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Monday, December 05, 2011  The Postal Service is set to announce an estimated $3 billion in reductions that would close roughly 250 of the nearly 500 mail processing centers across the country as early as next March, including 13 in New York.

Thursday, April 21, 2011  The funeral for a suicidal New York woman who took three children to a frigid death in the Hudson River comes the day after what would have been the first birthday of her youngest.

Friday, April 15, 2011  A suicidal mother who loaded her four children into a minivan and drove off a boat ramp into the frigid Hudson River changed her mind as the van sank and cried, "I made a mistake, I made a terrible mistake," said her 10-year-old son, who survived by crawling out a window and swimming ashore.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011  A woman who had just been involved in a domestic dispute loaded her four children into a minivan Tuesday night before letting one out and driving the rest of them into the Hudson River, firefighters said.

Friday, May 22, 2009  They appear to be the gang that couldn't shoot straight, petty criminals and low-level drug dealers living on the fringes of a faded upstate city.