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Expectant parents die in NY crash; baby survives
NEW YORK (AP) — A young Jewish Orthodox couple en route to a hospital to have their first child were killed in a car crash early Sunday, but their child survived. Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21, were using a car service to go to the hospital...Tags: Israel, Hospitals and Clinics, Brooklyn (New York City), Religion and Belief, Williamsburg (Bronx, New York)
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Bridgeport Woman Charged In Fatal Crash; New Haven Woman Killed
The Hartford CourantA 23-year-old Bridgeport woman was arrested Monday in connection with a car crash in New York that claimed the life of a woman from New Haven. Ayisha Dobson was driving a 2003 Nissan Altima that crashed on the Williamsburg Bridge around 4 a.m. Monday,...Tags: Accidental Death, Motorvehicle Accidents, Queens (New York City), Murder, Transportation Accidents
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Hampton Roads real estate developer goes public
Virginia Beach-based Armada Hoffler Properties, the developer for the Apprentice School and Aaron Brooks mixed-use project in Newport News, began trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday. The company announced its initial public offering...
Tags: Financial Markets, Services and Shopping, Hampton Roads, Hampton University, Newport News (Newport News, Virginia)
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Historic black church rises from the Yorktown contraband camp
When the crowds came to Surrender Field in 1931 for the 150th anniversary of the American victory over the British at Yorktown, what they saw was an immense expanse of tents and an enormous grandstand. Lost in all the patriotic hoopla was the...
Tags: York (York, Pennsylvania), NAACP, Human Interest, Reconstruction, Slavery
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Smith Mountain Lake preparing to host college fishing tournament
Smith Mountain Lake is preparing for a college fishing tournament. The FLW College Fishing tournament will be held on Smith Mountain Lake on April 27. Fifty college teams will be competing for $2,000 and a berth in the Northern Conference Invitational...
Tags: Salem (Salem, Virginia), Bowling Green State University, Madison (New Haven, Connecticut), Richmond (Richmond, Virginia), Lifestyle and Leisure
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Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough
BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...Tags: Entertainment Events, Ellis Island, Electronics, Lincoln Center, Festive Events
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Phoenix hits 'Saturday Night Live' ahead of Coachella
A week before it's to headline Night 2 of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, Phoenix hit "Saturday Night Live" over the weekend with two songs from its upcoming album, "Bankrupt!" The French band opened with a blistering rendition of...
Tags: Entertainment Events, Selena Gomez, Saturday Night Live (tv program), Entertainment, Awards and Prizes
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Brooklyn dodgers
NEW YORK — Sorry, but I've heard that Brooklyn is over. You can get your hipster mustache waxed; just don't do it in Brooklyn. You wouldn't go to Seattle now, would you? If you wanted to visit the American community of the moment, you would visit,...Tags: Flatbush, William Styron, Red Hook, Defiance (movie), Ghouls and Zombies (supernatural entities)
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Man freed after 23 years in prison, cleared of killing N.Y. rabbi
After more than two decades in prison, David Ranta walked out of a Brooklyn courtroom a free man Thursday, no longer charged with murdering a rabbi in one of the city’s more well-known homicides. “To say I'm sorry for what you've endured...
Tags: Murder, Justice System, Defendants, The New York Times, Crime, Law and Justice
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Other venues: 'Rust and Bone,' 'Brooklyn Castle,' 'West Side Story'
After Hours Film Society Tivoli Theatre 5021 Highland Ave., Downers Grove 630-534-4528 afterhoursfilmsociety.com "Rust and Bone" żżżż (France; Jacques Audiard, 2012) Romantic and pitiless, fearlessly emotional as well as edgy, "Rust and Bone"...
Tags: IMAX, Ang Lee, Entertainment, Rita Moreno, Susan Sarandon
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Suspect in deadly Brooklyn hit-and-run arrested in Pennsylvania
The man wanted in a Brooklyn hit-and-run that took three lives was arrested in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, about 90 miles west of where the crash occurred. The local ABC affiliate, WABC, showed video of Julio Acevedo in a blue hooded jacket and...
Tags: ABC (tv network), New York City Police Department, Manhattan (New York City), Raymond W. Kelly, Shootings
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Reward raised for driver who fled deadly hit-and-run in Brooklyn
The reward for the man wanted in connection with the tragic hit-and-run accident in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn has risen to $12,000, police said on Tuesday, as authorities searched for the man who fled the scene where a family was killed....
Tags: Motorvehicle Accidents, Transportation Accidents, Religion and Belief, Judaism, Christian Orthodoxy
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