Posts Tagged New York City

Bruce homers to back Cueto in Reds’ win over Mets

NEW YORK (AP) — Jay Bruce hit a tiebreaking homer and drove in two runs to back Johnny Cueto’s wild but effective return from the disabled list, and the Cincinnati Reds beat the New York Mets 4-3 Monday night.

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Conn. derailment to cause ‘greatly slowed’ commute

Shuttle buses line up to transport commuters at the transportation center in Bridgeport, Ct., Monday, May 20, 2013. The commuters had arrived from New Haven by train and were being bused to Stamford, Ct., where rail service to New York was available. A train collision on Friday injured 72 people and disrupted rail service into New York City. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Commuters navigated a patchwork of cars, trains and buses along Connecticut’s shoreline Monday, encountering lengthy delays as authorities probed the cause of a train collision that disrupted one of the nation’s oldest and most heavily traveled railways.

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Tumblr CEO’s mom gushes over billion-dollar baby

In this Oct. 1, 2012 file photo, Tumblr founder David Karp participates in the "Bloomberg Leadership Summit" seminar in New York. In a deal announced Monday, May 20, 2013, Yahoo is buying New York-based Tumblr, the online blogging forum, for $1.1 billion. About $275 million will go to Karp, 26, who dropped out of high school to concentrate on computer programming and started Tumblr six years ago. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes/Invision for Advertising Week)

NEW YORK (AP) — As a teenager, Tumblr CEO David Karp would canvass the streets of New York City’s Upper West Side, offering to build websites for local businesses. After his freshman year of high school, the precocious, computer-savvy kid decided to drop out altogether to devote more time to his passion for technology.

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Mets sign RHP David Aardsma to minor league deal

NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Mets have signed right-handed reliever David Aardsma to a minor league contract and assigned him Triple-A Las Vegas.

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Split-second choice ended with NY student dead

CORRECTS SPELLING OF LAST NAME -- In this photo copied from the 2010 Sleepy Hollow High School yearbook, high school student Andrea Rebello is shown. Police said Rebello, a junior at Hofstra University in Hempstead, N.Y., was shot and killed Friday, May 17, 2013, during a break-in near the college campus. (AP Photo/Sleepy Hollow High School)

MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — As a grieving family prepared for the funeral of a Hofstra University junior killed by a police officer’s bullet during a standoff with an armed intruder, some on Monday questioned whether police should have waited for help, including a hostage negotiating team.

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