Sunday, February 14, 2016

Authorities arrest suspect who killed mom, 2 children in New York ... and other top stories.

  • Authorities arrest suspect who killed mom, 2 children in New York ...

    A man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend and all three of her small children with a kitchen knife at a New York hotel used as homeless housing was arrested after a four-day manhunt, police said Saturday. Michael Sykes was last seen on surveillance footage Wednesday heading to the Staten Island ferry shortly after the attack, and a call to his mother to say he’d killed his girlfriend and was going to kill himself, police said. But he took the ferry back to Manhattan and had been traveling thro..
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  • Staying the Course in an Unnerving Presidential Race

    Staying the Course in an Unnerving Presidential Race
    As the results of the New Hampshire primary rolled in last week, a charter member of Washington’s Republican establishment received a one-word message from a colleague: “despair.” It’s a safe bet that there was a comparable Democratic exchange. The victory of Senator Ted Cruz in Iowa and of Donald J. Trump in New Hampshire, the first two presidential nomination contests, along with Senator Bernie Sanders’s smashing triumph over his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in the Granite State on Tuesd..
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  • Coldest Valentine's Day in NYC on record as temperature drops to -1

    Coldest Valentine's Day in NYC on record as temperature drops to -1
    Please enable Javascript to watch this video NEW YORK -- Record-breaking cold is gripping the tri-state area as an Arctic blast sent temperatures below zero in Central Park Sunday morning, making this the coldest Valentine's Day in New York City on record and the coldest day since 1994. According to the National Weather Service, temperatures in Central Park fell to -1 at 6:57 a.m. Sunday, shattering the Valentine's Day record of 2 above, set in 1916.  Furthermore, it was the coldest morn..
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  • How New York Made Pre-K a Success

    How New York Made Pre-K a Success
    Photo Credit Bettina Henni BORSCHT isn’t found on most prekindergarten menus, but it’s what the cooks were dishing up for the 35 children at Ira’s Daycare in Briarwood, Queens, on a recent school day. Many families in this neighborhood are Russian émigrés for whom borscht is a staple, but children from half a dozen countries, including a contingent from Bangladesh, are also enrolled here. These youngsters are among the 68,547 4-year-olds enrolled in one of the nation..
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  • The Year of the Monkey Comes Alive in Style on the Streets of New ...

    The Year of the Monkey Comes Alive in Style on the Streets of New ...
    Beautifully and elaborately drawn faces; the crowd awash in red; the heads of dragons and lions bobbing up and down the glitter- and confetti-strewn asphalt; and, of course, images of this year’s zodiac animal, the monkey. While miles away from the epicenter of Chinese New Year, New York City’s streets had filled with those reveling in the celebration of the biggest holiday on the lunar calendar, sparing no details. It was this stronghold on century-old traditions, from masks and headdresses to..
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  • Prostitute found dead on New York beach likely strangled, Dr ...

    Prostitute found dead on New York beach likely strangled, Dr ...
    A sex worker who vanished in 2010 and whose remains were later found at a remote beach highway in New York -- revealed to be the dumping ground of a suspected serial killer -- may have died from strangulation, according to a new autopsy released Friday. Shannan Gilbert, 23, of Jersey City, N.J., disappeared May 1, 2010, after visiting a client in the gated community of Oak Beach on a barrier island off Long Island's south shore. A months-long search for her first led to the bodies of four other..
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