Posts Tagged New York

Nieuwenhuis’ HR caps 4-run 9th, Mets startle Cubs

Chicago Cubs catcher Dioner Navarro,left,  watches along with New York Mets Kirk Nieuwenhuis, right,  after Nieuwenhuis hit a ninth-inning, walk-off, three-run, home run off Cubs relief pitcher Carlos Marmol in a baseball game in New York, Sunday, June 16, 2013. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

NEW YORK (AP) — For eight innings, the New York Mets made embarrassing mistakes, squandered chances and looked almost totally adrift.

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Still no word from Rangers about new coach

NEW YORK (AP) — Amid reports that Alain Vigneault is the New York Rangers’ choice to replace fired coach John Tortorella, the team still isn’t ready to make that announcement.

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Beyond NYC: Other places adapting to climate, too

In this Oct. 24, 2011 file photo, cars are parked on an overfly on a flooded street in Bangkok, Thailand. Sea level rise projections show Bangkok could be at risk of inundation in 100 years unless preventive measures are taken. But when the capital and its outskirts were affected in 2011 by the worst flooding in half-a century, the immediate trigger was water run-off from northern provinces, where dams failed to contain unusually heavy rains. (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong, File)

BONN, Germany (AP) — From Bangkok to Miami, cities and coastal areas across the globe are already building or planning defenses to protect millions of people and key infrastructure from more powerful storm surges and other effects of global warming.

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Scientists moving 15-ton magnet from NY to Chicago

A Dec. 22, 2005, photo provided by Brookhaven National Laboratory shows the 50-foot-wide electromagnet storage ring at Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, N.Y., on eastern Long Island. The ring, which will capture subatomic particles that live only 2.2 millionths of a second, will be transported in one piece, and moved flat, to its new home at the U.S. Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Illinois. The trip is expected to take more than a month. (AP Photo/Brookhaven National Laboratory)

UPTON, N.Y. (AP) — New York to Chicago, in five weeks?

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AP IMPACT: Bites derided as unreliable in court

In this Thursday, March 28, 2013, photo, Dr. Frank Wright, a forensic dentist, studying evidence in a bite mark analysis, which he practices on a regular basis in between seeing patients, is photographed at his office in Cincinnati. (AP Photo/Al Behrman)

At least 24 men convicted or charged with murder or rape based on bite marks on the flesh of victims have been exonerated since 2000, many after spending more than a decade in prison. Now a judge’s ruling later this month in New York could help end the practice for good.

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