July 13, 2013
'Harry Potter' word wizard Rowling pens new book — but uses pseudonym
Hold your hippogriffs! Best-selling Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling is the secret scribe behind “The Cuckoo’s Calling,” a brilliant new detective novel penned under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The publisher’s...
Jurors in Zimmerman trial ask question about manslaughter
SANFORD, Fla. — After deliberating for almost eight hours Saturday, jurors deciding whether George Zimmerman committed a crime when he fatally shot Trayvon Martin stopped their work to ask the...
Alex Rodriguez no-shows rehab game Friday before rainout
A-ROD went AWOL — creating yet another tension point in the already-stressed relationship between the one-time star and the Yankees. Following Alex Rodriguez’s meeting in Tampa on Friday with Major...
Offense MIA again as Yankees lose to Twins
Summoned to pinch hit with one out in the seventh inning and the Yankees trailing by a run Saturday, Travis Hafner smacked a one-out double. Austin Romine and Brett Gardner...
Journalist warns Snowden's cache of unreleased information should have US 'on its knees begging'
Fugitive former U.S. spy contractor Edward Snowden controls dangerous information that could become the United States' "worst nightmare" if revealed, a journalist familiar with the data said in a newspaper...
8-year-old sucked into 11ft sinkhole on sand dune; condition unknown after excavator called in for rescue
MICHIGAN CITY, Ind. -- An 8-year-old boy who was playing near a large sand dune at Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore along Lake Michigan partially fell into a hole and then...
18 students hospitalized after lunchtime dare to drink mix of hot sauce, carrots, salt & milk - but teachers think some were faking
SAN DIEGO — School officials say lunchtime dares to drink a weird concoction that included hot sauce, carrots, salt and milk likely caused 22 students to get sick at a...
Zimmerman jury begin second day of deliberations as protestors gather outside courthouse
SANFORD, Fla. -- The jury in George Zimmerman's murder trial began a second day of deliberations Saturday morning, weighing whether the neighborhood watch volunteer committed a crime almost a year...
Cab driver stabs to death drunk man trying to get a ride, injures second man before speeding off
A Queens livery cabbie’s refusal to drive two drunks home turned deadly when he lashed out with a wooden bat and blade — killing one of them, cops and witnesses...
Hero teens on bikes chase down car after recognizing abducted 5-year-old in the backseat; girl is set free
LANCASTER, Pa. — Two teenagers helped save a 5-year-old girl who was abducted while playing in her yard by chasing the abductor's car for 15 minutes on their bikes. Temar...
TV station apologizes after airing bogus, racist names of Asiana pilots
OAKLAND, Calif. — A San Francisco Bay Area TV station has apologized after reporting bogus names of the four pilots aboard Asiana Airlines flight 214 that were a play on...
Texas Senate passes sweeping new abortion restrictions
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas Senate passed sweeping new abortion restrictions late Friday, sending them to Republican Gov. Rick Perry to sign into law after weeks of protests and rallies...
Man tries to aid drunk, ends up knocking him out after cad calls helper the N-word: cops
A black man tried to help a white, boozed up guy who had stumbled into his table at a West Village restaurant— but wound up knocking him out when shouted...
Nets GM Billy King hopes people keep questioning Garnett and Pierce's age
ORLANDO – The biggest question surrounding the Nets-Celtics blockbuster trade has been just how much Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett have left to give the Nets, and if it was...
Nets learn not to take summer league too seriously
ORLANDO – For the (too) many people who were freaking out about Jason Kidd taking a phone call during a summer league game he wasn’t coaching in, or determining whether...
Business briefs
Clear the ‘Air’US Airways shareholders moved the carrier a step closer to an $11 billion merger with AMR’s American Airlines by approving the combination in a vote yesterday. Block-ing FedH&R...
HULU Toodle-oo
Hulu’s take-two on the auction block just hit the cutting-room floor. The owners of the pioneering video-streaming service abruptly pulled the plug on a sale process yesterday — the second...
Investors ‘Leap’ing beyond AT&T offer
Leap Wireless shareholders are jumping ahead of the deal in front of them. AT&T yesterday agreed to buy the wireless company for $15 a share, an 88 percent premium to...
Sweet Valley High
Google boss Eric Schmidt says the company’s chilly relationship with Apple is getting warmer. Schmidt, who spoke to reporters on Thursday at the annual Allen & Co. powwow for media...
Falcone, Ergen set for claw-off
Billionaire investor Phil Falcone and satellite guru Charlie Ergen will finally come face to face in their battle over LightSquared. The two will square off in court this week for...
Microsoft dials up Google phone gripe
Microsoft, which won a ban last year on importing some phones made by a Google subsidiary, filed a motion yesterday asking the US Bureau of Customs and Border Protection to...
B’Berry losin’ ZZs over Z10
Best Buy has cut the price of BlackBerry’s Z10 smartphone to $49.99 with a service contract, two weeks after the Canadian smartphone maker reported lackluster sales of the flagship touch-screen...
JPM does the JIG
Big banks have a lot of problems — but profits ain’t one of them. The nation’s biggest lenders, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo, reported boffo second-quarter earnings yesterday despite rising...
Awash in Lake effect
JPMorgan CFO Marianne Lake is sounding more like a CEO-in-waiting. The 44-year-old exec is garnering kudos from her boss, Jamie Dimon, who praised her performance following the bank’s second-quarter earnings...
Judge: No Steinberg bias seen
The judge overseeing Michael Steinberg’s insider trading trial said he’s not inclined to give the SAC Capital trader special treatment tied to the “media storm” surrounding the high-profile case. Steinberg’s...
Icahn delivers: adds perk to his Dell offer
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is offering shareholders a chance to own a bigger stake in Dell, seeking to force Michael Dell to sweeten his $24.4 billion buyout offer for the...
Small hedgie bests the rest
June was a tough month for most hedge funds — but not for one small manager who foresaw the commodities rout. Anuraag Shah’s Tusker Investment Fund, a $105 million commodities...
RadioShack reaches out
RadioShack yesterday said it is in talks with investment banks on ways to bolster its finances, as the money-losing electronics chain works to remake its image and reverse sliding sales....
NYPD Daily Blotter
Staten Island *** A former drug runner was back to his old tricks when he was busted for possessing a huge stash of heroin in his Tottenville home, authorities said....
‘Baby bandit’ bank-rob bust
SOUTHFIELD, Mich. — Cops responding to reports of a robbery in progress at a bank closed for the night quickly spotted the suspect — a 12-year-old boy wandering through the...
Prison for cat killer
A convicted cat killer blamed the brutal attack on the animal in a desperate attempt to receive leniency from a judge yesterday — but the jurist didn’t bite. “I don’t...
Bag man sues Costco
Michael Kors hopes that the lawsuit his firm filed yesterday is in the bag. The fashion titan slapped the suit on Costco, accusing the wholesale-distribution giant of pushing a “deceptive...
McGreevey lands a job
Former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey has been hired by the new mayor of Jersey City.Mayor Steve Fulop announced yesterday that McGreevey will run a city commission dedicated to job...
Honeymoon tragedy
An upstate couple married last weekend has drowned while honeymooning in Costa Rica.Ruth Rowe and her husband, Bruce Loev of Pawling died Wednesday while swimming off the coast of Quepos,...
Masses for Morsi
CAIRO, Egypt — Tens of thousands of supporters of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood amassed in main squares in several cities yesterday, waving pictures of Mohammed Morsi and chanting that the head...
Sweet 16 for Pakistan hero
UNITED NATIONS — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani teen shot by the Taliban for promoting education for girls, celebrated her 16th birthday yesterday by demanding in her first public speech since...
Bull by the horns
PAMPLONA, Spain — An American and two Spaniards were gored yesterday during the sixth bull run of Spain’s annual San Fermin festival, with one loose bull causing panic in the...
Squeezing out some arsenic
The Food and Drug Administration, after decades of consideration, has proposed limiting the amount of inorganic arsenic in apple juice to the level of the chemical allowed in drinking water....
911 call to ‘dad’: ‘Mom’s choking!’
A quick-thinking 5-year-old New Jersey girl calmly dialed 911 when her mother began choking on a chip.But she thought it was her father who would be saving the day.“Daddy, Mommy’s...
‘Bastille’ holiday railway horror
PARIS — A packed passenger train derailed and crashed into a station outside Paris yesterday, leaving at least seven people believed dead and injuring dozens on the eve of the...
Plotter slapped
A 68-year-old Trinidadian imam who joined a failed plot to firebomb Kennedy Airport was properly convicted and sentenced to life in prison, a federal appeals court said yesterday. Kareem Ibrahim...
3rd jet-crash girl dies
A Chinese girl on the Asiana Airlines plane crash died from her injuries at a San Francisco hospital yesterday morning — making her the third fatality of the tragic accident,...
Bad air day for Brits
LONDON — Thomson Airways says one of its Boeing 787 Dreamliner planes traveling from England to the United States had to turn back after experiencing a technical issue. The incident...
Christie inching up on Hill
Hillary Rodham Clinton remains the one to beat in the 2016 presidential race — but New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie would be a strong challenger and is surprisingly well-liked by...
City rolls out ‘no $cam’ pedicab rules
New, rider-friendly pedicab rules went into effect yesterday, requiring drivers across the city to clearly disclose their rates and time rides with city-sanctioned stopwatches. Under the new law, pedicab drivers...
If you ax us, Weiner stinks: parent reps
Parent coordinators in the public schools focused on a new class project yesterday — stopping Anthony Weiner from becoming mayor. About 25 parents picketed outside Weiner’s Park Avenue South apartment...
‘Drunk driver’ drops dime on self
CAMBRIA, NY — An upstate man was arrested after he called 911 and reported that he was too drunk to drive, according to police.The Niagara County Sheriff’s Office told Buffalo’s...
Facing a flub on Rushmore
FARGO, ND — The famous faces of Mount Rushmore remain in western South Dakota — not in North Dakota, as one vacation mailer claims.The AAA advertisement for “Great American Vacations”...
Law firm supervisor accused of writing an illustrated erotic poem to his married co-worker: lawsuit
He’s no Romeo. A workplace Lothario was allegedly so persistent courting his married underling in the mailroom of a Financial District law firm that he wrote her an illustrated, laminated,...
Oprah lands Lohan
Lindsay Lohan is going straight . . . from rehab to Oprah. The troubled starlet has promised her exclusive, first post-rehab interview to Oprah Winfrey, the talk- show media mogul...
Scandal-scarred ex-Gov. Eliot Spitzer lays down his rules for life in new e-book
Eliot Spitzer is dispensing advice on how to live a virtuous life. No kidding! The former governor — who resigned in disgrace five years ago after getting caught soliciting hookers...
Eliot throws elite ‘pals’ 125G in campaign $$
For Eliot Spitzer, charity seems to begin at home.When the disgraced ex-governor closed down his campaign committee in 2011, he disbursed $125,000 in charitable donations to four elitist organizations close...
Old foe’s ‘El’ of a lawsuit
Eliot Spitzer was slapped with a defamation lawsuit yesterday by old archenemy Maurice “Hank” Greenberg, who took the action against the disgraced former governor for calling him “crooked” and “fraudulent.”The...
Leno lashes the love gov
The laughs were on the love gov on Leno last night.“How can you be this stupid?” Jay Leno asked Eliot Spitzer on the “Tonight Show,” referring to Spitzer’s romps with...
WATCH: FDNY rescues dog from window ledge in Brooklyn
Now that was a hairy rescue! A massive — and adorable — Chow climbed out a second-floor window in Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn, and got stuck on the ledge, spurring a...
Sen. Charles Schumer pushes Obama to consider NYPD Commissioner Kelly for Homeland Security opening
WASHINGTON — Janet Napolitano is leaving her job as head of Homeland Security, and Sen. Charles Schumer is pushing President Obama to replace her with NYPD boss Ray Kelly. Napolitano,...
Former Knicks guard Baron Davis recounts 'alien abduction'
Former Knick guard Baron Davis said he was recently scouted — by a bunch of ETs! “I was actually abducted by aliens like two weeks ago,” the two-time NBA All-Star...
‘In store’ for more Twinkies
Twinkies are making an early comeback at Walmart stores, and they won’t be frozen beforehand. The world’s largest retailer — which has no stores in New York City — says...
Leaker Edward Snowden asks for temporary Russian asylum
Fugitive super-leaker Edward Snowden asked Russia for asylum yesterday in a surprise move that outraged the United States and prompted President Obama to call the Kremlin for an explanation. Snowden...
Samaritans’ subway rescue
A 71-year-old man suffered only minor injuries thanks to good Samaritans who hoisted him to safety after he tumbled off an uptown 6-train platform in NoHo yesterday afternoon, cops said.The...
‘Big Brother sex’ rage
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Lawyers in conservative Ethiopia have asked police to investigate an Ethiopian contestant in the “Big Brother Africa” reality-television show after she appeared to have sex with...
Chinatown roach-bldg. ‘deathtrap’
Cockroaches were the least of the problems for a Chinatown building that was blown apart by “bug bomb” canisters this week, officials said. “It’s a deathtrap in there,” an FDNY...
Bx. blaze shock
A nasty blaze early yesterday ravaged the family of late Bronx power broker Ramon S. Velez, leaving his daughter-in-law dead and his son and two others in critical condition. Enriqueta...
Guilty with honors
They’re guilty — but exonerated.A Manhattan judge yesterday convicted 11 Vietnam veterans and one Bronze Star World War II veteran of trespassing for refusing last fall “in a timely manner”...
Triple kid-kill mom eyes $$
A mentally disturbed woman who drowned her three young children in a bathtub in 2008 wants a cut of $350,000 in wrongful- death settlements obtained by the children’s fathers, attorneys...
Tragic girl, 7, plunges six stories in B’klyn
A Florida girl tumbled out of a sixth-story window in Brooklyn and is in critical condition, police say. The 7-year-old fell Wednesday afternoon and was taken to Lutheran Hospital. Toxicology...
Museum exhibit is a gem
A rare, 19th century 55-carat diamond has gone on temporary view at New York’s American Museum of Natural History. The Kimberley Diamond gets its name from the mine in South...
Jury deliberating Georges Zimmerman’s fate in Trayvon Martin case
SANFORD, Fla. — A jury began deliberating George Zimmerman’s fate yesterday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood-watch captain: a cop wannabe who took the law in his own hands...
Syfy’s 'Sharknado' has exploded into a full-blown cultural phenomenon
Eat your heart out, Jaws! “Sharknado” was supposed to be a ridiculous made-for-TV movie about a tornado of sharks that rains on Los Angeles — but it exploded into a...
Gutless Soho muggers tied to stickup spree
Two thieves caught off guard when a Soho woman told them they “didn’t have the balls to shoot” her have been tied to seven other robberies in Manhattan and Queens,...
Racial litmus test
The jury will soon decide the guilt or innocence of George Zimmerman, the man charged with murder in the death of Trayvon Martin, but a verdict will not end the...
Spitzer’s sordid record: will it cost him election?
The Issue: Whether Eliot Spitzer is a suitable candidate for comptroller, in light of previous scandals. *** Scandal and impropriety are nothing new to politics. What is new, however, is...
Everybody loves Ray
If you were Ray Kelly, why wouldn’t you take the top job at Homeland Security? That’s the question now that Sen. Chuck Schumer has advised President Obama to appoint Kelly...
Miracle in the Bronx
Who says miracles can’t happen? We saw one in the South Bronx on Thursday, where Community Board 1 bowed to common sense by voting to let FreshDirect open up shop...
To coup, or not to coup
Mohammed Morsi’s ouster as president certainly created new challenges for Egypt. But it’s also created a dilemma for President Obama. The reason? We have a law that prohibits sending US...
Women who love . . . sociopaths?
I’d like to declare a war on women — namely, all those cringe-inducing ninnies who lust after every celebrity criminal defendant with big muscles, tattoos, puppy-dog eyes or Hollywood hair....
Kid stuff
Today FULL SWING: It don’t mean a thing if it ain’t got that Midsummer Night Swing, so head over to Lincoln Center for this afternoon’s Kids Dance! session, a free...
A giant leap of faith
On the third floor of a Midtown hotel last week, the future of Broadway was stretching its legs. Some 1,500 kids ages 6 to 18 — hailing from Arizona to...
Brit band Savages Gotham
Hearing about hype bands from England on the blogosphere is nothing new, but on Thursday night at Webster Hall, the sight of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs nodding intently and Yoko...
Debbie Little at Yonkers
Post Time: 7:10 p.m. Best Bet: Western Conquest (4th) FIRST: Mile pace; $24,000; cond 3 Chicago Hanover (DDube) 7-4-9 9-5 6 Espen De Vie (MMacDonald) 3-5-7 8-1 8 Western Dakota...
Debbie Little at Meadowlands
Post Time: 7:15 p.m. Best Bet: Captaintreacheros (10th) FIRST: Mile pace; $30,000; handicap 7 Abelard Hanover (FMilby) 1-1-1 2-1 1 Escape The News (YGingras) 3-2-7 4-1 2 Dynamic Youth (AMcCarthy)...
Vic Cangialosi at Belmont
Post Time: 1:05 p.m. All horses appear in post position order Best Bet: Ladys Lunar Luck (4th) Record: 139/515 $868.60 FIRST-5 1/2 fur; $28,000; clm($15,0); 3up(f) LA BELLA CHABELLA ran...
Home Team Lineups
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Today's Sports on the Air
Auto Racing10 a.m.NASCAR Nationwide Series: New England 200 Qualifying ESPN211 a.m.NASCAR Sprint Cup: New Hampshire 200, Final Practice SPEED1 p.m.NASCAR: Whelen Modified Series, New Hampshire SPEED3 p.m.AMA Pro Racing Superbike:...
Hondo draws an ace
The Reds paid back Hondo for ending his seven-game winning streak Thursday night, beating Los Bravos last night to lower the accounts payable to 340 groats. Tonight, Mr. Aitch will...
Lewis to give junior college try
The phrase “junior college” represents two dirty words for top high school basketball prospects, right up there with Division II and summer school. It, however, could be salvation for Isaiah...
Bulls eye Impact, chants
The Red Bulls’ match against the first-place Montreal Impact tonight promises to be pretty intense on the field and in the stands, with the players having been chastised by their...
Break it down: Scoping out what 2nd half holds
The All-Star Game provides a break not only for the 30 Major League Baseball teams, but also for fantasy owners — a brief reprieve from the daily grind of changing...
By any name, Yanks’ De Paula is stellar
Rafael De Paula’s isn’t the first name that comes to mind when thinking of Yankees prospects. His name was part of the problem.The right-hander from the Dominican Republic was named...
Bucs fans let Wright hear it for Derby snub
Sticks and stones will break David Wright’s bones, but who cares about boos?Wright was Public Enemy No. 1 last night at PNC Park, after originally not picking the Pirates’ Pedro...
A new ‘start’ for Mets’ Torres
PITTSBURGH — Carlos Torres might have spent the last month working from the bullpen for the Mets, but to manager Terry Collins he has been a starting pitcher just waiting...
Yanks give HOPE to group fighting school bullying
Almost every kid admitted to being bullied or being the bully. More than 500 children inside Yankee Stadium’s Great Hall yesterday listened as Kirk Smalley spoke about his son, Ty....
Gooden excited to see Stars at Citi
Mets All-Star Matt Harvey is the top pitcher in baseball — at least according to Doc Gooden, who knows a little something about being a hard-throwing phenomenon. Pitching praise from...
Mull and void: Ilya can return in ���18
Ilya Kovalchuk will be removed from the “voluntary retired list” upon reaching his 35th birthday on April 15, 2018, and thereby would become an unrestricted free agent if the winger...
Sports Shorts
MLB: Red Sox keep rolling In Oakland, Calif., Dustin Pedroia hit a tiebreaking, two-run single in the eighth inning, and the Red Sox beat the Athletics 4-2 in a matchup...
Kirilenko signing truly a deal of fortune for Nets
ORLANDO, Fla. — Eyebrows were raised around the NBA when the Nets managed to land Andrei Kirilenko at a discount rate Thursday. But rather than some orchestrated plot between the...
Nets GM pushed to make trade
ORLANDO, Fla. — Billy King has long been known as one of the NBA’s most aggressive general managers, and has made a series of big trades in his career. But...
Peace out? Metta may pick retirement over Knicks
LAS VEGAS — Take it with a grain of salt. That’s the message from agent Doug Davis in response to Metta World Peace’s remarks Friday he’s done with the NBA,...
Debut not too ‘Hard’ for rookie
LAS VEGAS — It was a good omen. Rookie Tim Hardaway Jr. banged in his first shot in a Knicks uniform, a tough 18-footer from the right baseline in the...
Palestinian Jets rookie fires back at web critics: ‘I’m no anti-Semite’
Embattled Jets rookie Oday Aboushi lashed back yesterday at accusations he is a fundamentalist Muslim who associates with radicals opposed to Israel, labeling the charges “lies and smears.” In an...
Winslow vows to make impact for Gang Green
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — The Jets signed Kellen Winslow Jr. off the scrap heap last month, but the tight end sounds confident he can have a big impact. Winslow, who...
Sanchez ‘absolutely’ sure he’ll be Jets’ QB for season opener
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — In two weeks, Mark Sanchez and Geno Smith will be on the field in Cortland for training camp, competing for the Jets’ starting quarterback job. Sanchez...
Mark feels like butt-head after vid goes viral
MISSION VIEJO, Calif. — Mark Sanchez’s cheeks turned red after his other cheeks became an Internet sensation. Sanchez made his first remarks about a video of him dancing with a...
David: Harvey’s makeup perfect fit for New York
PITTSBURGH — David Wright has been there. He’s been the big, young star in New York, but even he is amazed at how Matt Harvey is born for the Big...
Rookie falters in 11th to end Amazin’ streak
PITTSBURGH — Welcome to the big leagues, kid. An adjustment inning — or even a batter — for Gonzalez Germen in his major league debut last night wasn’t an option....
Rain delays A-Rod rehab, but not MLB grilling
TAMPA, Fla. — Alex Rodriguez’s seventh rehab game was postponed by rain for the second straight day, but his long-awaited meeting with Major League Baseball officials yesterday stayed right on...
Logan’s seventh inning Boone for Bombers
Yankees lefty relief specialist Boone Logan came into a bad situation, made it worse and yet, it could not have worked out better. The Yankees led by two runs Friday...
Mo more concerned with Derek than save mark
It was a night for mixed emotions for Mariano Rivera. While there was some pride and satisfaction over yet another saves record and — more importantly a Yankees victory, Rivera...
Yankees keep up Minny mastery in soggy victory
Ok, so Derek Jeter is sidelined again. So are Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and, of course, Alex Rodriguez. Last night, none of that mattered, because the Twins were in town....
Derek Jeter's injury is the latest setback for the New York Yankees this season
If this happened to the Mets, it’s possible Twitter and Facebook and the Internet at large might’ve resembled the final few minutes of “Sharknado” the other night, blood and gore...
Captain will be shut down through break
Derek Jeter’s return to the Yankees lasted all of seven innings. The shortstop was shut down at least through the All-Star break after an MRI exam yesterday revealed a Grade...
Netflix prison show is no ‘Orange’ crush
It’s always surprising when a series is renewed before a single episode has aired (or streamed, in this case). But when “Orange is the New Black” received a second-season order...
It could be ‘Arrested’ for a second time
There’s a new development in the “Arrested” saga. “Arrested Development” executive producer Brian Grazer says he’s talking to Netflix about a second season of the series, which was revived on...
He’s getting ‘Revenge’
There will be a new character looking for “Revenge” this season. Justin Hartley, who starred in “Smallville” and the short-lived “Emily Ownes MD,” is joining the ABC series in the...
5 local fruit farms where the fruit is just ripe
Battleview Orchards 91 Wemrock Road, Freehold, NJ; 732-462-0756 Scene: With seemingly never-ending rows of beautiful peach and cherry trees, the 120-acre Battleview Orchards is at once sprawling and cozy. Locals...
Weird but true
A bullish “jail break” left a Pennsylvania motor-scooter rider injured. Nicole Morton, 30, of Milcreek Township, was riding with her husband, Kevin, when they saw four bulls escape a meat...
JetBlue flight from NYC lands in NC after smoke warning
MORRISVILLE, N.C. — A JetBlue flight from New York to Tampa made an unscheduled landing in North Carolina after the crew reported a smoke indicator light was activated in the...
WATCH: Spitzer tells Leno he cares about public service
Eliot Spitzer, whose 2008 resignation as New York's governor amid a prostitution scandal provided no shortage of fuel for gibes to late-night TV comics, ventured into the lion's den Friday,...
Great boules of fire
With his hat tilted to block the sun and a look of concentration, Aspro Betro is the wizened old-timer on the courts at Bryant Park. When he releases the silver...
D'Antoni: I loved coaching Metta, amnesty wasn’t my call
LAS VEGAS – Lakers coach Mike D’Antoni said today the decision to amnesty Metta World Peace was purely financial and he wanted to keep the defensive small forward from Queensbridge....
Google Glass for dogs: Working pooches could get a tech boost
Google Glass has gone to the dogs — literally. The tech giant has teamed up with the Georgia Institute of Technology to develop a wearable computer system that could give...
We can build it stronger: Scientists' plan to create more powerful, cheaper beer
Never fear, cheaper — and stronger — beer could soon be here. British scientists hope to concoct a "designer" genome that could help brewers come up with more potent and...
'Kiddie porn' court officer photographed kids in courthouse: prosecutors
A Brooklyn court officer who was busted on child porn charges took voyeuristic pictures of kids in his courthouse, Brooklyn federal prosecutors said today. Alberto Yard, 44, of Brooklyn, was...
Former CTK star Lewis sees chance to change reputation at junior college
Junior college is a dirty two words for top high school basketball prospects, right up there with Division II and summer school. It, however, could be salvation for Isaiah Lewis,...
'Extra' painful loss for Mets
PITTSBURGH — Welcome to the big leagues, kid. An adjustment inning — or even a batter — for Gonzalez Germen in his major league debut Friday night wasn’t an option....
Short-handed Yankees topple Twins – again
OK, so Derek Jeter is sidelined again. So are Mark Teixeira, Curtis Granderson and, of course, Alex Rodriguez. Friday night, none of that mattered, because the Twins were in town....
Red Bull fan group supports anti-YSA efforts
The die-hard supporters in Red Bull Arena’s so-called South Ward have come under scrutiny for their chants of “You suck A-hole,’’ hurled at opposing keepers during goalkicks. And with MLS...