| LI GIRL KILLED ON WAY TO AFRICA
March 8, 2009 at 1:18 am
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A Long Island college student headed to Africa to deliver medical supplies to sick children was killed early today by a drunken driver going the wrong way on a Connecticut highway, police said. Elizabeth Durante, 20, and seven of her classmates... |
| PATERSON THE KING OF FLOP
March 7, 2009 at 8:29 pm
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ALBANY - The day after Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned in disgrace last March 12, his stunned successor, David Paterson, said he felt like a "student who is getting ready for the final exam," but one who hadn't had time to "attend any classes." Now... |
| BARKLEY BEGINS SERVING TIME IN PRISON
March 7, 2009 at 3:35 pm
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Former NBA star Charles Barkley has begun serving a three-day sentence on a drunken driving charge. Maricopa County sheriff's Deputy Lindsey Smith says Barkley reported to Tent City on Saturday morning. She did not respond to further requests for... |
| SECRETARY OF GAFFE
March 7, 2009 at 2:00 pm
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With reporters looking on, Hillary Clinton met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and handed him a gift - a green box tied in green ribbon. He unwrapped it to reveal a "reset button," a lighthearted reminder of Biden's recent remark that the... |
| GET SET TO ROT, BERNIE
March 7, 2009 at 6:11 am
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Bernie Madoff is getting ready to kiss freedom goodbye - for good. In a one-sentence court filing, the Ponzi-meister agreed yesterday to waive his right to a grand-jury hearing, setting the stage for a plea deal that will likely put him behind... |
| SPARE THE WEALTH
March 7, 2009 at 6:08 am
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Mayor Bloomberg warned yesterday that proposals to tax the rich will backfire and end up hurting the poor whom they are intended to help. "They [the wealthy] are the ones that buy in the stores so that people that work in the stores have jobs in... |
| RIHANNA: I'LL BE A COURT CANARY
March 7, 2009 at 6:04 am
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Pummeled pop princess Rihanna will sing - in court. The battered beauty's lawyer yesterday said Rihanna will not object if she is called upon to testify against boyfriend Chris Brown at any future assault trial, according to Us Weekly. "She is... |
| PRO BONO: FORDHAM AWAKES TO U2
March 7, 2009 at 5:52 am
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It was a beautiful day at Fordham University yesterday when U2 rocked the Bronx campus. The Irish rockers did an 8 a.m. gig in front of Keating Hall that was open only to Fordham students, faculty and staff and telecast on "Good Morning America."... |
| SLAY-BY-COP GOES TO TRIAL
March 7, 2009 at 4:42 am
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Two cops used excessive force when they fired 28 bullets at two robbery suspects back in 1995 in The Bronx, the victims' lawyer said yesterday as their wrongful-death civil trial began. Hilton Vega, 21, was hit eight times in the back and... |
| NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
March 7, 2009 at 3:51 am
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Brooklyn Cops are hunting a burglar who was seen on tape breaking into a Brooklyn Heights synagogue where he helped himself to charity donations. The thief forced open the front door and slipped inside the Congregation B'nai Avraham Synagogue on... |
| 'RAPE' CABBY: SHE BEAT ME
March 7, 2009 at 3:47 am
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A livery cabby accused of trying to rape a woman in his back seat surrendered to cops yesterday - and said he was only trying to awaken the women. Klever Sailema, 46 - who made headlines last year with a bogus story of finding a baby abandoned in... |
| 'DEAD' MAN WALKING FROM JAIL
March 7, 2009 at 3:47 am
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Accused cyberbully Raphael Golb - who allegedly harassed the academic rivals of his father, a Dead Sea Scrolls scholar - emerged from Manhattan's Tombs yesterday looking rumpled, tired and a little like an archeological artifact himself... |
| WEIRD BUT TRUE
March 7, 2009 at 3:46 am
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Is there crack in this stuff, or what? An apparently iron-jawed resident of Fairfield, Conn., was busted for shoplifting hundreds of packs of chewing gum. Kenneth McManus, 21, allegedly took loads of a single brand, sugar-free Orbit, worth $800... |
| 'ROCKY' BUDGET
March 7, 2009 at 3:45 am
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ALBANY - In a move one state lawmaker called "the worst form of political chicanery," Senate Majority Leader Malcolm Smith announced yesterday he would pack a measure for Rockefeller drug-law reform into the state budget - where lawmakers would be... |
| DEAD-MAN CAR HALTED AT TUNNEL
March 7, 2009 at 3:45 am
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A bullet-riddled corpse was found last night in a minivan driving near the Queens-Midtown tunnel, sources and witnesses said yesterday. Triborough Bridge and Tunnel cops stopped the beige Honda Odyssey just before the toll plaza at 11:30 p.m. and... |
| COKE-CAST MAN WEARS 'HIGH' HEEL
March 7, 2009 at 3:44 am
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A drug smuggler was busted at a Barcelona airport after cops found that a cast on his broken leg was made entirely of cocaine, authorities said yesterday. Spanish police suspect the 66-year-old Chilean man, detained Wednesday at El Prat airport... |
| CONN. BIDS TO BAN CHIMPS
March 7, 2009 at 3:43 am
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HARTFORD, Conn. - The chimpanzee attack that has left a Connecticut woman fighting for her life has led to a proposed state ban on private ownership of dangerous animals. Attorney General Richard Blumenthal and Department of Environmental... |
| BLOODY TRAGIC BINGE AUTOPSY
March 7, 2009 at 3:43 am
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An autopsy has determined that a 19-year-old college student found dead at a banned upstate New York fraternity house had a blood-alcohol content as high as 0.55 percent - nearly seven times the legal limit for driving. State police Investigator... |
| BAD GANDHI KARMA
March 7, 2009 at 3:43 am
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The happy Bollywood ending to the high drama surrounding the $1.8 million Mohandas Gandhi auction just might have been too good to be true. A day after the over-the-top Manhattan auction - which seemed to end with all the warring parties walking... |
| $2.6M SLAP AT MED SCHOOL
March 7, 2009 at 3:41 am
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Weill Cornell Medical College has agreed to pay $2.6 million to settle civil fraud charges involving more than $14 million in research grants it got from the federal government. The deal announced yesterday was approved over the objections of a... |
| ONE WAIL OF A MIRACLE
March 7, 2009 at 3:40 am
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Firefighter Alcide Falce feared he was holding death in his hands - until the baby he'd just rescued early yesterday from the smoke-choked upper stories of a burning Midtown building suddenly broke out wailing in a miraculous sign of life... |
| ZIM PM IN FATAL CRASH
March 7, 2009 at 3:39 am
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HARARE, Zimbabwe - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's wife was killed and he was injured yesterday when a truck slammed into their vehicle, officials in his MDC party said. Tsvangirai suffered head and neck wounds, state TV reported. The MDC... |
| NANNY CLO$ET CASE
March 7, 2009 at 3:38 am
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A West Side nanny - confronted by cops with the $150,000 in cash that had disappeared from her boss' closet - admitted to taking it, according to new court documents. "I am going to use the money from [sic] retirement," said Teejia Balikaran, 53... |
| JUDGE RIPS COP OVER 'RAT' TRAP
March 7, 2009 at 3:37 am
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A federal judge threatened to jail an allegedly dirty NYPD detective yesterday after he blabbed to buddies that a convicted police official is secretly cooperating with the feds. Alarmed prosecutors reported that Detective Luis Batista, who is... |
| A MODEL CAM-PAIN
March 7, 2009 at 3:37 am
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The city Campaign Finance Board is looking into some contributions Rep. Anthony Weiner's mayoral campaign received from a model-studded fund-raiser - including some from foreign catwalkers who aren't allowed to donate, sources said. The board is... |
| MIKE RIPS STIM '$TIFF'
March 7, 2009 at 3:36 am
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Small counties around the state are going to suffer a lot more than New York City as a result of Albany's grab of federal Medicaid stimulus funds, Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday. "We're going to get hurt, but all the smaller counties are just... |
| FACE OF MUGGER SLUGGER
March 7, 2009 at 3:35 am
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This a peek at the face of evil - a powerfully built mugger being hunted for a string of vicious bat attacks on unsuspecting women on the Upper East Side. The suspect, who is bald, black, about 5-foot-8 and 150 pounds, last struck early Tuesday... |
| DON'T HIKE DISABLED FARES: POLS
March 7, 2009 at 3:30 am
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Two politicians want to derail the MTA's plan to hike fares on transit riders who are disabled. Assemblyman Micah Kellner and Sen. Thomas Duane have filed a bill that would outlaw any transit system - including the MTA - from increasing... |
| SIS' SHAMING DEFEATS 'BANDIT'
March 7, 2009 at 3:28 am
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Oh, brother! A guilt-ridden thief who held up a Staten Island gas station turned himself in after his sister spotted him in a surveillance photo online and asked him to explain himself, police sources said. The camera caper unfolded early on... |
| 'OUTSIDE' SHOT AT MID-60S
March 7, 2009 at 3:27 am
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This week started with a winter snowstorm, but it's ending with a spring break. The temperature could soar to 65 today, allowing New Yorkers to finally emerge from hibernation and see the sunshine. "I am sick of wearing double gloves and layers... | |
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