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FILE - This June 20, 2014 file photo shows the Rikers Island jail complex in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York City lawmakers are considering a plan to close the notorious Rikers Island jail complex and replace it with four smaller jails. The City Council is set to vote Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 on a plan to build the jails that would replace Rikers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Plan to close notorious Rikers jail complex by 2026 approved

By KAREN MATTHEWS - Associated Press

FILE - This June 20, 2014 file photo shows the Rikers Island jail complex in New York with the Manhattan skyline in the background. New York City lawmakers are considering a plan to close the notorious Rikers Island jail complex and replace it with four smaller jails. The City Council is set to vote Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019 on a plan to build the jails that would replace Rikers. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

The Latest: NYC to close Rikers Island jail complex by 2026

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Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf, third from left, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, center, Connecticut Gov. Ned Lamont, second from right, and New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, right, co-host a regional summit on public health issues around cannabis and vaping, Thursday Oct. 17, 2019, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

Northeast officials team up to push pot, vaping regulations

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FILE - In this Thursday, May 9, 2019 file photo, Gwen Carr, mother of Eric Garner, an unarmed black man who died as he was being subdued in a chokehold by police officer Daniel Pantaleo nearly five years ago, holds a news conference after leaving court in New York. The mother of Eric Garner is urging New York lawmakers to repeal a law used to keep the disciplinary records of police officers, firefighters and correction officers confidential. Gwen Carr testified at a hearing on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2019. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)

Eric Garner’s mother urges repeal of NY police secrecy law

By RYAN TARINELLI - Associated Press

Kent State multidisciplinary team created a 3-D scan and digitally capture Pio Fedi's Liberty of Poetry statue. J.R. Campbell, executive director Design Innovation Initiative, talks about the statue to students with his Design Innovation teaching partner Abraham Avnisan. Liberty of Poetry was the inspiration for the Statue of Liberty. (Lisa Scalfaro/Record-Courier via AP)

Kent State project creates dialogue about liberty

By KRISTA S. KANO - Associated Press

Prosecutors say New York Manafort case isn’t double jeopardy

By TOM HAYS - Associated Press

Agreement keeps floating billboards out of NYC waters

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FILE - In this Dec. 20, 2016 file photo, Ahmad Khan Rahimi, the man accused of setting off bombs in New Jersey and New York's Chelsea neighborhood, sits in court in Elizabeth, N.J. Jurors in New Jersey have resumed deliberations on Tuesday, oct. 8,2 019, in the attempted murder trial of Rahimi, who was already convicted of planting bombs in New York City. He's accused of engaging police in a gun battle after they found him sleeping in a doorway. An officer was shot, and Rahimi was riddled with police bullets. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

New York bomber convicted in shootout with New Jersey police

By DAVID PORTER - Associated Press

Supporters of the 'Extinction Rebellion' movement block a road between the Brandenburg Gate, background, and the Victory Column in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Oct. 7, 2019. The activists want to draw attention on the climate protest by blocking roads and with other acts of civil disobedience in Berlin and other cities around the world. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Climate activists block roads, march in global protests

By GEIR MOULSON - Associated Press

FILE - In this June 24, 2019 file photo, the empty courtroom is seen at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

A look at top cases for the Supreme Court’s new term

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

Police officers escort Randy Rodriguez Santos from the 5th Precinct to a vehicle bound for a hospital for evidence collection, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019, in New York. Santos was arrested in connection with the deaths of several homeless men. (AP Photo/Julius Constantine Motal)

The Latest: Prosecutors: Suspect identified self in video

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FILE - In this June 24, 2019 file photo, the empty courtroom is seen at the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Top cases for the Supreme Court’s new term

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New York Police Department officers investigate the scene of an attack in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 in New York. Four men who are believed to be homeless were brutally attacked and killed early Saturday in a street rampage. NYPD Detective Annette Shelton said that a fifth man remained in critical condition after also being struck with a long metal object that authorities recovered. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

The Latest: Morning arraignment expected in homeless attack

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New York Police Department officers investigate the scene of an attack in Manhattan's Chinatown neighborhood, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2019 in New York. Four men who are believed to be homeless were brutally attacked and killed early Saturday in a street rampage. NYPD Detective Annette Shelton said that a fifth man remained in critical condition after also being struck with a long metal object that authorities recovered. (AP Photo/Jeenah Moon)

Suspect held in fatal bludgeoning of sleeping homeless men

By VERENA DOBNIK and REBECCA GIBIAN - Associated Press

This 1972 file image shows singer and actress Diahann Carroll. Carroll passed away Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, at her home in Los Angeles after a long bout with cancer. She was 84. (AP Photo/Jean-Jacques Levy, File)

Diahann Carroll, Oscar-nominated, pioneering actress, dies

By Nekesa Mumbi Moody - Associated Press

FILE - In this Sunday, Sept. 29, 2019 file photo, emergency personnel walk near the scene of a fatal shooting of a New York City police officer in the Bronx borough of New York. A funeral is scheduled to begin Friday morning, Oct. 4, for a New York City police officer killed by friendly fire during a struggle with an armed man. Authorities say Officer Brian Mulkeen was fatally hit Sunday by two police bullets while struggling with an armed man in the Bronx. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

NYPD officer killed by friendly fire is hailed as a hero

By RYAN TARINELLI - Associated Press

In this Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2019, photo an Uber helicopter approaches the Downtown Manhattan Heliport, in New York. The ride-hailing company expanded its helicopter service Thursday, Oct. 3, between lower Manhattan in New York City and John F. Kennedy International Airport, making it available to all Uber riders with iPhones instead of just those in the top tiers of its rewards program. Uber hopes to deploy it to Android users soon. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Uber expands helicopter service in New York

By CATHY BUSSEWITZ - Associated Press

R. Kelly appears during a hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2019 in Chicago. A judge in R. Kelly's Illinois sexual assault case has refused to give $100,000 in bail money back to a Kelly friend who paid it in February to secure the singer's release from county jail. (Antonio Perez/ via AP Pool)

R. Kelly denied bail in sex-abuse case

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FILE - In this March 12, 2016, file photo, an Amtrak train passes a New Jersey Transit train stopped to discharge and board passengers at Elizabeth train station in Elizabeth, N.J., along Amtrak's Northeast Corridor. A review conducted on behalf of New Jersey Transit and Amtrak Rail concludes that delays of five hours or more for commuters between New Jersey and New York have occurred about 17 times per year in recent years. (AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Dining car gets axed on tax-eating Amtrak

By Ethan Epstein - The Washington Times

Bunbury, Revolution beat New York City, clinch playoff berth

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