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Mouth's online indie food store now includes California artisans (fig jam, Wine Country honey)
Online food purveyor New York Mouth is now simply Mouth. The Brooklyn-based company, which sells local goods from indie food makers located across New York's five boroughs, has recently expanded its online shopping platform to also include handmade,...
Tags: Honey, Thyme, Viniculture
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Visa, Mastercard ask U.S. court to declare card fees are lawful
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, opening another front in an eight-year battle over credit card fees paid by retailers, on Friday asked a federal judge to declare that the fees do not violate antitrust law. The lawsuit seeks to give...Tags: Laws, Interior Policy, Corporate Crime, Justice System, Litigation and Regulation
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Bausch & Lomb's Ista pleads guilty over kickbacks
Reuters(Reuters) - Ista Pharmaceuticals Inc pleaded guilty on Friday to charges it used kickbacks and improper marketing to boost sales of a drug meant to treat eye pain and agreed to pay $33.5 million to settle criminal and civil liability, the U.S....Tags: Corporate Crime, Justice System, Queens (New York City), U.S. Department of Justice, Government Health Care
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Drug trafficker for the mob kept cash, cocaine in Beverly Hills
A drug trafficker working for organized crime in New York kept millions of dollars and dozens of kilograms of cocaine in his homes in Beverly Hills, prosecutors said Thursday. Alessandro Taloni pleaded guilty in a Brooklyn, N.Y., federal court...Tags: Mexico, Lawyers, Organized Crime, Drug Trafficking, Justice System
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Updated: Vice's Motherboard Postpones Sci-Fi Film Contest
VarietyMotherboard, Vice Media's tech-oriented website, has been forced to delay a competition soliciting sci-fi short stories -- with winning yarn spun into a CGI short film -- after it launched the promo this week before officially signing sponsorship deal...Tags: Matt Damon, Book, Elysium (movie), Samsung Galaxy S IV
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City patrol officer retires after nearly 40 years on the beat
During a career spanning four decades, Baltimore police Officer Ron Starr says, he never really considered leaving the department's Southeastern District and moving up the chain of command. "I never wanted to," Starr said, a longtime foot patrol...
Tags: Lombard Street, University of Baltimore, Italy, Fells Point
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Samsung Pacts with Vice's Motherboard for $1 Mil CGI Sci-Fi Short
VarietySamsung's mobile division will front a $1 million production budget for a CGI short film under a deal with Vice Media's Motherboard tech-culture website, based on a winning sci-fi story entry picked by helmer Neill Blomkamp. The catch: Storyline of the...Tags: Matt Damon, Movies, Entertainment, Television Industry, District 9 (movie)
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Anthony Weiner in N.Y. mayor race 2 years after 'sexting' scandal
NEW YORK — Former U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose once-shining political career collapsed after lewd online relationships with women forced him to resign from Congress two years ago, entered New York's mayoral race Wednesday with promises to make...Tags: Primaries, Bill Thompson, Huma Abedin, Queens (New York City), Barack Obama
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Anarchist jailed for not testifying over 2008 New York blast
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - A self-described anarchist from Brooklyn who refused to testify before a federal grand jury thought to be investigating a 2008 bomb explosion in New York's Times Square was sent to jail on Tuesday after being found in civil contempt....Tags: Occupy Wall Street, Times Square, Emergency Incidents, Justice System, Disasters and Accidents
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'Brooklyn Nine-Nine' Walks the Offbeat
VarietyOn paper, "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" seems to break the laws of network television. It's a single-camera comedy set in a police station that pairs a wildly silly comedian with an actor renowned for his dramatic intensity. It's produced by NBCUniversal's studio...Tags: NBCUniversal, ABC (tv network), Television, Entertainment, Andre Braugher
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New York City seeing spike in anti-gay crime, officials say
ReutersBy Jonathan Allen NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - New York City is seeing a spike in anti-gay attacks, with two assaults coming within days of the fatal shooting of a gay man over the weekend, the city's police commissioner said on Tuesday. Two men in...Tags: Raymond W. Kelly, Murder, SoHo, Local Elections, Greenwich Village
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Ruby K. Miller, 5
Ruby Katherine Miller, 5, of Hamilton Boulevard, Hagerstown, Md., died Saturday, May 18, 2013, at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Born July 19, 2007, in Charleston, W.Va., she was the daughter of Mary Helen Leatherman...Tags: Laurel, Charleston, Hagerstown (Washington, Maryland), Cumberland (Allegany, Maryland), Hampton (Hampton, Virginia)
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