WILLIAM KATES

Associated Press Writer
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New NY company to roll out electric cars in 2010

A new New York company hopes to complete financing of a Syracuse plant to make electric cars by the end of this year and start rolling out plug-in hatchbacks in late 2010.

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Scientists hope to network Facebook-style

Social networking is coming to the science lab.

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50 years later, 'Twilight Zone' bridges time

"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension of imagination. It is an area which we call 'The Twilight Zone.'" — Rod Serling

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50 years later, 'Twilight Zone' bridges time

On a Friday night in October 1959, Americans began slipping into a dimension of imagination as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. They've really never returned.

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Senate wants expansion of federal hate crimes law

People attacked because of their sexual orientation or gender would receive federal protections under a Senate-approved measure that significantly expands the reach of hate crimes law.

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St. Lawrence Seaway, engineering marvel, turns 50

Working 90 feet above the ground, pouring buckets of concrete that would harden into a 195-foot-high dam the length of 11 football fields, a teenage Frank Wicks knew even then he wasn't on just another job.

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Mohawks v. Canada: Bridge shutdown hurts business

Melinda Walk needs her Canadian customers back — so much so that she's willing to give them full value for their currency at her convenience store-gas station just over the U.S.-Canadian border, even at a loss of 12 cents on the dollar.

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Oil companies shop for discounted ethanol plants

When Sunoco closed this week on the acquisition of a bankrupt ethanol plant for pennies on the dollar, it became just the latest oil refiner to step into the alternative fuels market.

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Bulletproof vests not a new problem for police

In shootings around the nation, police often find the gunman is wearing a bulletproof vest — and while it's an issue that has recently jumped into the spotlight, it's hardly a new problem for law enforcement.

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Receptionist a 'hero' at NY center where 14 killed

The two receptionists at the American Civic Association community center barely had time to react when a gunman stormed in the front door and shot them at close range before firing on a roomful of immigrants taking a citizenship class.

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Binghamton mourns loss of 'family, friends, peace'

Mayor Matt Ryan wept Friday as he tried to console himself and his community one-week after a gunman opened fire on a classroom of immigrants studying English, killing 13 people before taking his own life.

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Gunman blocks NY center's door, kills 13, self

A gunman barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide, officials said.

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Gunman blocks NY center's door, kills 13, self

A gunman barricaded the back door of a community center with his car and then opened fire on a room full of immigrants taking a citizenship class Friday, killing 13 people before apparently committing suicide, officials said.

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Police: 14 killed in NY immigrant center shooting

The police chief of Binghamton, N.Y., says 14 people, including the suspected gunman, were killed in a shooting at an immigrant services center.

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At least 12 killed at immigration center in NY

A gunman opened fire on a room where immigrants were taking a citizenship exam in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing as many as 13 people before committing suicide, officials said.

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Massacre kills 12 at immigration center in NY

A law enforcement official says the gunman who killed at least 12 people in Binghamton, N.Y., died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Massacre kills 12 at immigration center in NY

A gunman opened fire at an immigration services center in downtown Binghamton on Friday, killing as many as 13 people before authorities found him dead, officials said.

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NY governor: At least 12 killed in Binghamton

Gov. David Paterson says "12 or 13" people were killed in an attack on an immigration services center in Binghamton, N.Y.

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Fugitive accused of arranging bogus transplant

A fugitive American who claimed he was a psychiatrist will be returned to upstate New York to face federal charges he took $70,000 for a bogus promise of a liver transplant in the Philippines, a federal prosecutor said Thursday.

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Recovering crash remains a methodical process

Experts who helped identify victims from Flight 93's crash in a Pennsylvania field on 9/11 have joined the search for remains from a commuter plane's crash site outside Buffalo.

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Neighborhood's quiet night explodes in tragedy

By 10 p.m., a light cloak of snow had settled over the neatly tended homes that line Long Street, the quiet interrupted only by the occasional rumble of jets overhead.

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Zoos, aquariums face the ax in NY, elsewhere

Even porcupines could get pink slips in the slumping economy as states consider cutting or eliminating funding that supports zoos, aquariums and botanical gardens.

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Orange stun Louisville again

Curtis Brinkley accomplished a feat none of the great running backs at Syracuse ever did. Not Jim Brown. Not Ernie Davis. Not Joe Morris.

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Ithaca, NY, wants to be America's 1st podcar city

The thought of a driverless, computer-guided car transporting people where they want to go on demand is a futuristic notion to some.

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Stepbrother charged in upstate NY girl's slaying

A man was charged Tuesday in the strangling death of his 11-year-old stepsister who was starved by her parents and slept a locked room inside an upstate NY house filled with garbage and more than 100 cats, police said.

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