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Gravy is a classic worth mastering. I know I said I'd be back Monday. But Thanksgiving looms and the questions are piling up.

Spiritis' contract said he was to be paid for "all prior unused vacation, sick, personal, birthday days and accrued compensatory time based upon his prior salary" as commissioner, or $915.48 a day.

Nassau County Board of Elections workers, lawyers and observers work at counting paper ballots in the race for county executive on Monday, November 16, 2009 in Mineola, New York .

A. Paterson conceded Monday that a bill making it a felony to drive drunk with a child in the car may have to be watered down to pass the Assembly.

"They don't have meaningful relationships and they don't value relationships." Yet another common misconception about Generation Y. Many believe, partially because of Gen Y's propensity for electronic communication, they view relationships as instantaneous and convenient, not meaningful and lasting.

Police said Andrew Gaughan was driving south on the Meadowbrook near Babylon Turnpike - just yards from the site of a horrific 2005 wrong-way drunk-driving limo crash that killed 7-year-old Katie Flynn of Long Beach and limo driver Stanley Rabinowitz, 59 - when he was stopped by a trooper.

Police report a U.S. tourist, fell and broke his neck while pretending to be surfing on the hood of a friend's moving car, in a popular Puerto Rican beach town.

LAST week, the Los Angeles City Council voted for a resolution recommending Los Angeles schools adopt a mandatory uniform policy for all of its not quite 680,000 students.

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously passed a resolution Wednesday recommending school uniforms at all Los Angeles Unified School District campuses.

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The GOP needed to win just one of the three City Council seats up for grabs in Tuesday's elections to retain control of City Hall.

Elections officials say the reasons are geographic, not political. But Suozzi's Republican challenger, Edward Mangano, who had been running ahead of the incumbent county executive until those polls came in, is asking his party and the police to keep a close watch on the recount.

Hugh Jackman, known for his big screen role as Wolverine in "X-Men" series, took his name out of consideration to host the 2010 Academy Awards.

Goldie Steinberg, who turns 109 years old today, with her son Donald Sargent and daughter Anne Teicher at a party to celebrate her birthday on Friday, October 30, 2009 in Long Beach, New York.

It's a nostalgia-rich week for Bunker Hill. At last Friday's meeting, the City Council voted to name the intersection of Fifth and Grand John Fante Square after the Bard of Bunker Hill.

Suozzi, 53, son of former Mayor Vincent "Jimmy" Suozzi and cousin of Nassau County Executive Thomas Suozzi, says he's rescued a city saddled with $75 million in debt, with a deficit of nearly $16 million.

Bruce Ratner went modest this year. In June, the Atlantic Yards developer conceded that Frank Gehry won't be designing any of his 22-acre, $4.9 billion site's 17 buildings; cheaper alternatives replaced the architect's plans, and, among other things, shrunk the arena slated for his basketball team.

On Tuesday, October 20, Peter Silberman, the lead singer/guitarist of Brooklyn's The Antlers stood on stage and said to the crowd at Music Hall in Williamsburg, "Welcome to CMJ.

World champion Muscle Hill capped off his phenomenal career in style with another top-notch triumph in the $617,880 Breeders Crown Three-Year-Old Colt Trot Saturday evening at Woodbine Racetrack.

This past weekend, the American Kennel Club, along with our friends at the Cat Fanciers' Association, hosted 36,000 people over two days at Meet the Breeds in New York City.