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Family of New York chokehold victim renews calls to charge officer

NEW YORK The family of Eric Garner, a black man who died after a white police officer put him in a chokehold a year ago, renewed calls to criminally charge the police officer on Tuesday, a day after the family reached a $5.9 million settlement with New ... >> view original

'Welcome to New York'

About a year and a half ago, I got to go to lunch with Phil Jackson. I was tagging along with my uncle, Horace. I just got to sit back and listen to them talk about the old Bulls days in Chicago. It was pretty cool, to say the least. It made me wish I ... >> view original

Rapper DMX sentenced to 6 months in New York jail

FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2009, file photo, DMX arrives at the 2009 VH1 Hip Hop Honors at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in New York. DMX was sentenced Tuesday, July 14, 2015, to serve six months in an upstate New York jail for failing to pay child support. >> view original

Building Collapse in Brooklyn Sends Rubble Flying, People Running in Smoke ...

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by NBC 4 New York shows the building shift at first as pieces of debris fall to the sidewalk, startling pedestrians below. Then about 20 seconds later, an avalanche of bricks and and cement cascade down, sending ... >> view original

Are Carmelo Anthony, New York Knicks Headed Down Inevitable Road to ...

A year after the New York Knicks inked franchise face Carmelo Anthony to a five-year, $124 million contract, team president Phil Jackson has used this summer's wealth of cap space to build around his lone superstar. Now the question is whether that ... >> view original

Republican Lawmakers Vow Fight to Derail Nuclear Deal

Mr. Obama defended the deal in a lengthy interview with the New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, and scheduled a formal news conference at the White House on Wednesday to address questions about it, while Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is ... >> view original

The Name Atticus Acquires an Unwelcome Association

“When we first heard about the book, my wife said, 'Oh no, I hope Atticus didn't turn bad or something,' ” said Christopher Campbell, the father of 3-year-old Atticus Campbell, who was born shortly after his parents moved to the Atlanta area from New ... >> view original

New York Stock Exchange System Failure Draws Attention to Staff Cuts

Since Intercontinental Exchange, known as ICE, bought the New York Stock Exchange in 2012, the company, which is based in Atlanta, has cut hundreds of workers from the exchange. That included almost everyone in the exchange's top ranks. >> view original

Greater New York Watch

The City University of New York is getting its first medical school. CUNY said Tuesday that CUNY City College's Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education will become the CUNY School of Medicine with an inaugural class beginning in 2016. The school ... >> view original

Real Housewives of New York Recap: Who Brought The Naked Man Home in ...

Real Housewives of New York Recap: Who Brought The Naked Man Home in the Turks & Caicos? 0SHARES. Reprint. subscribe now. Real Housewives of New York Recap: LuAnn de Lesseps Says Don't Be All. Countess LuAnn de Lesseps on The Real ... >> view original