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Plane Skids Off Runway at LaGuardia Airport, Crashes Into Fence
A passenger jet skidded off a runway at LaGuardia Airport and crashed into a fence as it tried to land amid a blinding wintry mix Thursday morning, sparking a minor fuel leak in one of its wings, prompting evacuations and injuring several people, Port Authority officials say.
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223 Arrested on Second Day of Garner Protests: NYPD
Police say 223 demonstrators were arrested Thursday night as protests of the Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner stretched into a second night, police said.
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Thousands of Garner Protesters March Across NYC
Thousands of people lay down in streets, blocked bridges and cut off tunnels in a second day of protests in response to a Staten Island grand jury’s decision not to indict an NYPD officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father of six captured on amateur video saying, “I can’t breathe!” during an altercation with...
