Suburban New York police say a drunken driver had a suspended license and had marijuana in her car. Oh, they also say she didn’t have any pants on.
Yonkers police say 22-year-old Long Island resident Angelica Buchanan was found Saturday standing bottomless in a street near her car. They say she was so drunk she had [...]

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He wanted a couple of credit cards. He got a couple of thousand. Manhattan accountant Frank Van Buren found himself flooded with plastic in recent weeks, as the ExxonMobil cards kept on coming. Van Buren, who said he has had an ExxonMobil account for his business for 17 years, had ordered two copies of his [...]

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Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon, announced plans on Tuesday for a lottery which would send its winner into space in a bid to spread the dream of extraterrestrial travel beyond the super-wealthy.
Aldrin, who followed U.S. astronaut Neil Armstrong onto the moon in July 1969, said the lottery would be run [...]

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Betty and Bob Matas have retired and are moving to Arizona, but like many New Yorkers they don’t drive, and they don’t want their cats to travel all that way in an airliner cargo hold.
Their solution: “Hey, cabbie.”
They met taxi driver Douglas Guldeniz when they hailed his cab after a shopping trip several weeks ago.
They [...]

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An audience expecting to watch a family film was stunned to get an glimpse of a horror movie, which left some parents shaken and the theater chain apologizing for the movie mix-up.
The moviegoers were expecting to see “The Last Mimzy,” the PG-rated tale of a brother and sister who discover a mysterious box of toys [...]

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Police say an unemployed suburban mother of five found a quick way to make ends meet: turning her children into panhandlers.
Antoinette Jones, 37, pleaded not guilty to endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, at an arraignment Tuesday in Yonkers, a New York City suburb. A judge issued an order that bars her from [...]

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A New York social worker charged more than $3.5 million (1.8 million pounds) in jewellery using a city government account and then had some of the swag mailed to the homeless shelter for mentally-ill men where he worked, prosecutors said on Thursday.
In March, Tracy Ball made 604 electronic payments to Jewelry Television, a Tennessee-based retailer [...]

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Three brazen New Jersey shoplifters made off with nearly $12,000 (6,100 pounds) in women’s underwear by stuffing the goods into bags designed to foil anti-theft equipment at a Victoria’s Secret store while the shop was open for business, police said.
Surveillance cameras captured two men and one woman jamming undergarments into large bags and walking past [...]

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A man took his 12-year-old daughter along when he went door-to-door fraudulently collecting money for a city athletic association, police said. Marcel Royal, 37, of Syracuse, was charged with second-degree scheme to defraud and second-degree criminal impersonation, both misdemeanors. He also was charged with endangering the welfare of a child, a misdemeanor, said Syracuse police [...]

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Lottery players lined up at ticket machines across the nation Tuesday, dreaming about the fat bank accounts and permanent vacations that winning the record $370 million Mega Millions jackpot would bring.
New Yorkers were buying more than 1 million tickets an hour, said Robert McLaughlin, the state’s lottery director. Virginia retailers were selling about 8,550 tickets [...]

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