early childhood education programs to reduce the three-point-two-billion-dollar budget gap.
A summit on gun violence was held Friday at Gracie Mansion. Mayor Bloomberg met with community leaders to discuss the rash of recent shootings, including one leaving a 15-year-old Bronx girl fighting to survive. Meanwhile, the NYPD is opening up a new anonymous call line to Bronx residents to rid the streets of illegal guns. Officers handed out fliers to residents in the Morrisania section about the tip line.
A familiar seasonal sight and sound returns to the Big Apple with Thanksgiving next week. The bell ringing and the red Salvation Army kettles are making an appearance on the city streets. The Salvation Army is running its annual fundraising campaign, setting a goal of three-million-dollars for the New York area. Salvation Army Lieutenant Colonel Guy Klemanski says the non-profit aims to lend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
An annual holiday attraction rolls out this weekend at the New York Botanical Garden. Model trains pull through a scaled-down version of the city, all made out of leaves, berries, tree branches, and vines. The display features notable landmarks in the five boroughs, including Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building, City Hall, and the original Penn Station.
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter pays up on his friendly bet with Mayor Bloomberg over which team would win the World Series. Mayor Nutter doned Yankee pinstripes and accepted the Philadelphia Phillies loss in the Fall Classic. He joined Mayor Bloomberg in painting the walls of Albert Einstein School in the Bronx to encourage New Yorkers to participate in more community service projects.
A Manhattan man faces charges for allegedly taking advantage of the kindness of women in the supermarket. Fifty-one-year-old Charles Van Cleave would allegedly ask women for help finding something in the grocery store and leave with their wallets and credit cards. Nassau County Police say Van Cleave robbed three women at King Kullen, Stop 'N' Shop, and Pathmark locations on Hempstead Turnpike in Levittown.
The Fire Department is temporarily changing the way the city handles 911 calls in light to a deadly fire this week in Crown Heights. The current Unified Call Taking System was criticized for slowing down the response of rescuers to the tragic blaze. Starting Tuesday, fire dispatchers will listen in on emergency calls handled through the city's unified call center.
For more than two decades, Oprah Winfrey has been the inspirational, change-your-life champion who reigned over daytime television much like Johnny Carson once ruled late night.Now she's ready to say goodbye, leaving a huge void for broadcast TV even as she raises the possibility of more Oprah than ever when she starts her own cable network.
Republicans are seizing on this week's recommendations for fewer Pap smears and mammograms to fuel concern about government-rationed medical care - and to try to chip away support by women for President Barack Obama's proposed health care overhaul."This is how rationing starts," declared Jon Kyl of Arizona, the party's second-in-command in the Senate, during a news conference. "This is what we're going to expect in the future.
President Barack Obama's eight-day trip to Asia produced no tangible wins for the United States, though he is citing talks with Asian allies that he says could help create thousands of jobs and open new markets for American goods in the future.
A crucial first Senate vote on President Barack Obama's health care overhaul in a rare Saturday night session looms as a test of Democratic unity and the president's prestige.Democratic leaders are optimistic of success, but they need every Democrat and both independents to vote "yes," and two moderates remained uncommitted ahead of the roll call, which is expected around 8 p.m.
Fresh from his weeklong trip through Asia, President Barack Obama is taking time to catch up on dad duty.
The president and first lady Michelle Obama stopped by 8-year-old daughter Sasha's school Friday morning. White House officials said they were visiting Sidwell Friends School in Bethesda, Md., for a school activity, but declined to elaborate.
Although Obama has no public events planned Friday, it's a busy time for him. The Senate is set for a...
Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.Despite the criticism, there were growing indications Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate showdown set for Saturday night, and Majority Leader Harry Reid crisply rebutted the Republican charges. The bill "will save lives, save money and...
Digging in for a long struggle, Republican senators and governors assailed the Democrats' newly minted health care legislation Thursday as a collection of tax increases, Medicare cuts and heavy new burdens for deficit-ridden states.Despite the criticism, there were growing indications Democrats would prevail on an initial Senate showdown set for Saturday night, and Majority Leader Harry Reid crisply rebutted the Republican charges. The bill "will save lives, save money and...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- A group of volunteer "elves" in Alaska's frigid interior has set out to save a popular holiday letter service featuring the North Pole's most beloved icon. The group is looking to counter a decision by the U.S. Postal Service to end a program begun in 1954 in the small town of North Pole, where volunteers respond to thousands of letters addressed to "Santa...
CHICAGO -- Oprah Winfrey's production company says Winfrey will announce Friday that her talk show will end in 2011 after its 25th season on the air.Chicago-based Harpo Productions Inc. said Thursday night that the talk show host will give more details live on the "The Oprah Winfrey Show" broadcast Friday.Winfrey started her broadcasting career in Nashville, Tenn., and Baltimore, Md., before relocating to Chicago in 1984 to host WLS-TV's morning talk show "A.M. Chicago."That...
LOS ANGELES -- Some University of California regents who approved a student fee increase are trapped inside a UCLA building as protesters block the exits.The demonstrators are being confronted Thursday by lines of baton-wielding campus police, California Highway Patrol officers and metal barriers.University spokesman Phil Hampton says chains of demonstrators have linked arms to block the exits. One person inside the building says the regents have been held there for two hours. It is unclear how...
Wide-eyed children around the world will be hearing from Santa's "elves" at the North Pole after all.During Christmas seasons for decades, these dedicated elves responded to thousands of letters addressed to "Santa Claus, North Pole."All that was ending with a U.S. Postal Service decision to discontinue the program based in the small Alaskan town amid privacy concerns.
A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.China's mines are the world's deadliest, and the blast shows the difficulties the government faces in trying to boost safety in an industry where large state-owned coal mines are considered safer than smaller, private ones.
President Barack Obama's eight-day trip to Asia produced no tangible wins for the United States, though he is citing talks with Asian allies that he says could help create thousands of jobs and open new markets for American goods in the future.
Prosecutors on Saturday were expected to request life in prison for an American student and her former boyfriend accused of killing a young British woman in Italy.Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are charged with murder and sexual violence in the 2007 slaying of Knox's roommate, Meredith Kercher, in Perugia.
A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people and leaving 66 others trapped underground as rescuers worked hastily to save them.China's mines are the world's deadliest, and the blast shows the difficulties the government faces in trying to boost safety in an industry where large state-owned coal mines are considered safer than smaller, private ones.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is calling Afghan President Hamid Karzai an "unworthy partner" for the U.S. She told NPR the embattled leader is not deserving of thousands more American troops or civilian aid to help fight the resurgent Taliban in the Afghanistan war.
PRAGUE -- A rare white tiger was killed by two lions that managed to sneak into its enclosure in a Czech zoo, officials said Thursday.The lions, 14-year-old Sultan and 11-year-old Elsa, entered the open-air area occupied by the 17-year-old tiger Isabella by opening a trap door, Liberec Zoo spokesman Ivan Langr said.He said it happened too quickly for authorities to prevent the Thursday morning death.The lions and tigers share the same pavilion overnight, which they leave for separate open-air...
PARIS -- The lawyer for director Roman Polanski says his wife and two children are bearing the brunt of his Swiss imprisonment and that he has proposed "very significant" bail money, house arrest and other assurances to find freedom.Herve Temime tells the French daily Le Figaro that 76-year-old his client "will not accept extradition to the United States."U.S. authorities want Polanski to face justice in Los Angeles for having sex with a 13-year-old 32 years ago.A Swiss...
HAVANA -- President Barack Obama has answered questions submitted by a celebrated Cuban blogger, saying he isn't interested in "talking for the sake of talking" with Raul Castro and indicating he won't visit the island until the communist government changes its ways.In an unusual written response to Yoani Sanchez, who has gained international acclaim for daring to criticize her government online, Obama also said it is up to Cuba to act if it wants normal relations with Washington,...
KABUL -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton lauded the newly sworn-in Afghan president for outlining a plan to crack down on corruption in his inaugural speech Thursday, but warned that Washington and the international community would hold him to his promises.Clinton was in the capital Kabul to attend the second inauguration of President Hamid Karzai, who has been under stiff pressure to eliminate the graft that is deeply rooted in his government. The U.S. and its allies have...
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In a previous blog, “A Runners Wife” I spoke about my husband training for the NYC marathon. All I have to say is that the months of training all came together of an amazing race. Race day is a grueling day for runners, and the family. But a miracle happened...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder testified before the senate judiciary committee and basically shrugged when asked if any other enemy combatant captured overseas had ever been brought to civilian criminal court to face justice. Talk about an incompetent boob, not to mention a disgrace.
Here is a list of wines all from Spain, and menus from restaurants in Brooklyn where a crew of us did a food / wine crawl through Carrol Gardens and Williamsburg recently
