Flight canceled after flight attendant argument

Categories: U.S.| Feb 26, 2010

ROCHESTER, N.Y. - An argument between two female flight attendants forced the cancellation of an Atlanta-bound flight at an airport in upstate New York. A Pinnacle Airlines spokesman in Memphis, Joe Williams, says the spat erupted just as Delta Connection Flight ...Read More

Cruel winter's latest insult bears down on East

Categories: U.S.| Feb 25, 2010

Cruel winter's latest insult bears down on East PHILADELPHIA -- Another icy storm barreled into the winter-weary Northeast on Thursday as utility companies, airlines and others planned for what could team up with wet, heavy snowfall to be the most damaging part: high winds. Even coastal New England, where ...Read More

Ex-sportscaster Marvell Scott claims he's been framed after being charged with ...

Categories: Sports| Feb 23, 2010

Former sportscaster Marvell Scott was charged Tuesday with raping a terrified 14-year-old runaway - and claims he's being framed. "This case boils down to an attempt to shake down Dr. Scott by a pimp and two prostitutes," his lawyer, Richard Portale, ...Read More

Animal cruelty trial starts for NY horse breeder

Categories: U.S.| Feb 23, 2010

CATSKILL, N.Y. ? A trial has started for a prominent thoroughbred breeder who was banned from racing after more than 170 malnourished horses were seized from his upstate New York farm. Ernie Paragallo's non-jury trial began Tuesday in Greene County Court ...Read More

Steele to Meet With Tea Party Leaders

Categories: U.S.| Feb 16, 2010

Steele to Meet With Tea Party Leaders Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele plans to sit down with dozens of Tea Party leaders Tuesday in the first such meeting of two wings of the conservative movement that could be either vital partners or bitter rivals. Tea Party supporters ...Read More

300 diagnosed with mumps in N.Y.

Categories: Health| Feb 7, 2010

300 diagnosed with mumps in N.Y. MONSEY, New York (AP) - More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as America's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads. Almost all the cases are among Orthodox Jews. A health official says ...Read More

300 people diagnosed with mumps in suburban NY

Categories: Health, Top Stories| Feb 6, 2010

MONSEY, N.Y. -- More than 300 people have been diagnosed with the mumps in suburban New York as the nation's largest outbreak of the disease in years spreads. A health official says 303 people in the Rockland County towns of Monsey ...Read More

” -- Bill Cowher, on his interview with Plaxico Burress

Categories: Sports| Feb 3, 2010

In an interview set to air Sunday on CBS, imprisoned Plaxico Burress vows to play in the NFL again and said he apologized to the Giants for tarnishing the organization. "I will play again," Burress said in the interview with his ...Read More

Upstate NY mayor bids to hold 9/11 terror trial

Categories: U.S.| Jan 29, 2010

NEWBURGH, N.Y.-The mayor of a small upstate New York city says his community would be the perfect site for the Sept. 11 terrorist trial, if officials decide to move it out of Manhattan. Mayor Nicholas Valentine said Friday that Newburgh, a ...Read More

Man Arrested After Weapons, Map of U.S. Military Facility Seized From N.J. Motel Room

Categories: U.S.| Jan 27, 2010

Authorities in central New Jersey seized a cache of weapons and ammunition including rifles, a grenade launcher and a night vision scope from the motel room of a Virginia man arrested early Monday by officers responding to a report of ...Read More