Tag Archives: New York

• News

  Sad update for freed, wrongly convicted N.Y. inmate

  Ranta’s second-degree murder conviction stemmed from the 1990 killing of a rabbi during a diamond heist.
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  Freed NY convict’s first goal: ‘Get the hell out of here’

  David Ranta walked out of a Brooklyn courthouse a free man on Thursday after serving more than 20 years for the killing of a rabbi during a botched diamond heist.
• News / Offbeat

  Arizona bound dog mistakenly put on flight to Ireland

  Six-year-old Hendrix was traveling in cargo on United Airlines on Thursday when he was put on the wrong flight.
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  New York woman holding baby falls from 8th floor to her death

  A woman plunged to her death from the eighth floor of an apartment building in New York, with her baby clutched in her arms.
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  Mom dies, baby survives fall off NY building

  A woman – clutching her baby – jumped from the eighth floor of her New York apartment building
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  Teen’s shooting pits Brooklyn neighborhood against cops

  A band of furious teenagers hurled bottles, bricks and trash cans at New York police Wednesday night, days after police shot and killed an armed Brooklyn youth.
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  Suspect in fatal upstate New York shootings dead, police say

  Myers is suspected of killing four people and injuring two others in a 10-minute shooting spree.
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  Four killed in New York shooting, police say

  The shootings were reported Wednesday morning in two separate upstate New York communities.
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  Jury convicts New York cop in cannibal plot

  The federal jury found Valle guilty of conspiring to kidnap women and accessing a federal law enforcement database.
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  In the 11th hour judge invalidates large sugary soda ban

  A state judge in New York on Monday invalidated the city’s ban on sugary drinks in containers larger than 16 ounces in certain venues, a major setback for Mayor Michael Bloomberg,
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  Cops kill teen gunman, witnesses and police accounts differ

  Detectives are investigating a shooting in which police in Brooklyn shot and killed a 16-year-old boy.
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  Two planes collide on runway

  Two planes collided on the runway at John F. Kennedy Airport.