<?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/topstories/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories</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>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:48:01 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[Teen With Pellet Gun Shot By NYC Officer]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/shooting.police.detective.2.1298145.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/shooting.police.detective.2.1298145.html</link><description><![CDATA[A police detective shot a New York teen in the face night after he pulled a realistic-looking pellet gun during an argument in the Bronx. Police say 15-year-old Marcus Bonner was hit in the cheek, but survived. He was hospitalized in stable condition. Authorities say a group of officers were conducting an undercover drug operation when they spotted the teen threatening a group of rival youths with the gun.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:33:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[House Begins Health Care Bill Debate]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/health.care.vote.2.1298108.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/health.care.vote.2.1298108.html</link><description><![CDATA[The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health
care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of
Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system. In the opening moments of debate, Democrats hailed the legislation as
an advance for the nation's social fabric and a moral and economic
imperative.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:41:30 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NY Man Pleads Guilty In Fatal DWI Crash]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/fatal.dwi.crash.2.1298104.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/fatal.dwi.crash.2.1298104.html</link><description><![CDATA[A 32-year-old suburban Rochester man will receive a six-month jail term and five years of probation after pleading guilty to vehicular manslaughter in a fatal crash. Daniel Tewksbury of Henrietta drove his vehicle on the wrong side of Interstate 390 the night of Feb. 24 and collided head-on with a minivan driven by a widowed mother. The driver of the minivan, 45-year-old Nancy DeCarr of Greece, died in the crash.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 14:44:33 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[More Banks Shut Nationwide, Bringing Total To 120]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/bank.failure.fdic.2.1298120.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/bank.failure.fdic.2.1298120.html</link><description><![CDATA[Regulators on Friday shut banks in Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, and California, bringing the number of bank failures this year to 120 amid the struggling economy and a cascade of defaults on loans. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. took over United Commercial Bank in San Francisco, with $11.2 billion in assets and $7.5 billion in deposits. East West Bancorp Inc., parent company of East West Bank based in Pasadena, Calif., is buying all of the deposits and most of the failed bank's assets.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:05:59 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hundreds Mourn Fort Hood Shooting Victims]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/fort.hood.shooting.2.1298126.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/fort.hood.shooting.2.1298126.html</link><description><![CDATA[A chaplain exhorted hundreds of mourners gathered at a candlelight
vigil to not give up hope as Fort Hood and its surrounding community
looked to each other for comfort after an Army psychiatrist allegedly
went on a deadly shooting spree at the military post. A grief
counseling center was set up Friday at the Killeen Community Center to
help residents struggling to make sense of one of the worst mass
shootings ever on a military facility in the United States. At least 13
people died and more than two dozen were wounded in the attack a day
earlier.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:13:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Afghan Officials: NATO Strike Killed Afghan Troops]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/afghanistan.nato.topps.2.1298135.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/afghanistan.nato.topps.2.1298135.html</link><description><![CDATA[Afghanistan's Defense Ministry said Saturday that a NATO airstrike in
the western province of Badghis the previous day mistakenly hit a joint
base housing coalition troops and Afghan security forces, killing four
Afghan soldiers and three policemen. NATO said it and Afghan
authorities were investigating whether an alliance airstrike during an
operation Friday to rescue two missing American paratroopers had caused
casualties. It said it could not confirm whether the base had been hit.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:21:08 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Firefighters Battle Fatal Fire In Queens Saturday]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/queens.fatal.fire.2.1298036.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/queens.fatal.fire.2.1298036.html</link><description><![CDATA[An early morning fire killed three and injured several more in Queens. The blaze started in the basement of a two-story home in Woodside and quickly spread. The cause was under investigation. Firefighters received the call at 2:45 a.m. Saturday. They simultaneously fought the blaze at 42-40 65th Place as they launched a rescue operation, frantically rushing the victims to waiting ambulances. Four were evacuated with injuries, conditions unknown. Three others were pronounced dead at the hospital.
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:55:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fort Hood Suspect Worried About Fighting Muslims]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/fort.hood.shooter.2.1298139.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/fort.hood.shooter.2.1298139.html</link><description><![CDATA[A Muslim leader says the Army psychiatrist suspected of going on a
shooting rampage at Fort Hood asked him for advice on what he should
tell soldiers who had concerns about going to fight Muslims in Iraq and
Afghanistan. Osman Danquah is the
co-founder of the Islamic Community of Greater Killeen. He says he had
a bad feeling about Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan after the two talked twice
in late summer.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 15:31:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[After L.I. Immigrant Murder, Others Tell Of Abuse]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/marcelo.lucero.patchogue.2.1298024.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/marcelo.lucero.patchogue.2.1298024.html</link><description><![CDATA[There had been other high-profile attacks on a growing Hispanic population on eastern Long Island before Ecuadorean immigrant Marcelo Lucero was stabbed to death a year ago Sunday on a street corner, but it wasn't until the seven teens accused in the killing told police of the attacks &#151; and Hispanic residents who had been long silent about hate crimes came forward to confirm the stories &#151; that officials began to realize what they were dealing with.<br />
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:29:47 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYC's Village Gate Club Owner, Art D'Lugoff, Dies]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/art.dlugoff.owner.2.1298028.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/topstories/art.dlugoff.owner.2.1298028.html</link><description><![CDATA[Art D'Lugoff, whose famed New York City nightclub, the Village Gate, featured performers from jazz great Duke Ellington to 1960s counterculture rocker Jimi Hendrix, has died at age 85, his brother said. D'Lugoff, who lived in the Bronx, died Wednesday at a Manhattan hospital. His brother, Dr. Burt D'Lugoff, said an autopsy was performed Friday to determine the cause of death. D'Lugoff hired blacklisted singers Paul Robeson and Pete Seeger and fired Dustin Hoffman as a waiter.<br />
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