State
- In this rainy summer, mushrooms abound; eat at your own risk
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By Michael Hill
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 09/07/08 6:58 AM
- ACRA — There’s a mushroom boom in the wet woods of the Northeast this summer.
- Suspect held in scam over fake luxury watch
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Updated: 09/07/08 6:58 AM
- GARDEN CITY (AP) — A Bronx man has been charged with scamming a Long Island jeweler into buying a fake luxury watch for more than $12,000.
- Governor trades quips on ‘Colbert Report’
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Updated: 09/07/08 6:58 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Gov. David A. Paterson has survived an appearance on Stephen Colbert’s television show, which often leaves political leaders eating their own words.
- School bus driver caught selling drugs
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Updated: 09/07/08 6:58 AM
- MOUNT VERNON (AP) — Police said a school bus driver in suburban New York finished his route but had one last stop to make — to sell drugs.
- Riders give C-minus to bus service
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Updated: 09/07/08 6:58 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Riders are lukewarm about New York City’s bus service: They’re giving it a grade of C-minus.
- Pharmacists receive right to give flu shots
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Updated: 09/06/08 6:18 AM
- ALBANY (AP) — Gov. David A. Paterson signed legislation Friday to let pharmacists administer flu and pneumonia shots, a change expected to boost the number of adults getting the vaccinations.
- Teller admits helping to rob same bank twice
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Updated: 09/06/08 6:18 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — A bank teller has pleaded guilty to conspiring with a New York City transit police cadet to rob a Manhattan bank.
- Paterson asks agencies for no-growth budgets
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Updated: 09/06/08 6:18 AM
- ALBANY (AP) — Gov. David A. Paterson has told state agencies to draft zero-growth budgets to fend off a $5.4 billion deficit projected for the coming fiscal year.
- Coney Isle Astroland to close in dispute
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By Verena Dobnik
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 09/05/08 6:32 AM
- NEW YORK — The owner of Coney Island’s Astroland said Thursday that she is calling it quits and that the historic amusement park will close for good on Sunday.
- Judge backs marriages of gays out of state
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By Jennifer Peltz
- ASSOCIATED PRESS
Updated: 09/03/08 6:28 AM
- NEW YORK — A judge has thrown out the first direct legal challenge to the New York governor’s move to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states, calling the policy a legally allowable stand for fairness.
- Suspect admits killing student during robbery
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Updated: 09/03/08 6:28 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — A college honors student who was found dead with an electrical cord wrapped around his neck apparently was suffocated with a pillow during a robbery by a stranger he invited to his apartment, police said Tuesday.
- ‘Preppie killer’ headed back to prison
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Updated: 09/03/08 6:28 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — New York “preppie killer” Robert Chambers is heading back to prison: He was sentenced Tuesday in Manhattan to 19 years after pleading guilty to a drug charge.
- New Web page offers Marcellus Shale details
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Updated: 09/02/08 6:44 AM
- ALBANY — A new Web page has been launched to provide detailed information about the Marcellus Shale natural gas formation, new drilling methods and an upcoming state review of potential environmental impacts.
- Surf’s up downstate as Hanna moves north
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Updated: 09/02/08 6:44 AM
- NEW YORK (AP) — Tropical Storm Hanna is already making waves on Long Island — big ones.
- Polar bear, 18, dies; sired cubs for 4 zoos
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Updated: 09/02/08 6:44 AM
- ROCHESTER (AP) — A popular polar bear has died, it was reported Monday.
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