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FULL TITLE: Moving on and out: Anthony Weiner and pregnant wife Huma finally sell Queens apartment as they prepare for first child As the Weiners try to put the year's events behind them, it was only natural their marital home - Anthony Weiner's former sexting headquarters - should be one of the first to go. Thankfully for the couple, after putting their Queen's two-bedroom apartment back on the market - after quietly taking it off during the scandal - they have finally found a buyer. Their 875-square-foot home on Ascan Avenue was listed at $449,000 in June.

HOUSTON - From the exterior of Kennedy Place, it looks like any other upscale apartment complex. Inside you'll find faux granite top counters, a matching refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and an alarm system. Move over to the amenities room and there are flat screens in the lounge area, computer and workout rooms. The only thing different about this apartment complex: it’s public housing . Sheila Johnson has lived at Kennedy Place for that last seven years. She remembers when it used to be a 30-year-old building with lots of crime. But after $11 million in renovations, there are three-story units with...

Reno police say a squid left cooking in microwave is the suspected culprit of noxious fumes that left two apartment dwellers queasy. Authorities don't know if the squid was put in the microwave as a prank or act of cruelty when they found it Sunday night. But they believe the squishy cephalopod was stuck in the microwave by burglars and left to cook in a communal kitchen. Two residents made ill by the fumes were treated at a hospital. Police were still investigating Monday.

It looks like Rush Limbaugh is moving ahead with his threat to leave New York City. He's (finally!) put his tacky Fifth Avenue apartment up for sale. The cost of ridding NYC of Rush once and for all? $13.95 million. Limbaugh promised that he'd sell his Manhattan apartment last March after the Paterson administration proposed raising taxes on New York residents who make more than $500,000 a year. (That wasn't the first time he'd made the threat. On the eve of the 2008 presidential election, Limbaugh said he was "seriously considering selling it," since "it may now become stupid to...

When her husband left for war, newlywed Nicole Buonanno hung a time-honored tribute in his honor — a flag with a blue star, a symbol since World War I that a loved one in the military is in harm's way. Now the young bride is in trouble with her Tucson landlord, who wants the tribute taken down from the balcony of the couple's east-side apartment. On Wednesday, Buonanno received written notice from the management of Finisterra Luxury Rentals that she had 24 hours to remove the offending banner. She put it up on Jan. 4 — the day her husband,...

CHIBA — Police on Friday arrested a truck driver Friday on suspicion of property damage after he allegedly urinated on a towel at the entrance of the apartment belonging to a woman he liked. Police said that 22-year-old Yuuki Oshima, a resident of Noda Cioty, visited the woman’s apartment after midnight on Nov 19 and urinated through the mail slot in the door onto a towel that was hung inside to keep people from peeping into the apartment. Police said Oshima admits to the charges, and quoted him as saying, “I absolutely went crazy for her the first time I...

Was that headline mean? I'm sorry, but the silliness of this story, which centers around one couple's quest to annoy/sue the hell out of their entire apartment building, warranted it. The ridiculous story unfolds like this:On Saturdays, Dr. Dena Coleman and her husband Gordon claim they are imprisoned in their condo because the landlord went and installed a motion-sensing security light to save energy and money. As Orthodox Jews, they say triggering the light violates a Sabbath rule, so they sued. Which rule? The Promethean one: [The couple] claim they cannot leave their holiday flat on the Sabbath because...

Manhattan apartment sales plunged more than 50 percent and the average price dropped 21.4 to 24 percent from a year ago, as the U.S. recession forced many who own a piece of the Big Apple to eat humble pie, several reports said. The average price of Manhattan apartment in the second quarter slid to $1,312,920 down from $1,669,729 a year earlier, according to a Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate report released Thursday. Most of the year-over-year decline occurred in the fall, when the credit crisis brought the market to an abrupt halt, said Jonathan Miller, president and chief executive of...

NEW YORK (AFP) – Disgraced Wall Street investment baron Bernard Madoff was placed Friday under 24-hour house arrest in a toughening of his bail conditions. Federal court magistrate Gabriel Gorenstein ordered Madoff, 70, to be "subject to home detention at his Manhattan apartment, 24 hours per day, with electronic monitoring," a court document said. In addition, Madoff, allegedly the mastermind of a 50 billion dollar Wall Street fraud, will be placed under the eye of a private security firm monitoring his apartment door. Madoff's wife has been ordered to pay for the cost of the firm, which will be able...

...He is planning to stay in Chicago until the weekend and make arrangements for the funeral of his grandmother Madelyn Dunham, 86, who died two days before the election...

A family on the Upper West Side of New York has placed an ad in New York magazine pleading for $1 million to buy an apartment so they can stay in their wealthy neighborhood. Gawker spotted the ad and posted it here; it reads: "WE NEED HELP BUYING AN APARTMENT on the UWS, 3bd 2 bath. YOU are a philanthropic, wealthy person who would not miss a million bucks and would be interested in donating (or even investing) in a highly targeted manner: to my family. WE are a wonderful, hard working middle class family who contributes to our UWS...

LOS ANGELES -- The City Council in Calabasas plans to discuss a proposal Wednesday on whether to extend its anti-smoking law to some homes. Council members may consider a law that would prohibit renters from lighting up inside apartments. Current resident smokers would be exempted from the ban as long as they stayed in the same apartment. The law would require all new buildings with at least 15 units to be smoke-free; the law would cover condominiums, as well as apartment buildings.

One day my landlord told me he was going to evict the woman across the hall from me because she hadn't paid rent in months. Let's just call this woman Wanda. He finally got Wanda to leave and the day we walked into this place, we found an abomination. This apartment was not just messy, it was a downright health hazard. Not only was I shocked at what I saw, I was amazed that I could still be shocked! I thought I had seen it all. When I was a kid, my mother taught me this rhyme (as yours probably...

NEW YORK (Oct. 11) - A small plane crashed into an Upper East Side high-rise Wednesday, killing two people, raining debris on the sidewalks below and rattling New Yorkers' nerves exactly one month after the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack. The two deaths were confirmed by New York police. There was no word yet on injuries linked to the crash on an overcast October afternoon. Christine Monaco, a New York spokeswoman for the FBI, said there was no indication of terrorism. FAA spokesman Jim Peters said all three New York City-area airports were operating normally. Large crowds...

Former NYC Police Commissioner Bernard B. Kerik is under federal investigation for possible financial improprieties .....focused on a foundation affiliated with the city’s Department of Correction during Mr. Kerik’s tenure.....Last month, Kerik pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors....Under an agreement that allowed him to avoid jail time and a felony conviction, he admitted accepting $165,000 in apartment renovations from a company accused of having ties to organized crime...... The foundation....came under scrutiny in early 2003..... a former high-ranking Correction Department official was arrested and later pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges, admitting that he stole more than $137,000 from the fund....

An explosion ripped through an apartment building in Newark, injuring 14 people. One man is in critical condition. Sunday night's blast threw debris 75 feet away and gutted the building's first-floor storefront at North 13th Street and Seventh Avenue. Residents say they had smelled gas for a day or two. The cause is under investigation.

HARRISBURG, Pennsylvania, Nov. 28, 2005 - Decorated Iraqi War hero, Staff Sgt. Eddie Escamilla was awarded a free apartment for one year by the Trilogy rental community, located in the Cheltenham Township of Pennsylvania. Escamilla was randomly chosen for the apartment from nearly 100 other applican'ts. Each applican't entered the contest at Willow Grove Naval Air Station, located near Philadelphia, PA. The Escamilla family moved in to a newly renovated two-bedroom apartment at Trilogy, which recently completed over $25 million in renovations and upgrades. In addition to the apartment, Trilogy provided the family with all amenities including access to the...

CONCORD, N.H. - Six newspapers in New Hampshire have agreed to stop running real estate ads that suggest children aren't welcome at the properties following complaints that the ads violated federal law. Several dozens landlords and real estate agents also agreed to stop placing ads targeting adult tenants and to submit future ads to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for review. Federal law prohibits landlords from discriminating against children. The ads included promotions like "one mature person," "quiet adult location" and "great for a single person." They are discriminatory because they make it harder for families to...

Zhao Ziyang, former Secretary-General of mainland China’s Communist Party, died at a Beijing hospital last Monday. Good riddance to another communist? In this case, no. Not all tigers are incapable of changing their stripes. During his tenure in China’s one and only political party, Zhao took steps that truly can be called “reforms.” Zhao's greatest moment occurred during the pro-democracy rebellion of 1989, which was centered in and around Beijing’s Tiananmen Square. He opposed the use of China’s vast military might against the peaceful protestors gathered in the square. On May 19, 1989, Zhao personally pleaded with the protestors, mostly...

Associated Press An apartment manager was arrested this week on theft charges for allegedly seizing electronics from a deploying soldier behind in his rent. Brenda Austin, assistant manager at the Summer's Bend Apartments, was arrested Wednesday on the misdemeanor charge. She was later released on bond, and her company's attorney says her action was perfectly legal. Austin is accused of taking a computer, a television and a stereo from the apartment of Spc. Carlos Hernandez, a member of the Texas Army National Guard scheduled to ship out to Iraq in January. The prospect of a legal fight to regain his...

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SAN ANTONIO -- At least one person was killed today when a small airplane crashed near a seniors citizens apartment complex, authorities said. John Clabes, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration, said that the Piper Navajo owned by Dash Air Charter of San Antonio was on approach to San Antonio International Airport shortly after 5 p.m. "He pulled out of the approach and disappeared off our radio," Clabes said. He said one person on the plane died and authorities were trying to determine if there were other victims on the plane. District Fire Chief Randy Jenkins said some people...

I turned on Foxnews this morning and came in at the end of some report about an apartment explosion. I believe it was in Maine. Did anybody else see it, and was it today, or some older event they were referencing? I did a search and didn't see anything about it.

Despite the Chinese government’s horrific oppression of its people, dissent persists. Today, six women held a protest on an apartment building rooftop in Beijing. They waved a banner reading, “We accuse the police, the prosecutors and the courts in Liaoning province of corruption and trickery.” The women threatened to commit suicide if their demands were not met, but were later taken away by police. The protest took place not far from communist government headquarters. A similar incident occurred several weeks ago. According to the BBC, A growing number of Chinese have been bringing petitions to Beijing to try to gain...

“The Chechnya Anomaly” A Study of the Viewpoints of the Chechnya Anomaly and the Russian Hand Compiled By: Ryan Mauro tdcanalyst@optimum.net The warfare in Chechnya has many different faces on it and very different sides to it. For some, it is a war of liberation against an aggressive Russia. For others, it is Russia’s own War on Terrorism. Yet, for the rest, it is both. Chechnya and the neighboring Pankisi Gorge area of Georgia are probably safe-points for terrorists. Chechnya is a scene for international terror, and Russia’s offensive into the area has created a battlefield to which radical Muslims...

<p>LOS ANGELES (AP) - A woman who died when she fell or jumped from a burning fourth-floor apartment and was impaled on a wrought iron fence lived in a home where the smoke alarm had been disconnected, authorities said Wednesday. The woman, who has not been identified pending notification of family, was pronounced dead at the scene Tuesday night, said Fire Department spokesman Brian Humphrey.</p>

SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean man angry with his daughter's Web surfing faced possible charges on Monday after he threw a computer monitor out of his 12th-floor apartment, hitting a four-year-old girl below on the head, police said. A police official said the man, 49-year-old Park Yong-ju, had got angry when he returned to his flat in Seoul on Saturday. His 20-year-old daughter was playing an online computer game and failed to greet him, as Korean custom requires. When she declined to let him join the game, he grabbed the monitor and flung it through the balcony window, the...

A couple from Marina del Rey were among the five people who died Friday when a light plane crashed into an apartment building in the Fairfax district, relatives said Monday. Tony Vinatieri, 42, and Bonnie Vinatieri, 41, had joined the flight to Sun Valley, Idaho, because the pilot, Jeffrey T. Siegel, was a contractor who wanted to show them houses he had built there, John Vinatieri of Napa said.

LOS ANGELES — The death toll rose to four as emergency workers continued to search for those killed when a plane crashed into an apartment building and ignited the structure a block from the trendy Melrose Avenue shopping district. Police did not release the identities of the dead, but the wife of pilot Jeffrey T. Siegel of West Los Angeles told the Los Angeles Times in an article published Sunday that authorities said her husband was among those killed in the crash. Siegel's family said the contractor and his niece, Jessica Kaplan, 24, were flying to the family's second home...

An explosion in an apartment building has killed at least eleven people in the Chechen capital, Grozny. A government official says it is not clear whether the explosion was a terrorist attack or the result of a natural gas leak. The incident follows a suicide bombing near the Russian military headquarters directing the war in Chechnya. On Thursday, at least 19 people were killed when a militant blew up a bus in southern Russia.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A German man lived in an apartment with his dead father for at least a year to avoid eviction, police said Monday. The father was skeletal, just skin and bones, completely dried up, said Petra Volk, spokeswoman for Wiesbaden police. Firemen found the decomposed body sitting on the couch after neighbors reported a smell of burning. The unemployed son, 42, had not notified authorities of the death because he feared he would be kicked out of the apartment, which was rented in his father's name, police said. The son appears to be alcoholic although he was...

Live in a Former Toilet -- Only $200,000 May 30, 2002 12:06 pm EST LONDON, May 30 (Reuters) - A former Edwardian public toilet in south London, measuring just four meters square, is to be converted into a two-story "duplex apartment" and will be worth 135,000 pounds ($200,000), say estate agents Acorns in Lewisham. "I don't think the fact that it was a loo will put people off," said an Acorns spokesman of the convenience, at 17 Devonshire Road, on the busy South Circular road. "It is very convenient as it is opposite Forest Hill station," added the spokesman....

Al Qaeda May Be Mulling Apartment Attack, FBI Says Sat May 18, 7:43 PM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden (news - web sites)'s al Qaeda network may be considering staging attacks on apartment buildings in the United States, the FBI (news - web sites) said on Saturday. The FBI has received information that al Qaeda operatives are "considering renting apartments in unspecified areas of the United States and then planting explosives," said FBI spokeswoman Debbie Weierman. The information was "nonspecific" and "uncorroborated," Weierman said. During the last few days, the FBI has passed the potential threat...

A retired physics professor has been ordered by the courts to jettison half of the belongings that are jamming his tiny Brooklyn flat or face being thrown onto the streets. It is a blow for Fei Xu, 71, who seems puzzled by the furore that has been stirred up since his landlord went to a Housing Court to complain about the clutter. Never mind that the place looks like a flea market. Gail Cromer, a lawyer for the landlord, is barely sympathetic. "Every nook and cranny was stuffed. There was only a 14-inch-wide walk through the apartment. There were...