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“Operation Angry Birds” Rescues 3,000 Cockfighting Contenders
(Great Beyond)When you think of a coordinated law enforcement effort that involves simultaneous takedowns of three illegal operations in three different counties, you might assume it involved narcotics...
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McDonald’s Manager Says She Was Fired After Paying For Firefighters’ Meal
(Paxton Holley)It’s a classic case of she-said/franchisee-said at a McDonald’s eatery in New York state, where a 23-year-old single mom claims she lost her job as a manager at the fast food joint after...
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Report: Telemarketers Pocket Nearly 2/3 Of Charity Donations
91 of the 589 charity telemarketing campaigns studied resulted in a loss, meaning the telemarketer was being paid more than it brought in. (Source: NY Attorney General’s Office)While the person who...
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Airbnb To Start Collecting Taxes In Portland, San Francisco, Maybe New York City
Airbnb is a site that lets people rent rooms or entire apartments or houses, directly from the homeowner or renter. It has proven popular with travelers, but less popular with landlords, the hotel...
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Dirty Hot Dog Vendors Avoid Cleaning Up By Changing Their Names
If you are served a 7-foot-tall anthropomorphic hot dog with a permagrin, then the odds are you purchased a mascot and not a quick lunch. (Matthew Hunt)Look, we all know that there is a certain level...
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Researchers Estimate 19 Tons Of Microbeads Washed Down The Drain In New York...
You wouldn’t dream of eating the tiny beads found in your face wash, right? Well, even if that’s the case, if you like seafood there’s a possibility you’ll be digesting that microbead at some point. A...
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Airbnb Agrees To Hand Over Some User Info To NY Attorney General
There’s been yet another development in the ongoing battle between Airbnb and the state of New York, with the online home rental service agreeing to turn over some data about its customers to the...
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New York A.G.: Never-Ending Sales At Hobby Lobby Stores Broke The Law
(Nicholas Eckhart)When a store runs the same promotion for 52 consecutive weeks, it’s really not a sale. It’s actually a type of deceptive advertising and that’s something the New York Attorney...
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Comcast One Step Closer To Slapping Its Logo On Top Of 30 Rock
Our resident artist’s rendition of what Comcast will do to the Prometheus Fountain at Rock Center (photo: Michael Colwell)Comcast may have its global HQ inside the world’s tallest thumb drive here in...
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Bank Of America Agrees To Scan For Illegal Payday Lenders In NY
(Michael Daddino)Payday lending is illegal in more than a dozen states, including New York, but some lenders manage to fly under the radar by operating online or hiding their loans as part of another...
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Court Rules NY Towns Can Use Zoning Laws To Ban Fracking
(Cheri Sundra)The battle over the highly controversial topic of fracking — a mining technique that has gained popular use as a method of extracting natural gas from the earth — continues as New York...
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Uber Agrees To Not Gouge Riders During Emergencies & Natural Disasters
(Wayne Gunn)One of the nice things about ride-sharing services like Uber is that the company can compete against taxi cabs by charging decent rates. But the fact that Uber rates are dynamic and can go...
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Barnes & Noble To Train Employees To Not Be Jerks To Breastfeeding Moms
(Ryan)In spite of the fact that every state in the U.S. has laws that allow nursing moms to feed their babies in public, there are still frequent reports (some possibly fictional) of breastfeeding...
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New York State Attorney General Tries To Shut Down Lyft Before Tonight’s NYC...
(Ben Schumin) Seven hours from now, people in the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens were supposed to be able to dial up a vehicle from ride-sharing service Lyft and coast through traffic in...
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Barneys To Pay $525K Penalty For Racial Profiling, Pinky-Swears To Not Do It...
(photographybynatalia)Overpriced retailer Barneys isn’t just guilty of lacking a much-needed apostrophe in its name. The swanky store has also agreed to pay the state of New York $525,000 to close the...
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“Payday Syndicate” Accused Of Charging Illegal Triple-Digit Interest Rates In NY
States have usury laws to limit illegal lending from loan sharks and organized crime. Some states’ laws limit interest rates on loans so much that payday lending and other predatory financial products...
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New York State Will Officially Ban Tiger Selfies
(main4rme)Hurry up, people who aspire to take photos of themselves with tigers: today, the governor of New York State signed a bill banning the practice of paying to have your photo taken with a large...
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Online Retailer Will Fine You $250 If You Even Threaten To Complain About...
The Terms of Sale on the Accessory Outlet website say you can be fined $250 or more for even threatening to complain about a purchase.If you were put off by KlearGear.com’s ridiculous...
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New York Not A Fan Of Comcast’s Plan To Take Over TWC Service In New York
(Consumerist)We’ve known for months that the FCC and the Justice Department are hard at work combing through the proposed Comcast/Time Warner Cable merger, but they aren’t the only ones. Although the...
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NY Attorney General: 72% Of Airbnb Rentals Violate State, City Laws
(Vivienne Gucwa)New York state’s crackdown on the burgeoning short-term home rental industry continues this morning, with a new report from the state’s Attorney General claiming that nearly 3-in-4 of...
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