<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><atom:link href="http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness</link><description><![CDATA[New York News, Weather, Sports & Traffic - WCBSTV.com]]></description><language>en-US</language><copyright><![CDATA[(c)  MMIX, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.]]></copyright><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 05:23:47 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Alleged 'Ponzi Princess' Rocks Long Island]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/laurie.schneider.ponzi.2.1260484.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/laurie.schneider.ponzi.2.1260484.html</link><description><![CDATA[On Long Island another alleged Ponzi scheme is unraveling. Investigators say the damage could run as high as $50 million. Bankruptcy court trustee Ken Barnard has the daunting task of following the money, investigating at least four separate business enterprises run by 35-year-old Laurie Schneider of Oceanside. Her alleged Ponzi scheme bilked dozens of people out of tens of millions of dollars. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:26:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Airline Fliers Miffed Over 'Peak Travel Surcharge']]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/peak.travel.surcharge.2.1234241.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/peak.travel.surcharge.2.1234241.html</link><description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays? Bah Humbug is more like it! At the major airports around the New York City area, airline passengers are reacting to a "new fly charge" over the major holidays that many are calling sneaky. With no formal announcement American, Continental, US Airways, Delta and United imposed an extra $10 fee for most flights during the busiest travel days of the year. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:07:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[$40 Million Ponzi Porn Scheme Hits Brooklyn]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/ponzi.porn.scheme.2.1171093.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/ponzi.porn.scheme.2.1171093.html</link><description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors said they've busted another big investment Ponzi scheme -- this time in Brooklyn. Investigators said the decades-long scam ended with a click of handcuffs in Bay Ridge. More than $40 million may be missing. The arrest went down at a Brooklyn apartment house while many of us were getting ready for work Tuesday morning. A quiet 52-year-old investment specialist is now charged with running a Ponzi scheme like the one that brought down Bernie Madoff. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 04:05:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rooftop Organic Farm In Shadow Of NYC Skyline]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/vertical.farming.rooftop.2.1135815.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/vertical.farming.rooftop.2.1135815.html</link><description><![CDATA[A group of Brooklynites have found a unique way to grow their own food. They've planted crops on the roof. It saves money and they say if more people did it, it would help save the planet, too. Fifty feet above the sidewalk, with the New York City skyline as a backdrop &#133; tomatoes, peppers and green beans are thriving. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 23:26:54 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[25 Percent 'Sin Tax' Set To Hit N.J. Liquor Stores]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/nj.alcohol.sin.2.1110050.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/nj.alcohol.sin.2.1110050.html</link><description><![CDATA[Buying booze in New Jersey is about to get a little more expensive -- and it's all because of the state's budget problems. An increased tax will cost residents every time they raise their glass. Mike Chedid spent Friday re-pricing his inventory of hard liquor and wine -- the fallout from New Jersey's new so-called "sin tax" that'll hit liquor stores, restaurants and bars starting Saturday. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:00:09 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Douglaston Shaken In Wake Of Con Ed Fire]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/con.ed.fire.2.1100218.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/con.ed.fire.2.1100218.html</link><description><![CDATA[Fierce flames ripped through a Con Edison Power Plant Substation in Queens Friday Morning, knocking out the power in hundreds of surrounding buildings and threatening the safety of an entire neighborhood. The three-alarm fire broke out near the intersection of Northern Boulevard and 244th Street in Douglaston. It destroyed one of the two Con Ed transformers used to power thousands of homes, and filled the neighborhood's air with toxic smoke. 
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:16:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NY Slower To Spend Some Stimulus Funds ]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/federal.stimulus.money.2.1088250.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/federal.stimulus.money.2.1088250.html</link><description><![CDATA[Even as New York rushes to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in federal stimulus money for roads and bridges, billions more awarded for the likes of education, weatherization and criminal justice remain untouched. A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office identified more than $3 billion awarded to New York but unspent at the end of June. 
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:28:49 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Interim CEO: 'GM That Let You Down Is History']]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/GM.bankruptcy.worldcom.2.1027376.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/GM.bankruptcy.worldcom.2.1027376.html</link><description><![CDATA[General Motors may be headquartered in Detroit, but it's road to bankruptcy reorganization runs right through Manhattan. GM's company-owned dealership in Harlem filed for bankruptcy just before the parent company on Monday, allowing the automotive giant to use New York's court system, known for it's expertise in handling massive Chapter 11 filings like Enron and WorldCom. The papers were filed in lower Manhattan and by lunchtime taxpayers were the proud new owners of what was once a jewel of American industry. 
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 03:57:36 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wal-Mart Pays $2M To Settle L.I. Death Probe]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/wal.mart.worker.2.1002554.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/wal.mart.worker.2.1002554.html</link><description><![CDATA[The family of a worker killed during a shopping stampede at Walmart is blasting a settlement reached with the retail giant. Walmart will pay $2 million instead of facing prosecution. Walmart's deal with prosecutors avoids criminal charges in the trampling death of a temporary employee last November during frenzied post-Thanksgiving "Black Friday" sales. 
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 23:14:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madoff's Secretary Dishes On Disgraced Boss]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/madoff.secretary.Eleanor.2.1002587.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/localbusiness/madoff.secretary.Eleanor.2.1002587.html</link><description><![CDATA[For years, investment scammer Bernie Madoff fooled everyone. Now, the secretary who worked beside him for decades is spilling the swindler's secrets in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine. For more than two decades, Eleanor Squillari of Staten Island had a view from the inside only a very few family members had. 
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