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NJ Mayor Out On Bail For Computer Hacking, But Bigger Drama Outside Court Hearing
Pix11.com | @jamesfordtvHe's a mayor whose candidacy was championed by Governor Chris Christie for being clean and straightfoward, but Mayor Felix Roque of West New York, New Jersey was in federal court Thursday, charged with felony computer crimes and one computer misuse...Tags: Computer Crime, Government, Justice System, Fainting, Executive Branch
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Spring Valley School District Cuts Kindergarten
PIX11.com | @ @colekirstinEliminating Kindergarten? It would seem unthinkable, or at least illegal. But that's what could happen while a budget showdown at the East Ramapo School District plays out. Turns out Kindergarten is not a mandated grade, so when Spring Valley's school...Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Collective Contract, Career and Workplace, Voting, Separation of Church and State
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10 More Pinched By The Feds Over LIRR Billion Dollar Pension Scandal
pix11.com | @mariopix11The Long Island Rail Road pension scandal has hit its last stop, Federal Court. On Tuesday, 10 more arrests were made in the alleged $1 billion pension scandal. The arrests are a continuation of the first wave of indictments that resulted in 11 people...Tags: Police Arrests, Interior Policy, Pension and Welfare, Prosecution, Long Island Rail Road
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Queens Woman Fighting For Life After Husband Attacks Her With Meat Cleaver
pix11.com | @jamesfordtvA man tried to use a meat cleaver to kill his wife, police say, and he may have succeeded if it weren't for the efforts of the man's son and an unknown Good Samaritan, according to witnesses and police. The woman, Liu Huizhen, 52 is in critical condition...Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Hospitals and Clinics, Health, Witnesses, Lobbying
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Port Authority Fires Security Agency After Agent Caught Stealing Dead Man's ID
PIX11.com | @pix11mikeYou're fired. That's the message the Port Authority is expected to give to the multi-million dollar security company FJC. You could have seen the move coming last week when cops arrested one of their employees, a Newark Airport security supervisor who...Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Economy, Business and Finance, Companies and Corporations, Regional Authority, Grupo Bimbo
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Blind Chinese Activist Chen Arrives In New York
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundaries" after China let him leave a Beijing hospital to quell a sensitive diplomatic rift between the...Tags: National Government, Chicago, Government, Social Issues, Civil Rights
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G8, Raising Pressure On Iran, Puts Oil Stocks On Standby
ReutersCAMP DAVID, Maryland (Reuters) - Leaders of the Group of Eight major economies raised the pressure on Iran on Saturday, signaling their readiness to tap into emergency oil stockpiles quickly this summer if tougher new sanctions on Tehran threaten to...Tags: Summits, Iran, Government, European Union, Commodity Markets
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Suspects' Plans To Fire-Bomb Obama's Campaign Headquarters Net Terrorism Charges, Chi-Town Cops
Tribune ReportersThree out-of-state men arrested in a Bridgeport apartment raid days before the NATO summit considered hitting President Obama's campaign headquarters, Mayor Rahm Emanuel's house and police stations with "incendiary devices," according to court documents....Tags: Rahm Emanuel, NATO Summit, Justice System, Chicago Loop, Activism
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Obama Receives Warm Welcome At Barnard College, Despite Students' Growing Debt
PIX11.com | @jamesfordtvThe president of Barnard College has described the President of the United States as someone her students support. That didn't stop some of them, however, from participating in a protest Monday outside of the gates of the campus where President Barack...Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Same-Sex Marriage, Students, Barack Obama, Protest
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Airport Security Supervisor Arrested For Using Dead Man's Identity
pix11.com | @jaydownycFor two decades, this man lived and worked as Jerry Thomas. The only problem -- Jerry Thomas is dead...and has been since 1992 according to Port Authority officials. This man's real name -- according to police -- is Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole. The 54-year...Tags: Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, Police Arrests, New York City, Transportation Security Administration, Regional Authority
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'The Avengers' For Those Who Don't Read Comic Books
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - "The Avengers" assemble this weekend in what many box office analysts are predicting will be the biggest opening in movie history. It's an event that Marvel Studios, the company behind the superhero films, has been building up...
Tags: Nazi Party, Edward Norton, Sony Corp., Economy, Business and Finance, Scarlett Johansson
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Socialist Hollande Ousts Sarkozy As French Leader
ReutersPARIS (Reuters) - Socialist Francois Hollande swept to victory in France's presidential election on Sunday in a swing to the left at the heart of Europe that could start a pushback against German-led austerity. Hollande beat conservative incumbentNicolas...Tags: Economy, Business and Finance, Chicago, Political Systems, Berlin (Germany), Foreign Exchange Market
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