Gates Visits Former Taliban Village The New York Times | NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, but the lone street of shops was so sleepy that it looked as if everyone had been told to stay home. | Notes from Afghanistan, Paki...
Manny Pacquaio makes grand arrival for Cowboys Stadium fight card The Dallas Morning News | GRAPEVINE - A tale of two arrivals for Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey welterweight title fight at Cowboys Stadium: | Pacquiao, the WBO champion whom some consider the finest pound-for-pound boxer in the world, arrived at Fort Worth's Alliance Airport on Monday night from Los Angeles on a...
John Thorbjarnarson, a Crocodile and Alligator Expert, Is Dead at 52 The New York Times | Let’s say you are a boy who collects frogs and snakes from a neighborhood bog and who keeps a spectacled caiman and boa constrictor as pets. Further, you take the boa into the family pool to cavort, although the human swimmers might have used...
It's New York. It's the Stadium. It's the Pinstripe Bowl. The New York Times | There was no welcome mat for sour thoughts at Yankee Stadium on Tuesday when the Yankees announced that the newest postseason college football game, the New Era Pinstripe Bowl, will be played there on Dec. 30. | Interviews, insight and analysis fro...
In Swirl of Paterson Scandal, 2nd State Police Superintendent Quits The New York Times | The acting superintendent of the New York State Police announced his retirement Tuesday, becoming the second senior agency official to leave office since it was revealed that the agency had intervened in a domestic abuse case involving a top aide t...
Gates Visits Former Taliban Village The New York Times | NOW ZAD, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates took a stroll on Tuesday through a village market in this former Taliban sanctuary in Helmand Province, but the lone street of shops was so sleepy that it looked as if everyone had been...
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Obesity hits New York's poorest neighborhoods hardest China Daily | NEW YORK - New York City's obesity rate has climbed in recent years, but with lower income neighborhoods hit hardest while wealthier areas like Manhattan's Upper East Side and Ch...
Runway at Kennedy Airport Is Shut Down for Repairs The New York Times | Apaamoore Agambila was not thrilled to learn that the largest runway at Kennedy International Airport would be shut down for repairs on Monday. Heavy snowstorms and stricter secu...
Aide Asked State Police to Contact His Accuser The New York Times | ALBANY — David W. Johnson, a top aide to Gov. David A. Paterson, reached out to the commander of the governor’s State Police detail the day after an altercation with ...
The Maestro of Weekend Meal Delivery The New York Times | Mark Goreczny, 23, respects his elders — all 17,713 of them. They are too frail or disabled to walk to the grocery store, too poor to order takeout, so Mr. Goreczny makes sure they get a free hot meal delivered to their door on weekends and h...
Manny Pacquaio makes grand arrival for Cowboys Stadium fight card The Dallas Morning News | GRAPEVINE - A tale of two arrivals for Saturday's Manny Pacquiao-Joshua Clottey welterweight title fight at Cowboys Stadium: | Pacquiao, the WBO champion whom some consider the finest pound-for-pound boxer in the world, arrived at Fort Worth's Alli...
Donnie McClurkin brings gospel to the Bronx The Examiner | Minister and gospel singer Donnie McClurkin supplied by artist | Gospel singer and pastor, Donnie McClurkin, claims that every success he has experienced in life happened because he stumbled into it. His fans wont stumble but can run to Lehman Cent...
Obama Tells Haitian Leader That U.S. Aid Will Continue The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Even as the United States military withdraws the forces it sent urgently to Haiti after its devastating earthquake in January, President Obama on Wednesday pledged a lasting commitment to aid and assistance. Win McNamee/Getty Images | President Barack Obama with President Rene Preval of Haiti during a news conference outside th...
Obama Tells Haitian Leader That U.S. Aid Will Continue The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Even as the United States military withdraws the forces it sent urgently to Haiti after its devastating earthquake in January, President Obama on Wednesday pledged a lasting commitment to aid and assistance. Win McNamee/Getty Images | President Barack Obama with President Rene Preval of Haiti during a news conference outside th...
Obama Tells Haitian Leader That U.S. Aid Will Continue The New York Times | WASHINGTON — Even as the United States military withdraws the forces it sent urgently to Haiti after its devastating earthquake in January, President Obama on Wednesday pledged a lasting commitment to aid and assistance. Win McNamee/Getty Images | President Barack Obama with President Rene Preval of Haiti during a news conference outside th...
