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  • Former New York Gov. David Paterson (AP Photo/Tim Roske, File)

    Ex-N.Y. governor won't be charged in Yankee tickets rap

    Former Gov. David Paterson will not face perjury charges on allegations that he lied about taking free Yankees tickets for the 2009 World Series, a decision that effectively puts an end to the most serious legal problem stemming from his tumultuous administration.

  • Illustration: Andrew Cuomo's plan

    Andrew Cuomo's big eraser

    A newly elected governor just persuaded his dysfunctional state legislature to close a multibillion-dollar deficit, keep taxes in check and limit annual Medicaid spending. Surely, these must be the misdeeds of stone-hearted Scott Walker, Wisconsin's GOP chief executive, or that ax-wielding alumnus of the Gingrich Congress, Gov. John Kasich, Ohio Republican.

  • Illustration: Unions on break by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

    VERNUCCIO: Government unions dump on public

    "Cross us and people will die." That is the message the public can take away from last week's New York snow-removal meltdown (no pun intended). The debacle showed how government employee unions, by holding a monopoly on services, can cripple communities in retaliation for not getting what they want. And they will do it time and time again.

  • In this photo made on Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010, Cecil Griffith, right, the maintenance supervisor, and Jim Riggio, the plant manager for the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority, watch the bubbler at one of the intake gates on the Beaver River at the Beaver Falls Municipal Authority water treatment plant in Beaver Falls, Pa.. Their water began flunking tests for trihalomethanes regularly last year, around the time that a facility 18 miles upstream became Pennsylvania's dominant gas wastewater treatment plant. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic)

    Pa. allows dumping of tainted waters from gas boom

    The natural gas boom gripping parts of the U.S. has a nasty byproduct: wastewater so salty, and so polluted with metals like barium and strontium, that most states require drillers to get rid of the stuff by injecting it down shafts thousands of feet deep.

  • **FILE** Antonio Garcia restocks beverages at the Corner Market in Washington on May 22, 2010. (Associated Press)

    N.Y. seeks to ban buying sugary drinks with food stamps

    New Yorkers on food stamps would not be allowed to spend them on sugar-sweetened drinks under an obesity-fighting proposal being floated by Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Gov. David Paterson.

  • The 2007 picture provided by the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences shows Nidal Malik Hasan when he entered the program for his Disaster and Military Psychiatry Fellowship. Authorities said he went on the killing spree at Fort Hood, Texas, which left 13 people dead. (Associated Press/Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences)

    Do tell: All soldiers anti-terror informers

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  • Often-mocked NY governor appears on 'SNL'

    Mocked for years on "Saturday Night Live," the governor of New York has appeared on the show to dish back.

  • Oft-mocked NY gov. gets in jabs of his own on SNL

    Mocked for years on "Saturday Night Live" as a clueless blind man, the governor of New York appeared on the show's season premiere to dish right back.

  • NY governor to appear on 'SNL,' source says

    A person close to the governor of New York says he will appear on NBC's "Saturday Night Live" after lambasting the show for mocking his blindness.

  • Online dating, bedbugs addressed in new laws in NY

    New York's newest laws are meant to make Internet dating safer, further protect victims and witnesses in domestic abuse cases, and require landlords in New York City to come clean about bedbugs when leasing apartments.

  • New York Gov. David Paterson, center, arrives at his New York City office, in this March 5, 2010, file photo. In a report Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010, former state Chief Judge Judith Kaye noted four of five of Mr. Paterson's tickets to the World Series opening game between the Yankees and the Philadelphia Phillies were paid for shortly afterward, following a press inquiry from the New York Post newspaper. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

    N.Y. governor could face criminal charges

    Gov. David Paterson could face a criminal charge for what a special counsel called inaccurate and misleading testimony on tickets he secured last year from the New York Yankees for the opening game of the World Series.

  • Illustration: Memorial cross by Greg Groesch for The Washington Times

    KNIGHT: Uprooting the cross

    While the furor over the proposed mosque at Ground Zero has New York Gov. David Paterson offering public land as a peace offering, a more familiar symbol - the cross - is systematically being uprooted around the country.

  • ASSOCIATED PRESS Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. (left) discusses home weatherization Thursday at a private residence in Manchester, N.H., as state Democratic Reps. Paul W. Hodes and Carol Shea-Porter listen. "We're picking the pace," he said.

    Political Scene

    A special investigation concludes that New York Gov. David Paterson's testimony about his plans to pay for World Series tickets last year was "inaccurate and misleading" and warrants consideration of criminal charges by a prosecutor.

  • WWW.MICHAELSAVAGE.COM "With over 100 mosques in New York City, why do these agitators want to provoke America?" asks Michael Savage.

    Inside the Beltway

    Is the political hubbub over the "ground zero mosque" just a White House ruse to distract Americans from bad news about the economy? Partisan posturings have conveniently thrown the press into predatory mode; shrill coverage is now front-page fare, replacing serious examination of unemployment, skittish voters and old campaign promises

  • **FILE** New York Gov. David Paterson (Associated Press)

    N.Y. governor to meet with mosque developers

    New York Gov. David Paterson, who last week suggested a proposed mosque near ground zero might want to relocate elsewhere, will meet soon with the project's developers, a spokesman said Tuesday.

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  • Volunteers David Patterson, of Archbold, Ohio, left, and Matthew Poorman, of Swanton, Ohio, search a dumpster behind Hutches Towing as the search for 9-year-old Andrew, 7-year-old Alexander and 5-year-old Tanner Skelton continues in Holiday City, Ohio on Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2010. Authorities "do not anticipate a positive outcome" in the search for three Michigan brothers who have been missing since their father's attempted suicide, a police chief said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Detroit Free Press, Andre J. Jackson)

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