NEW YORK — A New York City panel has denied landmark status to a building near ground zero, freeing organizers to build an Islamic center and mosque there. The Landmarks Preservation Commission’s decision allows organizers to transform the 152-year-old building into an Islamic community center blocks from the site of the Sept. 11 attacks....
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MANCHESTER, Conn. — A warehouse worker who had been called in to resign his job at a beer distributor opened fire there Tuesday morning, a company executive said, and at least three people were shot. State police would not immediately confirm whether anyone was killed or what happened to the gunman. A fire at...
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NEW YORK — Two men were convicted Monday of plotting to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International Airport, a terror plot that authorities said was meant to outdo the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and avenge perceived U.S. oppression of Muslims around the world. A jury in Brooklyn federal court deliberated...
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Investigators in Alaska have identified the cargo plane that crashed Sunday in Denali National Park. The National Park Service says it was a Fairchild C-123 registered to All West Freight Inc. of Delta Junction, Alaska. The agency says there were three people onboard and apparently no survivors. The plane crashed into...
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The police on Staten Island were searching for three assailants Sunday in connection with the robbery and beating of a Mexican teenager a day earlier — the latest in a series of attacks on Mexican immigrants in Port Richmond that has spurred a heightened police presence and discussions among community leaders and residents on...
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One of Brooklyn’s most affluent neighborhoods was the scene of a savage homicide early Sunday. Investigators say a group of men killed Alex Santiago, 22, on the back of the head with a tire iron and stabbed him in the chest just after midnight Saturday, near the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 12th Street...
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THE REAL CRIMINALS Khayri Williams-Clark, 18, and an unidentified 17-year-old, both of Summit, were arrested Wednesday on manslaughter charges. Williams-Clark pleaded not guilty to the charge Friday. Now they’re charged with murder, along with Nigel Dumas, 19, of Morristown. A spokesman for the public defender’s office, which is representing Williams-Clark and the 17-year-old, declined...
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SUMMIT, N.J. — Dusk fell around Salvadoran immigrant Abelino Mazaniego as he sat on a bench on a promenade in an upscale New York suburb after finishing his restaurant shift. As night encroached, so did a group of teenagers, including one with a cell phone videocamera at the ready. Then, authorities say, they beat...
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The 24-year-old, who lives near Dallas, Texas, was apprehended in March while trying to board a Moscow-bound flight with “defense articles on the United States Munitions list” without permission. Latvia-born Miss Fermanova was arrested after returning to the USA earlier this month. She was stopped on March 1 by officials who found a Raptor...
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The NYPD surged into a Staten Island neighborhood Tuesday night in a show of force to combat a recent spike in bias attacks against Mexicans. Scores of cops – on foot patrols, in sky towers and command posts and in squad cars – hit Port Richmond after the weekend saw even more vicious attacks...
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