Amy Eddings

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The Sean Bell case will be decided by a judge, not a jury. The three detectives charged in the case requested a bench trial today, and a state supreme court justice formalized the arrangement.

The detectives had originally requested that the trial be moved outside of ...

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Governor Spitzer is proposing a $124 billion budget he says would close a $4.4 billion deficit, while spending more on schools, health care coverage for kids, dealing with declining growth caused by a slowing economy. The governor's plan increases spending by 5.3 percent.... the lowest ...

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The tragic death last year of a Bronx teenager in a residential juvenile facility upstate brought fresh scrutiny to how New York deals with its young offenders. And here's what we learned: 70 percent of the 2000 children committed to state facilities are from New ...

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With Super Tuesday just around the corner, culture critic Claudia La Rocco discusses two performances that mix the personal with the political.

Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People at DTW

Sharon Hayes at the New Museum

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Governor Corzine used his state of the state address today to beseech lawmakers to tackle New Jersey's chronic budget woes by hiking highway tolls by fifty percent, in 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022.

REPORTER: The increases would be used to help cut state debt, and pay ...

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On his weekly radio show, Mayor Bloomberg insists the meeting next week in Oklahoma is about nonpartisanship...and not about him entering the presidential race as an independent.

BLOOMBERG: Thing is not to advance any particular agenda, other than openness and giving public info they need to ...

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Police say 26-year-old Sam Schley was the first murder of 2008. He was shot in the chest.

Thirty-nine minutes later in the Bronx, a teenager, Kenny McClinton, died after being stabbed twice in the stomach. Later, in the Bronx neighborhoods of Morrisania and East Tremont, 2 ...

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Roger Clemens denied allegations by his former trainer that he took performance-enhancing drugs, calling them "a dangerous and destructive shortcut that no athlete should ever take."

The accusations against the seven-time Cy Young Award winner from his former trainer, Brian McNamee, were contained in last week's ...

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A federal jury in Long Island found a millionaire couple from Muttonville guilty of enslaving their two Indonesian housekeepers. The jury convicted Mahender Sabhnani and his wife, Varsha of all 12 charges in an indictment that included forced labor, conspiracy, involuntary servitude and harboring aliens.

Court ...

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NJ's Democratic-led state senate voted today, 21-to-16, to abolish capital punishment, persuaded by a special commission's report last January that capital punishment was more costly than life in prison without parole, and did little to deter murder. The measure goes to the Assembly for a ...

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Stores in New York are still stocking toys with unsafe levels of lead, according to the state Consumer Protection Board. A review, ordered by Governor Spitzer last summer after a number of national recalls, found about 620 recalled toys still on shelves in 2800 stores.

The ...

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The parents of the murdered girl who inspired Megan's Law against sexual predators urged New Jersey legislators not to abolish the death penalty.

Richard Kanka says convicted killer and death row inmate Jesse Timmendequas strangled and raped his daughter, and dumped her body in a park ...

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City buildings officials say scaffolding falls are down dramatically this year, but that's no consolation for the families of two Ecuadorian immigrants, who fell this morning from a high rise on the Upper East Side, killing one and seriously injuring the other.

Fire Department officials say ...

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As we head into the homestretch of 2007, New York City looks like it will quietly miss an environmental goal it set for itself last year, in its solid waste management plan -- to recycle 25 percent of the garbage generated by its residents and ...

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The cultural critic Claudia LaRocco joins Amy Eddings to talk about why a culture that’s highly opinionated on everything from O.J. to A-Rod – can’t get a handle on art. And she’s asks whether we have to "get”"it in order to like it.

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This holiday season, there will be only ONE grinch in New York City.... the green guy who will once again appear on stage in Dr. Seuess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Manhattan State Supreme Court Justice Helen Freedman issued an injunction ordering the show back to ...

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After a torrent of criticism and the worst ratings of his political career, Governor Eliot Spitzer has dropped his plan to issue drivers licenses to undocumented immigrants. In a press conference in Washington this morning, flanked by members of New York's congressional delegation, Spitzer said ...

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Pope Benedict the 16ht will visit the United States next spring for the first time as pontiff, and he'll be making a stop in New York City. Benedict's trip to the US, from April 15th to April 20th, will coincide with the third anniversary of ...

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An autopsy shows that New Yorker Carol Anne Gotbaum, who died in police custody at a Phoenix airport, accidentally strangled herself. The report by an Arizona medical examiner says Gotbaum was intoxicated on alcohol and prescription antidepressants, and that her condition contributed to her death.

Gotbaum's ...

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New York City film and television writers started their strike today by picketing at Rockefeller Center, near NBC's studios.

REPORTER: They were accompanied by a giant, inflatable rat, a familiar prop at union protests. Jonathan Bines writes for the late-night show, "Jimmy Kimmel Live."

BINES: Writers are ...