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Christie told an audience Tuesday that an "African-American female speaker of the Assembly" is blocking a vote on a school voucher bill that would let children in failing districts attend classes elsewhere.
The Sands of Atlantic Beach was wiped out during Sandy, cabanas were smashed into heaps of debris, flood waters rose to the roof, the lobby was filled with muck, and now a seven-day a week operation to rebuild it is in the home stretch.
The "New York City Paid Sick Time Act" would require businesses with five or more employees to give their workers five paid sick days a year.
Protesters clashed with police during a candlelight vigil Wednesday night for 16-year-old Kimani "Kiki" Gray, who was shot and killed by police Saturday night after they said he pulled a .38 caliber gun on officers.
The Islanders are skating off to Brooklyn in 2015, leaving cash-strapped Nassau County once again on the hot seat to come up with a critically needed plan to save its coliseum.
Pope Francis is largely expected to stay the course when it comes to issues like abortion and homosexuality, but his background suggests a possible shift to the left on matters concerning world economic policy.
The head of the Transportation Safety Administration faced tough questions from lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Thursday about his plan to allow some knives back on planes. And that's not all.
"The dolphin was diving and swimming normally and there were no observable injuries noted," The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research and Preservation wrote on its Facebook page.
James Southerland and Michael Carter-Williams kept Syracuse's run at one more title going, as the 19th-ranked Orange beat No. 17 Pittsburgh, 62-59, on Thursday at Madison Square Garden.
Francis showed how different he would be as a pastor, giving an off-the-cuff homily about the need to walk with God, build up his church and confess and at one point, referring to children building sand castles on the beach.
A Bridgeport woman charged with theft told police she believed the $74,000 that mysteriously appeared in her bank account was "God-sent'' after she prayed for relief from her financial problems.
David Tarloff is accused of going to an apartment building in February of 2008 and killing Dr. Kathryn Faughey with a meat cleaver and a hammer.
A dog that was brought to a temporary shelter in Nassau County after Superstorm Sandy is now in need of a new home as the shelter prepares to close its doors.
Chantelle LeGrande, 28, said she was in the front seat of the car and her boyfriend Gregory Mars was driving, racing from their home in Queens to Plainview Hospital, when she felt the baby coming.
The city's population increased by 161,564 since 2010 – about two percent in two years -- bringing the total population to an all-time record high of 8.3 million, according to the latest U.S. Census Bureau estimates.
