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Imperial County, school district officials well-versed in lunch program guidelines
Staff WriterFor most parents, the start of the new school year means spending money and a large amount of time filling out their child’s registration packet. Although most people would argue their information rarely changes from one year to the next, school...Tags: Students, Travel, Robert J. Lopez, Teaching and Learning, Transportation
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Video/Q&A: Damien Echols of 'West of Memphis'
Details of the West Memphis 3 investigation can only be described as ridiculous. “They had one guy say that I looked at him and made him levitate. And this is in police records,” says Damien Echols, who in 2011 was freed from prison after...
Tags: Entertainment, Prisons, Religion and Belief, Punishment, Ben Affleck
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Bloody fake Metrocards a pitch for NY subway speed limits
ReutersNEW YORK, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Transit union workers plan to hand out seemingly blood-spattered counterfeit subway passes to New York City commuters on Thursday to draw attention to safety proposals they say could reduce the number of people killed by...Tags: Commuting, Times Square, New York City, Career and Workplace, Metropolitan Transportation Authority
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5 best and worst Super Bowl commercials 2013
Channel Guide MagazineOur pick of the 5 best and worst Super Bowl commercials 2013. Watch them all on USA Today's Ad Meter and vote for your favorites. Another year of Super Bowl commercials is in the books, and it looks like the best of the bunch tugged at the heartstrings or... -
Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of NYC, dies
NEW YORK (AP) — Ed Koch's favorite moment as mayor of New York City, fittingly, involved yelling. Suddenly inspired to do something brash about the rare transit strike that crippled the city in 1980, he strode down to the Brooklyn Bridge to...
Tags: Finance, Barack Obama, New York University, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Politics
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Subway rider, allegedly pushed, can't scramble off tracks in time
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.It’s a subway rider’s worst nightmare: being pushed onto the tracks. On Monday, it happened in midtown Manhattan where, according to witnesses, one man shoved another in front of an oncoming train, which crushed the victim to death before...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Criminal Laws, Queens (New York City), Transportation Industry, Chemical Industry
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Outrage over N.Y. Post cover of man in train's path
This post has been corrected, as indicated below.On Tuesday, New Yorkers awoke to a gruesome New York Post cover photo. The photo, which fills most of the page, depicts a man trapped on the New York City subway tracks, awaiting an oncoming train that would eventually take his life. “Pushed on...Tags: Queens (New York City), Arts, New York City, Photography, Journalism
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NY Post Photo of Subway Death Sparks Outcry
CNNNEW YORK -- The photographer who snapped the now-famous image of a man about to be struck by a New York subway train is defending himself against critics who say he should have helped, as controversy also rages over the New York Post's decision to publish...Tags: Queens (New York City), Religion and Belief, Empire State Building, Times Square, Pulitzer Prize Awards
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Photographer, newspaper take heat over haunting NY subway photo; suspect arrested
The photographer who snapped the now-famous image of a man about to be struck by a New York subway train is defending himself against critics who say he should have helped, as controversy also rages over the New York Post's decision to publish the...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Pulitzer Prize Awards, CNN (tv network), News Agency, Entertainment Events
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Jovan Belcher didn't need a gun to kill his girlfriend
Your editorial on the apparent murder-suicide Involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher and his girlfriend, Kasandra Perkins, noted approvingly sportscaster Bob Costas' opinion that "if Jovan Belcher didn't possess a gun, he and Kasandra...Tags: Murder, Bob Costas
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Good morning, Baltimore: Need to know for Wednesday
WEATHER: Mostly sunny, high near 58. Tonight is expected to be mostly clear, low around 33. TRAFFIC: Check our traffic updates for this morning's issues. TOP NEWS U.S. government denies aid to Md. residents hit by Sandy: The Obama administration has...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Victoria's Secret, New York Yankees, Hurricane Sandy (2012)
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Greece orders subway strikers back to work
ATHENS -- Greece's ruling coalition on Thursday issued an emergency order demanding that striking subway employees go back to work or face massive arrests and potential job losses in the latest labor showdown to grip the beleaguered government. It is...
Tags: Finance, Subway Transportation Industry, Antonis Samaras, Politics, Culture
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