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Free Friday: Zumba Party, Fleet Week Activities, Falafels at Pitopia
PIX11.comEach week we tell viewers what they can get for free. This week's free list: 1) Zumba Party 2) Fleet Week Activities 3) Falafel Eating Contest Zumba Party with Diana McCray Tuesday, June 5, 7:00-8:30pm Zumba combines Latin and International music as a...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Human Interest, Facebook, U.S. Army, Adelphi University
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100-Mile Memorial Run To Benefit Hope For the Warriors
PIX11.comIn 2010, three Marines from 3/25 who served in Iraq together, started the Memorial 100 run to honor the 48 brothers lost during their deployment in 2005. Rather than following through with the original plan for one person to run 100 miles, the founders...Tags: Human Interest, Holidays, Long Island
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'Avengers' Rings Up $103 million In Record Weekend
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "The Avengers," the smash hit movie about Marvel superheroes who team up to save the Earth, crushed competitors for a second weekend with a record $103.2 million in U.S. and Canadian ticket sales and was poised to top $1 billion...Tags: Entertainment, Romance (genre), Michelle Pfeiffer, Time Warner Inc., Services and Shopping
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Father In Family Fire Tragedy Was Well-known, Loved
pix11.com | @wpixThe father of a family that perished in a house fire early Tuesday morning was the second highest ranking officer in the police department of Larchmont, New York. The Westchester County village has just 6,000 residents, meaning Captain Thomas "Tommy"...Tags: New York City Police Department
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Jailed Rapist Stalked Girlfriend Of Man Who Put Him Away -- Using Facebook [EXCLUSIVE]
pix11.com | @wpixA 25-year old New York City woman "friended" a notorious sex offender on Facebook, mistaking him for a high school friend. It turns out the woman's boyfriend had tipped off NYPD cops about 33-year old Jeffrey Ritter last June, after seeing Ritter on...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Prisons, New York City Police Department, Facebook, Social Media
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PIX11 Exclusive: Interview With Woman Who Fought Off Sex Attacker
pix11.com | @MurphyPIXA 27-year-old public relations lady in New York's fashion industry -- a transplant from California -- scared off a wanna-be rapist, by kicking him with her high-heeled boots and screaming at the top of her lungs. "I was higher on the stairs than him,"...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Entertainment Events, Entertainment, New York City Police Department, East Village (Manhattan, New York)
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Actor Paolo Costanzo On Playing Evan On 'Royal Pains'
PIX11.comActor Paolo Costanzo stopped by the studio to talk about his role as Evan in "Royal Pains." Hank is a rising star in the New York City medical community, until he loses everything fighting for the life of a patient. With his career stalled and his...Tags: Human Interest, New York City
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Memorial Day Tribute: Homeless, Addicted Vets Get New Hope
PIX11.comThey risk their lives on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, but as dangerous and difficult as that is, it's just as hard, if not harder, for many combat veterans after they get back stateside. However, for the first time in 17 years, a new facility...Tags: Education, Human Interest, Injuries and Wounds, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Behavioral Conditions
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Montford Pointers, Nation's 1st African-American Marines, Honored On Memorial Day
PIX11.comMany people have heard of the Tuskegee Airmen, but few have heard of the Montford Point Marines. They're America's first African-American Marines, but were made to train apart from whites in a separate part of Camp LeJeune, North Carolina called...Tags: Tuskegee Airmen, New York, Human Interest, African Americans, Minority Groups
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Tech Thief Strikes Bronx School
pix11.comJubilant kids ready to celebrate the end of the school year and the beginning of summer freedom are instead getting a lesson in the real world after dozens of laptops were stolen from their school, PS 73 in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. Latina...Tags: Theft, Human Interest, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice
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Suspect Arrested In Shocking Sex Attack Of UES Elderly Woman
The man who attacked an 85-year-old woman on the Upper East Side earlier this week where he robbed her and forced her to perform oral sex on him is in police custody, NYPD officials announced Thursday.
According to authorities, Jeffrey Ritter, 32, of...Tags: New York City Police Department, Human Interest, Crimes, Upper East Side, Crime, Law and Justice
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'Ice Man' Bags UES Sex Suspect Accused In Elderly Woman Attack
pix11.com39-year old Michael DeLaro helps manage the Atlantic Ice business on Sheppard Avenue in East New York, Brooklyn. Now he can add "Crime Buster" to his resume, after leading police to the ex-con now charged with the brutal sex assault of an 85 year old...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Nebraska, Colorado, New York City Police Department, Arizona
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