August 24, 2013
Man charged with murder after allegedly pushing victim onto LIRR third rail
A man was electrocuted at the Bellmore LIRR station early today after an attacker threw him onto the third rail, officials said. The suspect, 34-year-old Roosevelt resident Niheim Levy, allegedly...
Trucking company employee fatally shoots ex-boss and co-worker before killing himself
LAKE BUTLER, Fla. — Authorities say a longtime employee of a Florida trucking company killed himself after fatally shooting his former boss and a coworker and wounding two others. A...
Teacher busted for allegedy using Facebook to solicit sex from students
BOCA RATON, Fla. — A South Florida high school teacher faces a criminal charge after allegedly using Facebook to solicit sex from students. Deputies with the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office...
Rex says things have gone downhill for Jets since Giants loss in 2011
It’s not hard to identify when the Rex Ryan era Jets began to slide. It all began to fall apart in December 2011 and the Jets are still trying to...
Weiner involved in minor car crash in Manhattan
Anthony Weiner is getting dinged up on the roadways as well as the campaign trail. The mayoral hopeful got into a three-car fender-bender this morning on the FDR Drive, according...
Costello's look at the Jets' likely 53-man roster
The Jets enter Saturday’s game with several roster spots still up for grabs. The quarterback competition has drawn all the attention, but with a rebuilding team the bottom of the...
State of emergency grips California as blaze threatens 5,500 homes, San Francisco's power & water supplies
FRESNO, Calif. — A wildfire raging along the northwest edge of Yosemite National Park gained strength Saturday morning as firefighters scrambled to protect nearby mountain communities. The fire held steady...
Teen suspect in brutal beating death of WWII veteran declared 'threat to the community'
SPOKANE, Wash. — Delbert Belton survived the battle of Okinawa, but he lost his life this week in the parking lot of an Eagles Lodge in north Spokane. Spokane police...
Schools across nation bolstering security after Sandy Hook tragedy
MIAMI — In the Fort Lauderdale suburb of Pembroke Pines, students returning to school this year are being greeted not only by their teachers and principal. They're also meeting the...
Young boy, 8, 'intentionally' shoots elderly woman dead after playing 'Grand Theft Auto IV'
SLAUGHTER, La. — Authorities in Louisiana said Friday that an 8-year-old boy intentionally shot and killed a 90-year-old woman who was his caregiver after watching a video game with violent...
Syrian government suggests rebels used chemical weapons on their own people to get foreign help
Syrian state television said troops found chemical agents in rebel tunnels in a Damascus suburb on Saturday and some soldiers were "suffocating", intensifying a dispute over blame for a reported...
Up to 10,000 expected in DC ahead of 50th anniversary of iconic 'I have a dream' speech, civil rights march
WASHINGTON — Alice Long planned months ago to use vacation time to travel from Huntsville, Ala., to the 50th anniversary events for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom....
US Navy moves closer to coast as aid group confirms 355 deaths from chemical weapons
WASHINGTON — U.S. naval forces are moving closer to Syria as President Barack Obama considers military options for responding to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Assad government....
3-year-old boy who survived pitbull attack fighting for life after being shot in the head
A 3-year-old boy in Brooklyn is fighting for his life after a bullet shot straight through his head, soaking his crib in blood, police sources said. The heartbreaking shooting inside...
State of emergency declared for San Francisco as wildfire continues to grow
FRESNO, Calif. — A giant wildfire raging out of control grew to nearly 200 square miles and spread into Yosemite National Park on Friday, as California Gov. Jerry Brown declared...
Port Authority cop helps stop man from jumping off bridge - just weeks after he nabbed purse-snatcher
This Port Authority cop is on a roll. Just a few weeks after he thwarted a purse snatching while on vacation on Boston, PA Officer Frederick Corrubia helped save a...
Red Bulls discuss road woes, team outlook and Aussie acquisition
The Eastern Conference-leading Red Bulls head out to Chivas USA Sunday having been shut out in consecutive games, and four of their last five away from home. Coach Mike Petke,...
Business briefs
Feelin’ ill fella? Former SAC manager Mathew Martoma, charged with trading on illicit tips from a physician about an Alzheimer’s drug, was accused by US prosecutors of arranging paid consulations...
Court has Argentina ‘$inger’-ing the blues
Maybe Argentina should start crying. New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, nearing the end of a 10-year legal battle that at times seemed more of a personal quest, won...
BS Bob: don’t worry!
Bob the Builder he ain’t. Nasdaq CEO Bob Greifeld took to the airwaves yesterday in an attempt to assure investors and his Wall Street partners that everything was fine at...
Looking to escape
Steve Ballmer, who fought a mostly losing battle over more than a decade to keep Microsoft relevant in a world moving away from PCs, will step down as CEO of...
It’s bedder than jail
The ailing, disgraced son of late philanthropist Brooke Astor returned to his Upper East Side home yesterday after being sprung from prison on a special compassionate medical release. A shockingly...
Biden eyes the ‘Hill’ top
WASHINGTON — Vice President Joe Biden yesterday erased any doubt that he plans to run for president in 2016 as he returned to his childhood home of Scranton, Pa., for...
Cop-car chase from NJ to NY
A crook swiped a police cruiser yesterday, prompting a shootout in New Jersey — and a stunning getaway in Manhattan.Juan Mendez, 33, allegedly stole the unmarked gray Audi in Fort...
DC panda mom pops a cub
A giant panda gave birth to a cub at Washington’s National Zoo yesterday — a rare event that left panda fans around the world buzzing with excitement. “WE HAVE A...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan *** Cops are looking for the suspect (pictured above) who shot a 17-year-old in Morningside Heights, authorities said. The shooter allegedly approached the victim on LaSalle Street near the...
‘Fun kill’ suspect’s sister: Gang to blame
The sister of one of three Oklahoma teens charged with killing a jogger “for the fun of it” said he was “enticed” to commit murder by gang members. “They were...
Teen thugs accused of beating WWII hero to death
A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in the brutal beating death of an 88-year-old World War II veteran — who had survived the bloody battle for Okinawa only to die...
Former Bernie Madoff employees want more info on office ‘sex’ claims
Five former employees of Bernard Madoff responded Thursday to government assertions that all but one of them and Madoff were involved “in romantic and/or sexual relationships” with one another and...
Gamblers sue Atlantic City casino Revel over ‘deceptive’ money-back ad promise
It sounded too good to be true — and it was. Two New Jersey gamblers yesterday sued the recently-revamped Revel casino for more than $35 million, claiming it “lured” patrons...
Exodus of crooked pedicabbies after new law went into effect
Crooked pedicabbies have quit in droves since a new law went into effect last month cracking down on drivers who cheat their passengers, The Post has learned. About 100 drivers...
Kimye’s baby ‘bump’: North debuted to save Granny Kris’ TV show
They worked the baby for ratings. The first photo of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s daughter, North West, was unveiled yesterday on Kris Jenner’s Fox talk show in an apparent...
Armored-guard lie tests cast doubt on heist
Two armored-truck guards who claimed a random gunman stole $450,000 in a Brooklyn daylight heist failed lie-detector tests — and it’s now being investigated as an inside job, law-enforcement sources...
Pat-down slap-down hits Mike in legacy
For a mayor looking toward his legacy, it hasn’t been a great month.Mayor Bloomberg took one of the biggest hits of his nearly 12-year tenure this week when the City...
Whole Lhota love by Rudy
Republican mayoral candidate Joe Lhota is pulling out his biggest gun — Rudy Giuliani — in an escalating TV ad war with rival John Catsimatidis. The former mayor stars in...
NYPD cops say they won't go above and beyond the call of duty over 'stop-frisk' lawsuit risks
Nypd beat cops posted a police-union warning in every precinct yesterday instructing officers not to go above and beyond the call of duty — or risk losing their jobs because...
Judge KOs bomb cabal
Four upstate men busted for plotting to blow up Bronx synagogues in 2009 lost their appeals yesterday and will have their convictions stand.James Cromitie, David Williams, Onta Williams, and Laguerre...
Terror uncle’s scared
The terror-aiding uncle of accused subway bomb plotter Najibullah Zazi got off with no jail time at his sentencing in Brooklyn federal court yesterday, but said he fears for his...
Obama hedges on Syria strike
President Obama called the suspected Syrian poison-gas attack “clearly a big event, of grave concern” — but downplayed the chance of any US military response. In his first public comments...
Fort Hood killer convicted and eligible for death penalty
FORT HOOD, Texas — A military jury yesterday convicted Maj. Nidal Hasan in the deadly 2009 shooting rampage at Fort Hood, making the Army psychiatrist eligible for the death penalty...
Teen death plunge
A teen fell to his death after tossing eggs and garbage from a Bronx rooftop, authorities said.Clyve Norman, 17, was hanging with pals atop a six-story building on Findlay Avenue...
NSA ‘lover’ snoopers
These spooks have a jealous streak.Suspicious NSA officers sometimes use the agency’s awesome eavesdropping capabilities to snoop on their lovers, a report said yesterday.The green-eyed officers looked through the overseas...
O hailing MLK ‘Dream’
WASHINGTON — Martin Luther King III will be leading observances today commemorating the 50th anniversary of his father’s historic march on Washington that culminate next week with a major speech...
Attorney General Schneiderman hit up Trump for donations while probing his school
Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s campaign hit up Donald Trump and his pals for contributions while he was investigating the real-estate mogul’s for-profit trade school for illegal business practices, The Post...
Long Island teen ‘wild child’ is found slain
A beautiful Long Island teen was murdered and left naked on a secluded, graffiti-and-broken-glass strewn footbridge in the upscale village of Rockville Centre, police said yesterday. Lauren Daverin, 18, of...
Ex-Knick dead of ‘overdose’
Dean “The Dream” Meminger, a key player on the last New York Knicks team to win a title, was found dead of a possible drug overdose yesterday — with his...
Suit vs. Deen gets tossed
SAVANNAH, Ga. — Attorneys have signed an agreement to dismiss a sexual-harassment and discrimination lawsuit against celebrity cook Paula Deen and her brother. A document filed yesterday in US District...
Nuke-powder ‘terror’ arrest at JFK
A West African man was caught at Kennedy Airport with yellowcake uranium hidden in his shoes and was charged with attempting to sell 1,000 tons of the explosive to an...
Two cabs fighting for fare cause another taxi nightmare on Sixth Avenue
Two cabs fighting for a fare nearly caused another tragedy yesterday when one of the hacks jumped the curb and plowed into scaffolding just 12 blocks south of where a...
Sandy bathrooms a bust
The multimillion-dollar public bathrooms paid for by the city after Hurricane Sandy are already in such bad shape that they’re hanging together with duct tape at Rockaway Beach, bummed beach-goers...
Lawsuit in abstract
It’s a $1.25 million shipping-and-handling nightmare. A Manhattan gallery's insurance company is suing a Seattle gallery for marring a $6.4 million abstract painting that was damaged during a cross-country shipment....
Outraged fans call for removal of Ben Affleck as Batman in 'Man of Steel' sequel
Hundreds of thousands of fans yesterday begged Warner Bros. to dump Ben Affleck as its next Batman — mocking the 41-year-old actor as too stale, hairy and vanilla to play...
‘Perv’ SD mayor resigns
Disgraced San Diego Mayor Bob Filner agreed to resign yesterday in exchange for the city’s help defending him against a slew of sexual-harassment claims made by 17 women. The accusers...
Drowning off West Village
A 25-year-old man drowned in the Hudson River last night after he fell off Pier 45 in the West Village while goofing around with his friends, cops and witnesses said.“We...
The price of always playing race cards
‘Why do they seem so determined to also make it racial?” So asks Joy-Ann Reid, the managing editor of The Grio, a web magazine owned by NBC News whose mission...
Manning’s mission
Bradley Manning, the Army private who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for disclosing highly damaging national intelligence, now wants to live the rest of his life as a...
Giving bad guys a chance: A vote against safety
The Issue: The City Council’s vote to override Mayor Bloomberg’s vetoes of two bills that will restrict policing. *** It seems the death knell has been sounded for my hometown...
King 50 years on
Today tens of thousands of Americans gather on the National Mall to kick off the 50th anniversary celebrations of one of the most transformative events in America’s history: The March...
Major Jihad
It’s not really news that Nidal Malik Hasan has been convicted in the 2009 Fort Hood shootings that left 13 dead and 31 injured. After all, many saw him do...
Blurred Lines
“We have been very clear to the Assad regime, but also to other players on the ground, that a red line for us is, we start seeing a whole bunch...
Ted Cruz: A traitor to Harvard, Princeton
Henry Adams said that politics is the systematic organization of hatreds. For the left in the past year, it has seemed at times to be the systematic organization of hatred...
Detroit’s frisk lesson
New York City seems on the verge of making the same mistake that Detroit made 40 years ago. The mistake is to abolish the NYPD practice referred to as stop...
Summer's too hot to cool off just yet!
HAVE A BOOZY DESSERT With summer cut short due to a criminally early Labor Day this year, there’s a lot of ground to cover. That’s where Havana Central comes in...
Tennis: Game, sense, cash
Monday marks the start of New York City’s annual tennis binge, when the US Open hits Flushing Meadows Park for two weeks of tournament play. The Open is known for...
Hard to ‘Blur’ notion Thicke runs thin
Robin Thicke must slowly be starting to resent “Blurred Lines.” It’s been No. 1 all summer long to the point of irritation, it’s bought him criticism for its racy lyrical...
Sky falls on Liberty
ROSEMONT, Ill. — The Chicago Sky are headed to the playoffs for the first time in their eight years in the WNBA, but the Liberty eventually could be headed home....
‘Buy’ chance it’s Floyd-Canelo
In 2007, Oscar De La Hoya met Floyd Mayweather in a matchup billed by one major sports magazine as the “Fight to Save Boxing.” The bout would generate a record...
Opportunity for Gang to finally shoot straight
There wasn’t supposed to be a night like this so soon for Mark Sanchez. A night when a kid gunslinger — Geno The Kid — swaggered into MetLife Stadium and...
Debbie Little at Yonkers
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Hondo is Coasting
Hondo went bust last night with the Medlen Cartel, aka Los Bravos, who flopped in St. Louis to push the accounts payable to 975 yastrzemskis.Today, Mr. Aitch expects Lester, aka...
Home Team Lineups
TODAYAug. 24SUNAug. 25MONAug. 26TUEAug. 27WEDAug. 28THUAug. 29FRIAug. 30YankeesTampa Bay7:10YES NetworkWCBS 880 AMT.B.1:40YESWCBSTor.7:07YESWCBSTor.7:07YESWCBSTor.7:07YESWCBSNO GAMEBal.7:05YESWCBSMetsDetroit4:05FOXWFAN 660 AM/101.9 FMDet.1:10WPIXWFANPhi.7:10SNYWFANPhi.7:10SNYWFANPhi.7:10SNYWFANPhi.1:10SNYWFANWas.7:05SNYWFANRed BullsNOGAMEChivas5:00MSGNOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMENOGAMELibertyNOGAMEConn.5:00No TVNOGAMEMin.7:00MSG+NOGAMENOGAMEInd.7:30MSG+S.I. YankeesTri-City7:00No TVTri.5:00No TVVer.7:00No TVVer.7:00No TVVer.7:00No TVBkn.7:00No TVBkn.7:00No TVCyclonesVermont6:05No TVWKRB 90.3 FMVer.5:05No TVWKRBTri.7:00No...
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The Post Line
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Sports Shorts
MLB: Scully back with Dodgers for 65th season Vin Scully, one of baseball’s most beloved broadcasters, will return to the Dodgers for a record 65th season in 2014. The 85-year-old...
Ex-clemency boss got tight with Amar’e
PHOENIX — The former head of the Arizona Board of Executive Clemency voted to consider commuting the sentence of Amare Stoudemire’s half brother after developing a personal relationship with the...
Earl Monroe mourns former Knicks teammate Dean Meminger
Earl Monroe was in tears yesterday upon hearing his former Knicks roommate and backcourt mate, Dean Meminger, was found dead in a Harlem hotel, possibly of a drug overdose. Monroe...
Insiders: U.S. men ‘short’ on talent
With the start of the U.S. Open on Monday putting a sharper focus on an embarrassing new low for American men’s tennis, John McEnroe suggested the USTA start stealing taller...
‘Bubble boy’ Crane withdraws
Hopefully it was not a New York Post jinx, but Ben Crane, whose creative video prowess was profiled yesterday, was forced to withdraw from The Barclays during his second round...
McIlroy: ‘all good’ with Wozniacki
The rumor mill started with changed profile pictures on Twitter, but Rory McIlroy denied he and girlfriend Caroline Wozniacki had split up.“Uh-huh, yeah, it’s all good,” McIlroy said last night...
Brimming with skill, Fowler needs a victory to hang his hat on
When Rickie Fowler finished his second round at The Barclays yesterday at Liberty National, his name stood near the top of the leaderboard alongside two fellow rising stars — Webb...
Barclays leaderboard swamped with big names
Here on the swampy shores of Jersey City, a group of men are preparing to set off a weekend of fireworks. The leaderboard at The Barclays at Liberty National Golf...
Westport reaches U.S. final
The Westport Little Leaguers said getting to Williamsport for the Little League World Series was a dream come true. Reaching the United States championship game was pure fantasy — based...
Reaching out for outfield assistance
Outfielder is one of the deeper positions in fantasy baseball, but losing quality players this late in the season can be detrimental to a playoff push and subsequent postseason run....
Mets, Yanks prospects blossom down South
For systems light on truly intriguing position-player talent, it’s a wonder the Mets and Yankees each mined a potential starter from the same swath of the Rocky Mountains in the...
O’s power past A’s in ‘wild’ win
Brian Roberts hit a grand slam, Adam Jones homered and had three RBIs, and the Orioles beat the Athletics 9-7 last night in Baltimore to gain ground in the wild-card...
A rematch of the Stars on Citi stage
It’s like the All-Star Game all over again. Except only two teams are represented and there are a lot fewer stars. But the rematch of the starting pitchers from the...
Matsuzaka merely a seat-filler now
There is still some magic to the name Daisuke Matsuzaka; still some value to being able to advertise “Dice-K” on the marquee. Don’t for a moment think the Mets’ front-office...
Matsuzaka stumbles in debut for Mets
The big question going into last night was: What did newly signed Met Daisuke Matsuzaka have left in his 32-year-old right arm? After two innings, the answer apparently was nothing....
Gardner OK after getting hit, still may get MRI exam
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The Yankees got another scare last night when Brett Gardner got hit by a Chris Archer pitch on his right hand in the third inning. Gardner...
Jeter expected to rejoin Yanks in Toronto
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Derek Jeter won’t be back with the Yankees against Tampa Bay, but if he survives a third straight rehab game tonight unscathed, he is expected to...
Rays too much as five-game surge comes to an end
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Now comes the hard part. After rolling over the hapless, last-place Blue Jays, the Yankees traveled to Tropicana Field last night and saw what they are...
Yankees need Kuroda to pitch like an ace in order to reach the playoffs
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Maybe you can brush off a brutal outing from the ace in May, June or July and rationalize Hall of Famers get spanked. Eventually, though, the...
Frustrated Giants still hoping for a ... Jern-around
Tom Coughlin extended his right arm, made a side-to-side zig-zag gesture with his right hand and made a “chu-chu-chu’’ sound, trying to convey a quick stop and start, change of...
Eli’s OK with line
The way Rex Ryan’s Jets always apply creative defensive pressure, breaking in a reassembled offensive line tonight might not be too appealing to the Giants and Eli Manning. A knee...
Santonio Holmes activated by Jets, could be ready for opener
Tone Time has finally arrived. The Jets moved top wide receiver Santonio Holmes to the active roster last night from the physically unable to perform list, meaning it is possible...
Smith draws start vs. Giants with opportunity to dethrone Sanchez
It has been nearly four months since the Jets made the franchise-altering decision to select Geno Smith in the second round of the NFL Draft. Since that Friday night in...
Bush, Flueger join ‘Chicago PD’
‘One Tree Hill” alum Sophia Bush and “The 4400’s” Patrick Flueger have joined “Chicago PD,” the spinoff from NBC’s “Chicago Fire.” The spinoff, which aired as a back-door pilot during...
‘Wiz’ biz: Now NBC will adapt ‘Oz’ for a series
NBC has bought into the “Wizard of Oz” TV craze. The Peacock Network has bought “Emerald City,” an “Oz”-themed drama created by Matthew Arnold (“Siberia”), according to deadline.com. That now...
‘Ghost Shark’ lacks buzz bite of ‘Sharknado’
Well, that was a short-lived TV phenomenon. Syfy’s “Ghost Shark” — the first of its cheesy summer flicks to air since the network’s “Sharknado” created a social media frenzy last...
It’s ‘True’: Moyer cast in live ‘Music’
Stephen Moyer, who plays Bill Compton in HBO’s “True Blood,” has been cast in NBC’s live production of “The Sound of Music.” Moyer will play Capt. Georg Von Trapp opposite...
Weird but true
Hannah Grace Mary Pavlik is only a week old but she takes after her dad in one way: being born in a parking lot. Hannah was born in the lot...
New rule a likely backlash ‘target’
Consider yourself warned: When you sit down to watch your favorite college football team this season, have a towel handy to scream into, or a piece of plywood to bite,...
Indiana making big push for Whitehead
The Isaiah Whitehead sweepstakes has taken a surprising turn — possibly to the Hoosier State. Indiana recently offered the star shooting guard from Lincoln High School a scholarship after incoming...
DHS employee behind racist website on paid leave
WASHINGTON — The Homeland Security Department says an employee who runs a racist website predicting and advocating a race war has been put on paid administrative leave. An acquisitions officer...