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Snack Attack! Pecan butterscotch bars
The Treats Truck travels around the city with yummy, freshly baked brownies and cookies. New to the menu is the pecan butterscotch bar for $2.50. Even though the chewy chunks are sold off a mobile bakery truck named "Sugar," they're not...
‘Sanjay & Craig,’ TV review
One of the common denominators that unites 4-year-olds and 10-year-olds is that they both love butt jokes. So “Sanjay and Craig,” a new animated Saturday morning series from Nickelodeon, doesn’t fool around. The whole first segment of the show’s premiere
Lower East Side clubs want to put a closing time on cell phone theft ring
This scheme has a nasty ring to it. Lower East Side bar and club owners have seen a wave of cell-phone robberies hit their venues in the past few months, and now they’ve teamed up to stop it. According to nightlife insiders, a ring of 10 to 12 phone thie
Zack Wheeler may run over Mets hurler Jeremy Hefner, who has yet to earn a win
Jeremy Hefner knows he is pitching for his job. He has done that before. Friday night, the right- hander gave the Mets a quality start, but left the suspended game still looking for his first win of the season. “He doesn’t deserve to be 0-5,” David Wrigh
Ike Davis strikes out four times, Mets still searching for backup plan before demotion decision
With the worst batting average among qualified hitters in the major leagues, Ike Davis got another chance Friday to show he belongs in the bigs. He responded by striking out four times, the third time he’s done that this season. His last whiff, with the
Time for Mets to make right move, send down Ike Davis
This is what it has come to for Ike Davis: He fouled off a 1-2 pitch from Anthony Varvaro in the eighth inning Friday night and a sparse and soaked crowd burst into sarcastic cheers. Hopefully someone in the Mets’ corridors of power heard the phony prais
Take the local
When best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver moved to a Virginia farm and pledged to spend a year eating locally grown food, she didn't yet know the full joy of animal husbandry and 302-pound tomato harvests. But she already knew, she writes in...
Camp trip to beat dog days
As avid agility competitors, Merrydyth, Abygayl and Vivyan are used to frequent road trips, but nothing quite gets their tails wagging like the annual drive to summer camp. "As soon as we get close to the farm, I can hear their collars jingling...
To flip or not to flip?
I see you. I see you on the subway, I see you walking around midtown, downtown, SoHo. You have a fabulous suit on, a gorgeous blowout, perfect manicure and a $1,500 bag, and on your feet you've got the nasty flip-flops you wore to your beach house on Fir
Advice on exchanging gifts
Buying gifts can be challenging - and, sometimes, receiving them can be just as difficult, at least according to consumers who have received not-so-perfect presents. "I know it's the thought that counts. But I just received a gift I'll never...
De-nied Tigers: Anibal Sanchez falls just short of no-hitter in Detroit’s win over Minnesota Twins
DETROIT — Add another near miss in this 2013 baseball season — this time it was Detroit’s Anibal Sanchez falling just short of a no-hitter. Sanchez’s bid was broken up with one out in the ninth inning Friday night when Minnesota’s Joe Mauer hit a clean s
Christmas cheer returns to Bethlehem
BETHLEHEM, West Bank - Hundreds of Christian pilgrims celebrated Jesus' birth on Tuesday in the West Bank town where he was born, in an atmosphere made markedly cheerier by the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks after years of bloody conflict. By
Teen with hairbrush shot by cops after fight with mom
A teenager in a dispute with his mother was shot and killed by police officers when he charged at them with what they thought was a gun but later turned out to be a hair brush, authorities said. Officers received a 911 call from the teen's mother around
Residents flee as wildfires blaze through Malibu
Wind-whipped wildfires returned to Southern California Saturday, destroying 35 homes in Malibu and forcing hundreds of people to flee the exclusive enclave. The blaze erupted before dawn on state parkland near Malibu Lake and was fanned by hot, dry Santa
New report finds poverty the cause of high pregnancy and STD rates in Bronx teens
New research to be announced Thursday contends that, while Bronx teens have the highest pregnancy rates in the city, it’s due to entrenched poverty more than promiscuity. New York University Professor Vincent Guilamo-Ramos’ report on adolescent reproduct
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