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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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Marine suing the city and hospital for calling him a girl

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:35:33 +0000

David Hassan, a tough Marine from Bayonne, N.J., is a man’s man. Call him a girl, and he’ll take you on. So on Wednesday, he was taking on Lenox Hill Hospital and the city in court over a 30-year-old handwritten typo on his birth certificate: It lists him as female.

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Assad’s military unleashes more brutal violence on Syrian city of Homs

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:53:14 +0000

Syrian strongman Bashar Assad unleashed his most furious attack yet Wednesday on the rebellious city of Homs — a brutal bombardment that left dozens dead.

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Scores killed in shelling of Syrian city of Homs (AP)

admin — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:28:54 +0000

AP – Syrian troops bombed residential neighborhoods in the central city of Homs Wednesday for the fifth straight day, killing scores of people in what activists say is the regime’s final push to retake areas controlled by the rebels.

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Giants fans flood city to cheer Super Bowl champs

admin — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:44:19 +0000

Giants fans began pouring into lower Manhattan early Tuesday to give a ticker-tape salute to their Super Bowl champs.

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City vows to appeal ruling on ‘drown’ teach

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:55:45 +0000

City officials have vowed to fight a Manhattan judge’s ruling last week that forces them to rehire a teacher who was fired after ranting her students deserved to drown.

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Activists: Syrian forces bombard restive city (AP)

admin — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:35:14 +0000

AP – Government forces shelled the central Syrian city of Homs on Monday, striking a makeshift medical clinic and residential areas and killing at least 17 people in the third day of a new assault on the epicenter of the country’s uprising, activists said.

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Women, children killed in violence-torn Syria city (AP)

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:37:32 +0000

AP – Armed forces loyal to President Bashar Assad barraged residential buildings with mortars and machine-gun fire, killing at least 30 people, including a family of women and children during a day of sectarian killings and kidnappings in the besieged Syrian city of Homs, activists said Friday.

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Gadhafi loyalists seize Libyan city (AP)

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:41:00 +0000

AP – Moammar Gadhafi loyalists seized control of a Libyan mountain city in the most serious challenge to the central government since the strongman’s fall, underlining the increasing weakness of Libya’s Western-backed rulers as they try to unify the country under their authority.

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Pot Payout: City pays woman $3,100 after cops ruin her marijuana plants

admin — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:31:01 +0000

Officials in Albuquerque, N.M., were forced to pay a medical marijuana patient $3,100 after police destroyed her pot crop.

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