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  • NYPD Merchant held for ransom tortured for month

    NEW YORK -; A businessman was snatched from a New York City street in broad daylight, then held captive for more than a month in a warehouse where he was bound and burned with acid as he was held for a $3 million ransom his family back in Ecuador did not have, authorities ...

  • Report Zack Wheeler Will Likely Make Just 2-3 More Starts Before Joining Mets

    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – A vital piece of the Mets’ puzzle is not too far away. Top pitching prospectZack Wheeler is expected to make just 2-3 more starts for Triple-A Las Vegas before being called up to Flushing to make his major league debut, a team official informed the New York Post. Barring a potential setback, the former first-round pick will likely make his first start for ...

  • Teixeira Could Soon Start Playing In Minors Games Pettitte Making Progress

    TAMPA, Fla. (CBSNewYork/AP) -- Injured New York Yankees first baseman Mark Teixeira could soon start playing in minor league games while pitcher Andy Pettitte is also working his way back to the majors. Teixeira has been out since injuring his right wrist in early March while with the U.S. team preparing for the World Baseball Classic. The All-Star has been taking part in simulated games this ...

  • Boy Scouts Of America Votes To Lift Ban On Gay Scouts

    NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) – In one of their most dramatic choices in a century, local leaders of the Boy Scouts of America’s National Councilvoted Thursday to ease a divisive ban allowing openly gay boys to be accepted into the nation’s leading youth organization. The resolution allows gay scouts. Whether to allow gay scout leaders was not up for consideration. ';The ...

  • Boy 12 first to find pirate treasure in New York scavenger hunt

    A New York 12-year-old won $10,000 worth of actual pirate treasure in a scavenger hunt organized to promote a Discovery Times Square exhibit. Sebastian Bekkaoui was one of 700 participants to receive the first clue Friday, and he and his mother, Sheila Doherty, 45, followed the clues to city locations where people in pirate garb handed out fresh clues. Bekkaoui and Doherty were the first to ...


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And Everything Is Going Fine [Blu-Ray]

Spalding Gray made his living talking about his own life, so it is only appropriate that And Everything Is Going Fine, Steven Soderberghs documentary about/tribute to the late actor/writer/monologuist, allows Gray to speak of his life and its signific ... ...

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  • Weiner gets started stumping in NYC mayoral race

    New York City mayoral hopeful Anthony Weiner discusses his policies with a passerby while greeting commuters during a campaign event outside a Harlem subway station, Thursday, May 23, 2013 in New York. Weiner, who ran for mayor in 2005 and nearly did in 2009, is getting into the race to succeed three-term Mayor Michael Bloomberg about two years after a series of tawdry tweets, and obfuscating ...

  • Active hurricane season predicted

    With the bad taste of superstorm Sandy still lingering, forecasters are looking ahead to "an active or extremely active" 2013 Atlantic hurricane season, starting June 1, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Climate Prediction Center. There's "a 70 percent likelihood of 13 to 20 named storms . . . of which 7 to 11 could become hurricanes . . ...

  • Yankees and Mets TV ratings swing and miss

    Photo credit: Kathy Kmonicek, 2009 | Players from the 1986 Mets, like SNY broadcasters Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez, tend to keep their interactions with the current team to a ...

  • NYPD detective hires hacking service to help spy on fellow officers

    LulzSec 'pirates' plead guilty to hacking Four LulzSec members who claim to be "latter-day pirates" have plead guilty to hacking charges and compromising millions of people's ...

  • Bruins Live Blog B’s Looking To Sweep Rangers In New York

    5 p.m.: It’s hard to believe it, but tonight, the Bruins will be playing for the sweep. There is no way to track down every prediction for this series, but it is safe to assume that the people who called for a Boston sweep account for less than 1 percent of the prognosticators. With two teams seemingly so evenly matched, a six-game series seemed to be the shortest route possible to the ...

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