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6-month-old girl thrown from New York apartment window

NEW YORK – A baby girl was thrown from a sixth-floor window of an apartment building to her death on Thursday, witnesses and police said, making her the third child killed that way in the city in three months. The 6-month-old girl's mother, 27-year-old ... >> view original

Next Stop for Mets: The NLCS

LOS ANGELES — Zack Greinke glared out to right field, shook his head and massaged a baseball, trying to figure out what he had done wrong. Daniel Murphy had turned on a low fastball, sent it screaming into the seats and flipped his bat aside, as if he ... >> view original

Lamar Odom's Decline, Played Out on TV

But he and Odom would occasionally reconnect in New York. Odom, Barkley said, always seemed elated to see Barkley's mother, Shirley, a pastor at God's Divine Prayer Tabernacle in Brooklyn. Odom would ask her to lay her hands on him and pray for him. >> view original

Superheroes: Born in New York City

Now the New-York Historical Society has mounted a homage to this world: “Superheroes in Gotham.” The curators found in a private collection the Pow! Bam! Wham! Pop Art-era Batmobile and put it in the lobby. They mounted the Penguin's umbrella and ... >> view original

Gambling Regulators Block Daily Fantasy Sites in Nevada

The New York attorney general's office has begun an investigation into whether the companies used fraudulent practices as lawmakers have called for congressional hearings and third-party regulation. “Where this is all heading is mounting pressure to ... >> view original

New York Today: A Mayor on the Move

A killing at a New Hartford church has shined a light on a secretive sect. [New York Times]. • The Brooklyn district attorney announced that his office had broken up an illegal firearm ring. [New York Times]. • At a rare public forum, Mayor de Blasio ... >> view original

At 'Greater New York,' Rising Art Stars Meet the Old School

“Greater New York,” the title of MoMA P.S. 1's every-five-years roundup of local art, has come to sound like a wish, not a statement of fact. Since the show's first appearance in 2000, the city's gallery population has exploded. But abundance has ... >> view original

Glimpses Inside Secretive Sect After Killing at Upstate New York Church

NEW HARTFORD, N.Y. — To its neighbors in this upstate town, Word of Life Christian Church presented itself as a constant curiosity: an imposing but tidy former schoolhouse whose occupants kept to themselves, almost never opening their doors or their ... >> view original

New York Police Officer Is Convicted of Lying About Photographer's Arrest

A New York police officer who arrested a photographer on assignment for The New York Times on a Bronx street in 2012 was convicted on Thursday of falsifying a record to justify the arrest. The officer, Michael Ackermann, 32, was found guilty of a ... >> view original

Street Artists Infiltrate 'Homeland' With Subversive Graffiti

LONDON — In a recent episode of Showtime's hit series “Homeland,” the former C.I.A. officer Carrie Mathison is escorted by a Hezbollah militant past a wall in a fictional Syrian refugee camp covered with Arabic graffiti. >> view original