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Brooklyn man whose murder conviction was overturned will be retried for 1992 killing

Emmanuelle Cooper, 54, spent 27 years in prison for the 1992 murder of MTA employee Andres Barretto, who was fatally shot in an East New York subway station after two men forced their way into a booth and robbed the token clerks inside.




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Brooklyn’s McCarren Park bustles even as state goes ‘on pause’ over coronavirus

Friends played touch football and shared sweaty exercise equipment while others kept their distance from others




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Tony-winning actress who lost unborn child in Brooklyn crash pregnant again

Ruthie Ann Miles, a Tony winner who is now a regular on the CBS series “All Rise,” shared the happy news on Instagram.




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SEE IT: Crooks steal cash register from Brooklyn bistro: police

A pair of crooks broke into a Bushwick bistro and swiped the cash register during an early-morning robbery over the weekend, police said Tuesday.




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Beloved Brooklyn pastor dies from coronavirus at age 49 — first Catholic priest killed by disease in the U.S., officials say

The beloved 49-year-old priest, born in Mexico City, passed away Friday evening at the Wyckoff Medical Center in Brooklyn, the diocese said. Father Jorge, as he was known to worshippers, served as the diocesan coordinator of the ministry for Mexican-Americans among his other duties.




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No coronavirus release for former Mexican top cop Garcia Luna, accused of taking millions in bribes from cartels

A Brooklyn federal magistrate denied Genaro Garcia Luna release from prison due to coronavirus, saying he was a flight risk.




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Cops bust thief trying to steal dozens of shoes and baseball caps from closed Brooklyn Foot Locker

Suspect Donte West, 28, broke into a side door of the shoe store on Pitkin Ave. near Bristol St. in Brownsville about 8:45 a.m. Saturday and loaded up a Chevy Trailblazer with more than three dozen pairs of sneakers and nearly 40 baseball caps as cops arrived, police said.




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Cops break up Brooklyn funeral for coronavirus victim as mourners ignore social distancing

The funeral was held for Rav Yosef Kalish, 63, an Amshinover rebbe who was hospitalized with COVID-19 last week and died Sunday morning, The Associated Press reported.




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Gone too fast, too young: Brooklyn dad of 2-year-old boy dies at home from likely coronavirus despite family’s desperate efforts to save him

The last thing Jorge Cruz ever did was ask for a cup of hot tea. By the time it was cool enough for a sip, he was dead -- apparently from coronavirus.




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SEE IT: Crook wears N95 face mask to rob deli of cash and 36 Red Bulls

A pair of crooks smashed their way into a grocery store in Brooklyn and stole the deli’s cash register along with three dozen Red Bulls, cops said.




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Ex-prisoner fears coronavirus rampant at Brooklyn federal lockup, says early release likely saved his life

Inmates were coughing and sneezing, and guards wore no personal protective equipment, said Hassan Chunn, 46, who fears the disease is spreading through the Metropolitan Detention Center.




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SEE IT: Burglar in surgical mask robs Brooklyn church twice in 5 days

The crook first targeted Grace Baptist Church on New Jersey Ave. near Liberty Ave. in East New York around 8 p.m. March 31, cops said. He forced open a side door and made off with a wad of cash.




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Coronavirus pandemic rages at NYC’s federal jails — and numbers back lawyers’ and staffers’ claims that management has a poor grip on the problem

Staff at New York City’s two federal jails, defense attorneys and inmates interviewed by the Daily News say the official numbers of COVID-19 cases obscure the magnitude of the crisis behind bars.




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Caring New Yorkers increasingly lend a helping hand to neighbors in need as war against coronavirus gets local

While the COVID-19 pandemic keeps New Yorkers separated by face masks and social distancing and self-quarantine, a growing number of city residents are connecting through local mutual aid groups now sprouting across the shuttered boroughs.




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Beloved Brooklyn activist/rapper battles coronavirus in month-long fight for life as friends and family send prayers

Roberto Correa, born and raised in Brooklyn, looms in his Sunset Park neighborhood as a prominent and popular figure: He owns The Booth NYC, a local clothing store/recording studio, and is a well-known local activist.




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Pair of armed NYC muggers in medical masks use coronavirus pandemic to launch violent crime spree: cops

The heartless bandits with hidden faces are wanted for a violent robbery spree across Brooklyn and the Bronx over the past five weeks that includes beating an 83-year-old man, pistol-whipping a woman and shooting a bread deliveryman who survived a bullet to the pancreas.




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‘It’s as bad as you think’: Public defense attorney reports seeing inmates in Brooklyn federal jail ‘begging’ for medical care, guards without protection

When Deirdre Von Dornum and the others arrived at the Metropolitan Detention Center, a federal Bureau of Prisons staffer wearing no gloves or mask greeted them in the lobby, according to the email.




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Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez says coronavirus crisis has shifted his focus to releasing inmates, rather than locking them up

The fourth-year DA told the Daily News in an interview that his focus has shifted dramatically during the crisis, as trials and grand juries have been put on hold across the state.




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Resilient New Yorkers share messages of hope and support across the city as the war against coronavirus stretches on

New Yorkers leave messages of hope through the coronavirus pandemic.




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HOMETOWN HELPERS: Renowned Brooklyn clothier founded by Holocaust survivor now making masks to keep NYers safe from coronavirus

Martin Greenfield Clothiers, creator of Joaquin Phoenix’s “Joker” suit and tailor to the well-dressed from President Obama to Mayor Bloomberg, is taking on coronavirus. The venerable custom suit maker teamed with its union workers to start producing protective face masks, with local community groups first on their list of beneficiaries.




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Teen arrested outside Hasidic funeral in Brooklyn as cops seek to enforce social distancing

The scene on 43rd St. between 13th Ave. and 14th Ave. unfolded at about 4 p.m. Thursday as mourners flouted social distancing norms to attend what was supposed to be a private funeral at the home of Rabbi Cheskel Wagshel, 95, said a family friend.




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New report finds work-based learning gap in city schools

The sophomore at H.E.R.O. High School in the Bronx, who dreams of being a pediatrician, spends her Saturdays learning from medical professionals and has been working closely with her school’s internships coordinator since the beginning of the school year to land a paid summer job working with kids.




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Drivers, attendants of NYC’s biggest school bus contractor vote to authorize strike amid contract impasse

Two thousand workers from the Amalgamated Transit Union’s Local 1181 voted overwhelmingly to authorize the strike against their employer, which operates about 900 of the city’s more than 8,000 school bus routes.




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CUNY names first Asian-American college president to lead Baruch College

Wu, a former Vice President at George Mason University in Virginia, was voted in unanimously, 17-0, by the city university system’s Board of Trustees Monday night and will take office on July 1.




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NYC parents of special needs students file class action suit over special education court delays

The special education courts are designed to protect the legal rights of those children, but the city’s system is so overburdened that vulnerable students wait months or years for help getting critical support, according to the legal complaint.




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Second NYC teen speaks out on 30-hour detention as city officials promise to investigate

Flushing High School junior Arialis Guzman said she “just didn’t get treated right" while police held her and a friend for more than a day in the aftermath of an after school altercation. The teens spent the night of Wednesday, Feb. 12 and much of the next day, Feb. 13, handcuffed to a bench in a Queens police precinct.




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NYC schoolteacher self-quarantined with coronavirus symptoms, as city examines virus response

The teacher recently traveled to Italy and came back to class before noticing the symptoms, according to a source familiar with the situation.




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Harlem charter school principal arrested for assaulting 7-year-old boy

Jason Epting, 43, the principal of Harlem Hebrew Language Academy, left the boy gushing blood from his forehead and concussed during a January encounter Epting first tried to brush off as an accident, the boy’s horrified mother told the Daily News.




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NYC foster care groups plead for school bus guarantee for kids who can’t get to class

Nearly 20 groups representing New York City foster kids pleaded with officials to finally guarantee school buses to students in foster care so they no longer have to switch schools because they can’t get to class.




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Advocates, public health experts urge NYC officials to begin ‘social distancing’ measures in response to coronavirus

In a letter, the group noted that past pandemics show large-scale social restrictions that keep people physically separated can make the most difference if done before the illness becomes widespread.




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CUNY, SUNY systems to cancel in-person classes for remainder of semester due to coronavirus

The college systems, which enroll a combined 700,000 students across the state, will move to a “distance learning model,” Cuomo said at a coronavirus-related press conference Wednesday.




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Harlem School of the Arts closes down classes for coronavirus

The private institute offers arts classes to 4,000 students mostly in Harlem, through classes at its building and at partner schools.




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NYC Education Dept. releases new details on contingency plans for food and childcare amid coronavirus school shutdown

The sites, which Mayor de Blasio first announced Sunday, will be staffed by a combination of city teachers and community-based organizations, according to a plan the city Education Department submitted to state officials Monday night.




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NYC school food workers fear for their health as schools continue to churn out meals during coronavirus shutdown

When Hurricane Sandy hit in 2012, Donald Nesbitt, then a cook at a Brooklyn public school, packed a bag and slept at school so he could continue making food for the many students who relied on him for their regular meals.




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NYC officials ask for help for daycares providing critical services during coronavirus crisis

The small businesses, many of which already run on razor-thin margins, are struggling to make end meet amid the crisis.




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NYU students ask for refund, get video of dean dancing instead

NYU students ask for refund. Dean sends video of herself dancing




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NYC officials eliminate the last remaining days of school spring break

City schools were originally supposed to be off April 9-17.




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NYC students will be assigned enrichment activities during canceled spring break

The goal for remote learning during the break “is to maintain the exciting and enriching aspects that Spring Recess provides,” Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza told teachers in a Monday night email.




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Regents are cancelled, but students still have to pass the courses attached to them

Students normally must pass five of the end-of-course exams to graduate from state high schools, but officials scrapped the exams Monday amid statewide school closures triggered by the coronavirus outbreak.




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‘We paras are the front lines:’ NYC schools confront devastating coronavirus death toll among classroom paraprofessionals

Twenty-two of the city’s 25,000 paraprofessionals have died from the coronavirus, a rate four times higher than the rest of the 150,000-employee Department of Education, according to the agency’s data.




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Older NYC high school students working during coronavirus pandemic struggle to keep a grip on classwork

Maira Ramirez feels a pang of guilt when her phone buzzes with class assignments while she’s working double shifts at a kosher market to support her financially-strapped family during the pandemic. “I would be at work and see the notifications pop up on Google Classrooms," said Ramirez, a 20-year-old student at West Brooklyn Community High School — a transfer school for students who have struggled in traditional high schools. “I’d be like ‘Damn, I can’t even do them.'”




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NYC council members urge de Blasio to avoid classroom cuts in budget negotiations

The lawmakers say the city should turn its attention to pricey contracts, testing payments and administrative costs before axing $181 million from school budgets that cover the salaries of teachers, social workers, and other staff.




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3 Reasons Why A Mobile-Friendly Website Design Is Essential

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4 Easy Tips to Rank for Your Name on Google

It doesn’t seem like it would be all that difficult, to rank for your name in Google or any of the other search engines, but it can be a lot harder than you think. You and your business could pop up—but it might not.
Ranking highly in Google is difficult, even when it’s your own name. You might think your name is pretty special, but with over 7 billion people in the world — it’s very likely a few ...

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Ighalo wants to see out the season with United

Nigeria striker Odion Ighalo hopes that his loan deal at Manchester United is extended until the Premier League season is completed following the coronavirus lockdown.




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Covid-19: Further 18 deaths, 219 more cases confirmed

The Department of Health has announced that a further 18 people who had been diagnosed with Covid-19 here have died, and has also announced an additional 219 confirmed cases of the virus.




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Repeat Sigange V4 - New Flash based touch screen system

Allows pictures/PDF/PowerPoint files to be selected and for users to interact with them.




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Repeat Signage V4.0.6 - New database driven templates

Our Corporate edition now supports tying your database to a fully customisable template for automatic display of database information.




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Repeat Signage V4.0.45 released

ICalandar support added to the Text Label and Picture controls.




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Repeat Signage brochure showcases customers presentations

We have updated our Repeat Signage brochure which features some of our customers images of how they are benefiting from digital signage presentations.