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These holiday breads spring from long histories
Stroll into my kitchen this holiday season, and you'll smell the rich aromas of cinnamon, cardamom, melting chocolate and toasting nuts. Busy making dozens of festive cookies, most would presume. Nope. Instead, I'm carrying on my family's tradition of...Tags: Breads, Salt, Walnuts, Almonds, All Purpose Flour
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NY man dies in single-car accident
NEW YORK (AP) _ A Staten Island man has been killed in a single-car accident and the driver has been arrested. The accident happened Tuesday afternoon on the West Shore Expressway near the Staten Island Expressway. Police say the car struck a...Tags: Police Arrests, Police, Vehicles, Road Accidents
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NY arts info booth closing amid few arts inquiries
An arts group says it's shuttering an information kiosk at a Staten Island ferry terminal after hardly any visitors asked about the arts. The Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island will stop running the booth at the Whitehall Ferry...Tags: Whitehall, Statue of Liberty, Arts, Manhattan (New York City)
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NY digital billboards feature shoplifter photos
You'd better watch out! That's the message being spread via digital billboards at the Staten Island Mall. They feature more than just holiday shopping tips _ they also show pictures of shoplifters. District Attorney Daniel Donovan says the anti-...Tags: Advertising
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THIS DATE IN HISTORY
1922: Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate. 1964: The upper level of New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge, connecting Brooklyn and Staten Island, was opened. 1967: President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the...Tags: Georgia, Government, Richard Nixon, The White House, New York
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DA: Obama election spurred hate crime
Special to NewsdayTwo Staten Island 18-year-olds were among a group of men who yelled "Obama! Obama!" as they assaulted an African-American teenager on Staten Island in the early morning hours of Nov. 5, just hours after Sen. Barack Obama was elected president, a spokesman...Tags: Maryland, Police Arrests, Crimes, Police, Police Investigations
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Firefighter killed in blaze at 2-story Staten Island home
lidesk@newsday.comA veteran New York City firefighter was killed early Sunday when a ceiling collapsed as he fought a Staten Island residential blaze apparently sparked by faulty electrical wiring, fire officials said. The collapsing building knocked the oxygen mask and...Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Fires
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Nancy Ripley Rost, devoted mom and doctor, dies at 78
joie.tyrrell@newsday.comNancy Ripley Rost, a longtime resident of Baldwin, was a devoted mother who also spent nearly two decades working as a doctor. Rost died Oct. 25 at her home after suffering from myelofibrosis, a bone marrow disorder. She was 78. Born on Staten Island,...Tags: Cornell University, Texas, Neptune Society Incorporated (The), Manhattan (New York City), Colleges and Universities
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Serve Up This Thanksgiving Feast At Home
Food EditorErika Di Battista grew up eating pretty untraditional Thanksgiving dinners. Her father had Italian roots, and her mother had German ancestry. She grew up in Staten Island, N.Y., but at age 7 her family moved her to Fort Lauderdale. "I think of myself...Tags: Bacon, Breads, Pumpkin Pie, Food Safety, Apples
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On this day in history
On Nov. 21, 1789, North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution. In 1934 the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes," starring Ethel Merman as Reno Sweeney, opened in New York. In 1942 the Alaska highway across Canada was formally...Tags: George Bush, Ron Artest, Saddam Hussein, New Hampshire, Texas
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Interesting Travel Deals And Websites
Here are some of the more interesting deals and websites that came across our desk recently: >> SINY, a booster group promoting New York's Staten Island, has launched a Staten Island Pizza Tour Saturdays that starts at the St. George Ferry Terminal at 11...Tags: St. George, Cross Country Skiing, Tickets, Manhattan (New York City), Bars and Clubs
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Democrats nab U.S. House seats in Northeast, South
WASHINGTON - House Democrats solidified their control of the Northeast and made gains in the South, defeating Republicans from Connecticut to Arizona as they pushed for historic gains in their majority. Ousting 22-year veteran Rep. Chris Shays in...Tags: Government, Tim Mahoney, Tom Feeney, Kentucky, Joe Donnelly
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