Del Potro to play at Queen's Club tournament

U.S. Open champion Juan Martin Del Potro will play at next year's Queen's Club tournament in an effort to improve his grasscourt game ahead of Wimbledon.

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Murray to face Blake in Queen's final

Andy Murray reached his first grass-court final Saturday, while Andy Roddick's quest for a fifth title at Queen's Club ended when he had to retire against James Blake with a foot injury.

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Rafael Nadal pulls out of Queen's due to injury

Rafael Nadal withdrew on Friday from next week's grass-court tournament at Queen's Club because of knee trouble but hopes to defend his title at Wimbledon.

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Hewitt, Safin to play in Queen's Club tournament

Four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt and former top-ranked Marat Safin will play in the Queen's Club tournament, a major warmup for Wimbledon.

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Queen Elizabeth 2 makes swan song visit to NYC

After four decades of plying the world's oceans, the liner Queen Elizabeth 2 is making its final visit to New York before eventually sailing off to the Persian Gulf.

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Met Plans to Stage Donizetti Queens

Anna Netrebko and Joyce DiDonato will each be a queen at the Metropolitan Opera — but the company can't find anyone to wear a third crown.

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Kathleen Maloney reports Dashawn Vasconcellos, 18, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso, neck and extremities, medical examiner spokeswoman Ellen Borakove said. Police fired a total of 14 times, said chief NYPD spokesman Paul J. Browne.

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The soldiers at Fort Hood had it coming, says a radical Muslim in Queens who travels to mosques around the city spreading anti-American hate and has sent a "Get Well Soon" message to the major behind the Texas massacre.

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Jemmott's mother has been taking him to Cedar Lane Stables since he was a toddler.

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Excerpt: "" An openly gay Queens man was clinging to life Sunday night after being brutally beaten by two hate-spewing attackers on a walk to a corner store, police and relatives said Sunday. ""

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A quick-thinking 16-year-old girl - who doesn't even know how to drive - was hailed as a hero on Wednesday for saving a bus full of kids after the driver dropped dead behind the wheel.

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Forbes' Power Women list isn't about celebrity or popularity; it's about influence.

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A Queens man needed a doctor after a house call from a surly Verizon repairman who pummeled him -- and never fixed the problem, according to a lawsuit.

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I am humbled. I met a real life Angel recently. His name is Jorge Munoz and he lives in Queens, New York.

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Twelve city public school students - including two from Queens - had a school trip of a lifetime when they flew to Johannesburg recently to meet former South African President Nelson Mandela.

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Three workers at a waste transfer station in Queens were overcome by toxic fumes Monday afternoon and died, apparently falling one after another into the Stygian gloom of a putrid, manhole-size, 18-foot-deep well they were trying to vacuum, fire officials said.

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With the acrid odor of loss still in the air, dozens of past and present members of the century-old Maspeth United Methodist Church, as well as neighbors, came together for a Sunday service five days after it was destroyed by fire.

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The streetscape of downtown Jamaica, the commercial and transit hub of southeastern Queens, is a riot of color: zebra-print handbags, pink Betty Boop suitcases and rainbows of T-shirts for 99 cents seem to burst from small shops onto the sidewalk.

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Dining Out in NYC: Tacos

Though I don't really make it out to Queens very often I've always heard Jackson Heights mentioned as a sort of go-to area for ethnic food.

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QUEENS---Eight alleged members of an auto theft ring, including a public school assistant principal, have been indicted on charges involving the theft of 16 late model, high-end automobiles with a total value exceeding $400,000 mostly from dealership parking lots in Queens County …

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QUEENS—A Rosedale man who works for Jet Blue at John F. Kennedy Airport has been charged with gun possession for allegedly stealing a 9mm handgun that had been stored in a locked gun box and checked by a police officer before she boarded a flight to Orlando, Fla.

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New York City was dealing with a growing public health threat Sunday after tests confirmed that eight students at a private Catholic high school had contracted swine flu. Some of the school's students had visited Mexico on a spring break trip two weeks ago.

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I learned one of my most powerful lessons when I was 14 years old in New York City. I was horrified by an infamous murder that occurred in my burough of Queens.

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A Yemeni archaeologist team has discovered a mosaic statue of an ancient queen sitting on a throne with her chest engraved with Musnad letters.

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Excerpt: Whole Foods fired Ralph Reese for taking a tuna fish sandwich. But was it misconduct? It is a question that matters. Anyone fired for misconduct is denied unemployment benefits.

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Excerpt: The 105th Precinct will be getting an unofficial boost in police presence in the form of mailmen they are training to look for suspicious activity in the wake of a spike in burglaries that has been plaguing the area.

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Excerpt: Nothing says tough love like Velcro handcuffs. Cops trying to restrain children will have a softer alternative than metal handcuffs under a new program the NYPD is testing in nearly two dozen schools.

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Excerpt: The Platinum Club in Rosedale describes itself a first class adult entertainment lounge, but residents living near their billboard in the Five Towns section of Nassau County are offended by the club's giant outdoor advertisement featuring a scantily clad woman.

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Excerpt: A veteran MTA bus driver was bitten on the forearm by an out-of-control female passenger Wednesday as he drove his packed M104 bus during rush hour in Manhattan.

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Long Island doctors save man's leg from amputation with ancient natural remedy.

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While their friends played video games in pajamas or vacationed in the tropics, a dozen sixth graders spent winter break at Elite Academy in Flushing, Queens, memorizing word roots.

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