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MMR News around the world-Cops: Homeless man stole charity box

Police say Benjamin Pugh stole $15 from the

A homeless man is accused of stealing a charity box from a Rockland County restaurant, according to police.Officials say Benjamin Pugh, 23, swiped the charity container from the counter at the Kosher Castle on Route 59 at around 11 p.m. Monday. Police were able to track him down and arrested on a charge of petty larceny.

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MMR on news around the Tri-State-Common Core testing begins on LI, many opt out

Students across Long Island are scheduled to take

Tuesday was the first of three days of state assessment exams based on the controversial Common Core curriculum, which prompted many parents to opt their children out of the testing.
Students across Long Island are scheduled to take the English Language Arts test for three days this week and the math exam three days next week.

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MMR Bronx News-NYPD seeks 4th suspect in violent beating of 21-year-old in Hunts Point

Police say the attack happened April 6 after

Police are searching for a person they say took part in a brutal beating in Hunts Point.
The assault, which was caught on camera, took place on Manida Street on April 6.
Officials say a fight between the 21-year-old victim and a woman broke out inside an apartment at 625 Manida St. The fight soon made its way into a hallway, where three men allegedly beat the victim.

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MMR on Ent News-Police: Twins drown in canal as mom tries to fend off bee

Two 18-month-old twins drowned after their mother tried to fend off a bee and let go of their stroller, which rolled into a canal, Arizona police said. Alexis Keslar was walking with her twin sons, Silas and Eli Keslar, along a canal in Yuma on Friday when she tried to repel a bee, police in Yuma said.
“The stroller rolled away from her into the canal, with the boys belted in the seat,” police said Monday.

Keslar went into the canal and tried to rescue her sons, authorities said, but was hampered by the steep sides of the canal, the depth of the water and the force of the current. The current washed the stroller away.

After Keslar got out of the canal, she called for help, police said.
The irrigation district that manages the canal slowed the flow of water and reduced the water level to help emergency workers find the boys, authorities said.

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MMR on Ent News: EXCLUSIVE: Woman says Harlem tattoo parlor behind ‘Black Ink’ left her disfigured

Asabi Barner was a confident woman in her 30s. Her body was never something she felt a need to cover up, until now. A tattoo coverup changed her life last year. Barner says she desperately wanted to replace a unicorn and horseshoe tattoo she got when she was only 18, but now regrets that decision.

Barner decided to go to Black Ink, a tattoo parlor in Harlem that has its own reality show on VH1, a massive following and is even a spot frequented by many celebrities. But Barner says the main reason she picked them is because they claim to be the best of the best when it comes to tattooing on African American skin.
A massive chestpiece, she says, left her disfigured.
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MMR on Entertainment News- FLY ME2LA Concert Series

On Thursday April 30th, Join Kathryn F. Hoxie in Brooklyn, as she performs her hit music fir the FLY ME2LA Concert Series. Admission is $25.00.
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MMR on a Politics- Hilary Clinton

Hillary Clinton, under pressure from the left wing of her Democratic Party to aggressively campaign against income inequality, voiced concern about the hefty paychecks of some corporate executives in an email to supporters.

Striking a populist note, Clinton, who announced on Sunday she was running for president in 2016, said American families were still facing financial hardship at a time "when the average CEO makes about 300 times what the average worker makes."

In a tightly scripted campaign launch in which there were few surprises, the comments were unexpected, at least by progressives, who saw them as an early sign she may shift away from the centrist economic policies pursued by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.