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  • A woman takes her children by taxi to Public School 33 in New York on Wednesday as more than 8,000 school bus drivers and aides go on strike over job protection. Children who rely on the buses include 54,000 special education students and others who live far from schools or transportation. (Associated Press)

    N.Y. school bus drivers go on strike

    More than 8,000 New York City school bus drivers and aides went on strike Wednesday morning, leaving some 152,000 students, many disabled, scrambling to find other ways to get to school.

  • ** FILE ** This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Jose Banks, one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. FBI spokeswoman Joan Hyde said Joseph "Jose" Banks, 37, was captured without incident Thursday Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/FBI, File)

    Escaped Chicago inmate appears in court

    A convicted bank robber who captured days after a daring escape from a high-rise downtown Chicago federal jail shuffled into court Friday, shackled at the arms and legs.

  • A harness and the end of a rope dangles Tuesday from a window of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Chicago. Two convicted bank robbers used a knotted rope made from bedsheets to escape from their lockup cell, which was 20 stories above the ground. They were still at large Wednesday night. (Associated Press)

    2 convicts use bedsheets to flee from high-rise cell

    A manhunt for two convicted but not sentenced bank robbers who used a makeshift rope to make a daring escape from a high-rise Chicago lockup extended to a second day Wednesday. Authorities offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to the fugitives' apprehension.

  • This undated photo provided by the FBI shows Kenneth Conley, left and Jose Banks two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/FBI,HOPD)

    2 inmates fled Chicago high-rise jail using rope

    Employees at a high-rise lockup in downtown Chicago knew something wasn't right when they arrived at work and saw a makeshift rope fashioned from bed sheets hanging from the bars of a cell window about 20 stories above the ground.

  • Kenneth Conley is one of two inmates who escaped from the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Chicago on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2012. (AP Photo/FBI)

    2 inmates escape from federal prison in Chicago

    Two convicted bank robbers used a knotted rope or bed sheets to escape from a federal prison window high above downtown Chicago early Tuesday, a week after one of them made a courtroom vow of retribution.

  • 50 Shades of Grey marketing phenom goes mainstream

    You've bought rope for that special someone, picked up a few sex toys and read those "Fifty Shades of Grey" books a time or three. You know who you are.

  • 50 Shades of Grey marketing phenom goes mainstream

    You've bought rope for that special someone, picked up a few sex toys and read those "Fifty Shades of Grey" books a time or three. You know who you are.

  • This undated file image provided Friday, May 28, 2010, by Stanley K. Patz shows a flyer distributed by the New York Police Department of Patz's son Etan who vanished in New York on May 25, 1979. (AP Photo/Courtesy NYPD/file)

    Man arrested in 1979 disappearance of NYC boy Patz

    In a potential break in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, a former convenience-store employee has told police that he suffocated 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 and left the boy's body in a box in an alley, law enforcement officials said Thursday.

  • Woman charged with stalking Yankees GM Cashman

    A woman stalked and shook down New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, getting him to pay her $6,000 and demanding more by threatening to harm his reputation, prosecutors said Thursday.

  • DC eyes Watchmen, plans prequels to 1986 series

    More than a quarter of a century after "Watchmen" intrigued readers with tales of less-than-heroic and all-too-human _ save for Dr. Manhattan _ crime-fighting vigilantes, DC Entertainment is revisiting them in a series of original prequels this summer.

  • DC Entertainment via Associated Press

    Prequel series will delve into the characters of Watchmen

    More than a quarter of a century after "Watchmen" intrigued readers with tales of less-than-heroic and all-too-human — save for Dr. Manhattan — crime-fighting vigilantes, DC Entertainment is revisiting them in a series of original prequels this summer.

  • Michael Douglas' son testifies at NYC drug trial

    The imprisoned son of actor Michael Douglas testified Tuesday that he would have been better off staying in jail rather than being freed on bail after he was arrested in New York on drug charges two years ago.

  • Nafissatou Diallo, the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her, listens as her lawyer Kenneth Thompson speaks to the media following a meeting at the Manhattan prosecutor's office on Aug. 22, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Prosecutors seek to dismiss Strauss-Kahn charges

    New York City prosecutors filed court papers Monday recommending dismissal of sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who was accused of attacking a hotel maid in May in a case that eventually dissolved amid questions about the woman's credibility.

  • A heavily armed police officer stands guard at a Times Square subway station in New York on July 1, 2011. (Associated Press)

    Post-9/11, biggest terror threat is underground

    Since terrorists brought down the twin towers on Sept. 11, 2001, subways have been bombed in terror attacks across the world, including in Madrid, London and this spring in Minsk, Belarus. The possibility that New York's sprawling, porous and famously gritty subway system could be next has become a constant worry.

  • Bushnell's new `Carrie Diaries' novel a mixed bag

    "Summer and the City: A Carrie Diaries Novel" (Balzer + Bray/HarperCollins), by Candace Bushnell: Candace Bushnell, author of "Sex and the City," the book that inspired the HBO series and two movies, has taken on the daunting task of attracting readers to her new young adult series.

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