New York City News
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New York families whose children took a test for access to accelerated public-school programs have been informed of a second scoring error by Pearson Plc, prompting the city to re-evaluate its contract with the company.
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Apple Inc. and Google Inc. are among technology companies being asked by the New York attorney general to take steps to deter thefts of iPhones and other handheld devices and eliminate a black market for the products.
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President Barack Obama honored the country’s top police, recognizing 43 officers from ten states for heroic actions in a White House ceremony this morning.
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New York Water Rangers, a coalition of 10 environmental groups, is calling on state Senator Tom Libous to recuse himself from fracking deliberations after his ties to a real estate company with a natural-gas lease were disclosed.
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Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP will open an office in Sydney next month with Michael Mills and Michelle Fox of Herbert Smith Freehills.
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Organizers of the Gran Fondo New York bike race don’t want an amateur Lance Armstrong among the 6,000 cyclists competing in the 105-mile event next weekend.
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Alan Abelson, a columnist who cast a skeptical eye on U.S. financial markets and skewered targets from Alan Greenspan to Warren Buffett during more than four decades at Barron’s magazine, has died. He was 87.
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Former New York state Senator Shirley Huntley, who pleaded guilty to mail fraud conspiracy and tried to help the government in a corruption probe, was sentenced to one year in prison.
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, whose cutback of public-employee compensation two years ago made him a national model of Republican strength, now is trying to scrap century-old civil-service rules.
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The Federal Reserve has learned how to lessen economic slumps as it turns 100 years old.
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