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NSA surveillance revealed abandoned al-Qaedas NY stock exchange bombing plot
The US-led surveillance programme which has created a lot of furor for snooping on citizens' web activities and phone records has revealed information about al-Qaeda's plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange(NYSE) in 2008. FBI Assistant Director Sean Joyce said that the agency found out through the electronic surveillance that al-Qaeda was actually in the initial stage of bombing the NYSE ...
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Man arrested after car on NYC sidewalk injures 8
A car damaged in an accident sits in the middle of the street in the East Village section of New York, Wednesday, June 19, 2013. Fire authorities say eight people have been hurt, several of them seriously, after a car jumped a curb and slammed into a 24-hour grocery around 7 a.m. Wednesday. A witness says the driver lost control about a block away and plowed through everything on the sidewalk. ...
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Feds find possible human remains at Queens home of real-life Goodfellas mobster source
FBI agents replace dirt after searching in the backyard of the former Queens home of mobster James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke. Federal agents have found possible human remains at the Queens home of "Goodfellas" mobster James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke, a law enforcement source said. The discovery comes two days after FBI and NYPD investigators swooped in on the Ozone Park ...
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Anthony Weiner Bring back commuter tax
Photo credit: Steven Sunshine | New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner attends a street fair in Brooklyn with his son Jordan. (June 16, ...
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Silverman Vigneault Has Flaws But Will Be Improvement Over Tortorella
The New York Rangers will hold a press conference (eventually) and tell the world that Alain Vigneault will be their next head coach . Vigneault certainly has a track record and he appears to be an improvement over John Tortorella. There was never any doubting Tortorella's commitment or his ability to diagnose an opponent's strength or weakness.He had the technical tools to become an ...
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Movie Review
Somewhere
Somewhere, Sofia Coppolas fourth feature, is a continuation of her cinematic exploration of personal isolation, and while it has much about it that is admirable, it will undoubtedly be experienced most directly as an inferior variation on Lost in Translation (2003), her Oscar-w ... ...
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Family Of Young Girl Killed In UWS Crash Demands Justice At Suspect’s Arraignment
struck by a car and killed while walking with her grandmother on the Upper West Side, was in court to demand justice for their daughter as the teenager accused of killing her was arraigned. Franklin Reyes, 17, looked afraid as he entered the courtroom, CBS 2's Don Champion reported. He's charged with vehicular manslaughter for crashing into Russo and her grandmother while being ...
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Police Shoot Gun-Wielding Man In Nassau County
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Nassau County Police officers shot an armed man in Albertson Wednesday morning. According to Nassau County Police, a neighbor called 911 around 10:20 a.m. after the suspect pointed a gun at the resident. ';The suspect is located in front of 49 Netz Place. The officers ordered him to stop and show his hands. He refuses. The suspect then pulls a gun and ...
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Former Giants Jets Punter And Broadcaster Dave Jennings Dies At 61
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Former Giants punter and broadcaster Dave Jennings died on Wednesday after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. He was 61. WFAN radio host Mike Francesa opened his show with the news just after 1 p.m. He said he received a call about Jennings’ passing ';less than an hour ago'; and was asked to say a few ...
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Former Fort Lee Man Charged In Infant Son’s Death
HACKENSACK, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) – A former northern New Jersey man stands accused of causing his infant son’s death last year. Michael Marrara Jr., 32, has been charged with aggravated manslaughter, child endangerment and hindering apprehension, Bergen County prosecutors announced Wednesday. Marrara, a former Fort Lee resident who now lives in Boca Raton, Fla., turned himself in ...
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A-Rod reportedly sought Boschs advice last year
The Yankees hope Alex Rodriguez is ready after the break. NEW YORK -- Alex Rodriguez allegedly reached out to Biogenesis founder Anthony Bosch for help while struggling in last year's American League Championship Series, according to a report published on Tuesday by the Miami New Times. Porter Fischer, a former business associate of Bosch's, told the weekly newspaper that Rodriguez ...

