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Cristian Salazar

Dominique Strauss-Kahn, center, is led from 71 Broadway in Manhattan's financial district where the former International Monetary Fund leader was staying following his release on bail, Wednesday, May 25, 2011, in New York. (AP Photo/Louis Lanzano) (AP)

Ex-IMF leader tried declaring diplomatic immunity

Cristian Salazar

Gil Scott-Heron

Spoken-word musician Gil Scott-Heron dies in NYC

Cristian Salazar

President O’Bama? Irish-American relatives identified

Cristian Salazar, Randy Herschaft

Airplane returns to New York after engine failure

Cristian Salazar

Residents in the Park Slope neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York circle around a car crushed by a fallen tree, Thursday, Sept. 16, 2010. A brief but severe storm has swept through New York City, uprooting trees and damaging cars. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan) (AP)

Possible tornado hit NYC in storm

Cristian Salazar

Voices rise in favor of moving proposed New York mosque

Cristian Salazar

This undated image taken from the Russian social networking website "Odnoklassniki", or Classmates, shows a woman journalists have identified as Anna Chapman, who appeared at a hearing Monday, June 28, 2010 in New York federal court. Chapman, along with 10 others, was arrested on charges of conspiracy to act as an agent of a foreign government without notifying the U.S. attorney general. The caption on Odnoklassniki reads "Russia, Moscow. London, Stone age." (AP Photo) (AP)

N.Y. suspect dubbed femme fatale of Russian spy case

Tom Hays, Cristian Salazar

Times Square is void of pedestrians just south of 46th Street in New York Saturday, May 1, 2010. Police have closed some streets in New York City's Times Square as they investigate a car that has been "deemed suspicious." (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle) (AP)

Times Square cleared as suspected car bomb found

Tom Hays, Cristian Salazar