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NEW YORK (AP) - A 55-year-old man died Saturday after hitting his head on the pavement during a fight outside a New York City bar. An off-duty firefighter is charged with assault. Officers responding to a 911 call found Devin Deegan lying outside the Terrace Inn Bar in Queens with…

Much of Julius’ remains unchanged from that era, including the long wooden bar with a century’s worth of “scratchitti” carved into it. Jacob Ruppert Brewery beer barrels serve as tables and stools. Chandeliers dangling overhead are made from wagon wheels of horse-drawn carriages that once delivered ice. Julius’ had started…

Convicting the All-Time Affable Carmine De Sapio: The Last Chief of Tammany Hall, a new book by Paul K. Rooney, has been released by Dorrance Publishing Co., Inc. Convicting the All-Time Affable Carmine De Sapio describes the prosecution of Carmine De Sapio, who was a political boss in New York…

March 26, 2021 | 2:55am | Updated March 26, 2021 | 10:04am Four people were wounded in a pair of double shootings across two New York City boroughs on Thursday night, police said.  The gunplay kicked off in Washington Heights at about 6:15 p.m., when a gunman opened fire in…

Racially motivated crimes against Asian-Americans rose by 149 per cent in 2020 in 16 major cities compared with 2019 Anyone dialling emergency services can now utter a single English word in their native language – such as Mandarin – and operators will help access translators Published: 4:58am, 26 Mar, 2021…

Noga Erez is sitting on the rooftop of her apartment block in Tel-Aviv. After weeks of a crazy storm, the sun has finally come out, and she’s making the most of it as a small luxury she’s worked years to achieve. Diligence is a trait that has been instilled in…

Scottish Water signs five-year contract with UK Enterprise Architecture software developer to propel digital project efficiency Since procuring iServer, Scottish Water has increased its understanding of the impact of change projects on the IT and business landscape Orbus Software logo London, New York City and Sydney – 24th March, 2021…

About 80,000 New York City employees will return to their offices on May 3, in a move Mayor Bill De Blasio called a “powerful message” about the city’s post-Covid-19 comeback. Today’s news follows word on Monday that Morgan Stanley plans what it described as a “full return” to the office…

A huge blaze broke out at Evergreen Court in Spring Valley, some 30 miles north of New York City, at around 1:40 a.m. Tuesday.March 23, 2021 Read More

Commentary It took New York City 10 long years for them to welcome home Vietnam War veterans officially, gratitude they were denied in 1975 primarily because of the deep fracture in trust between civilians and the U.S. military during and after that war. The ticker tape parade held in 1985…