News Headlines for Afton, New York

New York agency OKs $6.2 billion Columbia U expansion (New York Daily News)
A New York agency is one step closer to forcing some property owners near Columbia University to give up their land after approving a $6.2 billion expansion.

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Damaged Ship Leaves New York (New York Times)
A cruise ship with 67 safety problems found by inspectors was allowed to leave New York, but only to sail to Tampa, Fla., to be repaired, a Coast Guard spokeswoman said.

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Starbucks to Close 10 Stores in New York (New York Times)
Starbucks said that 10 of the 600 coffee shops it planned to shut by mid-2009 would be in New York City, which would leave New Yorkers with 225 Starbucks to choose from.

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New York Jets sign fifth-round pick, quarterback Erik Ainge (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. - Quarterback Erik Ainge, the New York Jets' fifth-round draft pick, signed a contact with the team Thursday.

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New York Giants fans learn cost of stadium seat licenses (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. - More than 80 per cent of the New York Giants' current season ticket holders will be charged between US$1,000 and $7,500 for the right to buy tickets for the team's new stadium under a personal seat license plan announced by the Giants on Thursday. Licenses for some of the best seats will cost as much as $20,000.

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New York Red Bulls sign midfielders Jorge Rojas and Juan Pietravallo (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
SECAUCUS, N.J. - The New York Red Bulls signed midfielders Jorge Rojas and Juan Pietravallo on Thursday after they received their visas.

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New York City gang used torture to rob rival drug dealers (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
NEW YORK - They bound their victims with duct tape, beat them and held guns to their heads.

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Tools of the trade for New York drug bandits: pliers, hot irons, fake squad cars (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
NEW YORK - They bound their victims with duct tape, beat them and held guns to their heads. When that didn't work, the bandits applied pliers to their genitals and pressed hot irons to the soles of their feet. Sometimes they held victims' heads under water in a bathtub.

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New York governor, NAACP condemn magazine cover (AP via Yahoo! News)
New York Gov. David Paterson and the NAACP on Thursday condemned the New Yorker magazine's satirical cover depicting Democrat Barack Obama and his wife as flag-burning radicals.

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AP Source: New York Yankees reach deal with Richie Sexson (Canadian Press via Yahoo! News)
NEW YORK - First baseman Richie Sexson and the New York Yankees reached a deal Thursday, a week after the Seattle Mariners cut the slumping slugger.

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