NYPD: Lower Crime Rates

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The New York City Police Department released 2015 crime totals for the seven major index crimes. Overall index crime in the city fell by 1.7% when compared to 2014 and crime since January 2014 has decreased 5.8% overall. Based on these preliminary crime numbers, 2015 shows the lowest yearly crime numbers ever.

The past two years have seen record lows in several major crime categories. In 2014, New York City marked the lowest murder and robbery rates in 50 years. Burglary and grand larceny auto were at their lowest levels in more than 50 years in 2015.

Newshooks

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Are you a news and information provider? Content is King and here is how to participate in the process.

According to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, There were 54,100 full-time newsroom jobs in USA in 2005, which was close to an all-time high.

Ten years later, there are less that 32,900. However, dozens of platforms attract content producers like: Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Apple, LinkedIn and Newshooks.

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Future of TV Football

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The NFL is America’s most profitable television production. It dominates weekly television ratings each fall and completely takes over more than a third of American television sets on a day in early February each year. In 1939, NBC became the first network to televise a live professional football game. The Philadelphia Eagles game against the Brooklyn Dodgers was filmed with two cameras and a staff of 8. They reached 1000 television sets in New York City. Today NFL games drag in an audience of over 17 million viewers for an average regular season game.

A BILLION DOLLAR$?

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No one won Saturday's Powerball Jackpot and now that windfall will be rolled into another drawing. The next one will not only be the largest in U.S. history, but a figure where real dreams are made of. 1.3 BILLION

Before this time around, the largest lottery winnings stood at $656 million. That amount was won by three tickets through the Mega Millions jackpot in March 2012. The largest Powerball windfall until Saturday’s was $590.5 million, which a very rich lady in Florida won in May 2013.

El Chapo Detained

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Mexican President says fugitive drug kingpin El Chapo has finally been recaptured once again. Enrique Pena Nieto has written in his Twitter account that fugitive drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was arrested seven months after he escaped from a maximum security prison. He wrote: "mission accomplished: we have him."

El Chapo Guzman had previously escaped from prison back in 2001, and was recaptured in 2014 only to escape and be recaptured. Some say it is more like a musical chair version, with a little Mexican hat dance.

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Top News Today

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North Korea's Bomb
What can the world do about nuclear North Korea?

Global Stocks Dump?
Stocks slump on new China worries; while oil falls to 12-year low

Lottery Fever Grows
Powerball jackpot jumps to record $700 million prize.

Weather Disturbances

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For the North Atlantic...Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico:

An extra tropical low pressure system centered about 425 miles west-
southwest of Bermuda is producing a large area of gale force winds
and maximum winds of 60 to 65 mph. Environmental conditions are not
expected to be conducive for subtropical or tropical cyclone
formation through the weekend while the low moves east-northeastward
into the central Atlantic Ocean. However, conditions could become
conducive for this system to acquire some subtropical
characteristics while it moves east-southeastward into the eastern

Homelessness Crisis Isn't Solved

Governors and Mayors Snarl, but the Homelessness Crisis Isn't Solved - Jan 7, 2016 By Gabe Pressman
The French have a saying: the more the world changes, the more it stays the same.

I have been covering the homeless crisis in New York City for more than four decades. And, lamentably, the tragedy still eludes solution — and the politicians who grapple with this crisis are still fighting with each other.

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Powerball Fever

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The dream of instant riches drives Powerball ticket sales by becoming a millionaire thanks to a $2 ticket.

According to Powerball's website, the odds of hitting the jackpot numbers exactly five numbers and the Powerball are 1 in 292,201,338.

Powerball Jackpot drawing has now risen to the highest ever, with the cash prize option estimated three quarters of a billion. So as they say, you've got to be in it to win it.

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