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Cuomo strikes deal to allow Las-Vegas style casinos in New York
Photo credit: Resorts World Casino in Jamaica, Queens.(Barbara Alper) New York Governor Andrew Cuomo struck a deal with state lawmakers to license new resort-style casinos, in an effort to help revive a stagnant economy in upstate New York, the governor said on Wednesday. The agreement would amend the state constitution to legalize public, non Native American casino gambling with an initial ...
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Virgin Hotels announce New York location.
Virgin Hotels has just announced the location of their brand new hotel set to descend upon the big apple. It can now be confirmed that the new hotel will be located on the northwest corner of 29th Street and Broadway.With over 300 guest rooms, various fine dining experiences, meeting rooms, and a gym - the new Virgin venture is set to open in ...
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Naval Academy files sex assault charges against three football players
By By Jim Miklaszewski, Courtney Kube and Elizabeth Chuck, NBC News Three male Naval Academy midshipmen have been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a female midshipman last year and with making a false official statement.The woman told investigators that she was assaulted by the men - all Academy football players at the time - at an off-campus party in April 2012. On Wednesday, the ...
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Three plead guilty in New York City payroll fraud case
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three women pleaded guilty on Wednesday to criminal charges arising out of what prosecutors say was a corrupt New York City payroll project that cost the city more than $600 ...
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Teachers’ Union Backs Thompson for New York Mayor
The United Federation of Teachers, one of the largest local unions in the country, on Wednesday threw its vast network of supporters behind William C. Thompson Jr. in the race for mayor of New ...
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Box Office Report Man of Steel Sails Past $150 Million in North America
The Superman tentpole, from Warner Bros. and Legendary Pictures, scored the top June debut of all time in grossing $116.1 million. Including $12 million earned last Thursday night from special Walmart screenings, the pic ended Sunday with a total $128.7 million under its ...
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Arizona wildfire threatens hundreds of homes California blaze wanes
PHOENIX/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An Arizona wildfire whipped up by strong winds threatened hundreds of homes on Wednesday, even as firefighters were gaining an edge on a California blaze raging near a pristine wilderness, authorities ...
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Body pulled from Lake Michigan is Chicago university student
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Authorities have identified a body pulled from Lake Michigan on Wednesday morning as a University of Chicago student who disappeared a week ago, possibly to watch a ...
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FBI says it uses surveillance drones on U.S. soil
FBI Director Robert Mueller gestures at the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee at an oversight hearing about the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Capitol Hill in Washington, June 19, ...
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Man sues NFL player for shooting him in the eye
New England Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez talks on a phone during media day for the NFL Super Bowl XLVI in Indianapolis January 31, 2012. The New York Giants will play the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on February ...
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Noam Chomsky American Government and Corporations Are at War With the American People
Noam Chomsky , the prominent political thinker, as attacks on democracy and the people. "Governments should not have this capacity. But governments will use whatever technology is available to them to combat their primary enemy - which is their own population," he told the Guardian. In his first public comment on the scandal that has enveloped the US, UK and other governments, as ...
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BP spill New indictments for ex-employees
NEW ORLEANS Justice Department prosecutors secured new indictments Wednesday against a former BP engineer and a former BP executive charged separately with obstructing probes of the company's 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The new indictment of former BP executive David Rainey adds language alleging that he knew of the pending congressional investigation he is charged with ...
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FBI finds possible remains at gangster Jimmy the Gents NYC home
FBI agents replace dirt after searching in the backyard of a New York City house once occupied by a famous gangster, Tuesday, June 18, 2013, in New ...
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Watch Missing College Student Found Dead in Lake Michigan
A body found floating in Lake Michigan has been identified as a missing student from the University of Chicago a fisherman spotted the body thinking it was a lot in the water. Many call 911 when ...
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Former Miss America Called Street Walker by Local GOP Leader
Jun 19, 2013 5:43pm A former Miss America winner who is now a GOP candidate for Congress was called a string of profane names today, including ';street walker,'; ';love child'; and ';Miss Queen. '; Her attacker? A local Republican Party chairman in central Illinois. Erika Harold, the 2003 winner of the Miss America contest, announced two weeks ago that she ...
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Two New York men accused of assembling X-ray weapon
Federal authorities accused two men Wednesday of assembling a portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken opponents of Israel.The indictment charged 49-year-old Glendon Scott Crawford and 54-year-old Eric J. Feight with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists with the ...
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Did the American Medical Association make a mistake in classifying obesity a disease
Now that obesity is a disease, will there be fewer obese people? Don't count on it.According to the American Medical Association, obesity is now ...
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Car quality dinged by tech glitches survey finds
Car buyers increasingly want high-tech features like voice recognition and navigation. But they're not very forgiving of the car company when those systems fail.The top complaints in J.D. Power's closely-watched survey of new vehicle owners, released Wednesday, involved technologies that drivers are clamoring for. Voice recognition systems either didn't recognize commands or ...
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Father sentenced for binding kids outside Wal-Mart
LAWRENCE, Kan. -; A suburban Chicago man was sentenced Wednesday to 30 months in prison for binding and blindfolding two of his children a year ago in a Wal-Mart parking lot in eastern ...
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A New Moderate American Party Is Forming
Lovelace and Rex believe, however, that the new moderate American Party they are forming could put the majority of American voters at the helm, enabling them to steer to safer waters. The primary goal of the party will not be to address any single, self-contained issue, but to pursue targeted solutions within a broader range of concern. "The core issue is a competitive global ...
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The Chief Recipient of Government Welfare Corporate America
America has a massive national deficit of nearly $16.9 trillion; the government continues to spend money it doesn't have. What's the answer to this dilemma, what specifically needs to be done? Many of our esteemed politicians say that, to alleviate the condition, government welfare must be ended. So with that premise in mind let's examine the pros and cons of this ...
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Bus company owner faces charges from 2008 crash
A federal jury on Tuesday convicted former U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi on more than a half dozen corruption charges accusing him of using his office for personal financial gain and looting a family insurance business to help pay for his 2002 ...
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OfficeMax Office Depot pit Ill. v. Fla. for HQ
In this Tuesday, June 18, 2013 photo, OfficeMax CEO Ravi Saligram, right, and Illinois Sen. Tom Cullerton, D-Villa Park, left, make their pitch asking the state of Illinois for tax breaks to keep the company's headquarters in-state after the office supply chain's merger with Office Depot Inc., during a Senate Executive Committee hearing at the Illinois State Capitol in Springfield, ...
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Mikulski backs oversight of military academies
Siding with the Pentagon's top brass, the Senate Armed Services Committee approved legislation Wednesday to keep commanders involved in deciding whether to prosecute sexual assault cases, rejecting an aggressive plan to stem sex-related crimes in the armed forces by overhauling the military justice ...
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Ohio woman allegedly enslaved spent time in jail
A woman told authorities she was held captive for more than a year by three people who forced her to do housework, raided her bank account and menaced her with snakes and pit ...
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California prison labor?
California has a famously large budget deficit, budget cuts are being made to a number of state programs and services, but what hasn’t been considered is the cost avoidance potential of the state’s over 40,000 minimum-security prisoner’s, many of whom are already saving the state money by providing labor in return for shorter sentences.
With California budget deficit expected to be somewhere between $12 billion or as high as $25 billion for 2010 alone, state legislators have been anxiously looking for ways to reduce state expenses, cutting budgets wherever possible, but already existing programs operated by the state may present an opportunity for cost-savings in the areas of construction, services and maintenance of buildings and amenities. Read more
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