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Jan 23, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 20 20 recommendations | email to a friend
Companies often find that staffing agencies are valuable resources for helping them fill temporary or permanent positions and for handling human resources issues. However, recently, an outside staf...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 15, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the ...
This Month in Queens Real Estate: JANUARY 2015
Jan 14, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 50 50 recommendations | email to a friend
January 2014 Queens NY Market Update  The pace of existing home sales increased in December, but remained below that in the same month of the previous year. Home prices declined as we moved in to t...
Negligence of Oregon Hospital Led to Wrongful Death of Patient
Jan 12, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 60 60 recommendations | email to a friend
Author:  Mark H. Sackstein, Esq. All it takes is one small mistake for a disaster to occur. No matter how much research is done when choosing a hospital, it is impossible to predict a situation suc...
Matching Workouts With the Results You Want
Jan 10, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 67 67 recommendations | email to a friend
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard friends complain about not getting the results they want, despite how much energy they’re putting into their workout.  People who want bigger muscles go t...
How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants?
Jan 08, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 78 78 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen Hans Minimum wage increases took effect on December 31, 2014, raising the New York minimum wage from $8.00 to $8.75 per hour for employees who work based on hourly wages. By the way...
Immersed in ancient times; the performance of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera. A review.
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 127 127 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Imagine being immersed in an ancient world, with colossal stone columns, palaces and images of deities, a marvelous music surrounding you and, thank God, no ce...
What to Eat Before Your Workout
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 108 108 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy Fueling up before a workout is the best thing you can do for your body.  But it’s important to eat the  right  things at the  right  time.  Eating too far in advance of your workout ...
Static vs. Dynamic Stretching
Jan 03, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 105 105 recommendations | email to a friend
by Mary Murphy  So you’ve already heard that you should stretch before you work out, but did you know that some types of stretching can be more harmful than helpful?  The American Council on Exerci...
From "Lost Side Of Suburbia" to "Poptropica," An Exclusive Interview with Artist Kory Merritt
Dec 29, 2014 | 0 0 comments | 135 135 recommendations | email to a friend
Written By:  Tiziano Thomas Dossena   Kory Merritt started cartooning and illustrating while attending SUNY Brockport. His weekly comic strip, Brockport Chronicled, won the John Locher Memorial Awa...

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Week in Queens: July 22

Jul 22, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 34 34 recommendations | email to a friend
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UPDATED: Vietnam vet jumps six stories to death
Those who knew him stunned by friendly loner’s actions
Jul 21, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Jacqueline Healy has been charged with robbing four Queens banks earlier this month. Two of the banks were the Cross County Federal Savings Bank on Metropolitan Avenue and 79th Place in Middle Village, and the Citibank on 71st Avenue and Austin Street in Forest Hills.
Bank robber busted
Jacqueline Healy is facing jail time for a string of brazen early-morning bank robberies in Middle Village, Forest Hills, and Jamaica. On July 13, Healy, who lives in East Harlem, and a male accomp...
Jul 20, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 47 47 recommendations | email to a friend
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
07/12/2010 - 07/18/2010
Jul 20, 2010 | 7 7 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
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Fighting fire cuts with fire
Councilwoman has made saving NYC's firehouses her own political crusade
Jul 13, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 52 52 recommendations | email to a friend
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Armed purse snatcher at large in Maspeth
Maspeth is often fondly referred to as a small town in a big city setting, where many of the residents know each other by name, so it's a shock when a crime occurs that threatens to destabilize the...
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
07/05/2010 - 07/11/2010
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A car crashed into a tree in Middle Village Friday morning, killing the driver.
Middle Village car crash claims life
The residential intersection of Juniper Boulevard South and 70th Street was blocked off for hours Friday morning after a car crashed into a tree at approximately 10:30 a.m., killing the driver. “I ...
Jul 09, 2010 | 3 3 comments | 48 48 recommendations | email to a friend
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Tanning tax burns customers
But they vow to keep tanning anyway
Jul 06, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 11 11 recommendations | email to a friend
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At Pet Palace, the animals are treated like royalty
Pet Palace of Middle Village has a selection of pet supplies fit for a prince, but it’s priced so that even a pauper can shop here. “We want people to be able to feed their pets,” said Suzanne Cara...
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104th Precinct Police Blotter
06/28/2010 - 07/04/2010
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The week in Queens: July 1

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Amalgamated Bank is building a new branch at 69-73 Grand Avenue in Maspeth
Amalgamated Bank building new Maspeth branch
Just call it Banker's Avenue. With six different banks already occupying Grand Avenue in Maspeth, Amalgamated Bank has plans in place to become the seventh. According to state Banking Department re...
Jul 02, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 54 54 recommendations | email to a friend
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Ognibene running for Lt. Gov
Former councilman joins Paladino ticket
Jul 01, 2010 | 0 0 comments | 96 96 recommendations | email to a friend
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Survivors lead the way, taking the first lap around the track.
Curing cancer, one lap at a time
Relay For Life returns to Middle Village
Jun 30, 2010 | 1 1 comments | 136 136 recommendations | email to a friend
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Utah family's deaths came after obsession with murder case

FILE - In this June 30, 2003, file photo, Dan Lafferty poses for a photograph, at Utah State Prison in Draper, Utah. A Utah couple who overdosed on drugs along with their three children was obsessed with Lafferty, a murderer who sees himself as a prophet. Kristi and Benjamin Strack visited Lafferty for years before their visiting privileges were cut off, developing a close friendship as part of an increasingly bizarre mindset that culminated with a belief that the apocalypse was near. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The deaths of a Utah couple who overdosed on drugs along with their three children came after an obsession with a murderer who sees himself as a prophet.


2015-01-28 17:43:37 -0500
'Ghostbusters' cast set with McCarthy, Wiig, McKinnon, Jones

FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2015 file photo, actress Melissa McCarthy arrives at the People's Choice Awards at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles. McCarthy will star with Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones in an all-female reboot of "Ghostbusters," scheduled for release in July of 2016. Director Paul Feig announced his stars by tweeting their pictures on Twitter on Tuesday. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP, File)NEW YORK (AP) — The "Ghostbusters" reboot has set its all-female leads with Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and a pair of "Saturday Night Live" performers.


2015-01-28 17:43:06 -0500
State Dept. officials ready to meet House Benghazi panel

The House Select Committee on Benghazi Chairman Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., left, confers with Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., the ranking member on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2015, at the start of the panel's third public hearing to investigate the 2012 attacks on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, where a violent mob killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Cummings complained that the committee's investigation was moving at a "glacial" pace and that there were "major problems" with the committee's work, adding that he and other Democrats "have grave concerns about the partisan path this committee has taken over the past year." (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department said Wednesday that officials are prepared to meet immediately with a special House committee investigating the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya.


2015-01-28 17:41:21 -0500