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While the city of Troy, New York, anxiously awaits the jury’s verdict in the upstate voter fraud case, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at some of the more outrageous, if not flat-out criminal moments of the trial thus far. The trial involves two Democrats - former City Councilman Michael LoPorto, and Rensselaer County Board of Elections Commissioner Edward McDonough. The two have been accused of over 100 combined felonies in connection with the alleged defrauding of the 2009 Working Families Party primary. Is this simply a microcosm of what is happening in...

Cops are hunting this brute who beat down and abducted a woman outside the Long Island Rail Road Ronkonkoma station Sunday morning, in a sickening assault that was caught on video. The man slugged the woman just after she got off the train at 7:40 a.m., knocking her down. Later, the suspect confronts the woman in the station’s taxi office, drags her outside and strikes her again.

QUEENSBURY — Warren County sheriff's deputies say a homeowner broke up a fight between his pit bull and another by shooting and killing the other dog. Charles Lombardo, of 50 Meadowbrook Road, was home with his son at 4:45 p.m. on Thursday when a dog barked in the front yard. The men went outside and saw their pit bull being attacked by another, deputies said. They tried to separate the dogs by yelling, kicking and striking them with a walking cane. Lombardo then went inside, got his 12-gauge shotgun and shot the dog attacking his. He then reported the incident...

Job Growth In New York City Is Blowing Everyone's Mind Joe Weisenthal March 9, 2012According to WSJ, the NYC economy added more jobs in January than in any month in 23 years. Some 31,200 jobs were added in the month, according to a seasonally adjusted analysis of new state Labor Department figures. "It is an understatement to say that these gains exceeded all expectations," said Barbara Byrne Denham, chief economist with the real-estate services firm Eastern Consolidated, who conducted the analysis. Here's the press release from the Department of Labor. --------- In January 2012, New York State's private sector job...

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MASSENA — Walking into the woods Saturday behind the Massena Rod and Gun Club, 155 Patterson Road, was like stepping 200 years into the past. Nearly a dozen competitors braved the elements for the first St. Lawrence Valley Primitive Snowshoe Biathlon. One by one, the racers donned their wooden snowshoes, packed their long guns with black powder and trekked through the snowy woods, stopping only to take aim at several targets scattered throughout the mile-long course. It was not only a race against the clock, but also a jump back into a world before automatic rifles and snowmobiles. Contestants as...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 24, 2009 PRESS RELEASE BROOKLYN RESIDENT INDICTED FOR CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT MURDER OVERSEAS AND CONSPIRACY TO PROVIDE MATERIAL SUPPORT TO TERRORISTS An indictment was unsealed in federal court this morning charging Betim Kaziu, a U.S. citizen and resident of Brooklyn, with conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists.1 Kaziu is scheduled to be arraigned later today before United States Magistrate Judge Joan M. Azrack, at the U.S. Courthouse, 225 Cadman Plaza East, Brooklyn, New York. The charges were announced by Benton J. Campbell, United States Attorney for...

Rep. Kathy Hochul (AP) In what can only be described as a deer-in-the-headlights question-and-answer session during a town hall event on Friday, Rep. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) uttered some bizarre statements about the Obama administration’s contraceptive mandate. The Lancaster, New York, event led to both boos and jeers for the congresswoman, but her statements also rised more serious questions regarding how the administration — and the Democratic Party — views the U.S. Constitution.Video taken of the exchange is telling.“Under what portion of the constitution is the government allowed to require a private or a religious organization to pay for anything for...

The Fordham Urban Law Journal will host its Volume XXXIX Symposium, titled "Gun Control and the Second Amendment: Developments and Controversies in the Wake of District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago," on Friday, March 9 at Fordham Law School in New York City. The event will be divided into the following panels: · The Effect of the Supreme Court's Gun Control Restrictions on Crime Rates · The Scope of the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Post-Heller and McDonald · Urban Exceptionalism and Modern Conceptions of the Militia Fordham Dean Michael M. Martin will deliver opening remarks....

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At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, red is the new green. Workers were busy yesterday revamping the church so the right color scheme will be ready when Archbishop Timothy Dolan returns to New York as a newly elevated cardinal.The traditional green carpet on the steps that lead to the bishop’s throne, or cathedra, was ripped out and replaced with red. The chair’s green velvet upholstery was also switched out.“Red is the color of cardinals; it is also the color of martyrs, those who shed their blood,” said the Rev. Joe Tyrrell, who supervised the alterations yesterday. “So it’s appropriate that it’s red.”The...

Sometimes zero tolerance makes zero sense. Take the case of former Marine Ryan Jerome, an Indiana jeweler arrested last September at the Empire State Building for carrying a .45-caliber handgun — legally purchased and licensed in his home state. It’s not as if Jerome was trying to hide the gun. He volunteered to security personnel that he was carrying it, and actually tried to check it. Nor is he a notorious gangster; he was carrying some $15,000 in jewelry, and needed the gun for protection. Yes, he did misunderstand New York’s gun laws; possessing an illegal pistol in the Empire...

Ex-Governor David Paterson has contacted Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance to dismiss the weapons possession charges against retired Marine Ryan Jerome, according to the NY Post. Jerome is currently being prosecuted after attempting to check in his Indiana-registered handgun at the Empire State Building last year. Must Read Suffolk County Police image shows the locations where eight of 10 bodies were found near Gilgo Beach since December 2010Crimes of New York: 2011 Year in Review Lady Gaga, Times Square Make For Special New Year’s Eve in New York CityNew Year's 2012 Shortages Forecast Worldwide, and Not Just Norwegian Butter: A New...

Senator Chuck Schumer wrote a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today calling for “increased scrutiny” of the Iranian Mission to the United Nations in light of potential terrorist attacks against New York City. Pointing to NYPD’s director of intelligence warning that Iran is “essentially” the number one threat, Mr. Schumer argued these diplomats must ”be vigorously monitored.” “With Iran’s increasingly bellicose and threatening behavior, it’s imperative that agents of the Iranian government in the United States receive additional scrutiny to ensure that they pose no threat to New York or the rest of the country,” Mr. Schumer said...

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Manhattan prosecutors have quietly offered a no-jail, misdemeanor deal to the retired young Marine facing a mandatory 3 1/2-year prison sentence after trying to check his Indiana-registered handgun at the Empire State Building, court papers reveal. But former tow gunner Ryan Jerome — who has garnered letter-writing support from hundreds of current and former Marines — is saying no thanks and continues to ask that the case be dropped altogether. The DA’s conciliatory offer, and the fact that it’s been on the table for two months, was revealed in a letter filed in Manhattan Supreme Court.

ALBANY — Democratic Rep. Carolyn McCarthy’s Long Island district is on the chopping block as state leaders begin redrawing congressional boundaries, the Daily News has learned. State Senate and Assembly negotiators are looking at merging McCarthy’s Nassau County district into a Nassau-Queens district now held by fellow Dem Gary Ackerman, sources close to the planning said. McCarthy’s current district “collides” with Ackerman’s, making it a perfect candidate for merger, insiders said. The lines are expected to be drawn in a way that favors Ackerman in a potential primary. McCarthy, 68, was first elected in 1996, three years after her husband...

In 1991, University of Iowa student Gang Lu shot five university employees. In 1996, San Diego State University student Frederick Martin Davidson killed three professors. However, the 2007 Virginia Tech massacre is the most memorable shooting on a college campus, as it left 32 innocent students dead after they were picked off by a crazed gunman. On Dec. 8, 2011, another shooting occurred on the Virginia Tech campus, leaving a police officer dead. Apparently the school’s ban on guns failed yet again, considering that the perpetrator of this incident did not obey it. But how many people actually believe that...