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  • 3 Stabbed at New York's Grand Central Station; 1 In Critical Condition

    08/16/2014 3:41:14 PM PDT · by Steelfish · 27 replies
    LATimes ^ | August16, 2014 | AMES QUEALL
    3 Stabbed at New York's Grand Central Station; 1 In Critical Condition Grand Central Terminal By JAMES QUEALLY Triple stabbing at New York's Grand Central Terminal leaves one man in critical condition A 38-year-old man slashed three people with a folding knife at Grand Central Terminal in New York City Saturday morning, leaving one victim in critical condition, police said. According to police, Ivan DeLeon drew a 4-inch blade after bumping into someone while exiting a train about 11:15 a.m. An argument erupted and DeLeon stabbed a 29-year-old man in the arm, a 27-year-old man in the stomach and a...
  • Iowa Senate: Ernst (R) 43%, Braley (D) 43%

    08/13/2014 10:10:03 AM PDT · by Clintonfatigued · 18 replies
    Rasmussen Reports ^ | August 13, 2014
    Will she or won’t she? The race to replace Iowa Democratic Senator Tom Harkin couldn’t be any closer. The latest Rasmussen Reports statewide telephone survey of Likely Iowa Voters finds Republican Joni Ernst and Democrat Bruce Braley tied with 43% support each. Six percent (6%) like some other candidate and eight percent (8%) are undecided.
  • Video: Hillary: When I’m ‘President Again’

    11/08/2007 8:29:18 AM PST · by rwa265 · 65 replies · 247+ views
    CNN "Situation Room" ^ | 11/7/7 | ianschwartz
    Slip of the tongue? Yesterday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” Hillary Clinton spoke about what she would do about licensing illegal immigrants when she is president again. Watch:
  • Woman chases down, bearhugs alleged phone thief

    08/16/2014 1:00:58 AM PDT · by TigerClaws · 18 replies
    A dramatic photo captured the moment on Friday when a Brooklyn mugging victim became a crime fighter — as she busted the punk who allegedly snatched her cellphone and held him in a bear hug for the cops. Clara Vondrich, 36, was taking a business phone call while standing in front of a Williamsburg coffee shop on South Third Street at 1:20 p.m. when the teen approached her with two pals.
  • Monticello Mayor, Code Officer Arrested (near Catskills New York)

    08/16/2014 2:21:04 AM PDT · by beaversmom · 22 replies
    Times Herald-Record ^ | August 15, 2014 | Steve Israel
    MONTICELLO — Embattled Monticello Mayor Gordon Jenkins and village Code Enforcement Officer James Snowden were arrested Thursday and charged with several felonies and misdemeanors in connection with the demolition of the old village justice court. The charges include third-degree bribe receiving, second-degree criminal mischief, fifth-degree conspiracy and endangering public health, safety and the environment. Jenkins was also charged with third-degree intimidating a witness. That charge is related to his November 2013 arrest on charges of drunken driving and resisting arrest. According to the indictment by a Sullivan County grand jury, Jenkins called a witness a "snitch" and told him to...
  • Eloise in a Burqa? Sharia-Loving Sultan of Brunei Seeks The Plaza

    08/16/2014 12:14:34 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 1 replies
    New York Post ^ | August 15, 20 | Emily Smith, Ben Feuerherd and Laura Italiano
    The Plaza’s Eloise may have to start wearing a burqa over her trademark red hair ribbon. The Sultan of Brunei — infamous for imposing sharia law, which calls for death by stoning of gays and adulterers — is first choice to buy the landmark Manhattan hotel.
  • Joe Biden Dines in Southampton — With a 20-Man Security Detail

    08/16/2014 12:10:51 AM PDT · by nickcarraway · 26 replies
    New York Post ^ | August 15, 20 | Emily Smith
    How many Secret Service agents and security detail members does it take to accompany Vice President Joe Biden out for lunch in the Hamptons? Answer: around 20.
  • The Andrew Cuomo scandal, explained (Compare with Rick Perry)

    08/15/2014 6:06:42 PM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 3 replies
    yahoo news ^ | 08/15/2014 | Andrew Prokop
    After news of several corruption scandals involving members of New York's legislature, and the legislature's subsequent failure to pass an ethics reform bill, Cuomo announced in July 2013 that, along with the state's independently elected Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, he was establishing a 25-member commission to investigate corruption in government. The commission would be empowered to issue subpoenas, so long as its three co-chairs (two of which were appointed by Cuomo, and one by Schneiderman) all signed on. The governor's authority to establish such a commission was based on a law called the Moreland Act of 1907, so it became...
  • Times Square Shut Down By Thousands Marching As Ferguson Protests Spin-Off Across The Country

    08/14/2014 7:34:00 PM PDT · by CorporateStepsister · 180 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 14 August 2014 | By Josh Gardner For Mailonline and Louise Boyle For Mailonline
    The fifth night of demonstrations in support of gunned down Ferguson, Missouri teen Michael Brown saw scores of protesters marching through the streets of New York in a vigil that culminated in Times Square Thursday night. Tensions flared as some protestors attempted to shove their way through a police barricade set up in their path toward the beating heart of the city. Police held their own and tempers soon calmed, but as night gripped New York, the already congested Times Square ground to a halt as thousands flowed into the streets to demand an end to police brutality and militarization...
  • 2 missing NY Amish girls reportedly found safe

    08/14/2014 7:20:03 PM PDT · by House Atreides · 47 replies
    FoxNews.com ^ | 8/14/14 | FoxNews.com
    "Two missing New York Amish girls were reportedly found safe Thursday after escaping two men who allegedly abducted them. WWNY reported 6-year-old Delila Miller and 12-year-old Fannie Miller have been reunited with their parents after vanishing from a roadside stand Wednesday in the rural town of Oswegatchie in the northern part of the state...."
  • Protesters rally in NYC in solidarity with Ferguson

    08/14/2014 6:10:08 PM PDT · by blueplum · 28 replies
    FOX ^ | August 14, 2014 4:45pm PDT | staff
    <p>NEW YORK (MYFOXNY) - Demonstrators gathered rallied in Manhattan Thursday evening to protest the shooting death of a Missouri teen.</p> <p>A police officer in Ferguson, a suburb of St. Louis, shot and killed Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old. Rallies in that community turned tense and violent and heavily armed police officers clashed with protestors.</p>
  • German Artists Say They Put White Flags on Brooklyn Bridge

    08/13/2014 11:50:06 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 15 replies
    New York Times ^ | 08/13/2014 | By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
    Mystery solved? A pair of artists in Berlin said they were the ones who pulled off the stunt of the summer, hoisting two big all-white flags atop the Brooklyn Bridge last month, swapping them for the usual red, white and blue. When the flags appeared, rumors flapped: It was a prank or a grave security breach. But the artists, Mischa Leinkauf and Matthias Wermke, say the flags — with hand-stitched stars and stripes, all white — had nothing to do with terrorism. In a series of phone interviews, they explained that they only wanted to celebrate “the beauty of public...
  • Golfers frisked as Obama unexpectedly arrives at Martha’s Vineyard club

    08/13/2014 10:10:13 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 22 replies
    pagesix.com ^ | August 12, 2014 | 10:43pm | By Mara Siegler
    Regulars at the Vineyard Golf Club in Martha’s Vineyard were gob-smacked when President Obama unexpectedly strolled onto a nearby green and they were immediately frisked. “There was no warning he was coming,” sniffed a guest. “There was security on the way in, but no word as to why they were there.” The member added, “While eating, overlooking the golf course, guests had to stand up and be wanded.” One asked if he could finish his hot soup first, and an Obama security man cracked, ominously, “So, you’re not cooperating?” But Obama did, “go around and shake everyone’s hand waiting on...
  • Times Square characters want to unionize

    08/13/2014 5:39:47 AM PDT · by C19fan · 16 replies
    myfoxny ^ | August 12, 2014 | Stacey Delikat
    Times Square is quickly becoming the costume capital of the world. They seem to be everywhere. City officials have said they want to crack down, but now the people who wear the costumes also want to take action and organize to protect their jobs. You know them as Elmo, Cookie Monster and Woody, but the people who wear these costumes decided to take on a new name: Association of Artists United for a Smile New York City.
  • Empire State Building Lights Up For DNC Despite Policy, Refuses Kids with Cancer

    08/12/2014 8:07:04 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 4 replies
    Cybercast News Service ^ | August 12, 2014 - 11:56 AM | Dan Joseph
    It’s no secret that New York City Mayor Bill DeBlasio really, really wants the 2016 Democratic national Convention to be in his city. The mayor has been handing out iPads and personalized basketball jerseys to members of the DNC Site Selection Committee, in an effort to sway them into choosing the Big Apple as the host city for its 2016 nominating convention. The Empire State Building, which is not run by the city government has decided to help the mayor in his goal and has announced that they will light the top of the famous skyscraper blue on Tuesday night,...
  • Punk slugs senior in West Village in apparent knockout game attack (72 year old attacked)

    08/12/2014 4:24:37 PM PDT · by Kid Shelleen · 19 replies
    NY Daily News ^ | 08/12/2014 | EDGAR SANDOVAL, THOMAS TRACY
    A gutless punk stalked and then slugged a 72-year-old man in New York’s West Village, knocking him to the ground with a brutal punch caught on video, police said Tuesday. The apparent “knockout game” attack occurred Monday about 5:30 p.m. The lanky suspect was seen standing on Jane St. near West St. when he reeled back and socked the senior as he approached, cops said. He then ran across the street where a friend was waiting, police said. The victim was taken to a local hospital with cuts and bruises to his face. The victim told police that he was...
  • Hillary Clinton “Shoulda Stood in Bed!”

    08/12/2014 6:17:21 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | August 12, 2014 | Ken Blackwell
    Hillary Clinton’s famous “listening tour” of Upstate New York in 2000 eased her way into the U.S. Senate. She was the first liberal politician in years to discover there was an Upstate New York. Who knew? She then spent eight years in the Senate, the “world’s greatest deliberative body,” during which time she distinguished herself only by voting for the Iraq war. She spent much of the middle years of the decade trying to explain away her vote. Hillary Clinton ran for president in ‘08 against the dovish Sen. Barack Obama. He is credited with the best putdown in the...
  • What Taxpayers Pay When Eric Holder Uses Government Jets For Personal Trips

    08/11/2014 8:37:27 PM PDT · by Nachum · 15 replies
    the daily caller ^ | 8/11/14 | Alex Pappas
    On a pleasant Saturday this summer, Eric Holder, his daughters, their boyfriends and two security officers boarded a government-owned Gulfstream and jetted off to New York for the Belmont Stakes Thoroughbred horse race. Even for personal trips like this, the attorney general doesn’t fly commercial. For security reasons, Holder — like other top government officials — flies a government plane, though is required to reimburse taxpayers for airfare. According to records obtained by The Daily Caller through a Freedom of Information Act request, Holder is getting pretty good deal here — especially when he flies a government-owned Gulfstream V jet....
  • Sean Hannity Show,M-F,3PM-6PM,WOR AM,EDT,August 11-15, 2014

    08/11/2014 12:48:09 PM PDT · by Biggirl · 2 replies
    Sean Hannity Show ^ | August 11-15, 2014 | Sean Hannity
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  • Nothing to worry about: ‘ISIS sympathizer’ arrested at New York City airport

    08/11/2014 10:39:21 AM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 24 replies
    Hotair ^ | 08/11/2014 | Noah Rothman
    Those current and former members of America’s intelligence community who are allowed to speak publicly have long been warning that ISIS poses a threat to American national security. George W. Bush’s former Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor Juan Zarate warned that Iraq has become “a cauldron of future terrorist threats to the west.” Obama’s former acting CIA Director Mike Morell observed that ISIS’s second goal after securing a caliphate in Iraq and Syria is to “use that as a safe haven to attack the United States.” Even Secretary of State John Kerry has cautioned...