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Radio chatter: 92.3 Now could switch to sports talk

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:52:08 +0000

Program director Dom Theodore has left WXRK (92.3 FM), a move that, through an odd chain of circumstances, has retriggered speculation about whether New York could end up with a sports-talk FM station. Parent CBS isn’t fueling any of that speculation, at least for now.

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Chelsea shelter is saving grace for desperate mom Selina Bell

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:38:11 +0000

With no place to live and no one to turn to, Selina Bell was suffering from life-threatening breast cancer — and struggling to raise her 1-year-old daughter.

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Danger ahead! Get billboards away from highways: pol

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:24:28 +0000

After an illegally stationed billboard next to the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway fell onto traffic lanes in Brooklyn last month, Councilman James Vacca is demanding more accountability on how permits for the structures are granted.

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A marriage of law and politics

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:10:10 +0000

Rauch: You may have heard of judicial activism. Also originalism, minimalism and many another judicial “ism.” In its decision Tuesday striking down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals introduces a doctrine of its own: judicial deactivism.

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City shelter is a saving grace for ma in crisis

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:55:57 +0000

With no place to live and no one to turn to, Selina Bell was suffering from life-threatening breast cancer — and struggling to raise her 1-year-old daughter.

WITH NO place to live and no one to turn to, Selina Bell was suffering from life-threatening breast cancer — and struggling to raise her 1-year-old daughter.

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Nets fall to struggling Pistons

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:42:11 +0000

Maybe 10 was too many. One week earlier, an undermanned Nets team was able to hold off a struggling Pistons team for their last win, with eight players in uniform. On Wednesday night, with two more players available, they could not keep up against Detroit as the Pistons handed the Nets their fourth straight loss, 99-92, at the Prudential Center.

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Far Rock thug faces 25 years for bystander slay

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:27:47 +0000

A Far Rockaway man was convicted of manslaughter Wednesday for gunning down an innocent bystander on a Queens street in 2007.

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A-Rpd gets dunked

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:13:52 +0000

KRIS Humphries is finding out the hard way that being wed— albeit briefly — to reality star Kim Kardashian is a toxic endeavor in the court of public opinion — so toxic he has vaulted past Alex Rodriguez on a list of most disliked athletes.

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‘Jersey Shore’ spinoff can shoot in Jersey City

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:00:08 +0000

Hoboken’s loss is Jersey City’s gain. After being denied by Hoboken, MTV has gotten permission to shoot a “Jersey Shore” spin-off in nearby Jersey City.

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Lin, Knicks scale Wall’s Wiz

admin — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 02:45:58 +0000

Jeremy Lin won the Knicks’ starting point guard job and he’s about to earn a permanent spot on the roster once his contract becomes guaranteed for the remainder of the season on Friday. So now there’s just final order of business to take care of. “I guess I need to find a place then,” Lin says.

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