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The Galleon Group founder also was fined $10 million. U.S. District Judge Richard J. Holwell announced the sentence after concluding that Rajaratnam made well over $50 million in profits from his illegal trades.
The Occupy Wall Street movement, which has spawned grass-roots activities around the U.S., is drawing political remarks from both here at home and overseas.
Voting officials will audit the polling station at a Bridgeport school where more than a dozen University of Bridgeport students were turned away on primary day last month.
A Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday shows 47 percent of respondents said the president deserves re-election, while 48 percent were against it.
On Wednesday Christie was in Paramus - a key campaign district for Republicans - to meet with retirees to talk about their property taxes.
Liu says he'll conduct the internal review following allegations of irregularities.
Greeted by a mix of cheers and jeers, Bloomberg ordered the "Occupy Wall Street" demonstrators to get out of of the plaza long enough for the area to be sanitized on Friday morning by Brookfield Properties.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the manure mess on Wednesday -- the piles and piles of droppings left by horse-drawn carriages on the streets in and around Central Park. It's a "nagging" problem, but does the city have a solution?
The group said the policy unfairly targets black and Hispanic men as they lined up near City Hall Park and marched across the Brooklyn Bridge.
The group said it was protesting because it was upset about the expiration of New York state's "millionaire's tax" in December.
City leaders are calling on the Bloomberg administration to stop finger printing New Yorkers who are seeking food stamps, calling the practice unnecessary and punitive.
Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit was captured by Hamas in 2006 and now his release is expected within days. That has the Jewish community around the world, and in the Tri-State Area, overjoyed.
Schumer scheduled a conference call Wednesday. He planned to detail the potential lost payments for oil, propane and other home heating fuel by county.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney says New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would be on anybody's short list for a vice presidential running mate.
Mack says the city council is to blame for failing to appoint a permanent police director even though the mayor has nominated two veteran state troopers for the position.
