 | NY State Senate Candidate Accused of Stalking
Hempstead, N.Y. (AP) - Democratic New York state Senate candidate David Mejias has been charged with three counts of stalking a former girlfriend.
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 | Syracuse Teen Charged in Fatal Crash
Sullivan, N.Y. (AP) -- State police have charged a Syracuse teenager with drunken driving and vehicular homicide afterm investigating a wreck that left her passenger ead and another motorist badly hurt.
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| UPDATE: Oil rig explodes off La. coast; oil spreading
NEW ORLEANS, La. (AP) - Firefighting vessels are battling the flames from an oil rig that exploded and caught fire today in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast.
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| Bombardier awarded $267M railcar contract
Bombardier Transportation has been awarded a $267 million contract for 100 New Jersey Transit Corp. commuter railcars that will be assembled in Plattsburgh.
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| Century 21 deal for Lincoln Center site
Discount retailer Century 21 will be moving near Lincoln Center to a space being vacated by Barnes & Noble.
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| Boy struck by car in Buffalo parking lot dies
Police in Buffalo say an 8-year-old boy was killed in a supermarket parking lot when a driver backed into him.
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| Poll: Cuomo ahead but `ducking' fix for NY budget
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is still the runaway favorite to become New York's next governor, but that doesn't mean voters are pleased with him or his campaign so far.
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| UPDATE: Hatteras Island evac ordered for 30,000 residents
NAGS HEAD, N.C. (AP) - North Carolina's Dare County has ordered 30,000 residents and visitors to leave the Outer Banks' Hatteras Island as Hurricane Earl approaches.
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| Ex-UN weapons inspector charged in child-sex sting
STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) - An eastern Pennsylvania judge is considering a motion to dismiss charges against a former United Nations weapons inspector in an online child-sex sting.
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| First virtual school in Mass. opens Wednesday
BOSTON (AP) - As students in the state's first online-only public school, they will log onto a computer and find out what books they need to read and what new skills they should master.
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