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Coney Island summer concerts get new home
The future of the summer Thursday concerts and a plan for a $64 million amphitheater in Asser Levy Park became uncertain following a lawsuit by two synagogues. A city law bans amplified sound within 500 feet of a house of worship.
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:46A
Manslaughter Charges For G20 Death
The Director of Public Prosecutions said there were grounds for Pc Simon Harwood to face a trial after reviewing an inquest jury's unlawful killing verdict. Pc Harwood will appear before City of Westminster Magistrates' Court on June 20, Keir Starmer
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:44A
When exactly did it become hip to buy American again?
The US Naval Academy graduate also says it was an honor and his patriotic duty to take over GM and help steer the automaker's post-bankruptcy recovery. In a weekend commencement address at Bryant University in Rhode Island, Akerson distilled his vision
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:44A
The Indignation in Spain Rises Gently from the Plains
Now that the erector set has collapsed, jobs have vanished, vast tracts of real estate lie unoccupied and foreclosure agents have come a knocking. Spain's pseudo-socialist government (Partido Socialista del Obrero Espaol or PSOE) has met the crisis
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:43A
Woman crashes car at locks, critically injured
Seattle police say the accident was at 12:16 am on 32nd Avenue Northwest near Northwest 54th Street. Police don't know why the woman, who is in her late teens or early 20s, drove her Honda Accord into the gates as she was going south on 32nd Avenue
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:43A
Massachusetts jury deliberates Kerrigan case for 2nd day
A Woburn Superior Court jury resumed deliberations Tuesday morning after deliberating for about 4 1/2 hours Monday without reaching a verdict. In closing arguments Monday, a prosecutor said Mark Kerrigan was an "angry, mean, nasty, drunk son" when he
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:43A
Moscow appeals court upholds conviction of Mikhail Khodorkovsky but cuts
Khodorkovsky, who was convicted in December of stealing oil from his own company and laundering the proceeds, said a "venomous Stalinist spider" was behind the verdict. It was a bold attack against the very court that is deciding his fate: The
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:43A
UN opens probe into Japan's crippled nuclear plant
The team of UN nuclear experts met with Japanese officials and planned to visit the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant in coming days to investigate the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986 and assess efforts to stabilize the complex by Tokyo's
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:43A
Officers begin Click It or Ticket campaign
On Monday morning, the McPherson Police Department utilized a Kansas Department of Transportation- suggested covert operation in which officers used a city vehicle and closed off one lane of traffic so the officer could see if the occupants were
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:42A
Brossard shooting a suicide, police believe
MONTREAL – Longueuil police are trying to determine if a 33-year-old off-duty member of the Sret du Qubec was wounded by accident when another employee of the provincial police force shot himself to death at her home in Brossard.
Updated: 05/24/2011 09:42A
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