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All rights reserved. 60 RawSignalNychttp://feedburner.google.com http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58721527&aId=10557400&d=120224 A New Jersey teenager accused of using a webcam to spy on his Rutgers University roommate's gay tryst may be young and "stupid" but he is not a bigot or a criminal, said his attorney during opening arguments Friday morning. 2/24/2012 2:26:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58721527&aId=10557400&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58700422&aId=10555722&d=120224 Around 8 p.m. Tuesday, Armando Bigo had walked into Papa Yala’s Deli and Grocery Inc. in the Soundview section with his mother and picked up a bag of chips when a bullet struck his shoulder. 2/24/2012 12:46:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58700422&aId=10555722&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58669333&aId=10543287&d=120224 In her opening statements Friday morning, Assistant Prosecutor Julia McClure said Dharun Ravi's invasion of privacy of his roommate was deliberate and criminal. 2/24/2012 12:25:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58669333&aId=10543287&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58679507&aId=10557398&d=120224 New York City is set to release rankings of thousands of public school teachers who were rated on their ability to affect students' progress on standardized tests. 2/24/2012 1:26:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58679507&aId=10557398&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58650945&aId=10545042&d=120224 The suicide rate in New York City is almost half the national average, a new Health Department report reveals. There are now six suicides per 100,000 New Yorkers, compared to national rate of 11 per 100,000. The number of suicides by firearms also continued to decline. In 2010, 12 percent of the city's 509 suicides involved the use of a gun, compared to a national average of 52 percent. In 1991, 19 percent of those who took their own lives in New York City used guns. Health Commissio Christopher Mathias 2/24/2012 9:46:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58650945&aId=10545042&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58688935&aId=10557397&d=120224 Five people, including four children, were killed when they became trapped in a fire in a two-family home in New Jersey. 2/24/2012 11:25:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58688935&aId=10557397&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58700427&aId=10544035&d=120224 NEW YORK -- Officials in three states traded accusations over who knew what about a secret 2007 New York Police Department operation that monitored and catalogued Muslim neighborhoods throughout New Jersey's largest city. The operation resulted in a 60-page NYPD report, released by The Associated Press this week, containing photographs and notes about every mosque and Muslim business in Newark, just west of Manhattan. NYPD spokesman Paul Browne said Thursday that Newark police 2/24/2012 1:07:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58700427&aId=10544035&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58563585&aId=10549752&d=120224 The New Jersey man who repeatedly mowed down his girlfriend leaving her for dead was extradited to New Jersey Friday where he will be charged with murder. Pix11 Newsroom 2/24/2012 10:26:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58563585&aId=10549752&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58660220&aId=10543274&d=120224 MIAMI -- Jeremy Lin collided with LeBron James shortly after tip-off, stumbling backward. With that, the tone was set. And Lin's rise from unknown to stardom hit its first major snag. Chris Bosh scored 25 points, Dwyane Wade added 22 and James put up 20 points, nine rebounds, eight assists, five steals and two blocks – the first such stat line in the NBA since James himself had a night like that four years ago – as the league-leading Miami Heat stopped Lin and the New York Kni 2/24/2012 9:26:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58660220&aId=10543274&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58633874&aId=10555729&d=120224 With the NYPD's controversial stop-and-frisk practice seeing an alarming all-time high in 2011, Councilman Jumaane Williams is proposing serious changes to the policy, most notably requiring officers to provide their business cards to individuals that are stopped. The proposal will also prohibit the NYPD from profiling on the base of age, sexual orientation, immigration status, and other potentially biased factors. Williams explained the purpose of his three-part bill on Thursday, " Inae Oh 2/24/2012 1:26:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58633874&aId=10555729&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58715132&aId=10547919&d=120224 A man accused of shoving a woman into the side of a moving subway train has been convicted of assault.  Jose Rojas' was acquitted Friday of attempted murder.   2/24/2012 2:26:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58715132&aId=10547919&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58555003&aId=10547924&d=120224 It looks like guiding planes isn't keeping the air traffic controllers at New York's Westchester County Airport busy enough. Footage obtained by Fox 5 New York shows them sleeping, reading and texting in the tower. "For many months the Westchester County Airport control tower has also doubled as a controllers' break room. And, sometimes it's hard to tell when the work ends and playtime, or even nap time, begins," said newscaster Dari Alexander: A concerned, anonymous air traffic con Rebecca Dolan 2/24/2012 12:46:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58555003&aId=10547924&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58700421&aId=10513834&d=120224 A fire broke out early Thursday morning at a home in South Jamaica, Queens, and fire officials are calling it "suspicious." Kerry Drew 2/24/2012 1:07:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58700421&aId=10513834&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58642088&aId=10544669&d=120224 The Catholic League's Bill Donohue is still steamed over the Empire State Building refusing to honor Mother Teresa and he says it's not surprising that they're going to "stiff" the newly elevated Cardinal Timothy Dolan. 2/24/2012 6:25:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58642088&aId=10544669&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58692515&aId=10552187&d=120224 The South Plainfield, N.J. house where a fast-moving fire killed five members of a family -- four of them children -- had no working smoke detectors, fire officials said Friday. 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58692515&aId=10552187&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58504417&aId=10548515&d=120224 On February 6, most people would've thought Yair Rozmaryn, a 29-year-old Upper West Sider, was a little Linsane for spending $1,000 on a Jeremy Lin rookie card. Granted, the card included Lin's autograph AND a swatch of jersey, but still, Lin had only started two games when Rozmaryn made the purchase, well before Lin puns dominated headlines across the world. A mere two weeks later, however, Rozmaryn got the last laugh. He sold the card on Ebay Thursday afternoon for a staggering $21,5 Christopher Mathias 2/24/2012 9:46:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58504417&aId=10548515&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58721531&aId=10544666&d=120224 Among those who moved up in rank were Detective Kevin Herlihy and Officer Kevin Brennan. Herlihy was hurt in a gun fight with a suspect at a Harlem subway station last week; Brennan was shot in the head at point-blank range in Brooklyn last month. 1/1/0001 12:00:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58721531&aId=10544666&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58596581&aId=10544037&d=120224 The national average for a gallon of gas shot up again Thursday to $3.61. So far, that's a 33 cent spike since the first of the year and it's 42 cents more than you were paying this time last year. 2/24/2012 5:28:00 AM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58596581&aId=10544037&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58524873&aId=10534500&d=120224 Cops in Cliffside Park are hunting for a sexual predator accused of breaking into a home and sexually assaulting two people that neighbors describe as elementary school-aged girls. Mike Gilliam 2/23/2012 9:26:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58524873&aId=10534500&d=120224 http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58666033&aId=10543279&d=120224 Police are looking for a person who got through security at John F. Kennedy International Airport without being properly screened. Greg Cergol 2/24/2012 2:06:00 PM http://nyc.rawsignal.com/news/Story.aspx?mode=0&id=58666033&aId=10543279&d=120224