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		<title>Prosecutor: Charges being brought against NY engineer, passenger accused of driving train</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MINEOLA, N.Y. — A New York prosecutor says criminal charges are being brought against a Long Island Rail Road engineer and a passenger he allegedly allowed to drive a train.

Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen Rice said she would discuss details of the case at a Wednesday morning news conference.
Rice previously indicated a reckless endangerment charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: Shooting outside Buffalo home leaves 2 dead, 3 wounded; detectives looking for motive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:44:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUFFALO, N.Y. — A shooting in a blighted Buffalo neighborhood left two people dead and three others wounded early Wednesday, just hours after police and community members rallied for safer streets.

A 25-year-old man and a 19-year-old woman were shot and killed about 2 a.m. in a neighborhood on Buffalo&#8217;s east side, where the number of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Worker finds human foot among recyclable waste in sorting plant at western NY landfill</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SENECA, N.Y. — Officials in western New York are trying to figure out how a bare human foot got mixed in with recyclable trash on a conveyor belt at a landfill.

Sheriff Phil Povero (PAH&#8217;-ver-oh) says a worker at the Ontario County landfill&#8217;s recycling plant spotted the severed right foot Monday night.
Povero says authorities believe the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Autopsy: New York mom who caused wrong-way crash that killed 8 was drunk, high on marijuana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 05:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Eltman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A mother drank vodka and smoked marijuana while taking a vanload of children home from a weekend camping trip that ended in disaster when she went the wrong way on a highway and crashed into an SUV, killing eight people, police said Tuesday.

Diane Schuler, who died along with her 2-year-old daughter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecutor: New York mom who caused wrong-way crash that killed 8 was drunk, used marijuana</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[GARDEN CITY, N.Y. — A Long Island mother was drunk and high on marijuana when she drove the wrong way for almost two miles on a highway before smashing head-on into an SUV, killing herself and seven others, a prosecutor said Tuesday.

The fiery July 26 crash on the Taconic Parkway killed the woman, her 2-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baby on board: Woman delivers son outside upstate NY firehouse as firefighters assist birth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:39:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. — Firefighters in an upstate New York city didn&#8217;t have to go far to help a woman deliver her baby.

When Cora Burns of Saratoga Springs went into labor Monday morning, the plan was for her neighbor to drive her to give birth at a hospital in another city 20 miles away. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travelers who challenged Cuba ban return to US via border crossings in NY and Texas</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/travelers-who-challenged-cuba-ban-return-to-us-via-border-crossings-in-ny-and-texas-129456/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 04:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BUFFALO, N.Y. — Groups of travelers who defied the federal government&#8217;s ban on most travel to Cuba returned to the United States with some fanfare but no holdups Monday, passing without incident through checkpoints at the northern and southern borders.

Opponents of the ban have been making such protest trips for 40 years but said recent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adirondack mountain lakes and ponds draw sweaty hikers to cool swims</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:53:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Virtanen</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[THURMAN, N.Y. — The hikers strolled down the rock slab into Crane Mountain Pond, its surface lightly rippling on an overcast summer afternoon in the lower Adirondacks.

&#8220;When in Rome, right?&#8221; Emily Winslow said. The 23-year-old Manhattan native had slipped out of hiking shoes, sweatpants and damp T-shirt into a swimsuit. She waded in. &#8220;Oh, it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Detroit to NY flight lands safely after sensor indicates extinguisher went off in cargo bay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 11:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A flight carrying 50 people from Detroit to Rochester, N.Y., has landed safely after a sensor indicated that a fire extinguisher in the plane&#8217;s cargo bay went off.

Authorities say Northwest Airlines Flight 2903 was about 30 miles outside of Rochester on approach Sunday night when an indicator alerted the crew of a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fire extinguisher goes off in cargo hold during flight from Michigan to NY; plane lands safely</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 08:06:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, N.Y. — A flight carrying 94 people from Detroit to Rochester, N.Y., has landed safely after a fire extinguisher in the plane&#8217;s cargo hold went off.

Authorities say Northwest Airlines Flight 2903 was about 30 miles outside of Rochester on approach Sunday night when an indicator alerted the crew of a possible problem in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For now, LI mom&#8217;s fatal wrong-way crash that killed 8 on New York highway defies explanation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 02:20:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Eltman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLORAL PARK, N.Y. — Diane Schuler was a devoted mother admired for her competence, ease with children and sense of humor. Never, her family said, had there been a more responsible and trusted friend or caregiver.

So far, no one can pinpoint why Schuler, 36, drove the wrong way on a familiar suburban New York parkway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handshake or hand grenade? West Point cadets train for realities of Iraq and Afghanistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:44:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Hill</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WEST POINT, N.Y. — Cadets had already fought off an overnight attack by insurgents firing blanks when the morning brought even more simulated problems.

Local villagers — really, Arabic-speaking role players — massed outside their camp gate and made demands. Then cadets dispatched to stabilize a nearby village were hit by an explosive device. The ensuing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wife: American wanted in Bhopal gas leak &#8216;haunted for many years,&#8217; living in NY&#8217;s Hamptons</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:14:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Eltman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIDGEHAMPTON, N.Y. — The former head of the chemical company responsible for the gas leak that killed 10,000 people in India 25 years ago has been &#8220;haunted&#8221; for years by the world&#8217;s worst industrial disaster, his wife said Saturday.

An Indian court issued a warrant Friday for Warren Anderson, the former head of Union Carbide Corp., [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY pension fund investments regain $6.6 billion in June quarter following year of losses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:12:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. — New York&#8217;s public pension fund reports regaining some of the value it lost in last year&#8217;s Wall Street meltdown and national recession, growing to $116.5 billion in the quarter that ended in June.

State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli says there are encouraging signs in the public markets, though they aren&#8217;t out of the woods [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: NY tow truck driver was texting and talking on 2 cell phones when he hit car, pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Police say a western New York tow truck driver was texting on one cell phone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool.

Niagara County sheriff&#8217;s deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY economy still sinking; Paterson says $2.1B deficit means &#8216;difficult choices&#8217; ahead</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 05:32:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Gormley</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. — New York&#8217;s economic slump continues, with the state&#8217;s 100 wealthiest taxpayers so far reporting half the earnings of a year ago and sales tax revenues dropping by a historic amount, a state budget report released Thursday shows.

The new report from the Division of Budget shows trends combining to create a $2.1 billion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: NY tow truck driver was texting and talking on 2 cell phones before hitting car, pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:55:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Police say a Buffalo-area tow truck driver was juggling two cell phones — texting on one and talking on another — when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool.

Niagara County sheriff&#8217;s deputies say 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tow truck driver who was texting, talking on cell phone slams into car, crashes into pool</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[LOCKPORT, N.Y. — Police said a Buffalo-area tow truck driver was texting on one cell phone while talking on another when he slammed into a car and crashed into a swimming pool. Niagara County sheriff&#8217;s deputies said 25-year-old Nicholas Sparks of Burt admitted he was texting and talking when his flatbed truck hit the car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mourners remember 5 family members killed in NY &#8216;wrong-way&#8217; parkway crash at LI funeral</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:52:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Eltman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[FLORAL PARK, N.Y. — Parents gripping the hands of young children were among hundreds of mourners who streamed into a Long Island church Thursday to remember five family members killed in a wrong-way crash on a suburban New York parkway.

Five hearses carrying pristine white coffins provided the final journey for Diane Schuler, 36; her daughter, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastman Kodak posts 2Q loss as sales slide 29 pct, sending shares lower</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 01:39:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dobbin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it lost $189 million in the second quarter, its third consecutive quarterly deficit, as the global economic downturn hurt sales of digital cameras, film and other photography products.

The results missed Wall Street expectations, and its stock slumped more than 10 percent.
The photography pioneer lost the equivalent of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY budget officials: Economy still sinking, new deficits force changes in spending, revenues</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:29:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. — State budget officials say New York&#8217;s economy is still sinking, with some of the wealthiest taxpayers moving out or making less and sales tax revenue dropping by a historic amount.

A report released Thursday shows those trends combining to create new multibillion-dollar deficits that will force changes in the 2010-11 budget just three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cablevision to spin off Madison Square Garden; reports 8 percent drop in 2Q net</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:33:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BETHPAGE, N.Y. — Cablevision Systems Corp. said Thursday that its board has approved a plan to spin off as a separate company its Madison Square Garden business, owner of the New York Knicks, Rangers and the famed sports arena where they play.

In a widely anticipated move, the Bethpage, N.Y. company said it plans to spin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MasterCard books 2nd-quarter profit, revenue above Wall Street&#8217;s expectations</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 20:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW YORK — MasterCard Inc. said Thursday that it booked a profit of nearly $350 million during the second quarter, exceeding Wall Street&#8217;s expectations, as cost trimming and an increase in transactions helped offset a decline in the amount consumers spent.

The Purchase, N.Y.-based credit card and global payments processor also said it has seen some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastman Kodak moves to loss in 2nd quarter as sales slide 29 percent</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Eastman Kodak Co. said Thursday it lost $189 million in the second quarter, its third consecutive quarterly deficit, as the global economic downturn hurt sales of digital cameras, film and other photography products. The results missed Wall Street expectations, and its stock fell more than 4 percent.

The photography pioneer lost the equivalent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mom in NY wrong-way crash that killed 8 had reported problems seeing, police say</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 07:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — Police say the woman who died along with her young daughter and three nieces in a wrong-way crash in New York had told her brother she was having difficulty seeing.

State police said Wednesday that they are looking into reports that Diane Schuler may have said that she felt a little disoriented and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Schenectady, NY, paper to drop most free online content, Web ads don&#8217;t materialize</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 01:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SCHENECTADY, N.Y. — The Daily Gazette of Schenectady will resume charging for online content after offering free access to most articles and photos since late 2007.

Judy Patrick, the newspaper&#8217;s managing editor, says that starting Aug. 3, the electronic edition and additional material will be available only to home delivery subscribers or through a $2.95 monthly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>400 years later, exact NY location of Champlain&#8217;s battle against Iroquois remains a mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:40:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TICONDEROGA, N.Y. — The site of a history-changing battle lies somewhere amid the dense tangle of forest along the Lake Champlain shoreline in this Adirondack town.

Four-hundred years after French explorer Samuel de Champlain went to war against the Iroquois on July 30, 1609, the battleground&#8217;s exact location remains elusive.
&#8220;Nobody can point to a spot on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Preliminary autopsy reveals no medical cause for suburban NY wrong-way crash that killed 8</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — Preliminary autopsy results have found no medical cause that could explain why a woman drove the wrong way on a suburban New York parkway, ending in a crash that killed eight people.

State police investigator Shannon Morrison said Tuesday that the autopsy of Diane Schuler didn&#8217;t find any conditions like a heart attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Car crashes, falls onto NY train tracks; driver escapes injury, commuters on platform stunned</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. — A woman escaped serious injury when her car plunged about 20 feet onto train tracks in a suburb of New York City.

Police say the car landed about 10 feet behind an Amtrak train as passengers were boarding it Monday afternoon.
The 72-year-old driver lost control after she was hit by another car [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: NY driver said she felt sick before wrong-way crash that killed 8 on road she knew</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deepti Hajela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — A Long Island mother who plowed into an SUV, killing eight people in a fiery crash, drove nearly two miles in the wrong direction on a familiar highway after telling her brother she wasn&#8217;t feeling well, police said.

Diane Schuler was taking her two children and three nieces — ages 2 to 9 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corning 2Q profit falls sharply, but exceeds Wall Street forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Dobbin</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Corning Inc. said Monday its second-quarter earnings skidded to $611 million from results inflated by a big one-time gain a year ago, but the specialty glass maker still beat Wall Street expectations on resurgent demand for its flat-screen television monitors.

The company indicated, however, that glass shipments were expected to be &#8220;flat or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: NY driver said she felt sick before fiery wrong-way crash that killed 8</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/police-ny-driver-said-she-felt-sick-before-fiery-wrong-way-crash-that-killed-8-122056/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deepti Hajela</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[HAWTHORNE, N.Y. — A minivan driver apparently wasn&#8217;t feeling well before going the wrong way on a suburban parkway for nearly 2 miles, leading to a fiery wreck that killed eight people, police said Monday.

The crash in Briarcliff Manor claimed driver Diane Schuller, 36, of West Babylon, as well as her 2-year-old daughter, Erin, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Niagara purchasing Harleysville National for $237 million in all stock deal</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BUFFALO, N.Y. — First Niagara Financial Group Inc. said Monday it will acquire Harleysville National Corp. for $237 million in an all stock deal — its second Pennsylvania acquisition in four months.

The acquisition helps First Niagara, which operates banks across Upstate New York, continue its expansion efforts into Pennsylvania. In April, First Niagara agreed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corning 2Q profit of $611 million exceeds Wall Street forecast</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:18:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Specialty glass maker Corning Inc. said Monday it earned $611 million in the second quarter, topping Wall Street&#8217;s expectations on a resurgence in demand for its flat-screen television glass.

The world&#8217;s largest maker of liquid-crystal-display glass said its profit in the April-June period fell sharply from $3.2 billion, or $2.01 a share, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY police probe for cause of wrong-way crashes that killed 8 people, including 4 young cousins</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. — Authorities are trying to determine how a woman driving a minivan carrying two of her children and three young nieces got onto a suburban parkway heading in the wrong direction, leading to a fiery crash that killed eight people and left a 5-year-old boy severely injured.

The afternoon crash in which the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 cousins, a mom, 3 others die in fiery wrong-way crash on suburban NYC parkway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 08:41:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIARCLIFF MANOR, N.Y. — A family&#8217;s minivan going in the wrong direction crashed into two cars on a suburban parkway on Sunday, killing eight people, including four young cousins and the mother of one of them.

State police Investigator Joseph Becerra said the minivan was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 kids, 4 adults die in fiery wrong-way crash on suburban NYC parkway; 5 hurt in other crash</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 06:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIARCLIFF, N.Y. — A family&#8217;s minivan going in the wrong direction crashed into two cars on a suburban parkway on Sunday, killing eight people, including four young children who were related to each other.

State police Investigator Joseph Becerra said the minivan was traveling southbound in the northbound lanes of the Taconic State Parkway in Westchester [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: 7, including 3 children, dead in fiery wrong-way crash on suburban NYC parkway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIARCLIFF, N.Y. — Police say a three-car crash on a parkway in suburban New York City has killed seven people.

The Journal News reports on its Web site at least three children are dead following the Sunday afternoon crash in Briarcliff.
State police tell the Journal News a minivan was heading the wrong way in the northbound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police: 7, including 3 children, dead in fiery 3-car crash on NY suburban parkway</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2009 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BRIARCLIFF, N.Y. — New York state police say seven people have died in a three-car crash on a parkway in suburban New York City.

The crash occurred Sunday afternoon in Briarcliff.
The Journal News reports on its Web site at least seven people including three children were dead.
State police tell the Journal News a minivan was heading [...]]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 23:45:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[RONKONKOMA, N.Y. — A Southwest Airlines flight headed to Florida had to make an unexpected stop at an airport on New York&#8217;s Long Island.

Southwest spokesman Chris Mainz says a flight attendant reported an electrical smell after takeoff Sunday morning.
Flight 693 had departed from Bradley International Airport in Connecticut at 7:21 a.m. Sunday, bound for Orlando. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tougher measures taken along US-Canada border as marijuana and ecstasy smuggling surge</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:44:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Crary</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — The world&#8217;s longest undefended border. It&#8217;s a catchy yet increasingly imprecise term for the U.S.-Canada frontier, as authorities on both sides ratchet up efforts to curb bustling traffic in illegal drugs and guns.

The U.S. Border Patrol has tripled the number of agents along the 5,500-mile border in recent years, with hundreds more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Starwood Hotels &amp; Resorts climbs 28 percent mostly on gain from Italian tax incentive program</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:17:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Starwood Hotels &#038; Resorts Worldwide Inc. said Thursday that its second-quarter profit rose 28 percent as the lodging chain benefited from tax incentives in Italy.

The profit, which topped analyst expectations, came even as worldwide revenue per available room — a key hotel metric commonly called revpar — slid sharply as business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY judge stays injunction preventing Paterson&#8217;s appointee from serving as lt. governor</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ny-judge-stays-injunction-preventing-patersons-appointee-from-serving-as-lt-governor-117932/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. — A judge has at least temporarily stopped a restraining order blocking Richard Ravitch from serving as lieutenant governor of New York.

Justice Priscilla Hall of the Appellate Division Second Department in Brooklyn stayed an injunction Wednesday that was issued the day before. Both sides believe the case will ultimately reach the New York [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY jury rules against free-speech claims of anti-war demonstrators at West Point game</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 03:40:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — West Point officials who ordered anti-war demonstrators out of an Army-Navy basketball game did not violate their First Amendment rights, a federal jury decided Wednesday.

The jury found that the protesters&#8217; message — they wore T-shirts spelling out &#8220;U.S. out of Iraq&#8221; — was not the main reason for their expulsion.
The eight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PepsiCo 2nd-quarter profit falls 2 percent as sales slow but still beats expectations</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/pepsico-2nd-quarter-profit-falls-2-percent-as-sales-slow-but-still-beats-expectations-117114/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:18:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE — Soft-drinks and snack maker PepsiCo&#8217;s second-quarter profit and sales dropped slightly as consumers continued limiting their purchases of soft drinks but bought more snacks as the company promoted larger bags of chips.

The Purchase, N.Y.-based maker of Pepsi and Gatorade has been cutting costs as it navigates through a weak economy. Consumers are limiting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge blocks NY lieutenant governor appointment made during state Senate gridlock</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 07:23:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Eltman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[MINEOLA, N.Y. — A judge has issued an order blocking the appointment of the man New York Gov. David Paterson had named as his lieutenant governor.

State Supreme Court Justice William LaMarca in Nassau County on Tuesday issued the restraining order against the appointment of Richard Ravitch, a former head of the agency that runs the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY state, city agree to pay record $540M for false Medicaid bills; whistleblower to get $10M</title>
		<link>http://blog.taragana.com/n/ny-state-city-agree-to-pay-record-540m-for-false-medicaid-bills-whistleblower-to-get-10m-116603/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:40:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Bauman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[ALBANY, N.Y. — The state and city of New York agreed Tuesday to pay a record $540 million to settle allegations they helped overbill the federal government for Medicaid services.

Also, an unidentified speech therapist will receive $10 million from the settlement as the whistleblower who called attention to the state and city billing practices.
Medicaid is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wife of man killed in NY hotel said in 2002 police report he hit her often, broke her nose</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Fitzgerald</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — The wife of a man who was killed last week in a suburban hotel told police in 2002 that he often hit her and once broke her nose.

Narcisa Novack said she and Ben Novack Jr., whose father built the famed Fontainebleau Hotel in Miami Beach, &#8220;had a very violent past together,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Niagara Falls tourism officials pass on &#8216;Wonder of Nature&#8217; poll, worry honor might be costly</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 06:11:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carolyn Thompson</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Niagara Falls will not be among the &#8220;New 7 Wonders of Nature.&#8221;

It&#8217;s not even a finalist in the global polling under way to choose them.
Tourism officials on the U.S. side of the Falls said they passed on the opportunity because of worries their cash-strapped community might be on the hook for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NY police union contends staff cuts to blame for leaving body in street for hours</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 04:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bureau News</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — A stabbing victim&#8217;s body was left in the gutter of a Long Island street for at least eight hours, sparking a disagreement between a union and police management over reduced staffing.

Suffolk County Police found the body of Edgar Villalobos, 28, after responding to a 12:45 a.m. call Monday. Police officials say an [...]]]></description>
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