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New York City cop imprisons college student without ID for two days
The Lookout - Thu Nov 3, 2011
Note to tourists visting New York: Don't be caught out without your ID, or you could be caught in the city's penal system for days, if the recent experience of 21-year-old college student Samantha Zucker is anything to go by. More»

Occupy Wall Street: Canadian Special Forces provocateur leaves wallet behind
Censored News - Sun Oct 23, 2011
NEW YORK - Canadian Special Forces Agent Dylan Spoelstra, 24, of Toronto, left his wallet behind exposing his identity, after he was arrested at Occupy Wall Street scaling a sculpture on Saturday morning. More»

Detective: NYPD Planted Drugs on People to Meet Drug Arrest Quotas
AlterNet - Thu Oct 13, 2011
According to a former officer who testified at trial yesterday, New York City police regularly planted drugs on innocent people to meet quotas. More»

Showdown looms between Wall St protesters and cops
Associated Press - Wed Oct 12, 2011
NEW YORK - Officials on Thursday moved to put an end to Wall Street protesters' month-long occupation of a park that spawned similar gatherings across the nation, setting up a potential confrontation with police and an uncertain future for a movement that claims to speak for the disillusioned middle class. More»

700 arrested after protest on NY's Brooklyn Bridge
Associated Press - Sat Oct 1, 2011
NEW YORK - Protesters speaking out against corporate greed and other grievances were maintaining a presence in Manhattan's Financial District Sunday even after more than 700 of them were arrested during a march on the Brooklyn Bridge in a tense confrontation with police. More»

R.I.P. Budd Hopkins June 15, 1931 - August 21, 2011
Examiner.com - Sun Aug 21, 2011
A sad announcement today was made by Leslie Kean on Budd Hopkins' website. More»

Tech Indicted In Case Of Woman Dying In ER
CNN - Mon May 16, 2011
NEW YORK - A psychiatric technician was indicted Monday for reckless endangerment and falsifying hospital records, including those of a patient who died unattended on an emergency room floor, according to District Attorney Charles J. Hynes. More»

New York child sued for woman's death after bike crash
BBC - Thu Oct 28, 2010
New York - A 4 year old child can be sued for crashing a bicycle into an elderly pedestrian and causing injuries that led to her death, a judge has ruled. More»

UFO brought the streets of New York to a standstill... on the very day predicted by USAF general
The Daily Mail - Wed Oct 13, 2010
Was it a bird? A plane? A flying jellyfish? Or just a set of balloons that had caught the sunlight? A mysterious set of shiny objects sparked a UFO alert over Manhattan yesterday when they were spied drifting over the trendy Chelsea district. More»

9/11's forgotten victims: 'We're living in a toxic time bomb'
The Daily Mail - Sat Aug 28, 2010
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001 are seared on our collective consciousness. More»

Lawyers offer to reduce fees in 9/11 health case
Associated Press - Mon May 31, 2010
NEW YORK - Lawyers for thousands of ground zero workers suing over their exposure to dust from the destroyed World Trade Center have offered to lower their legal fees in an attempt to salvage a major settlement in the case. More»

Did the CIA test LSD in the New York City subway system?
New York Post - Fri Mar 12, 2010
On November 28, 1953, Frank Olson, a bland, seemingly innocuous 42-year-old government scientist, plunged to his death from room 1018A in New York's Statler Hotel, landing on a Seventh Avenue sidewalk just opposite Penn Station. More»

New York: Debt collectors illegally threatened arrest, assault
CNN - Sat Aug 22, 2009
NEW YORK - Michele Minton was crying as she listened to a man tell her she'd be arrested within the hour if she didn't pay a $4,400 debt. More»

Do the crime, pay for the time, as in $90 a day
Associated Press - Tue Aug 4, 2009
A one-night stay? Ninety dollars; Need to see a doctor? Ten bucks; Want toilet paper? Pay for it yourself. More»

US corruption probe nets dozens
BBC - Fri Jul 24, 2009
More than 40 people, including politicians, officials and several rabbis have been arrested in a major FBI operation in the US. More»

$2M for kin of woman who died on NY hospital floor
Associated Press - Wed May 27, 2009
NEW YORK - The family of a woman who died on a hospital floor, struggling to get up while staffers ignored her, has settled a wrongful-death lawsuit against the city for $2 million. More»

New 911 Evidence
The Open Chemical Physics Journal - Mon Apr 6, 2009
Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe. More»

Hudson River hero is ex-Air Force fighter pilot
Associated Press - Thu Jan 15, 2009
NEW YORK - The pilot who guided a crippled US Airways jetliner safely into the Hudson River - saving all 155 people aboard - became an instant hero Thursday, with accolades from the mayor and governor and a fan club online. More»

Investor who lost big to Madoff kills himself
Associated Press - Mon Dec 22, 2008
NEW YORK - A fund manager who lost more than $1 billion of his clients' money to Bernard Madoff was discovered dead Tuesday after committing suicide at his Manhattan office, marking a grim turn in a scandal that has left investors around the world in financial ruin. More»

3 NYC officers to surrender in subway sodomy case
Associated Press - Sun Dec 7, 2008
NEW YORK - After weeks of conflicting accounts about a shocking claim of police brutality in a subway station, three patrolmen were notified Monday they will face criminal charges in the case. More»

Bank of America grabs distressed Wall Street icon Merrill Lynch
AFP - Sun Sep 14, 2008
NEW YORK - Bank of America announced Monday it was buying Merrill Lynch for 50 billion dollars in stock, scooping up the Wall Street icon battered by the housing and credit crisis. More»

Charges dismissed against cyclist in YouTube shove
Associated Press - Thu Sep 4, 2008
NEW YORK - A judge dismissed charges Friday against the bicyclist who was body-checked and knocked to the pavement by a police officer in a widely viewed YouTube video. More»

NY policeman charged after woman body-slammed
Associated Press - Thu Jun 26, 2008
NEW YORK - A police officer who body-slammed an unarmed woman and broke her jaw during a medical call to a suburban restaurant last year was arrested Friday and charged with civil rights violations. More»

Misfired artillery round hits N.J. home
Associated Press - Fri Apr 11, 2008
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey - What may have been a small artillery shell slammed through the roof of a house in New Jersey Friday, and killed a cat. More»

NBC reprimands employee for Obama error
Associated Press - Tue Feb 19, 2008
NEW YORK - NBC News said Tuesday it has reprimanded the employee responsible for mistakenly flashing a picture of Osama bin Laden on MSNBC as Chris Matthews talked about Barack Obama. More»

Feds agree to recognize fallen 9/11 EMT
Associated Press - Mon Jan 14, 2008
NEW YORK - After a five-year fight, the US government has dropped its effort to prevent a volunteer firefighter killed at the World Trade Center from receiving a federal death benefit for public safety officers who die on the job. More»

Report: Police shoot, kill man holding hairbrush
CNN - Mon Nov 12, 2007
NEW YORK - Police shot and killed an unarmed young man outside his Brooklyn apartment Monday night after his mother reported a "family dispute with a gun," police and witnesses said. More»

Dan Rather files lawsuit against CBS
Associated Press - Tue Sep 18, 2007
NEW YORK - Dan Rather filed a $70 million lawsuit Wednesday against CBS, alleging that the network made him a "scapegoat" for a discredited story about President Bush's National Guard service. More»

UFO Blows Up off New Jersey Shore
New York Post - Sun Sep 2, 2007
Head for the hills! A mysterious giant "fireball" was spotted exploding over the ocean off the Jersey Shore last night, but officials had no idea last night what it was. More»

Dow Jones agrees to Murdoch purchase
Associated Press - Tue Jul 31, 2007
NEW YORK - Rupert Murdoch has sealed a deal to buy Wall Street Journal publisher Dow Jones & Company for $5 billion, ending a century of family ownership and adding a crown jewel to his global media empire, News Corp. More»

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