February 9, 2014
Ambulance, school bus collision leaves over a dozen injured
More than a dozen teenage school kids were hospitalized when their bus collided with an ambulance in Brooklyn on a snowy Sunday night, authorities said. The FDNY ambulance was responding...
Philip Seymour Hoffman cast as a victim of ‘disease’
We’ve been looking at addiction all wrong. There was nothing glamorous about the death of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who left this life lying on a bathroom floor of his...
Top mags for hitting the slopes
Did you hear the one about George Washington’s little-known ski trip? Of course you haven’t, because we just made it up. Neverthless, Presidents Day does seem like a nice chance...
7 floral frocks worth falling for
Forget the soft, romantic florals of seasons past. This spring, bolder, brighter blossoms are in bloom. Oscar de la Renta Top, $1,290, and skirt, $3,190, both at Oscar de la...
Bushwick makes room for ginger fizz biz whiz
Bottoms up, Bushwick! Bruce Cost Ginger Ale has chosen hipster central to launch its headquarters — in an 18,000 square-foot former factory in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The space, with 24-foot ceilings,...
James Dolan-molded Knicks can’t win
It has become an after-football February “thing.” Tune to a local radio show or Knicks or NBA TV pregame, halftime or postgame show this time of year, and the gab...
Mom slams AOL’s CEO in ‘babies’ fiasco
Tim Armstrong got spanked big-time on Sunday, and now he says he’s sorry. The AOL chief executive sheepishly apologized to an outraged mother who blasted him for blaming the cost...
Oklahoma St. star must follow Jackie Robinson’s example
All these years later, this is the part of the Jackie Robinson story that not only wrenches the heart but also applies to a modern world. This was inside the...
‘Lego Movie’ stuns box office with $69M opening
The executives at Warner Bros. studio are feeling a bit animated. A $69 million-plus opening weekend for “The Lego Movie,” the largest February opening for an animated film since Disney’s...
Top matchmaker forms school for aspiring Cupids
Lisa Clampitt stocks her Union Square office with red wine and chocolate — ingredients that can heal a broken heart or spark a new romance. In her line of work,...
Red Storm get big win vs. No. 12 Creighton
Doug McDermott snuck behind the St. John’s defense and scored his 24th and 25th points of the night on a layup. There was 8:41 left and Creighton held a one-point...
Anna Kendrick takes Fashion Week by storm
New York Fashion Week was undoubtedly won by Anna Kendrick, who appeared to be anywhere and everywhere as the biannual event took off on Feb. 6. The "Pitch Perfect" actress...
As spring training nears, Stephen Drew still looking to land
Across Florida and Arizona, Major League Baseball teams are preparing to open spring training. Free agent infielder Stephen Drew doesn’t have a destination yet, and the Mets and Red Sox...
Michael Sam could be NFL's first openly gay player
The barrier may finally be broken. Michael Sam, the reigning SEC Defensive Player of the Year from Missouri, told multiple outlets on Sunday he is gay, likely making the draft-eligible...
Plumlee’s 22 points propel Nets
On a night when the Nets recorded an emphatic victory, it was their lone rookie’s emphatic dunks that led the way. Behind a career-high 22 points from Mason Plumlee —...
World Peace says Smart will learn from fan incident
OKLAHOMA CITY — Metta World Peace didn’t play until the final few minutes of garbage time Sunday against the Thunder. But World Peace was a big hit with Oklahoma media,...
NBA prospect Smart contrite after 3-game ban
STILLWATER, Okla. — Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart was suspended for three games Sunday by the Big 12 for shoving a fan in the closing seconds of the Cowboys’ loss...
Carl Weisbrod a great pick for city planning
The naming of Carl Weisbrod as chairman of the City Planning Commission is promising news all around. Stepping into Amanda Burden’s shoes is no small challenge — but Weisbrod is...
Israel's fortune is Putin's horror
If you think Vladimir Putin has enough worries on his plate dealing with the Sochi Olympics debacle, the turmoil in Ukraine and Russia’s sputtering economy, think again. A new potential...
Obama's magic words and numbers
Barack Obama, the first president shaped by the celebratory culture in which every child who plays soccer gets a trophy, and the first whose campaign speeches were his qualification for...
Beckham kids steal the show at Fashion Week
Victoria Beckham could have shown a collection of trash bags Sunday, seeing as all the attention went to her adorable children sitting in the front row at her show. Like...
Beckham family invades Fashion Week
The Beckham family sits front row at matriarch Victoria Beckham's debut of her Fall 2014 collection as part of New York Fashion Week.
NY's worst law helps lawyers, kills construction
Gov. Cuomo has proposed $2 billion in tax cuts aimed at improving our state’s business climate and he’s worked hard to reduce the red tape that so often impedes business...
Shia LaBeouf dons paper bag at 'Nymphomaniac'
The 27-year-old actor, wearing a dirty baseball cap and chomping on chewing gum, marched out of the press conference about his new film Nymphomaniac Volume I after fielding his first question. The...
Gee, Officer Krupke
The cliché holds that life imitates art. In Texas, that turns out to be true. And the art in question is a famous Broadway musical. One of the early songs...
The Diaz Doctrine
When Mayor de Blasio delivers his State of the City Address today, city dwellers should remember Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. And hope de Blasio’s vision fares better than...
Mike Woodson remains confident ax won’t fall
OKLAHOMA CITY — Mike Woodson vowed he’ll be walking in Memphis after the All-Star break. That was Woodson’s promise Sunday as he said he expects to be coaching the Knicks against...
'Game of Thrones' scripts make me cringe, says young star
“Game of Thrones” is sometimes a little too steamy for its 16-year-old star Maisie Williams, who plays feisty Arya Stark on the hit HBO show. “Me and Sophie [Turner], when...
DKNY Fall 2014 Collection
Models walk the runway during the DKNY Fall 2014 show as part of New York Fashion Week.
Trojan Horse
Just as New York City pols are reworking legislation that would ban our horse-and-carriage industry, a Chicago pol has moved to one-up us. In introducing his own ordinance last week,...
Models of every size, shape and color strut the DKNY catwalk
At the DKNY show Sunday, there were models big, small, slender, tall . . . designer Donna Karan covered it all. Catwalkers with shaved hair, blue hair, braided hair and ’fros created...
Canadian rehab center installs crack pipe vending machine
Maybe crack-smoking Toronto Mayor Rob Ford should head west. A drug treatment center in Vancouver, Canada has installed a crack pipe vending machine at its facility -- going retail in...
Melo outclassed by Durant in Knicks’ loss
OKLAHOMA CITY — This was the type of afternoon Carmelo Anthony may have nightmares about, with Kevin Durant starring in them.Maybe Sunday’s 112-100 loss to powerhouse Oklahoma City didn’t prove...
Stephen Baldwin: Dylan Farrow's mention of Alec wasn't cool
Amid the ongoing Woody Allen scandal, Stephen Baldwin chimed in Sunday at the Helen Mills Event Space during the Leanne Marshall show, which he was attending to see his daughter...
7 injured in Bronx fire
A blaze ripped through a high-rise apartment in The Bronx on Sunday, injuring seven people — including two children, an elderly woman and a pair of firefighters, authorities said. The...
Model falls flat on her backside at Lela Rose show
Towering heels were too dangerous for one model at the Lela Rose show on Sunday. During the final march of the models, a mannequin wearing an arresting floor-length magenta gown...
Woman shot in the head after alleged home invasion
The boyfriend of a woman shot in the head in her Kew Gardens apartment Sunday told cops the attack occurred during a home invasion — but police aren’t buying his...
Terrorists will hit Sochi: House Security Chairman
WASHINGTON – It's a matter of when, not if, a terrorist bomber blows something up in Sochi during the Olympics, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Mike McCaul warned Sunday. “I’ve...
Schumer proposes delay for blocked immigration reform
WASHINGTON – Sen. Chuck Schumer proposed a fix Sunday for Republicans who are blocking immigration reform because they don’t trust President Obama to implement it fairly: Make the next president...
Woodson expects to be coaching Knicks after break
OKLAHOMA CITY – Meet me in Memphis. That was Mike Woodson’s take as he said he expects to be coaching the Knicks vs. the Grizzlies in the first game after...
Animal Care and Control launches mobile adoption center
New York City pet lovers can adopt their next pooch without even visiting a shelter. The city's Animal Care and Control, with the help of the ASPCA, has launched their...
Take a 'look back' with Walter White's Facebook video
By now you’ve probably seen Facebook’s ‘look back’ videos — A one-minute snapshot of your time on Facebook. For most of us it involves a few embarrassing photos, and that...
Putin probably missed Olympic rings glitch
SOCHI, Russia — It was the biggest glitch of the Olympics opening ceremony, and odds are Russia's president missed it. Photos taken by The Associated Press show that Vladimir Putin,...
Cat lover mauled to death by neighbor's dogs: cops
A woman who owned 20 cats was brutally killed after two of her neighbor's dogs attacked outside her home. The battered body of Klonda Richey was found naked in the...
Zoo kills healthy young giraffe to stop inbreeding
Zookeepers slaughtered a perfectly healthy giraffe in Denmark Sunday, then hacked up its body in front of children and served the remains to lions before hacking up the murdered mammal...
Justice Department expands same-sex marriage rights
WASHINGTON — In an assertion of same-sex marriage rights, Attorney General Eric Holder is applying a landmark Supreme Court ruling to the Justice Department, announcing Saturday that same-sex spouses cannot...
Security guard kills nun, parishioner in Russian cathedral
MOSCOW — A man employed as a private security guard opened fire Sunday in a cathedral on Russia's Sakhalin Island in the Pacific, killing a nun and a parishioner and...
Sugar daddy website has coeds justifying prostitution
When Megan, 23, was planning her move to NYU in August 2012 for a grad-school program, she knew it wasn’t going to be cheap. She worried over the phone to...
New York man lost in Mexico
A Westchester man biking through an area of Mexico that’s become ground zero in a war between vigilantes and vicious drug cartels has been missing for two weeks, his family...
Man struck by uptown 2 train
A man was seriously injured when he was struck by an uptown 2 train on the Upper West Side early Sunday morning, police said. The man, whose identity was not...
A little bit of snow expected for Sunday
A little more flaky weather is on the way. Snow will begin to fall at around 4 p.m. Sunday and continue through midnight, leaving “an inch or two, maybe three...
Internet's outrage factory turns on Philip Seymour Hoffman
The news of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s death this week was shocking, tragic, awful. Emotions were raw — until the Internet, as it usually does, found a way to return to...
E-cigs’ startups on fire as tobacco companies prepare to buy
E-cigarette startups are on fire this year. Big tobacco companies are ready to inhale these innovative private companies — and venture capitalists are coughing up big money of their own...
US work ethic on a flatline
Many say ObamaCare won’t work, but a new report says that thanks to the law, neither will many of us. A Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report put together by the...
Hoffman’s accused dealer: 'I could've saved him'
I didn’t kill him — and I could’ve saved him, insists Philip Seymour Hoffman’s accused heroin dealer, breaking his silence for the first time since the actor’s death last Sunday....
BATS may drop NYSE to second in trading volume
The New York Stock Exchange has lost more than just bragging rights — it’s threatened by the erosion of its lucrative listing revenues by newly combined electronic rivals BATS and...
Own a piece of the Big Apple without being named Trump
You no longer have to be Donald Trump to own a piece of luxury real estate in the Big Apple. Beginning this week — Todd Lippiatt, formerly of Morgan Stanley...
Beatles for sale: The networks believe in yesterday
When they were younger, so much younger than today, a generation sat in front of what would seem today miniature TV screens to watch the Beatles on “The Ed Sullivan...
Dressing for Westminster Dog Show harder than it looks
At the 138th annual Westminster Dog Show, which starts Monday, 2,845 beautiful, perfectly groomed purebred pups will parade around the ring at Madison Square Garden. Their handlers will be another...
This week's couple: Pass/fail date
Not even the generous amounts of whiskey being poured by bartenders at Leave Rochelle Out of It could help David, 24, and Victoria, 25, see eye to eye. He, a...
Brooklyn brewmaster seeks city gal who loves the outdoors
Andrew, 29 Enjoys sipping a couple of cold ones next to a campfire. Can he find a woman who will join him in a tent for two? Home boy: Andrew,...
Appliances might trump roses this Valentine's Day
Listen up, New York men! Cancel those flower orders. Return that bra from La Perla. Turns out what your girlfriend really wants this Valentine’s Day is . . . a juicer. At least that’s...
The many conquests of Colin Farrell
The movie “Winter’s Tale” is out Friday, and who better to star in the swoony love story than Colin Farrell, the man who’s experienced countless romantic dramas (and a few...
Robo vs. Robo: Old and new RoboCops face-off
Watch out, Detroit. You’ve got an unpredictable, grizzled and virtually indestructible man patrolling your streets.And we don’t mean Bob Dylan in that Chrysler Super Bowl ad.The “RoboCop” movie reboot tackles...
'RoboCop' predictions that came true – and those that did not
After 27 years, it seems as though the titanium-suited half-man, half-machine beau ideal of Detroit law enforcement — RoboCop — looked rusty in the eyes in Hollywood. Hence, this week...
CBS' Riccie Johnson has prepped stars for 61 years
Last week, makeup artist Riccie Johnson reported to her job at the CBS studios on West 57th Street, taking two buses, to get “60 Minutes Sports” correspondents Armen Keteyian and...
Win over your Valentine with top notch candies
In just five days, there’s a good chance you’ll be tasked with delivering a Valentine’s Day gift that’s both romantic and decadent. Something thoughtful and unique. Another box of chocolates...
Actress Sarah Shahi has rock n' roll in her heart
Playfully resting her Chanel boot on the banister of the ornate, sweeping staircase inside a bustling Manhattan hotel, Sarah Shahi tosses back her head and gives a sexy, throaty laugh....
Daily Blotter
Queens ■ The gunman pictured above robbed a 99-cent store in Jamaica, cops said. The suspect initially walked into Mario’s 99 Cent Store on Guy R. Brewer Boulevard near 108th...
Chirlane launches first lady blog
First Lady Chirlane McCray launched a multimedia diary Friday that will give New Yorkers intimate glimpses of her daily life and encounters. “#FLONYC is an open door to my thoughts...
New housing commissioner lives in swanky NYU town house
She’s a “1 percenter” in charge of affordable housing for the poorest of the 99 percent. Mayor de Blasio’s new commissioner for the Department of Housing Preservation and Development is living...
La Guardia isn’t ‘Third World’ — it’s worse: immigrants workers
Maybe Vice President Joe Biden was “plane” right after all. La Guardia Airport is so dirty and run-down, folks from “Third World countries” would rather catch a flight in their...
Nurse accuses LI hospital of neglect, possibly deaths
A Long Island nurse says patients may have died at his hands — because his bosses at Nassau University Medical Center didn’t properly supervise or “support” him, according to a...
Basketball player bashed me in NYC adult league: lawsuit
A Manhattan man claims he joined an adult basketball league at PS 6 for the love of the game — but got a beating instead. Craig Linden, 52, is now...
Student beaten at Bronx school while guards watched: suit
A Bronx teen was pummeled unconscious by a gang of students just steps away from school security guards, who did nothing to stop the brutal beatdown, a $17 million lawsuit...
Cabbies who kill or maim in NYC keep licenses, return to work
The overwhelming majority of cabbies who killed and maimed passengers and pedestrians in the past five years are back behind the wheel. Of 16 fatal or serious crashes since 2009...
Oklahoma State star Smart shoves fan during upset loss
http://youtu.be/6ha3S3kwAQE LUBBOCK, Texas — Oklahoma State star Marcus Smart shoved a fan behind the basket in the waning seconds of Texas Tech’s 65-61 win over the 19th-ranked Cowboys on Saturday...
Tiger Woods’ niece wins Australian Ladies Masters
GOLD COAST, Australia — Tiger Woods’ niece, Cheyenne Woods, won the Australian Ladies Masters on Sunday for her first major professional tour victory, holding off 17-year-old Australian amateur Minjee Lee...
Mid-winter power price spike for NYsers on Con Ed bills
Like July in January, New York City electricity prices surged to record highs last month, causing many Con Ed customers’ bills to spike more than 20 percent. The utility blames...
‘Fail factory’ teacher churns through 475 students per year
On paper, he’s a super-teacher. To critics, he’s the poster child for academic fraud in New York City. Alexis Pajares “teaches” 475 students at Manhattan’s Murry Bergtraum HS for Business...
Singer Melba Moore stands by ex, facing jail in Ponzi scheme
She once accused him of sabotaging her career and taking every penny she owned. But soul singer Melba Moore says she’ll stand by her shady ex-husband as he faces 20...
Did Scorsese ‘extend’ actress' legs in ‘Wolf of Wall Street’?
Those perfect pins may be a tall tale. Hollywood filmmakers are using computer tricks to “digitally extend” female stars’ legs to look long and thin — and “The Wolf of...
Obama Democrats’ troubling view on work
Among its many stamps, the Postal Service has a series called “Made in America, Building a Nation.” The strip of “forever” stamps is a collection of iconic photographs of 20th-century...
Clintons still hate Obama-backing Democrats
Forgive and forget? Not Bill and Hillary. A system of political rewards and punishments devised by the political power couple set aside “a special circle of Clinton hell . . . for...
Fired Walmart worker keeps uniform to steal thousands of dollars
Never underestimate the power of a uniform. An Oklahoma teen fired from Walmart is accused of using his store uniform to pose as a store manager at three locations and...
UFC fighter jailed after armed standoff with cops
Ultimate Fighting Championship light heavyweight fighter Thiago Silva got into an hour long armed standoff with cops Thursday night in his Florida home, authorities said, and was still being held...
Leopard-eating chimps found in African 'untouched wilderness'
The “last untouched wilderness” in Africa has been discovered in the Bili-Uele forest in Congo, according to scientists who found a “mega-culture” of unusually large chimps — who dine on...
Jacko estate owes us $702M: IRS
Even in death, the tax man cometh. The estate of Michael Jackson (right), who died of an overdose in 2009, owes more than $702 million to the IRS, the LA...
Judge bars moving Picasso painting from Four Seasons
A Picasso hanging in the lobby of the Four Seasons restaurant is safe — for now — after a judge ruled that owners of the building could cause catastrophic damage...
Makeup artist battles business putting out bad products in her name
She’s seeing rouge! Hollywood makeup artist Paula Dorf says a New Jersey distributor is out to ruin her reputation by making products more fit for bargain bins than Bergdorf’s and...
Meeks paid $47K to lawyers despite being cleared by committee
Rep. Gregory Meeks continues to shell out big bucks for lawyers although he was cleared in an ethics probe. The lawmaker’s campaign committee, Friends for Gregory Meeks, spent $47,510 on...