<?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/wireapnewsny/resources_rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><title>New York News, Weather, Sports &amp; Traffic - WCBSTV.com</title><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny</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>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:43:01 GMT</pubDate><ttl>5</ttl><item><title><![CDATA[NYPD: Suspicious Powder Sent To 3 NY Consulates]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/NYPD.Envelopes.containing.2.1302307.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/NYPD.Envelopes.containing.2.1302307.html</link><description><![CDATA[Authorities are investigating reports of suspicious envelopes containing powder sent to three foreign consulates in Manhattan. A New York Police Department spokesman said initial tests done Monday night on the powder sent to the Uzbekistan Consulate came back negative for anthrax or any other dangerous substance. The envelopes were also sent to the French and Austrian consulates.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:27:37 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[AP Asks Judge To Keep HOPE Artist's Lawyers]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/The.Associated.Press.2.1301982.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/The.Associated.Press.2.1301982.html</link><description><![CDATA[The Associated Press has asked a judge to deny a request by the attorneys of street artist Shepard Fairey to withdraw from his copyright battle over the Barack Obama "HOPE" poster. Fairey's lawyers have asked for permission to withdraw after Fairey acknowledged he was mistaken about which AP photo he used to create his famous image and attempted to destroy evidence of his error. In papers filed Monday in Manhattan federal court, the news organization said that the request should be turned down because his attorneys have "unique knowledge" about Fairey's wrongdoing.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:14:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NYer Faces Animal Cruelty Charge; Carcasses Found]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Officials.NY.woman.2.1300538.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Officials.NY.woman.2.1300538.html</link><description><![CDATA[Authorities are investigating whether any of the more than 20 animal carcasses found in the backyard of a Long Island home are the remains of animals reported missing by pet owners in the area. Dozens of concerned pet owners have contacted authorities following the gruesome discovery, a scene described by one veteran SPCA official as something out of a horror movie. In addition to the dead animals, five dogs and a cat were found alive, suffering from maltreatment, inside cramped cages in a room of the house, said Roy Gross, chief of the Suffolk County SPCA.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:11:35 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NY Union Official Expected Bruno Favors]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Ex.union.official.2.1301061.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Ex.union.official.2.1301061.html</link><description><![CDATA[A former union president imprisoned for racketeering testified Monday that his late boss expected "favors" in Albany from then New York Senate leader Joseph Bruno in return for investing union pension funds with the company that employed Bruno. Mark Congi, who was also Laborers Local 91's assistant business agent until his 2002 indictment for racketeering, testified Monday at Bruno's federal corruption trial. He said that business agent Michael Quarcini ran both the union and the $50 million pension fund, though there were other fund trustees, himself among them, and an investment adviser. "He felt to make Mr. Bruno happy, we'd invest with this company, and he'd do us favors in return," Congi said. "He felt the more money we gave to the company the more help we were going to get from Senator Bruno."]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:46:34 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Madoff's Personal Effects Go On The Block]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Madoff.auction.welcomes.2.1302005.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Madoff.auction.welcomes.2.1302005.html</link><description><![CDATA[Of all the items set to go on the auction block this week at a midtown Manhattan hotel, there's one that would take some mettle to wear in public: A satin New York Mets baseball jacket emblazoned with the name "Madoff." The jacket — valued at between $500 and $700 — is among hundreds of pieces of jewelry, clothing and other personal effects once owned by disgraced financier and vanquished Mets fan Bernard Madoff and his wife, Ruth. Madoff, 71, was sentenced in June to 150 years in prison for orchestrating a massive Ponzi scheme that spanned decades. The property will be sold to raise money for his victims. Gaston & Sheehan Auctioneers Inc. will hold the auction Saturday at the New York Sheraton.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 00:31:32 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[NY Senate Starts Inquiry Into Monserrate]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/NY.Senate.starts.2.1301623.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/NY.Senate.starts.2.1301623.html</link><description><![CDATA[As New York's Senate began an inquiry into whether a senator convicted of misdemeanor assault should face sanctions, the Senate majority leader argued that expulsion is too severe and the convicted senator's attorneys questioned whether any such punishment could stick. A special committee led by Democratic Sen. Eric Schneiderman of Manhattan will gather facts in the case of Sen. Hiram Monserrate, a Queens Democrat. He was found guilty of injuring his fiancee and will be sentenced Dec. 4. "It would be a bad precedent to expel a senator for a misdemeanor," said Democratic Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. "We have members now that have misdemeanors. One thing about the law, we should not have any special exemptions."]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:52:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sweat Lodge Probe Includes Hundreds Of Interviews]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Ariz.authorities.plan.2.1302001.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Ariz.authorities.plan.2.1302001.html</link><description><![CDATA[An investigation into the deaths of three people who were overcome at a sweat lodge ceremony in Arizona is expected to be forwarded to prosecutors next month. Until then, Yavapai County Sheriff Steve Waugh says his office will have no further comment. Authorities are treating the deaths as homicides and say self-help guru James Arthur Ray is the primary focus of their probe. Others also are being investigated.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:52:16 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Prosecutor: Don't Believe Gotti's 'I-quit' Defense]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/As.trial.ends.2.1300598.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/As.trial.ends.2.1300598.html</link><description><![CDATA[Don't believe a defense lawyer's argument that John "Junior" Gotti quit organized crime with a sudden epiphany more than a decade ago, a prosecutor told a jury Monday during closing arguments in Gotti's fourth trial on racketeering charges in as many years. Assistant U.S. Attorney James Trezevant called the claim contrary to evidence. "It makes no sense," he said as he started daylong closings. Gotti would have had to turn against hundreds of mobsters working for him and immediately stop more than a decade of "nonstop crime," Trezevant said.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:30:41 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Paterson Calls For Action On Gay Marriage, Deficit]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Paterson.calls.for.2.1301356.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Paterson.calls.for.2.1301356.html</link><description><![CDATA[Gov. David Paterson on Monday urged lawmakers to legalize same-sex marriage in New York, calling it "an issue that touches on the very core of our citizenship." His request raises the hopes of gay advocates who suffered a major defeat in Maine when voters repealed that state's same-sex-marriage law last week. In New York City, Christine Quinn, the openly gay council speaker, quickly weighed in by offering an impassioned plea for the state Senate to pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:30:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deadline In Google Book Deal Extended To Friday]]></title><guid>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Judge.gives.Google.2.1300728.html</guid><link>http://wcbstv.com/wireapnewsny/Judge.gives.Google.2.1300728.html</link><description><![CDATA[A judge has given Google Inc. more time to revise a legal settlement that has drawn government scrutiny because it would give the Internet search leader the digital rights to millions of out-of-print books. Under a change approved Monday, Google and groups representing U.S. authors and publishers now have until Friday to change an agreement reached more than a year ago. It marked the latest twist in a copyright lawsuit that the authors and publishers filed against Google's digital book project four years ago. The revisions to the settlement were supposed to be filed by the end of Monday, but Google and its negotiating partners told U.S. District Judge Denny Chin they still needed to address objections raised in September by the U.S. Justice Department. Chin signed off on the extension without comment.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 22:46:44 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>