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NEW YORK -- The other night in one of the city's most popular midtown steakhouses, every table on two floors was filled and there was standing room only at the restaurant's three bars. It was a balmy, shirtsleeves night uncommon for October, and New York was back. Or so it seemed at this one prominent feeding and watering hole, and on the busy midtown streets, about a month after the two terrorist attacks that had turned lower Manhattan's financial district into a war zone. As debris movers, firefighters and police continued to toil there, much of the rest of New York seemed to be heeding President Bush's advice to "get back to normal."

Katie Parise scored a game-high 14 points as York College defeated Goucher, 60-36, last night in a Capital Athletic Conference women's basketball game in York, Pa. The Spartans (12-5, 5-2) closed the first half with a 13-3 run for a 27-13 lead at intermission and used an 8-1 run early in the second half to push their lead to 41-21 with 14: 48 left. York had its largest lead, 59-28, with four minutes left. The Gophers (3-13, 0-7) were led by Kim Rogers' nine points.

FIRST, LET'S put parochialism aside and acknowledge that New York has done a great thing by becoming the first state to ban the use of hand-held cellular phones while driving. If you get pulled over for yakking on a hand-held phone in New York, you'll get a warning until Dec. 1. After that, first-time violators face a $100 fine. If they pop you again, it's a $200 fine. And additional violations could bring the fines up to $500. Personally, I love this law. In fact, I think the cops in New York should also be able to swat offending motorists on the back of the head with a rolled-up newspaper and bark: "What's wrong with you?

NEW YORK -- The threatened walkout by apartment building employees last week prompted a million or so New Yorkers to contemplate the value of an everyday amenity they take for granted: the doorman. As it turns out, the question of a doorman's dispensability was officially answered by the government six decades ago. During World War II, when some landlords wanted to save money by dismissing doormen altogether - but without reducing rents - federal officials defined when a doorman is essential, at least in wartime.

NEW YORK -- In the frosty, frantic rush-hour traffic at 42nd Street and Third Avenue, this guy's set up his permanent floating business operation, which is a card table full of jewelry and a sales pitch that pretends to glance over its shoulder."

Dundalk Community College is sponoring a bus trip to New York this month. Buses leave the campus Nov. 24 at 7 a.m. and return at about 2 a.m. Nov. 25.Tickets are $55 for the general public. Seniors and DCC students, faculty members, and staff members pay $45.The ticket price includes admission to a Rockettes show in Radio City Music Hall. For more information, call 285-9850.

Pennsylvania State Police are advising motorists heading to or from Baltimore to avoid a stretch of Interstate-83 near York, where people throwing rocks have damaged at least 20 cars and injured several drivers.One person needed more than 100 stitches in his face after being cut by his shattered windshield.Cpl. Craig Fenstermaucher of the York County detachment of the Pennsylvania State Police said two vehicles were hit yesterday by white sandstone rocks, generally the size of a human fist, near exits 7 and 12 outside of York.

This is an edited excerpt of an editorial that appeared today in the York (Pa.) Daily Record. "Murder is the charge." Charlie Robertson spoke those words Wednesday, standing in front of City Hall. He would be the fifth man arrested in connection with the 1969 murder of Lillie Belle Allen. Thursday, he ducked into a police car with handcuffs wrapped around his wrists while print and broadcast news outlets from all over the country captured it. Accuse the media, the district attorney, the mayor, the gangs, the riots or racism for the spotlight on York now, but one thing is crystal clear: The mayor's story isn't going to have a happy ending.

YORK, Pa. -- They sit hunched over desks in a steamy room inside a county jail, 11 Chinese men experiencing the rhythm and beauty of a new language.Line by tortuous line, they recite from a poem called "Success."It's loyalty when duty calls,It's courage when disaster falls.The teacher, a patient woman with a soft voice, asks, "What does disaster mean?"The men look hard at the paper in front of them. But there is only silence, until an American minister named Bob Brenneman roars: "Disaster.

NEW YORK -- Yesterday morning, Andrea Soren-Miller buttoned her Derek Jeter jersey, tugged on her Yankees cap, and walked toward the Shea Stadium turnstiles. She couldn't help but rub her eyes."I can't believe it: the Yanks playing a home game on the Mets field," said the 26-year-old store manager. "The sky really is falling."In New York, it certainly looks that way. A 500-pound steel beam that fell out of Yankee Stadium's upper deck Monday rocked an already shaky city. The 75-year-old ballpark has closed until April 24 for inspections and any repairs, the Bronx Bombers had to play the Angels yesterday in Queens, and New Yorkers everywhere are talking about the latest piece of Big Apple architecture to come crashing down to earth.