New York Air Brake's parent company gives $205k to Urban Mission

The charitable arm of New York Air Brake Co.' s parent company, the Knorr-Bremse Group, has awarded the Watertown Urban Mission 10 percent, or up to $205,000, toward the nonprofit's capital campaign, which seeks to revitalize its Factory Street location and establish an endowment.

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Fiddler's Facts: Time for Super Bowl picks

... Denver fan since his early days in Charlottetown, sees the Broncos winning by at least seven points. "I will be in New York for the Super Bowl and wearing my Denver colours," he says. "This is Peyton Manning's year." Montreal's Serge Savard Sr. is a ...

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New Yorkers Throwing Pizza on Joe Buck is the Funniest Thing You'll See Today

... Buck gets abuse (and a pizza!) hurled at him from New Yorkers who make it clear they hate his guts. Buck is in New York getting ready for Super Bowl XLVIII, where he and Troy Aikman will commentate to more than 100 million television viewers from ...

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Indian River Teacher awarded NYS Senate Liberty Award

... Patricia A. Ritchie, R-Heuvelton, will present the award, which is considered one of the highest civilian honors a New York resident can receive. According to the state Senate website, the honor is awarded to people who have merited special ...

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Mission: Prevent tragedy at UW-Madison

Chris Cole was a 10-year-old living in suburban New York when four Vietnam War protesters detonated a bomb inside UW's Sterling Hall in 1970, killing one and injuring three.

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Levittown Veterans To Honor War Heroes

... cruise ship that had been converted into military service once war broke out. On Jan. 23, 1943, the Dorchester left New York as part of a three-ship convoy headed towards Greenland. It had 904 men on board. On the morning of Feb. 3, 1943, a German ...

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Trump to Bauerle: 'I Believe I Will Win'

Buffalo, NY On the eve on his visit to Western New York, Donald Trump phoned into Tom Bauerle's show on WBEN Thursday afternoon.

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'FAB50': Concert celebrating The Beatles 1964 invasion of New York

If you are one of the zillions of Beatles fans, here's just one of many events celebrating their victorious British Invasion of New York City 50 years ago.

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Amanda Knox: Heading for an extradition fight?

... guilty of Meredith Kercher's murder. Amanda Knox sits on the set of ABC's "Good Morning America", Friday in New York. Knox said Friday in an interview with Robin Roberts that she will fight the reinstated guilty verdict against her and an ...

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TSGO Opens New Venue for Music and Theatre Today

... will begin at 7:30pm. Tickets are $10 and available at http://ift.tt/1bKTFMc , 646-380-8749. TSGO presents New York City's premiere (and only) venue dedicated to both live music and theatre. A cross between a cabaret club and traditional ...

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MainStreet Theatre Stars 2014 with the Musical Adventures of Flat Stanley, Now thru 2/16

... Blake...da Musical, Film Chinois, The Adding Machine Straight Up with a Twist and The Beckett Project II . In New York, Kevin directed the NY premieres of Eternal Equinox at 59E59 Theaters and Bobby and Matt at The Players Theater; and the world ...

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PINKALICIOUS Returns to the Vital Theatre, Now thru 4/27

... information, visit vitaltheatre.org or call (212) 579-0528. Vital Theatre is located at 2162 Broadway, 4th Floor, New York, NY (at West 76th Street and Broadway) in Manhattan's Upper West Side. In Pinkalicious The Musical, Pinkalicious can't stop ...

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C-PP to develop its own Common Core curriculum Updated at

... Common Core. Common Core is a new set of learning standards implemented by most states across the U.S., including New York, to better prepare students for college and careers. There's been a passionate backlash from educators and parents across New ...

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Advice for the vast minority on Super Bowl Sunday

... amiable goofiness to it that's addictive. Steven Van Zandt (he played Silvio on 'The Sopranos') hams it up as a New York mobster who goes into the witness protection program in Lillehammer, Norway, where he puts together a gang of mostly incompetent ...

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Breckenridge native broadcasting for Broncos TV during Super Bowl

Conor McGahey atop the Empire State Building. Visiting iconic New York City landmarks has been one perk of McGahey's job as a broadcaster for the Broncos TV live web show leading up to the Super Bowl.

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Malone man guilty of trafficking thousands of pounds of pot

... pot -- before bringing them into the U.S. Authorities intercepted the drugs in North Hudson, Malone and Hogansburg, New York. Dramatic cruiser cam video was released Friday by the Winooski Police Department. Last week one of our photographers -- ...

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An exhibition on President Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 'First New Deal' in New York opened at the New York State Museum on Roosevelt's birthday, January 30. On display through May 4, 'New York and the First New Deal' features bronze bust sculptures of Roosevelt and his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, as well as other images and artifacts from ... (more)

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Good News: For her 8th birthday, she asked for pet food, not gifts

... wife, Donna, to the football classic at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey and three nights at the New Yorker Hotel in New York City. Bradford was an entrant in the Boys & Girls Club Super Bowl sweepstakes drawing, which raised $8,000 for the Boys & ...

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'That Awkward Moment,' 'Labor Day': Review Revue

... by being even more insipid, formulaic and contrived than anything Katherine Heigl has ever done." - Kyle Smith, New York Post Rotten: "The title refers to that moment when you realize you accidentally purchased a ticket to it." -Chris Hewitt, St. ...

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The Mori Art Museum Presents Mam Project 020: Gabriel Acevedo Velarde, Now thru 5/6

... +81-(0)3-5777-8600 (Hello Dial) Born 1976 in Lima, Peru. After spending time in Mexico City, Sao Paulo and New York, he moved to Berlin in 2006, where he currently lives and works. His solo exhibitions include: "Paranormal Citizen," Museo Nacional ...

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Americas Society Announces Spring 2014 Music of the Americas Concert Series

The New York debut of Mexico's cutting edge Ensemble CEPROMUSIC ; the U.S. premiere of Pablo Ortiz's and Sergio Chejfec's chamber opera, Gallos y Huesos ; and a concert of new Latin American wind music by Quintet of the Americas are some of the highlights of the spring 2014 MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas Concert Series.

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Super Bowl Build XLVIII: NFL Player Oday Aboushi and Volunteers Join...

Habitat for Humanity New York City celebrated the Super Bowl in its own backyard with a special Superstorm Sandy rebuilding event on Friday, Jan. 31 in collaboration with the NFL, with the support of the South Street Seaport, owned by The Howard Hughes Corporation.

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York Historical Society Kicks Off February 2014 Films and Talks

The New-York Historical Society has announced its programs for February 2014. All programs are presented at the New-York Historical Society unless otherwise noted.

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10 Things to Know: This Week's Takeaways

... A giant Seattle Seahawks "12th Man" flag that flew on the Space Needle before being signed by fans and brought to New York, is displayed at the Statue of Liberty, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014 in New York. The flag will be given to the Seahawks team as a ...

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NY Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts Continue with Britten Today

The New York Philharmonic Young People's Concerts continue with a focus on Britten's The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, led by Philharmonic Assistant Conductor Joshua Weilerstein, today, February 1, 2014, at 2:00 p.m. This is the third program in this season's series, Points of Entry, in which each concert explores facets of music and the ... (more)

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Nuggets' Robinson has surgery on left knee

... Super Bowl XLVIII. Instead, Welker ended up being a videobombed, and it is hard not to laugh. Welker attended the New York a Continue reading a ' So, there's a big game coming on Sunday. You might have an opinion or two on it. Here's what the Yahoo ...

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Wirt W. 'Ned' Hall

... preceded Ned in death. He is also survived by his granddaughter, Mary Katheen Hall; and siblings Eddie T. Hall of New York, Marion Linwood Hall of Richmond, Mary Hall Mitchell of Richmond and Virginia Hall Woodruff (and husband James Woodruff) of ...

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Interview: L. Brooks Patterson on 'New Yorker' article

... HE ADMITS THAT THIS REALLY HAS DONE SOME DAMAGE. SHE TOOK EVERYTHING, I THINK IN THE WORST WAY. ARTICLE APPEARED IN NEW YORK MAGAZINE SENT TONGUES WAG INAROUND HERE. MANY WAYS IT IS AN AMAM GAMATION OF HIS ONE LINERS OVER THE YEARS, DELIVERED, HE ...

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Albany limo, TSA workers working at Super Bowl

... Albany. "We will be taking NFL personnel, Fortune 500 clients, to and from events." Ten of Brown's drivers left for New York City Wednesday, and they may not return until Tuesday. They are supporting Carey Limousine, the official transportation ...

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New York drops stop-and-frisk ruling appeal

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio Thursday announced a settlement in the long legal battle over the police department's controversial stop-and-frisk policies, which a federal judge ruled violated the rights of minority residents.

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