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Loved Ones Remember Elmira Teen Who Was Hit By Car
Elmira, N.Y. - It's been one year since a 14 year old boy was struck by a car and killed on Elmira's southside. Friday night, friends and family members remember him with a candlelight vigil. Loved ones say they'll remember Chance Simoens as a sweet kind boy, who was just starting to get his act together. But a year ago
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Local Lawmakers Stress Potential Flood Plain Concerns
Elmira , N.Y. - Local law makers stressed their concerns to F.E.M.A. about the possibility of expanding the flood plain map in Chemung County . F.E.M.A. is proposing adding all of Elmira 's south side and Town of Southport to the flood plain. As a result neighbors say they would have to pay hundreds of dollars in flood insurance
State News
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Justice unit to probe mortgage-backed securities
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal and state law enforcement officials have launched a fraud-fighting initiative to root out wrongdoing in the market for residential mortgage-backed securities. Attorney General Eric Holder says that bringing full enforcement resources to bear will help expose abuses and hold violators accountable. Residential mortgage-backed securities are the huge investment packages of what turned out to
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Koch blasts NY Legislature over new district lines
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - Former New York Mayor Ed Koch says he's sure the state Legislature will soon unveil new election district lines that further protect majority party incumbents despite pledges lawmakers made in the last campaign to draw non-partisan lines. Koch, who heads the NY Uprising group, says lawmakers in the Senate's Republican majority and the Assembly's Democratic
National News
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Sea lions found shot to death
SEATTLE (AP) — Washington wildlife officials say 8 sea lions have been found dead in the Puget Sound region in recent weeks — all apparently shot. A local TV station reports that both the state Department of Fish and Wildlife and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are investigating the deaths. The bodies of seven sea lions with bullet wounds were recently
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Panetta cites key intelligence on bin Laden raid
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is acknowledging publicly for the first time that a Pakistani doctor provided key information to the U.S. in advance of the successful Navy SEAL assault on Osama bin Laden's compound last May. Panetta told CBS's 60 Minutes , in a profile to be broadcast on Sunday, that Shakil Afridi helped provide intelligence for
World News
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Venezuela to shun World Bank arbitration decisions
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says his government will ignore future decisions by a World Bank-affiliated arbitration body. Venezuela formally began its withdrawal from the Washington-based International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes this week. Chavez says any financial disagreements with foreign companies operating in Venezuela should be settled with local authorities and within the country's judicial
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Haiti president now says no pardon for Duvalier
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Haiti's president is backing away from a possible pardon for former dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. President Michel Martelly says he will let justice run its course in the case of the man known as "Baby Doc." Martelly says he was misunderstood in a Thursday interview with The Associated Press when asked about Duvalier and responded that he