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In the wake of the anti-Israel terrorist organization Hamas winning control of the Palestinian Authority government last More ... Vallone Closes Auto Accident Loophole Vallone called on the state legislature last week to close a loophole in a law that was enacted last year tightening the statute dealing with persons who leave the scene of an accident. More ... Justice Risi Retires From Bench After 17 years on the bench, state Supreme Court Justice Joseph J. Risi, has announced he is resigning his judicial position and will join his son, Joseph Risi Jr., in private practice as counsel to the firm of Risi & Associates at 23-19 31st St., Long Island City. More ... 114th Police Precinct Blotter Saturday, January 21: • A 50-year-old black male was arrested at 27th Avenue and 8th Street and charged with forcible rape, criminal impersonation of a police officer and unlawful imprisonment after he forced a victim to perform sexual acts without her consent. Under the direction of Sergeant Costa More ... Onorato Pushes Bill To Ensure Highway Safety With two months of winter weather still ahead, state Senator George Onorato (D–Long Island City) is once again pushing his legislation (S.3465) requiring drivers in New York state to clean their cars and trucks of accumulated snow, sleet and hail before heading out on the road. More ...
BY RICHARD GENTILVISO A lmost three years after smoking was banned in all public areas and places in New York City, most people are abiding by the smoke-free More ...
Borough President Helen Marshall looks on as students at the Aviation H.S. annex at John F. Kennedy International Airport get some hands-on experience. Marshall visited the annex, which the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey recently opened at JFK, on January 19. More ... On the brief side... Crowley Commemorates UN Holocaust Day Congressmember Joseph Crowley recently commemorated the first annual United Nations International Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27. The world was urged to observe the occasion so that future generations will be spared acts of genocide. More ...
Flags at the state capitol and across New York were lowered to half-staff by order of Governor George Pataki in memory of Coretta Scott King, widow of the civil rights leader, who died sometime during Monday night and Tuesday morning. She was 78 years old and had been in declining health since suffe More ... 114th Precinct Gets 14 New, 26 Reassigned Cops BY RICHARD GENTILVISO The 114th Police Precinct will have more than 200 police officers for the first time in a while, according to Deputy Inspector Brian McCarthy, commanding officer of the 114th, giving the precinct a total of 202 officers for the New Year. More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO Citing the recent deaths of three 9/11 responders, Congressmembers Carolyn Maloney and Vito Fossella continued their bipartisan push for better health treatment for those who worked at the Ground Zero site last week as they demanded that President George W. Bush appoint a seasoned health professiona More ...
Secondino “Dino” Carusone, surrounded by his family and close friends, succumbed to a year-long battle with colon cancer on Sunday, January 8 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He was 55 years old. More ...
Anthony P. Siano, CFSP of East Meadow, New York has recently qualified for recertification of the designation of Certified Funeral Service Practitioner (CFSP) by the Academy of Professional Funeral Service Practice (APFSP). More ...
BY THOMAS COGAN The East River-North Shore Greenway was presented in its latest outline at a meeting held at the ARROW (Astoria Residents Recycling for Our World) center in Astoria in late January. The meeting, a joint effort of the Department of City Planning and the city Department of Parks & Recreation, was for More ... New SATs Put New Pressure On High School Students By Diana Sanders For a high school student, the educational process involves midterms, projects, presentations and homework of varying degrees of difficulty for course loads that differ for each individual. But common to almost every high school student are the extreme pressures of taking one specific test during th More ...
BY CATHERINE TSOUNIS “The Greek genius found all the elements necessary for producing masterpieces and reaching a level of development that no future generation would ever attain,” said Guiseppe Di Giovanni in his guide book, More ...
BY LINDA NEWBY D ecember at Queens Boulevard Extended Care Facility was an exciting month for More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO It used to be you would go to visit your dentist with some trepidation about the pain you would have to endure. You would sit in the waiting room bored, staring into space, dozing, or reading last year’s magazines. More ... Love Your Heart During February New York City and the rest of the country will Go Red For Women during February, American Heart Month. More ...
(NAPSA)-If quitting smoking has become a habit, you’re not alone. A recent study found that more than 51 percent of surveyed smokers say they will or may try to quit in 2006, and nearly all of them (86 percent) have tried to quit before. More ...
BY JOHN TOSCANO A revolutionary new health care t o o l a p a t i e n t More ... New York City Flu Activity Picks Up Daily monitoring of hospital emergency department visits suggests that flu activity is increasing in New York City. The growing number of New Yorkers experiencing cough and fever over the past several days–signs typically associated with the spread of communitywide flu–is a reminder for New Yorkers More ... T H E p ul p i t Atonement Lutheran: •Sunday, 10:15 a.m., services; noon, Sunday school in English; 2 p.m., service in Spanish. More ... Church Concert Hails African-American Heritage In appreciation of America’s African-American heritage, the Bowne Street Community Church, 143-11 Roosevelt Ave., Flushing, will present blues, gospel, R&B and jazz vocal music on Sunday, February 12 at 3 p.m. Ayana Lowe, a former member of the church choir, will be accompanied by James Weidman on p More ... bcpbank Offers Home Equity Lending Line bcpbank has launched a new product designed to help homeowners take full More ...
BY GLORIA SANDERS T The next stop on the No. 7 “International Express” is 74th Street in Jackson Heights, in the heart of the area often referred to as “Little India”. Immigrants still More ... Golden Gloves Boxing Championships Continue The 79th annual Daily News Golden Gloves, the oldest and largest amateur boxing tournament in the world, continues Wednesday, February 1, 8 p.m., at the South Jamaica PAL (Police Athletic League), 116-25 Guy R. Brewer Blvd. More ... PSEKA 2006 CALENDAR OF EVENTS FEBRUARY-APRIL Feb. 11 Cyprus Brotherhood of Greater Chicago Dinner Dance Feb. 16 Special Literary Memorial at Cephalos Society Feb. 17 Salamis Ski Trip Crystal Springs, Minerals Resort, Vernon, New Jersey Feb. 25 Lampousa Society "Cyprus Night" More ...
The Astoria–Long Island City Kiwanis Club presented Quality Services for the Autistic Community (QSAC) with $1,000 to purchase gym equipment to enhance the physical activity center in QSAC’s Astoria location. (L. to r.): Laurie Ackerman, QSAC director of development, Cory Polshansky, QSAC deputy exe More ...
The girls’ basketball team of Christ the King H.S. defeated rival Murray Bergtraum H.S., on More ... St. John’s Upsets Louisville, Pitt in Consecutive Wins BY RICHARD KAGAN The St. John’s men’s basketball team has been on quite a roll this past week. In defeating first the 15th-ranked Cardinals of the University of Louisville on January 17, and then Pittsburgh on January 21, St. John’s looked like a team that was ready to play in the highly competitive, newly formed Bi More ... LIC YMCA Men’s Winter Basketball League A Division Dream Team “A” 3 0 More ... Gioia-YMCA All-Stars Youth Basketball League Novice Division Lakers 2 0 More ...
BY DIANA SANDERS A nticipation, enthusiasm and excitement are rising. The biggest day in sports is almost here and More ... Woodside-Maspeth Rezoning Stems Overdevelopment BY THOMAS COGAN On a January evening after the Woodside/Maspeth zoning study was at last certified, representatives of the Department of City Planning and Community Board 2 held an informational meeting and assessment of the study’s significance before more than 100 concerned residents in the school cafeteria at St More ...
Elmhurst Hospital Center held an exhibit opening for “Garden In Winter”, a handmade flower mural by the “ElderArtisan”, a peer teaching crafts group of the hospital’s Senior Care Center patients, January 24. Garden In Winter will be on display in the Elmhurst Art Gallery located in the main lobby of More ... Brooklyn Man Held In 2nd, Earlier Kidnap-Rape BY LINDA J. WILSON A 34-year-old Brooklyn man under arrest for the kidnapping, rape, assault and robbery of a 13-year-old Woodside girl in October 2005 has been arrested again after DNA evidence connected him to a similar attack on a 15-year-old Elmhurst girl in December 2003. More ... |
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