NYC construction becomes more deadly
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Sucha Ram was getting ready to tar the roof of a building in the Bronx last year when he fell over the side, plunging 15 feet to his death. He was not wearing any fall-protection gear and had never received formal training in fall hazards, a report said.
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A plan is being developed to alleviate the growing pressure from pedestrian and vehicle traffic in Times Square.
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Frightening incidents often take place, especially when shooting at different locations. But one incident
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Health experts have pronounced diabetes as one of the deadliest diseases. Diabetes which killed an increasing number of New York City residents last year for the first time ranked among the five leading causes
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For one hot, bloody weekend in July, it was like old times in the nation's former murder capital. Eleven people died violent deaths over a 48-hour period. One was a hospital worker gunned down by muggers near Chinatown. Another was shot and killed in a drug-related dispute.
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Federal investigators believe the second World Trade Center tower fell much more quickly than the first because it faced a more concentrated, intense fire inside, officials said Tuesday.
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Police were investigating on Monday  how a young man managed to penetrate security at Ground Zero,  one of the most closely guarded sites in New York, where he  killed himself with a 12-gauge shotgun near the gaping hole  where the World Trade Center once stood.
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It's the mayor's visionary project &#151; or his &#36;1.4 billion boondoggle. It's a boon to construction unions &#151; or the bane of New York's police and firefighters. It will bring the Olympics to New York &#151; or ruin one of the city's great neighborhoods.
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As street-corner slayings and drug turf drive-bys have melted away in New York City, police are collecting more data than ever on the remaining few hundred murders.
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Dr. Harindra Joseph S. Fernando study the human activities that make a natural disaster even more deadly.
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The attacks targeted day laborers at a central square in the city who were seeking work; seven policemen were also killed
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As U.S. troops push more deeply into Baghdad and its volatile outskirts, Iraqi insurgents are using increasingly sophisticated and lethal means of attack, including bigger roadside bombs that are resulting in greater numbers of American fatalities relative to the number of wounded.
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Deeper than the Statue of Liberty is tall, the chasm is blamed in the deaths of three people so far.
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NEW YORK, July 19 -- On most days  in this city, the line that separates the Whens from  the Ifs -- those who think another act of terrorism here is a certitude, and those who do not -- is pretty hard to spot. After nearly six incident-free years, New Yorkers tend to choose a side on the fear div...
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Authorities have disrupted planning by foreign terrorists for an attack on New York City tunnels, two law enforcement officials said Friday.
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The violence unleashed at a mental health office in New York reminded other professionals of the dangers inherent in a career spent helping people.
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NEW YORK, July 18 -- A steam explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal on Wednesday during the evening rush hour, sending people running for cover amid a plume of steam.