Thursday, January 28, 2016

New York Today: Making History, on Ice and other top stories.

  • New York Today: Making History, on Ice

    New York Today: Making History, on Ice
    Photo Women’s hockey: Absolutely riveting. Credit Alex Goodlett for The New York Times Updated 8:57 a.m. Good morning on this sparkling Thursday.Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the city’s newest hockey team: the New York Riveters.The Riveters, named for the always-encouraging Rosie and with a nod to the city’s industrial past, are one of four teams in the National Women’s Hockey League, the first professional female hockey league (to pay its players, that is).Th..
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  • Warriors-Chase Tie-Up Ranks Among Biggest Stadium Naming ...

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  • What Does a Parrot Know About PTSD?

    What Does a Parrot Know About PTSD?
    Nearly 30 years ago, Lilly Love lost her way. She had just completed her five-year tour of duty as an Alaska-based Coast Guard helicopter rescue swimmer, one of an elite team of specialists who are lowered into rough, frigid seas to save foundering fishermen working in dangerous conditions. The day after she left active service, the helicopter she had flown in for the previous three years crashed in severe weather into the side of a mountain, killing six of her former crewmates. Devastated by t..
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  • Blizzard of 1977: New York declared a disaster area

    Blizzard of 1977: New York declared a disaster area
    The National Guard was ordered to help in Buffalo, parts of Ohio and elsewhere. ... Buffalo, the second largest city in New York State, took a stunning blow from ...
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  • Buffalo Bills RUMORS: Cordy Glenn Seeking Big Contract In NFL ...

    Buffalo Bills RUMORS: Cordy Glenn Seeking Big Contract In NFL ...
    Buffalo Bills RUMORS: Cordy Glenn Seeking Big Contract In NFL Free Agency? Buffalo Bills left tackle Cordy Glenn could be seeking a contract that starts at $10 million per year in NFL free agency this offseason. By Brandon Katz | Jan 28, 2016 12:05 PM EST Buffalo Bills left tackle Cordy Glenn will get paid in free agency this offseason. (Photo : Getty Images) Buffalo Bills left tackle Cordy Glenn has appeared in all 16 games in each of the last three seasons and has started all but three con..
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  • How drug traffickers are using legal marijuana to evade the law

    How drug traffickers are using legal marijuana to evade the law
    DENVER — Seeking a safe haven in Colorado’s legal marijuana marketplace, illegal drug traffickers are growing weed among the state’s sanctioned pot warehouses and farms, then covertly shipping it elsewhere and pocketing millions of dollars from the sale, according to law enforcement officials and court records consulted by the Associated Press. In one case, the owner of a skydiving business crammed hundreds of pounds of Colorado pot into his planes and flew the weed to Minnesota, where associat..
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  • The Best of Park City: Celebrities and Billionaires Flock to this ...

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  • Timmy Smith: One Big Game, One Big Regret

    Timmy Smith: One Big Game, One Big Regret
    AURORA, Colo. — It was a surprise start for Timmy Smith. Only minutes before Super Bowl XXII on Jan. 31, 1988, Washington head coach Joe Gibbs asked Doug Williams, poised to become the first black quarterback to win a Super Bowl, to deliver the good news to the rookie running back: He’d be starting against the Denver Broncos in place of limping veteran George Rogers. “Coach wanted me to break the news to him and calm him down,” Williams, now 60, recalls. “I said, ‘Timmy, you’re going to star..
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  • 15 Month Buffalo Hide Sweepstakes Closes January 31, 2016

    15 Month Buffalo Hide Sweepstakes Closes January 31, 2016
    SAINT PAUL, Minn., Jan. 28, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A historic campaign to return buffalo to Native American lands, lives and economies is giving all Americans a chance to be part of this return. Tanka Fund, a national campaign to bring buffalo back to Indian Country, toured the country for 15 months with an authentic, Lakota hand-painted buffalo hide to invite people from all walks of life to be part of the story of the buffalo's return.  More than 11,000 people have joined the campaign by en..
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  • PETA: Turn 'Silence of the Lambs' house into animal museum

    PETA: Turn 'Silence of the Lambs' house into animal museum
    An animal rights group wants to convert the western Pennsylvania house used in the film “The Silence of the Lambs” into an empathy museum, where visitors could wear the skins of slain and abused animals. The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals says in a release that it has written to the real estate agent handling the sale and wants to create a museum. The building was home to psychotic killer Buffalo Bill in the 1991 film. PETA says by wearing animal skins, people would be remind..
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Buffalo in the City .Rangers Savor Win and a Week to Relax .
1.2-million sq. ft. solar panel 'Gigafactory' in Buffalo almost ready ... .White Saviors Are Never Around When I Need a Jar Opened .

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