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AP Tom Krisher: General Motors Co. is making another attempt to get Buick to appeal to younger buyers. They unveiled the new cars Tuesday in New York, a day before the Auto Show starts. Lacrosse going for younger crowd as a high-end luxury car. Regal going for younger crowed as an athletic car. Almost one [...]

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WABC-TV VIDEO: FDNY firefighters removed passengers from a New York ferry after it suffered what was being called a hard landing near Wall Street. Early reports say a number of people have minor injuries. The Seastreak Ferry is reported to have made a hard landing at Pier 11 at about 7:45 a.m. ET Wednesday. As [...]

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The police chief in Webster, N.Y., says that four firefighters were shot while responding to a blaze in the town near Rochester and that two are dead. West Webster firefighters responded about 5:35 a.m. Monday, Christmas Eve, to a report of a car fire and a house fire at 191 Lake Road in Webster. Upon [...]

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Macy’s Day Parade Brings Cheer to Storm-Hit NYC — The annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York is putting a festive mood in the air in a city still coping with the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy. The 86th Annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade steps off at 77th Street and Central Park West in New [...]

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A Nor’easter has added to the woes of New Yorkers still dealing with the effects of Superstorm Sandy. The thick, wet snow snapped storm-weakened trees and downed power lines, but didn’t appear to add much more to the devastation. A nor’easter hit New York, New Jersey and Connecticut Wednesday, with snow, rain and heavy winds. [...]

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An aerial view shows widespread destruction, including over 100 homes and buildings destroyed in the tiny beachfront neighborhood of Breezy Point where people were told to evacuate before Hurricane Sandy hit New York, and hundreds of vehicles and taxi cabs underwater in New York. In New Jersey, superstorm Sandy destroyed several blocks of Atlantic City’s [...]

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An explosion at a Con Edison power station in Manhattan is adding to New York’s woes after Sandy pounded the city. Hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses are without power. Con Edison’s power plant at 14th Street and the Franklin D Roosevelt East River Drive experienced and explosion at about 8:30 p.m. Monday. The [...]

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New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced the results of an undercover operation that broke up a “major gun running operation.” Officials in New York City announced the indictments of sixteen members of two separate gun trafficking networks for allegedly selling more than 100 illegal firearms, including assault weapons and machine guns … Smith & Wesson [...]

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A visitor to the Bronx Zoo leaped from an elevated monorail train on Friday, plummeted over a fence into an exhibit and was mauled by a tiger, police and zoo officials said. A man about 25-years-old, who jumped off the monorail at Bronx Zoo in New York and into the tiger enclosure, suffered bite wounds [...]

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An “apparent tornado” hitting Breezy Point in Queens, New York. It hits the beach first then tracks north damaging the Breezy Point Surf Club before continuing on across the peninsula. A video by Roy Currlin captured a tornado that headed east toward the Atlantic Ocean at Breezy Point, just south of Brooklyn, and hit a [...]

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A seven-year-old autistic girl climbed out on to a window ledge of her Brooklyn apartment. Cell phone video captured the girl’s fall in the arms of a man standing below. Keyla McCree, 7, of Brooklyn fell from a third-floor window, but was saved by an alert neighbor who absorbed the force of her fall. Keyla [...]

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VIDEO: Bus monitor Karen Klein, 68, subject of verbal attacks and antagonization by middle school students on school bus operated by Greece Central School District near Rochester, New York. Greece Central School District officials have promised to discipline the four students to the “fullest extent” allowable following an extensive investigation. The video shows insults calling [...]

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