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Queens Home Team Awarded Top Team at Keller Williams Realty Landmark II for Most Units Sold in 2014!
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
The Queens Home Team at Keller Williams Realty, led by George & Abigail Herrera, were recently honored at the Keller Williams Realty Landmark II awards ceremony in Astoria, NY. Out of 160 Agents, Q...
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (also known as ObamaCare)
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Author; Donna Stefans Re:Obamacare The Health insurance reporting requirements on the 2014 tax return are a bit complicated. If you and your family were covered by an employer health care plan for ...
A Different Slant on Class-Based Hiring Discrimination
Jan 29, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 10 10 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: Stephen D. Hans Most employers are familiar with the pitfalls of discriminating against applicants in protected classes under Civil Rights laws. For the most part, African Americans, Hispan...
← How Do 2015 Minimum Wage Increases Affect NY Restaurants? Are Employers Free from Liability When Using Staffing Agencies to Terminate Employees?
Jan 23, 2015 | 0 0 comments | 23 23 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 | 51 51 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 | 52 52 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 | 62 62 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 | 69 69 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 | 80 80 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 | 130 130 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...

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Heroes Basketball: Street Ballers remain undefeated
St. Kevin’s 35 St. Helen’s 22 In the 14 & Under Boys Division, St. Kevin’s beat St. Helen’s, 35-22. St. Kevin’s had a 9-8 halftime lead, and the game was well within reach for St. Helen’s until St....
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Palace Malice takes the Belmont Stakes. (Photo: Michael O'Kane)
Long shot upsets 14-horse field in Belmont Stakes
Long-shot Palace Malice emerged as the hero of Todd Pletcher’s record five starters in the 145th running of the Grade 1, $1 million Belmont Stakes, charging through the stretch to a 3 ¼-length vict...
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Israel defeats Honduras in Citi Field soccer action
Israel defeated Honduras, 2-0, in an international friendly at Citi Field Sunday evening. The official crowd for the match was 26,170, and Amar’e Stoudemire of the Knicks, who claims Jewish roots t...
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Heroes Basketball: Street Ballers remain undefeated
Week's Scores and Notes
Jun 04, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 257 257 recommendations | email to a friend
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In the first race of the day, Run a Dubb Dubb and jockey Rajiv Maragh edged out Tanglewood Tale for the victory in 6 1/2 furlongs on dirt for three year olds and up. (Photo: Michael O'Kane)
Big Apple Showcase highlights NY-breds
AT THE TRACK
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In the first race of the day, Belle Epoque and jockey Irad Ortiz, Jr. held off Fu Peggi Sue in six furlongs on dirt for three-year-old and upward fillies and mares.
Tannery pulls off the upset in Sheepshead
AT THE TRACK
May 31, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 233 233 recommendations | email to a friend
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Heroes Basketball Results: Queens Kings, Tranquility come out on top
Queens Kings 16 Superior Metal & Woodwork 12 In the 10 & Under Boys Division, Queens Kings beat Superior Metal & Woodwork by a final score of 16-12 in a game that was not decided until the final mi...
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The starting Pack in the sixth race of the day on Wednesday. Star Channel (#6) and jockey Javier Castellano took first in the 1 1/4-mile race on turf for three year olds and up. The purse was $79,000. (Photo: Mihcael O'Kane)
At the Track: Glorious View gets first stakes win in Vagrancy
Glorious View extended her winning streak to four, annexed her first graded stakes, and demonstrated her tenacity with a front-running victory in Saturday’s Grade 2, $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap at B...
May 22, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 186 186 recommendations | email to a friend
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Heroes Basketball 2013: Our Lady of Grace continues to roll
Nowstar Limo 31 California Pizza Kitchen 24 In the 12 & Under Boys Division, Nowstar Limo beat California Pizza Kitchen, 31-24. The high scorers for Nowstar Limo were Steven Z. with 10 points and L...
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Three STJ golfers earn spots on All-Big East team
After leading the St. John’s men’s golf team to a runner-up finish at the 2013 Big East Championships and all finishing inside the top-10 in the individual championship, junior Ryan McCormick, seni...
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Our Lady of Grace, American Classic Cakes get big wins
HEROES BASKETBALL LEAGUE
May 15, 2013 | 0 0 comments | 135 135 recommendations | email to a friend
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Matt Harvey on the mound. (Photo: Michael O'Kane)
Meet the 'Matts'!
Harvey's been the only bright spots for the Mets, but team can't even get him a win
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Jockey Joel Rosario rode Miss Valentin to a victory over Clear Passaj and Lady on the Run in one mile on dirt for four-year-old and up fillies and mares. (Photo: Michael O'Kane)
Freedom Child cruises to win in Peter Pan
AT THE TRACK
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Jockey Luis Saez rides Charlie's Punch to victory at Belmont Park last Thursday. (Photo: Michael O'Kane)
Derby winner ORb returns to Belmont, Hessonite gets win coming off injury
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St. Joseph's baseball postseason comes to an end
The St. Joseph’s College (Brooklyn) baseball team was eliminated from the 2013 United States Collegiate Athletic Association Small College World Series, dropping a 6-1 decision to Penn State Greate...
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African leaders gather for conflict, Ebola talks

Nigerian refugee children pose for a photograph at a UNHCR camp in Baga Sola on January 26, 2015, fleeing a recent attack by Boko Haram millitants in the Nigerian town of BagaAfrican leaders meet Friday for their annual summit with conflict topping the agenda, especially Nigeria's Boko Haram insurgents, as well as efforts to stem Ebola. While the official theme of the African Union meeting will be women's empowerment, leaders from the 54-member bloc will once again be beset by a string of crises across the continent. Preparatory talks this week ahead of the two-day meeting at the AU headquarters in the Ethiopian capital have seen promises by AU chief Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma to drum up "collective African efforts" to tackle the Islamists. Late Thursday, the AU Peace and Security Council called for regional five-nation force of 7,500 troops to deploy to stop the "horrendous" rise of the insurgents.


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Egypt's IS affiliate claims Sinai attacks that killed 26
EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — An Egyptian militant group affiliated with the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for coordinated and simultaneous attacks that struck more than a dozen army and police targets in three towns in the restive Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 26 security officers.
2015-01-30 01:38:40 -0500
35 years after boy Etan Patz vanished, murder trial to open

FILE - This May 28, 2012, file photo shows a newspaper with a photograph of Etan Patz at a makeshift memorial in the SoHo neighborhood of New York where Patz lived before his disappearance on May 25, 1979. The memorial was set up near a building that housed a convenience store where Pedro Hernandez, accused of killing Patz, told police 33 years after they boy's disappearance, that he choked the 6-year-old and put the still-living boy into a plastic bag, boxed up the bag and left it on a street. Opening statements in Hernandez's trial are set for Friday, Jan. 30, 2015. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)NEW YORK (AP) — Searching fervently for a missing 6-year-old boy named Etan Patz, police jotted a teenage shop worker's name among those of many people they met, never expecting the clerk would become their suspect more than three decades later.


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