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February 16, 2007  RSS feed
Kitchen Fire Was Cover-Up For Homicide
Severely Burned Woman Was Stabbed, Possibly Bludgeoned
A 77-year-old woman whose body was found badly burned inside her Bayswater home last week actually died from stab wounds to her neck and other head injuries, according to the Chief Medical Examiner's office. Firefighters found the woman's severely burned body lying face down inside the kitchen of her home at 1140 Bay 24 Street at about 7:20 p.m. More...
Hubby Repeatedly Stabs Wife: Cops
Now He's Charged With Attempted Murder
By Howard Schwach

A Bayswater man was charged with attempted murder late last week after he brutally stabbed his wife several times inside their home, police said. Theodore Banks, 41, of 10-17 Dickens Street and his wife, Ivory, 27, had an argument at their home at about 5:15 p.m. More...

Taking The Freezing Plunge For CF

With air temperatures hovering in the upper 20s and water temperatures in the upper 30s, a few hundred plungers took a freezing dip in the Atlantic Ocean at Beach 126 Street last Saturday as part of a fundraiser to fight Cystic Fibrosis. The annual event to raise money to fight the crippling disease gets larger each year, despite the frigid winter weather. More...

 Community
• article has image Woman Injured In ATM Robbery At Arverne Bank
An unidentified local woman was injured on Wednesday, February 14, when a man wielding a knife accosted her at the ATM outside of the Bank of America branch in Arverne and demanded her money. Police say that the woman gave up $360 to the still-unidentified man but was cut slightly on the neck. She was transported to Peninsula Hospital Center, where she was reportedly treated and released. More...
• article has image BCHS Teen Arrested As Screeners Turn Up Knife
• Veterans Town Hall Meeting
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 Columnists
• The Rockaway Irregular
Serf's Down …Are Queens Republicans Up?
The news last week was that Queens Republican Chairman State Senator Serphin Maltese resigned in a late night session of the Queens GOP Executive Committee and that longtime party stalwart, Phil Ragusa, was appointed to take his place. More...
• Broad Channel Bits
• Erin On The Rox
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 Sports
• Snow Postpones PSAL Girls Basketball Playoffs
The first snowstorm of the year played havoc with PSAL schedulemakers as the citywide girls' high school basketball playoffs, about to commence on Wednesday with first round action, was erased. The Far Rockaway Lady Seahorses' outbracket 'B" playoff game against Robert F. Wagner Jr. High School on Wednesday was canceled. That game will take place today at 5 p. More...
• St. Francis CYO Girls Triumph To Make Final Four Appearance
• article has image St Camillus 6th Grade CYO Clinch Playoff Berth
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 Editorial/Opinion
• Legislators As Puppets, Only Term Limits Will Do
The two elected officials who represent Rockaway in the State Assembly come with puppet's strings attached, and those strings are not controlled by the electorate, but by Sheldon Silver and Joseph Bruno, party leaders who control with an iron hand the Assembly and the Senate respectively. More...
• This Hole Can't Be Found At Dunkin Donuts
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 Letters
• Letters
Bloomberg's Speech Disappointing Dear Editor, I found Mayor Bloomberg's State of the City speech disappointing in its discussion of education. More...
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 Obits
• Obituaries
Douglas L. Artis USPS Mail Handler
Douglas L Artis, a longtime Rockaway resident, died February 1. He was 63. Artis, a United States Postal Service mail handler for 37 years who worked in Manhattan, was born on October 14, 1943 in Islewhite, Virginia. He retired in February of 2002. More...
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