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Publication: The Day Both sides mum; current agreement expiredmore than nine months ago Mashantucket - Unionized dealers at Foxwoods Resort Casino ratified their historic first contract with the casino-owning Mashantucket Pequot Tribe in January 2010, marking the end of a negotiating process that had begun 14 months earlier.

The MTA - the agency elected officials usually try to distance themselves from as much as possible - has lately been serving as the model for effective post-Sandy recovery. And in a welcome turn, Governor Andrew Cuomo himself has taken center stage when all eyes are on the MTA's performance.

He's one lucky perv. Jason Mack -- a 250-pound city janitor -- admits he drunkenly masturbated onto a 14-year-old girl on a crowded 1 train ten years ago. Today, a judge dismissed the misdemeanor sex abuse charges against him because Manhattan prosecutors didn't bring the case to trial in time.

ALBANY - Advocates are launching a new drive to raise New York's minimum wage - but state lawmakers have no plans to return to Albany to do so. A coalition of union, religious and anti-hunger groups gathered in Albany on Monday to pressure the Republican-controlled state Senate to hike the minimum wage to $8.50 an hour from the current $7.25 an hour by the end of the year.

Plans to install Wi-Fi and cell service to an additional 30 subway stations have been delayed until next year due to Hurricane Sandy, officials said yesterday. Transit Wireless officials said service will come to the stations - including Times Square - by February. It was supposed to be done by the end of this year.

Splash News Katie Holmes has an adorable mother-daughter moment last weekend with Suri as the two ride the subway. Meet New York's newest straphanger: Suri Cruise. The 6-year-old joined her mom, Katie Holmes, for a ride on the subway this weekend.

There's a new subway line in town - the H. The MTA will begin running a free, temporary subway this morning for Rockaways residents stranded since Sandy. The new line - a throwback of an old Rockaway shuttle - operates every 15 minutes between the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue station and the Beach 90-Holland station.

Rockaways residents might want to get familiar with the letter H. The MTA announced today that train cars were driven to the Rockaways and connected to the rails for a new train service, called the H, which will be free.

Still unable to get the A train because of a damaged bridge, Rockaway residents today will get some semblance of subway service for the first time since Sandy.A special "H" shuttle will run between th

The New York City subway system has added a new, if familiar, letter. Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that a free shuttle, to be known as the H train, would begin operating at 4 a.m. Tuesday along much of the Rockaway Peninsula, one of the transit system's most devastated stretches in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

Residents living in the Rockaways who have been left without train service on the peninsula since Sandy are getting around a little easier today as the new H train shuttle is now up and running between the Far Rockaway-Mott Avenue and Beach-90th Street-Holland stations.

Since Sandy hit, we've been on a constant MTA beat; the agency has never been in the spotlight more so than in this storm recovery, with the updated schedules, the revival of the L train, the not-so-revived R train and, most recently, the no-refund policy.

Residents of the hurricane-ravaged Rockaway peninsula will be able to ride a free rail shuttle starting at 4 a.m. Tuesday. Metropolitan Transportation Authority Chairman Joseph Lhota praised the new shuttle as "unprecedented creativity on the part of the MTA's subways and buses division." Gov.

The New York pension fund for state and local government workers is reporting a 4 percent return on investment for its last quarter, with an estimated fund value of $150.1 billion at the end of September, up more than $3 billion. It supports more than 400,000 retirees and beneficiaries and has 656,000 working members.

They are finding courage to take action against abusive bosses Enid Alvarez/New York Daily News Sunny Day Car Wash workers, shown here drying off vehicle in April, have called on owner to pay them back wages. Who would have thought it just a few months ago.

The three-minute procedure, conducted on a chilly morning this month in an airport hangar not far from West Virginia University, was the latest test of a device that may someday help guard real tunnels during disasters â whether a terrorist strike or a storm like Sandy, whose wind-driven surge of water overwhelmed New York City's subway system, shutting it down for days.

Hostess Brands, which makes Twinkies in the US, has agreed to go to mediation with lenders and unions on Tuesday. The company was encouraged to hold more talks by a bankruptcy court, to which it had been expected to apply for permission to liquidate itself.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - For the first time since Superstorm Sandy, subway service is back up and running in the Rockaways. Tracks for the A train that runs from Howard Beach to the Rockaways were almost completely destroyed in the storm.

Education is likely to be one of the big issues in the New York City mayoral race in 2013, but will it be the biggest one?

Subway shuttle running in the Rockaways Posted: Monday, November 19, 2012 4:07 PM EST Updated: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 7:11 AM EST MYFOXNY.COM - The MTA is operating a free subway shuttle service on the Rockaway Peninsula until proper service can be restored along the damaged line.