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Martin Van Buren, born in Kinderhook village, Columbia County, New York. Eighth president of the United States of America (1837-1841).
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Taxes and education
The Commission on Property Tax Relief took a surprising direction in the report it released Monday.
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Gas prices hit 3-year low
Retail gasoline fell to a new three-year low Tuesday and in an unprecedented decline, crude oil costs $100 less per barrel than it did four months ago with a U.S. recession eating away at energy demand.
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Poll: Obama gets high marks on transition, Cabinet picks
December 02, 2008, 8:51 p.m. WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama gets soaring marks for his handling of the transition and his choices for the Cabinet, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, even at a time the ...
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Wal-Mart Sued After New York Stampede Death
The family of a worker trampled to death in a "Black Friday" crush of bargain hunters at a Long Island Wal-Mart store filed a wrongful death lawsuit on Wednesday, claiming store ads offering deep discounts ...
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Stolen antiquities returned from NY to Egypt
Federal officials in NYC return stolen antiquities to Egyptians NEW YORK - Dozens of ancient artifacts stolen by a former U.S. Army helicopter pilot were returned to the Egyptian government on Wednesday during ...
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Fed: Economy darkens heading into holidays
The Federal Reserve's new snapshot of business conditions nationwide, released Wednesday, suggested the economy was sinking deeper into recession.
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Nixon records show aides dishing dirt on critics
In Richard Nixon's time, all the president's men fretted about threats on every front: disquiet out on the streets, disloyalty inside the administration and trouble from political opponents who had to be discredited at any cost. Documents and recordings released Tuesday show Nixon's operatives dishing dirt on the president's critics and public figures, including their marital, mental and drinking problems, and struggling to contain growing public unrest over the war in Vietnam. The president starkly set that tone.
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Ivana Trump splits with hubby No. 4
New York socialite and businesswoman Ivana Trump says she plans to divorce her fourth husband, entrepreneur and reality TV personality Rossano Rubicondi.
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Oil prices drop to $46
Oil prices slumped to just above 46 dollars here on Tuesday, reaching the lowest point in almost four years, as global energy demand weakened amid a widespread economic slowdown.
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Barker, D.J. AM Book New Year's Gig
Three and a half months after surviving a deadly plane crash, Travis Barker and D.J. AM will headline a New Year's Eve party that will span 10 U.S. cities.
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Lawyer: Trampled Wal-Mart worker lacked crowd training
A family attorney says a temporary worker trampled to death by customers at a New York Wal-Mart store had no training in crowd control.
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Shoppers Sue Over Fatal Wal-Mart Stampede
Two men who say they were hurt in a fatal stampede at a Long Island Wal-Mart are ready to sue over an alleged lack of preventative action by police.
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Bill Clinton For Senate?
With Hillary Clinton headed to Foggy Bottom in January, speculation about her successor is heating up: The task of choosing a successor falls to David Paterson, New York's Democratic governor.
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OBAMA license plates become target for NY thieves
A Long Island Democratic supporter says he's been driven to hide his OBAMA vanity license plates inside his car because people kept trying to steal them.
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Oil falls below $51 as OPEC doesn't cut output
Oil prices fell over 6 percent Monday, to below $51 a barrel, after OPEC decided not to cut production at an informal meeting in Cairo on Saturday and on more evidence the global economic slowdown will hurt ...
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Museu Picasso presents ' Living Things ~ Picasso Figure / Still Life '
Museu Picasso presents Living Things: Picasso Figure - Still Life, on view through March 1, 2009.
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Record-setting hurricane season nears its end
The 2008 Atlantic hurricane season, which ends Sunday, seemed to strike the United States and Cuba as if on redial, setting at least five weather records for persistence and repeatedly striking the same areas.
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Ritchie Planning New York Pub Venture
Madonna 2008-11-30 15:36:04 - MADONNA's ex GUY RITCHIE is making plans to open a new pub in the pop superstar's native New York.
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NY couple slain in Mumbai to be buried in Israel
A relative says the New York couple gunned down in India will be flown to Israel and likely buried Monday. Twenty-nine-year-old Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg and his 28-year-old wife, Rivkah, were members of the New York-based Chabad-Lubavitch ultra-orthodox Jewish sect. The pair ran a Jewish outreach center in Mumbai, India. Three other victims killed at the Chabad house have been identified: Bentzion Chroman, a dual U.S.-Israeli citizen; Rabbi Leibish Teitelbaum, a U.S. citizen and New Yorker who lived in Jerusalem, and an Israeli tourist, Yocheved Orpaz.
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