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*** “***[I have] thousands of messages from the military, from the federal government, from school educators, from parents. Everyone wants to do something,” [O'Keefe] said. “And when I started, everyone was afraid. They’re waking up. The quiet people are now starting to grow a pair. They’re just, ‘Give me a camera, I’m done.’ They just want to expose it.” The undercover video of Inderkum High School teacher Gabriel Gipe saying that he had “180 days to turn them [students] into revolutionaries” prompted the Natomas Unified School District to place him on administrative leave last week and move to fire him....

BREAKING: Urgent message from James O'Keefe following devastating flooding in Mamaroneck, New York PROJECT VERITAS HQ DESTROYED Those willing to help can support our efforts to rebuild with a tax-deductible donation at: http://projectveritas.com/donate

**SNIP** Neighbors at the low-rise apartment complex where she lives in tony Mamaroneck, Westchester County, said the glamorous mom moved in a couple of months ago with a teenage daughter. “She’s a nice person. I usually see her in the morning with her teenage daughter,” one neighbor said. At night, she’s often spotted with Sharpton at the Grand Havana Room on Fifth Ave., an uber-exclusive, member’s only cigar bar whose regulars include Alec Baldwin, former Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Donald Trump’s kids — Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr. McShaw “always eats” at the bar, a source said, but Sharpton —...

Disgraced Ex-Presidential Candidate: 'I'm Sure There's Lots Of Things That All Of America Doesn't Know About Me' MAMARONECK, N.Y. (CBS) ― In the spring of 2007, former presidential candidate John Edwards made a campaign visit to a Mamaroneck nursing home. It was months after he now says he told his wife about his affair with Rielle Hunter. But even then Edwards was cagey and coy, and not talking much about his private life. CBS 2 HD spoke exclusively with Edwards during that stop in Westchester County. At the Sarah Neuman Nursing Home in Mamaroneck Edwards told CBS 2 HD...

Tough rough, fast greens, now wind make for major test As if brutal rough and lightning-fast greens weren't enough of a challenge, Mother Nature decided to throw her trump card into the mix Thursday at the U.S. Open. A noticeable breeze began to blow at Winged Foot, making an already difficult test that much more wicked.

A photograph of a Westchester pond taken by Edward Steichen sold for more a record $2.9 million dollars -- setting a world record for the highest-priced photograph ever auctioned. It was initially reported that the photo, titled ``The Pond-Moonlight,'' was taken on Long Island, but the 1904 photo was actually taken in Mamaroneck, which is in Westchester County. Sotheby's auction house said the photo of a pond in a wooded area with light coming through the trees and reflected in the water sold for $2,928,000, including the buyer's premium. The previous record for a photograph sold at auction, $1,248,000 dollars...