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The residents of Hunts Point in South Bronx have filed lawsuit against the city for smells from a waste treatment plant which has plagued their community.

The community had previously filed complaints and held protests about the sickening smell from local waste treatment plants.

The noxious smells come from the waste water treatment plant in Hunts Point and New York Organic Fertilizer Company. The fertilizer company converts the sewage and human waste into fertilizer pellets.

The local activist organization Mothers on the Move have filed a nuisance lawsuit against the fertilizer company and the city.

The Natural Resource Defense council has taken on the [...]

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The makers of the antibiotic Cipro on Tuesday asked by The Food and Drug Administration to add a “black box warning” to their all products, seeing the risks of tendon ruptures and tendonitis. The injury could also leave patients incapacitated.

This warning was for Cipro and its generic Ciprofloxacin, along with antibiotics like the flouroquinolone class of drugs, & Levaquin, Avelox, Floxin,Proquin , Factive, XR, Noroxin, and generic Ofloxacin.

According to Health officials patients should immediately stop taking the medicines if they develop any tendon pain, swelling, or inflammation.

Cipro is normally used to treat bacterial infections in strep throat, urinary tract, and [...]

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The family of the woman who died on the Brooklyn hospital while waiting to be seen in the hospital’s psychiatric ward last month and was caught on surveillance tape, have planned to sue the facility.

Esmin Green’s daughter and sister will ask for $25 million as damages caused by the Kings County Hospital. Also a criminal charge is made by their lawyer.

Surveillance video showed the 49-year-old women shaking on the floor while workers walked pass by.

Trecia Harrison the Green’s Daughter wants that the persons responsible should be behind bars, and also pay for it [...]

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The federal judge on Monday rejected a request by relatives of 9/11 victims to sift through tons of debris from the Fresh Kills landfill in Staten Island. They wanted to search for the human remains of their loved ones who perished in 9/11 terrorist attacks.

The judge, Alvin K. Hellerstein of Federal District Court in Manhattan, said that he would deny the request, praising the city for undertaking the “herculean job of repairing the gaping hole in our society,” and saying that nothing — not even the upheaval of 1.8 million tons of landfill debris — would ever return the dead [...]

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The city worker who allegedly lied about inspecting a crane days before it collapsed on construction site, killing seven people has been indicted.

Edward Marquette was charged with tampering public records, falsifying business records, official misconduct and other charged. He had also resigned from the Buildings Department in March.

Building officials reported that Marquette

Marquette was supposed to do a scheduled inspection of a Crane in the Turtle Bay section located at Manhattan, New York on March 4th. However he failed to complete his inspection.

The crane collapsed 11 days later and killed seven people on the spot. Prosecutors [...]

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A former Army scientist will receive $5.8 million in order to settle his lawsuit against the Justice Department.

Steven Hatfill claimed that the Justice Department has violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case.

The Justice Department will pay $2.825 million up front along with a $3 million annuity which will pay him $150,000 each year for 20 years.

Hatfill contracted infectious disease while working in laboratory from 1997 to 1999. Five people were killed and 17 sickened by anthrax on 2001, when anthrax was mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York [...]

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A Muttontown millionaire has been convicted along with his wife for enslaving two Indonesian domestic workers. He was sentenced on Friday to 3 years and 4 months in federal prison.

U.S. District Judge Arthur Spatt said that husband of Varsha Sabhani, Mr.Mahender Sabhnani did not inflict any physical injury on the two enslaved women, “but he permitted all of these things to go on — these dreadful things — he had to know.”

Doing nothing to stop his wife’s brutality towards their women housekeepers will cost him 40 months in federal prison along with he was also [...]

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A former washed-up shock jock was working as a counterfeiter in Manhattan, New York.

Bruce Bond, 49, whose radio career started to plummet in 2001 when he was fired from a Pennsylvania station for attacking co-workers on air, was charged with creating counterfeit checks worth millions from a stolen bank account. He had created several thousand bogus checks while operating from his Wall Street, New York apartment, prosecutor Gary Snitow told Justice Marcy Kahn in Manhattan Supreme Court.

Bond, used to forge checks on regular basis, and in the past 15 months. Manhattan, New York prosecutor allege that Bond, used to mail counterfeit [...]

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The New York City Council on Thursday unveiled bill No.721 which would make things difficult for death-defying climbers who scale New York City’s skyscrapers. The Bill would make it illegal to scale or jump from a building 25 feet or taller.

These skyscraper climbers used to receive handshakes on the roof of New York City Skyscrapers, are receiving hand-wringing in the past few weeks, after two men climbed to the top of the New York Times Building with no ropes or safety nets.

These climbers used to receive mild punishments under the current New York City laws, which prompted the Council [...]

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The U.S Supreme Court today rejected tenants and property owner’s appeal which are facing eviction to make room for the development of Atlantic Yards.

The group named Develop Don’t Destroy Brooklyn had strived to stop the development of skyscrapers and new arena for the Nets from moving forward. The group was opposing to the use of eminent domain, terming it as unconstitutional.

They say the government has violated rules by taking the property because the project is geared towards benefit of developers rather than public. However, the justice attorneys rejected their appeal.

An attorney for the Brooklyn home and business owners said that [...]

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