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Anheuser-Busch Announces $9M Investment in Upstate New York Brewery
Industrial Equipment News - Wisconsin
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August 15, 2025
Anheuser-Busch plans to invest $9 million in its brewery in upstate New York, company officials announced earlier this month. The Budweiser brewer said the project would, in part, expand the Baldwinsville, New York, plant’s production capacity for...
Three babies die amid ‘concerning rise’ of syphilis in New York — what to know about the dangerous disease
New York Post
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August 15, 2025
At least three babies have died of presumed congenital syphilis in New York state this year, prompting health officials to warn about the risks of the preventable infection. A pregnant woman can pass syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection, to...
Students Uncover Flaw in New York’s Citicorp Center Nearly Toppling Skyscraper
Times News Global
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August 15, 2025
NEW YORK, Aug. 15, 2025 — On October 12, 1977, Citicorp opened the tallest skyscraper in New York City since the 1930s. The 915-foot Citicorp Center tower featured a distinctive sloped roof, dominating the Midtown skyline. However, this towering...
'Let's Take Back Our City:' Biotech Entrepreneur Enters NYC Mayoral Race to Thwart Mamdani
Twitchy
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August 16, 2025
New Yorkers faced no good choices in their upcoming mayoral race. There's the commie Zohran Mamdani, the corrupt COVID grandma killer Andrew Cuomo, the corrupt current Mayor Eric Adams, and Quixotic candidate Curtis Sliwa. Of those four, New...
Scientists discover an ancient whale with a Pokemon face and a predator bite
The Daily Press - Michigan
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(Ruairidh Duncan via AP) In this illustration provided by Ruairidh Duncan a Janjucetus dullardi is depicted chasing a fish. WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — Long before whales were majestic, gentle giants, some of their prehistoric ancestors were...
The New York Times announces new leadership in Product Design
Editor and Publisher
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Kate Elazegui Alex Hardiman & Steve Duenes | The New York Times We’re thrilled to share the news that we’ve chosen Kate Elazegui as our new head of Product Design and Matt Raw as deputy head of Product Design. Design is fundamental to The Times’s...
Burnsville woman’s family fights for justice 40 years after brutal New York murder
FOX 9 - Minnesota
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Kristin O'Connell was found dead in a cornfield, nearly decapitated, 40 years ago. Her murder remains unsolved. FOX 9's Soyoung Kim has the story. EAGAN, Minn. (FOX 9) - Kristin O'Connell’s family and friends gathered to honor her on Thursday,...
New York-Jersey City-White Plains Home Prices Up 4.4% Year Over Year in July, According to First American Data & Analytics Monthly Home Price Index Report
TMCNet
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August 14, 2025
First American Data & Analytics, a leading national provider of property-centric information, risk management and valuation solutions and a division of First American Financial Corporation (NYSE: FAF), today released its July 2025 Home Price Index...
New York State Office of Cannabis Management discusses class rescheduling benefits
WBNG - New York
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August 14, 2025
NEW YORK (WBNG) -- In recent months, there has been a growing push to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule 1 drug to a Schedule 3 drug on the federal level. Advocates for Cannabis said its current classification, which represents the most dangerous...
New York officials, researchers ask for help to combat Spotted Lanternfly
WAMC - New York
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August 14, 2025
A summer scourge of Spotted Lanternfly have returned to the Northeast and New York officials and researchers are asking for the public’s help in collecting data and preventing the spread of the invasive species. Spotted Lanternfly populations were...
Meet the New Boss of New York Politics
City Journal
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August 15, 2025
Zohran Mamdani’s surprising victory in this year’s Democratic mayoral primary was more than just a win for a young socialist assemblyman from Queens. It was the clearest sign yet that a new kind of political boss now dominates Democratic politics...
Mayor Adams Is Right: New York Should Commit Dangerous Addicts
City Journal
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August 15, 2025
On Thursday, New York City mayor Eric Adams proposed the Compassionate Interventions Act, allowing doctors and judges to order involuntary treatment for people addicted to drugs or alcohol who pose a danger to themselves or others. “We must help...
Syntec Optics (Nasdaq: OPTX) Enables Next-Generation
South Africa Today
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August 18, 2025
ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, Aug. 13, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Syntec Optics Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTX) (“Syntec Optics” or the “Company”), a leading provider of technology products to defense, biomedical, communications, and consumer industry leaders,...
Brother’s Keepers: How Two Top Adams Officials Helped Their Sibling Succeed
The City - New York
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August 18, 2025
Support local news today! Our nonprofit newsroom relies on readers like you to power investigations like these. Join the community that powers NYC’s independent local news. There stands David Banks, at the time chancellor of the New York City...
Matthew Libatique On The Secrets Behind Shooting ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ Across New York City With “Fearless” Spike Lee: “Spike Is Down For Anything”
Deadline
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August 15, 2025
“He’s like a jazz musician,” Matthew Libatique explains when quizzed on his longtime collaborator Spike Lee. The two filmmakers, both native New Yorkers, have worked together on five features: Inside Man, She Hate Me, Miracle at St. Anna, Chi-Raq,...
5:00 a.m. crime crime How a Teen Summer Program Was Swept Up in a $17 Million Heist By Matt Stieb Over 48 hours, ATM machines all over New York City were completely drained of cash.
New York Mag
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August 15, 2025
An ATM in a store on Rockaway Parkway in New York. Photo: Hilary Swift/The New York Times/Redux In the video, three grown men stand in the back of a mostly empty bodega around an ATM, a fat stack of dollar bills on a shelf beside them. The...
This New York skyscraper had a 1-in-16 chance of collapse. Only one man knew
CNN
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August 15, 2025
On October 12, 1977, banking giant Citicorp opened the tallest new skyscraper in New York City since the early 1930s. From afar, the 915-foot tower’s distinctive sloped roof cut through the Midtown skyline like a scalpel. Close up, at ground...
New York woman finds 2.3-carat gem at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds
United Press International (UPI)
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1 of 3 | Micherre Fox found a 2.3-carat white diamond after three weeks of searching at Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. Photo courtesy of Arkansas State Parks Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A New York woman visited Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State...
RIP: Tributes paid to New York priest who had strong Tipperary-roots
Tipperary Star
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August 15, 2025
Tributes are being paid online to Fr Patrick Ryan who passed away in the care of the Jesuit Community in New York on August 10. Born in Queens on Aug. 11, 1939, Father Ryan grew up in an “extremely Irish environment,” he said in a 2012 interview...
Safe Bulkers offers €10,000 scholarships to Cypriot, Greek students
Cyprus Mail
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August 18, 2025
Safe Bulkers Inc., listed on the New York Stock Exchange and led by Cypriot CEO Polys V. Hajioannou, has announced the launch of its 5th Annual Scholarship Programme for the academic year 2025–2026, as part of its Environmental, Social and...