NEW YORK — A former journalist fired for making up details in stories is behind at least eight of the scores of threats made against Jewish institutions nationwide, and a bomb threat to New York’s Anti-Defamation League, in an effort ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — A man charged earlier this year with threatening former President George W. Bush has been sentenced to time served and six months home confinement on a gun charge. Benjamin Smith was sentenced Friday in Manhattan federal ...

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CENTRAL ISLIP — A former New York commodities trader has admitted making repeated death threats against federal regulators. Vincent McCrudden entered the guilty pleas Monday, shortly before his trial was to have begun in U.S. District Court in Central Islip.

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The federal prosecution of a Greece man accused of making threats against former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney may be moved from Rochester.

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A plea deal in the works for a Greece man accused of threatening to kill former President George W. Bush may be in jeopardy. Ian Rotunno, 24, on Tuesday told U.S. Magistrate Judge Marian W. Payson that he wants a new attorney ...

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — One man posted a message to the White House website threatening to kill the president. "This is not a joke," he warned, and typed in his name.

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