The season's hottest Christmas toy is a robotic hamster that could cause cancer in children, according to a consumer website. The rodent in question, named "Mr. Squiggles," belongs to the Zhu Zhu Pets brand and allegedly contains a high level of [...]
Anthony D. Marshall, who is awaiting sentencing for looting the estate of his Alzheimer's-afflicted 105-year-old mother Brooke Astor, is asking the court to dismiss his conviction on the most seri...
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A 29-year-old transit cop is accused of raping an 18-year-old woman on Thanksgiving, according to the Daily News. The suspect, Shawqi Ahmed, was off-duty when he met the woman at a club and [...]
New Yorkers don't really care about Derek Jeter's girlfriend Minka Kelly, as long as the Yankee captain is doing well (which was this case this past season), but a Starbucks barista in Tampa Bay claims that she's a pain in the' [...]
Alaska's former governor talked to the press about her otter-skin purse, the president's communist tendencies, and side dishes for an open-air liberal roast at the Gridiron Dinner this week, but s...
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The Brooklyn mother of four suspected of trying to abort and poison her husband's lovechild told investigators she would never hurt a kid. Prosecutors told the Daily News that 38-year-old Kisha Jones said she didn't trick her husband's pregnant mistress, Monique Hunter, into' [...]
Photograph of a conductor on a Coney Island bound Nostalgia Train last year by j.reed on Flickr
Nostalgia Train fans, this is your month! NYC Transit is running the 1930s-era Nostalgia Shoppers' Special on the V line between Long Island City' [...]
This is turning into a trend. Like our own two robbers on Staten Island, the young man in the picture helpfully provided the police with a picture of himself taken with the cell phone he stole. ...
Continue reading "Another genius robber" > [...]
Photograph by Sion Fullana (an iPhoneographer in NYC) on Flickr
Post-election New York is going to be significantly less energy-efficient than pre-election Mayor Bloomberg promised it was going to be. Bloomberg announced Friday that he's backing down on a majo...
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A Binghamton University graduate student was charged with the murder of a professor. According to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin, Abdulsalam Al-Zahrani, 46, allegedly stabbed "BU anthropology professor emeritus Richard T. Antoun... Antoun knew Al-Zahrani, a Saudi national, through his work in BU's anthropology" [...]
With non-stop attention on international athletic superstar Tiger Woods' transgressions, a Pandora's Box opened when he crashed his car near his Florida home, allegedly after fighting with his wife over a mistress, it's no wonder that everyone is trying to find an angle' [...]
I'm going to slip on my winter Crocs, bust out the kinara, and prepare for a joyous Kwanzaa. Because my Kwanzaa preparation ritual is extremely rigorous, don't expect any blogging until after I've fully celebrated the seven principles.
Of course, if something interesting happens, I'll be back to comment.
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After his child was hospitalized following an apparent suicide attempt yesterday, Billy Joel says his 23-year-old daughter Alexa Ray Joel "is going to be fine."
Alexa Ray was rushed to St. Vincent's Hospital yesterday after a roommate called 911 to report an “emotionally disturbed [...]
Police are announcing the arrest of 29-year-old transit cop Shawqi Ahmed for raping an 18-year-old girl in Brooklyn last week. ...
Continue reading "Transit cop arrested for rape" > [...]Welcome to another week that was on Rochesterturning. As always, lots going on - NYS continues not giving equal rights to gay people. RBTL gets pitched, Monroe County fails to collect rent for 7 years, We escalate in Afghanistan to the chagrin of local Congressional members, and a local activist [...]
On Friday, the NY Times reported that the Google engineer struck by a falling tree branch in Central Park was suing the city and Central Park Conservancy for negligence. Now, it turns out the still-hospitalized Sasha Blair-Goldensohn's lawsuit is worth $120 million.
Blair-Goldensohn was
It turns out there's a constituency for selling Staten Island after all. If you spot him the votes for C Montgomery Burns, Charles Montgomery Bunrs and CM Burns, fictional billionaire Charles Mont...
Continue reading "Monty Burns wins mayoral write-in vote" > [...]
The Bronx street where police fired 41 shots at an unarmed black man in 1999 has become an unlikely tourist attraction, according to the Daily News.
Visitors from around the world take tour buses to Wheeler Avenue to see the place where Amadou Diallo was [...]
Today's lesson: If you consumed enough booze to have a blood alcohol level of 0.22—the legal limit is 0.08—you shouldn't be driving! The Post reports, "A public-school teacher whose blood-alcohol level was nearly three times the legal limit struck an off-duty cop's car early'" [...]
Photograph by Glark on Flickr
Fine, the snow didn't stick, but snowflakes did come down starting yesterday afternoon, after a rather miserable rainy wet morning. One person told NY1, "It's like winter, might as well feel like winter." Indeed! But in' [...]
Jim Heaney echoed what Colin Eager wrote here regarding Bill Stachowski’s detestable vote against granting gay couples in New York the right to obtain a marriage license. Both Jim and Colin called Stachowski’s vote bigoted.
Stachowski has gone on record saying that he would vote [...]
Photograph of Chris Drury at the Sabres' goal by Don Heupel/AP Rangers 2, Sabres 1: Henrik Lundqvist sat less than a minute away from a shutout before giving up a goal. The Rangers don't care. They're just happy to get a win.' [...]
Joe Bruno, formerly Majority Leader of the New York Senate and currently defendant in a political corruption trial, reminds us that he was merely a part-time legislator and entitled to make a living by collecting consulting fees from those who wished to do business with the state.
I had a right as a part-time legislator to [...]
This quote is close to the truth, but really Republicans won because they held true to their word and convictions that we needed to lower taxes, make government smaller and yet stay effective. Problem is they threw those beliefs away allowed corrupt leadership like Bruno to take over and they [...]
MONDAY, Dec. 7 at 7:00 pm
Cinema Theatre, corner of Goodman St.
and Clinton Ave S, Rochester NY
($2.00 each)
Another reminder why meaningful health care reform is so important in the US.
Related posts:Panel Discussion on “Sicko” at the Little tomorrow[...]
The Buffalo News analyzes grants made by the city to businesses over the past year. Darker = more money, bigger circles = more money.
Since every single thing the Brown Administration does (or doesn’t do) comes down to tinpot Machiavellian political considerations, it’s a graphical representation of the consolidation and [...]
The Emerson Place row houses on Buffalo East Side are just the coolest thang…I always stop and look at them on my way to my once removed high school (BAVPA) and just stare in awe of their incredibleness!!!
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Meet Tiger ("I'm a CHEETAH!") Woods' 4th Mistress: Jamie Jungers!
How many people do you think would question or oppose the "legalize medical marijuana" movement if it was really just about legalizing use for legitimate medical use? [...] 
Kitty-Kat Killer Cheyenne Cherry - Me-OW! 
A Queens judge threw out a patient's lawsuit against his doctor for purportedly giving him bad investment advice. John Otto, a former patient of renowned erectile dysfunction expert Dr. Arnold Melman, claimed that the physician abused [...]
The election for governor is less than a year away, and the primary for the Democratic nomination is even closer, and Andrew Cuomo has still not decided to run. Many of my Demoratic friends are worried this means an easy Republican victory against Gov. Paterson. Not so. The only announced [...]
At the sentencing hearing for State Senator Hiram Monserrate (D-Queens), who was convicted of misdemeanor assault for slashing his girlfriend in the face, Justice William Erlbaum said that three years probation for the freshman senator—plus a 250 hours of [...]
Mayor Bloomberg has abandoned the most ambitious part of his plan to reduce greenhouse gases, which would have required the owners of the city's largest buildings to undergo mandatory energy audits to determine green renovations — and forced the landlords to pay [...]
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Alexa Ray Joel — Billy Joel's 23-year-old daughter — is being treated at St. Vincent's Hospital in the West Village after an overdose on sleeping pills that police are considering a suicide attempt, according to the Post.
The [...]
After reports that a bouncer was arrested for raping an intoxicated customer in one of its bathroom, the nighclub Duvet, aka Club Climax, on West 21st Street off Broadway was shut down. According to the Post, the State Liquor Authority made the decision [...]
