| BLACK SUNDAY DECISION REACHED
February 11, 2009 at 8:56 pm
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|   A Bronx jury has reached a decision in the manslaughter trial of two tenants who put up a partition that allegedly caused the deaths of two firefights in the 2005 Black Sunday blaze. But Bronx Supreme Court Justice Margaret Clancy ordered the... |
| NY SONGWRITER: RASCAL FLATTS STOLE MY TUNE
February 11, 2009 at 7:59 pm
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| | A veteran New York songwriter, who penned Pat Benatar's "Shadows of the Night," is accusing the country group Rascal Flatts of stealing his iconic 1980s song. The group, which is playing at Madison Square Garden Thursday with guest Jessica... |
| FAKE 'JOBA' PLEADS GUILTY
February 11, 2009 at 5:04 pm
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|  BELMAR, N.J.- A Jersey Shore man who authorities say scammed businesses by claiming he was New York Yankees pitcher Joba Chamberlain has pleaded guilty to a disorderly conduct charge. Thirty-year-old Ryan Ward, a Toms River man who looks a lot... |
| MADOFF INDICTMENT DEADLINE PUSHED BACK
February 11, 2009 at 3:52 pm
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| | Faced with a deadline to obtain a grand jury indictment, the government and lawyers for disgraced investor Bernard Madoff agreed Wednesday to a 30-day delay. A federal magistrate judge approved the postponement Wednesday, when the government had... |
| OCTOMOM LAUNCHES WEB SITE ASKING FOR DONATIONS
February 11, 2009 at 3:42 pm
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| | Before she can afford to raise 14 kids, Octomom Nadya Suleman needs to raise a whole lot of cash - so the unemployed single mother has set up a Web site asking for donations. Visitors to the site, which went online yesterday, are asked to make... |
| BODY DRAGGED 17 MILES THROUGH NEW YORK
February 11, 2009 at 1:10 pm
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| | Police say a person was hit by a car, then swept under a van and dragged nearly 17 miles through New York City before that driver realized it. The badly damaged body has not been identified. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly says investigators are... |
| STIMULUS NEGOTIATIONS HEAT UP
February 11, 2009 at 12:39 pm
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| | WASHINGTON - Negotiators for Congress and the White House have tentatively settled on a $790 billion price tag on President Barack Obama's economic stimulus bill and are working to narrow differences on individual elements of the bill. After... |
| RUTH MADOFF PULLED OUT $15M
February 11, 2009 at 12:22 pm
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|  The wife of accused Wall Street swindler Bernard Madoff pulled $15 million out of a brokerage account only days before her husband was arrested, Massachusetts' top securities regulator said Wednesday. Secretary of State William Galvin said Ruth... |
| TORNADO KILLS 8 IN OKLAHOMA
February 11, 2009 at 11:53 am
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| | LONE GROVE, Okla. - Emergency crews on Wednesday searched the wreckage of homes and businesses smashed by an unusual cluster of February twisters that ripped across Oklahoma, killing at least eight people. One young woman was lifted into the air as... |
| JAY-Z'S 'RIHANNA REVENGE'
February 11, 2009 at 11:18 am
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|  Chris Brown's got 99 problems - and Jay-Z's a big one. The hip-hop powerhouse, who rapped "99 Problems," was enraged when he heard that Brown allegedly beat up Rihanna, the R&B star whom Jay-Z discovered and mentored. "He hit the roof," a... |
| FBI INVESTIGATES 500 CORPORATE FRAUD CASES
February 11, 2009 at 11:10 am
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| | WASHINGTON - The FBI is conducting more than 500 investigations of U.S. corporate fraud amid the financial meltdown. FBI Deputy Director John Pistole is describing the bureau's efforts to the Senate Judiciary Committee. Pistole says there are 530... |
| CUOMO BLASTS MERRILL BONUS PAY
February 11, 2009 at 10:26 am
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|  ALBANY, N.Y. - New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo accused Merrill Lynch & Co. executives of corporate irresponsibility by secretly and prematurely awarding $3.6 billion in bonuses as taxpayers were bailing out the industry. Cuomo made the... |
| OLD GLORY FOR TOP DOG
February 11, 2009 at 9:21 am
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|  Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks? Stump, a 10-year-old Sussex spaniel, shocked the canine world last night by becoming the oldest Best in Show winner ever at the Westminster Kennel Club Show at Madison Square Garden. The... |
| ALOMAR IN 'AIDS' SHOCK
February 11, 2009 at 8:26 am
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|  Former Met star Roberto Alomar had unprotected sex with his ex-girlfriend while he had full blown AIDS, a sensational lawsuit charges. In the $15 million action filed in Brooklyn Federal court, Ilya Dall, of Queens, said the ballplayer tested... |
| LAND OF MILK & WHAT A HONEY!
February 11, 2009 at 8:01 am
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|  Sports Illustrated's new swimsuit issue really raises the Bar. The much-anticipated mag hits newsstands today - with luscious Israeli model Bar Refaeli gracing a cover that is sure to send millions of men's hearts a-thumpin'. This year's... |
| STEROID BUST DRIES UP SI'S 'FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH'
February 11, 2009 at 6:54 am
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| | A Staten Island doctor working out of a building he called the "Fountain of Youth" provided hundreds of men with illegal steroid prescriptions, collecting more than half a million dollars in fees and kickbacks, prosecutors charged yesterday... |
| EGG ON HIS FACE
February 11, 2009 at 6:52 am
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|  The shameless California fertility doc who did all the in-vitro procedures on Octomom Nadya Suleman broke his promise to stop treatments after her sixth child, her dad charged yesterday. Edward Suleman, the grandfather of Nadya's 14 children... |
| 'MILLIONAIRE TAX' STILL IN PLAY WITH PATERSON
February 11, 2009 at 6:48 am
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| | ALBANY - Gov. Paterson refused to rule out a tax hike on the wealthy yesterday, saying he would support an increase only if lawmakers first agreed to spending cuts big enough to signal Albany was "on the road to fiscal discipline." "If what I'm... |
| TOSSUP STUNS ISRAEL
February 11, 2009 at 6:46 am
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|  Israel's long-awaited elections left the country in political chaos last night after the two leading candidates both claimed victory - and a far-right activist was in position to play kingmaker. The centrist Kadima Party of Foreign Minister... |
| LOTTERY MAY BET ITS MARBLES ON THE MARKET
February 11, 2009 at 3:33 am
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| | The New York Lottery is proposing a gamble where the odds aren't always in its favor - moving its $1.3 billion prize fund into investments such as stocks, corporate bonds, real estate and hedge funds and out of the safety of US treasuries. If the... |
| BIDDER-SWEET HEBREW TEXTS
February 11, 2009 at 3:32 am
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| | A rare trove of 11,000 Hebrew books and manuscripts went on display at Sotheby's this week as the auction house seeks to find a buyer for what's considered the greatest collection of Judaica in private hands. The Valmadonna Trust Library, valued... |
| INFERNO AT SEA
February 11, 2009 at 3:29 am
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|  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - A tanker burst into flames yesterday after colliding with a container vessel in a shipping channel off the coast of Dubai. Two of the tanker's crew members who were pulled from the water suffered minor injuries but... |
| NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
February 11, 2009 at 3:24 am
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| | Brooklyn A 45-year-old man pursued and groped a 66-year-old woman in Williamsburg, cops said. Suspect Rene Lopez, making lewd gestures, approached the woman early Monday at Boerum Street and Graham Avenue, sources said. The woman turned to... |
| I WAS ANGEL OF FAKE DEATH
February 11, 2009 at 3:24 am
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| | The girlfriend of hedge-fund swindler Samuel Israel III told yesterday how he pleaded with her to help him fake his death and get away. Debra Ryan, 45, testified in White Plains federal court as she pleaded guilty to abetting Israel last June 9... |
| FRAUD CO-ED IN MERCY BID
February 11, 2009 at 3:23 am
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| | COLUMBIA, SC - A Montana woman who stole a missing woman's identity and used it to attend Columbia University was trying to hide from an emotionally abusive family and start a new life, a new filing in her case claims. Esther Elizabeth Reed... |
| NEW SLAP AT POL'S PERV SON
February 11, 2009 at 3:22 am
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| | Prosecutors will use transcripts of perverted Internet chats to try to get the son of former Liberal Party boss Ray Harding listed as a high-risk sex offender. Russell Harding - whose dad was a key ally of former Mayor Rudy Giuliani - tried in... |
| EXPIRED FOOD NOW 'FINE' FOOD
February 11, 2009 at 3:22 am
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| | Westchester County has fined 21 supermarkets a total of $59,000 for selling food past the expiration dates. The stores included Whole Foods Market in White Plains, which was fined $12,250 for 156 outdated items. Whole Foods said out-of-date... |
| B'KLYN COP SHOOTS TEEN GUNMAN
February 11, 2009 at 3:21 am
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| | A rookie cop critically wounded a Brooklyn teen who had pointed a gun at him yesterday, authorities said. The officer was patrolling on East 94th Street near Clarkson Avenue in East Flatbush shortly after 2:30 p.m., when he spotted Akeem Harvey... |
| 'GRAFT' RABBI OFF HOOK IN DOC ASSAULT
February 11, 2009 at 3:12 am
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| | A Long Island rabbi and businessman who helped bring down Israel's prime minister was acquitted yesterday of assaulting his dentist. Nassau County Judge William O'Brien threw out the charges against Rabbi Morris Talansky, 85, after noting that... |
| LIVERY 'BILL OF RIGHTS'
February 11, 2009 at 3:12 am
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| | Passengers will soon be able to tell livery-car drivers to turn down the noise, turn up the heat or get off the cellphone. The City Council is expected to approve a bill for a "passenger bill of rights" today that would make the black-car... |
| WEIRD BUT TRUE
February 11, 2009 at 3:11 am
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| | This baby ox is all heart. The critter cutie, named, well, Heart, sports an unusual birthmark on his head that makes his birth "good timing for Valentine's Day," said the Japanese farmer who owns him. *** There's no sugar-coating this crime... |
| RANGEL KEEPS HOUSE CHAIR
February 11, 2009 at 3:09 am
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| | House Democrats yesterday voted down an attempt to remove Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee during an ongoing ethics investigation. The Ethics Committee is looking at several issues, including Rangel's failure... |
| SCHOOL DATA AN ED. TECH WRECK
February 11, 2009 at 3:09 am
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| | Less than three years after unveiling what they called a "groundbreaking" $30 million education data system, state officials are embarking on a costly effort to fix the problem-plagued platform. The move by the state Education Department stems... |
| MOB 'KILLER' JUST WHACK-Y
February 11, 2009 at 3:08 am
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| | A top Gambino hit man with a reputation for being a bit batty was so comfortable with killing that he even offered his services to the FBI, an agent testified yesterday. "Is there anybody you want me to whack?" Charles Carneglia, 62, allegedly... |
| KIN NABBED IN EXEC RIP-OFF
February 11, 2009 at 3:07 am
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| | A New York music exec was defrauded out of $6.8 million by a Tennessee relative who spent it on a lavish lifestyle, officials charged yesterday. Joseph Prebul, 48, was freed by a magistrate in Chattanooga on $2 million bond pending a hearing in... |
| HIGH RISE IN HOUSING UNITS
February 11, 2009 at 3:06 am
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| | The city's housing stock increased by a record 67,792 units between 2005 and 2008, but the vacancy rate dropped from 3.09 to 2.88 percent, according to a study released yesterday. The preliminary findings of the New York City Housing and Vacancy... |
| BRAVE GAL IDS 'HIT MAN'
February 11, 2009 at 3:05 am
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|  The image of Mikhail Mallayev firing a gun at a Queens dentist is one that haunts public-school teacher Cheryl Springsteen - and her memory might soon haunt the accused murderer. The star witness for the Queens DA wrung her hands as she... |
| BIG PUSSY $ETTLES WITH EX
February 11, 2009 at 3:03 am
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| | Big Pussy has made the lawsuit against him disappear. Lisa Regina dropped her $5 million civil suit against Vincent Pastore after the "Sopranos" co-star agreed to pony up $150,000. Regina's suit charged that Pastore roughed her up after a fight... |
| SO OLD & YET STILL SO GREEN
February 11, 2009 at 3:00 am
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|  WILL someone - please! - make the scary man leave? Just when you thought the coffin was Superglued shut on his embarrassing public career, Mark Green has burst from the crypt of undead politicians. He's like a persistent cold sore that just... |
| SHOVEL MURDER
February 11, 2009 at 2:59 am
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| | A 64-year-old Queens man was beaten to death with a shovel in his home yesterday. Neighbors had no idea why anybody would want to kill Rosario Prestigiacomo, a fixture in Ridgewood described by a local resident as "a nice man who liked to grow... |
| SULLY AND PAL RELIVE BIRD BLITZ
February 11, 2009 at 2:57 am
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| | It was a scene that would have fit perfectly in Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds." The pilots of miracle Flight 1549 yesterday described big, menacing Canada geese, flying as if on the attack, suddenly putting their aircraft into a life-and-death... |
| BONG BUDS PAY PIPER
February 11, 2009 at 2:56 am
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|  Eight of Michael Phelps' pot pals have been busted in connection with a high-flying marijuana party attended by the Olympic champion, it was reported yesterday. Richland County Sheriff's deputies have booked seven people on suspicion of drug... | |
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