NJ House Fire Displaces 11
The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
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The cause of the fire remains under investigation.
Currently, cabbies can be fined for violating the dress code. It bans tube shirts, tank tops and bathing trunks.
A conference this week at Hofstra University pointed out the advantages to developers in providing the community details about their projects using social media.
In New York City, "chronic absenteeism" -- when a student misses at least 20 of the 180 days in a school year -- afflicts 40 percent of high school students and educators currently refer cases to social services for neglect.
State police said the 24-year-old Upham was driving around 100 miles an hour when he crashed his car into a house, killing his passenger -- 22-year-old Kaylah Morse of Painted Post.
Police said he approaches the victims in building lobbies, claiming to have a knife, then demands cash and jewelry.
Police said 46-year-old Leopold McLean was off duty when the incident happened two weeks ago in South Jamaica, Queens. He was with his girlfriend when her ex showed up, apparently violating a restraining order.
Picard said his firm is seeking about $69 million in funds deposited by the company's customers and stolen in the 72-year-old's vast Ponzi scheme.
Some are calling him "the fearless mugger." He's striking in daylight hours and targeting women on the well-to-do Upper East Side.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's controversial choice to be the city's schools chancellor has received the go-ahead.
The Galleon investigation marked the first time that federal authorities used wiretaps in an insider trading probe.
The Mayor's Office announced Friday that three public forums are planned for December in eastern Queens, upper Manhattan and south Brooklyn.
A judge this week ordered a Jan. 10 trial date for 58-year-old John Gilbert, who is accused of slashing Jennifer Gilbert's throat when she went to his home in Geneva in September 2009 to pick up her three children.
Families started to flock to Fred Battenfeld's farm in Red Hook on Route 199 with handsaws at the ready Friday. It's a tradition that goes back generations.
Children could come to any one of Nassau County's parks, including Eisenhower Park in East Meadow to drop off their letters to jolly St. Nick.
