February 26, 2014
Espaillat to challenge Rangel for Democratic nod
State Sen. Adriano Espaillat is announcing his second bid for Congress Thursday to dethrone longtime Harlem Rep. Charles Rangel. Espaillat, 59, the uptown senator from Inwood-Washington Heights, nearly upset Rangel...
Mightier than The Hulk
Actor Mark Ruffalo is a vocal environmentalist whose stands, such as his opposition to fracking, we usually oppose. But, hey: When The Hulk is right, he’s right. This week, the...
Learning from Lois
Ever since Lois Lerner invoked the Fifth, we’ve argued for putting the her back before Congress under oath. Because no one knows more than she does about IRS targeting of...
Time Inc. sees second exec exit this week
Another top digital person is heading for the exits at Time Inc. as part of its ongoing restructuring effort. John Cantarella, the president of digital for the recently dissolved sports...
Irish eyes are smiling
Count the New York City Council “out” — of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, that is. This week, Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, announced the council will not have an “official presence”...
Herbalife donated money to 5 supportive Hispanic groups
Herbalife recently donated money to five of the seven Hispanic groups that signed a letter last week supporting the company, The Post has learned. The donations were not disclosed and...
Facebook tries to woo advertisers away from TV
Facebook highlighted on Wednesday two advertising campaigns in an attempt to persuade advertisers that its massive membership base and ability to hone in on specific audiences makes it a more...
Dream Homes
$17.4 million | 177 E. 71st St. A three-year nip/tuck has transformed this 20-foot-wide, eight-bedroom, six-bathroom, 6,700-square-foot red brick Neo-Federal townhouse into modern greatness, while preserving its early 20th-century charms....
Funds underperform, but hedge fund kings rake in $24.3 billion
Hedge-fund titans are still the kings of Wall Street. Last year, the top 25 hedge-fund earners pulled down $24.3 billion, up about 50 percent from 2012, according to a report...
House of the Week
Sands Point, LI | $2.895 million Bedrooms: 4 | Bathrooms: 4½ Lot size: 2 acres Attention golf fans — this “stately” stucco Colonial backs right up to the course at the Village of Sands Point;...
Ullman confident JCPenney will complete turnaround in 2014
JCPenney Chief Executive Mike Ullman is talking big again. The embattled retail chief said Wednesday he expects the company will complete its turnaround in 2014, boldly brushing off recent worries...
Fed fertilizer primes ‘green shoots’ season
Let me be the first to wish Ben Bernanke’s “green shoots” a happy 5th birthday. I am, admittedly, jumping the gun a bit, given that the big day of that...
RFR finds team to develop Upper East Side luxury tower
Aby Rosen and Michael Fuchs of RFR have teamed up with real-estate developer Hines, and China’s largest residential builder, Vanke, to develop the company’s long-stalled tower at 610 Lexington Ave....
Space-bound porn star looking for NYC home
CoCo Brown, the adult entertainer whose twitter feed mentions her status as a “Venus winner international PornStar” and “Astronaut in 2015,” is looking to rent an apartment in the Big...
Architect Thomas Juul-Hansen sell TriBeCa duplex for $2.4M
Thomas Juul-Hansen may be best known as the architectural designer of One57 in Midtown, but he’s personally moving further downtown — FiDi, to be exact — after selling his TriBeCa...
Take this drummer's digs for a Spin
Sometimes life is just about happy music. Aaron Comess, the drummer for the ’90s hit New York-based band the Spin Doctors, is selling his East Village duplex at 124 E....
Tanaka: Saturday outing not about results
BRADENTON, Fla. — Masahiro Tanaka knows Saturday’s relief appearance against the Phillies at George M. Steinbrenner Field is the first step in getting ready for a season with high expectations....
Interior insights from Meredith Baer, home-stager to the stars
Los Angeles-based Meredith Baer may have begun life as an actress, but she now inhabits a far more aesthetic realm of the make-believe. For the past 15 years, Baer has...
Rory McIlroy learns from his ‘mistakes’
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — Sometimes reality bites. Maybe the lack of any true adversity on his mercurial path to golf stardom and the world’s No. 1 ranking failed to...
Knicks plan D-League move to White Plains
The Knicks are plotting to drop their D-League affiliate in Erie, Pa. and start up one in White Plains next season, according to the Westchester County executive. In a Wednesday...
5 TV shows you don't want to miss this week
They might not be up for an Oscar anytime soon, but you’ll appreciate these actors in the spotlight this week: “Vikings” “Game of Thrones” may be getting too complicated for...
Maybe Felton distraction is just what Knicks needed
This just in: The Knicks insisted on Wednesday that Raymond Felton’s arrest Tuesday morning on gun charges is not a distraction. Therefore it’s safe to assume their free fall into...
Carmelo Anthony misses practice, will play vs. Heat
Carmelo Anthony missed practice. But he won’t miss Miami. The Knicks announced their superstar forward — the NBA’s second-best scorer whose 28.2 ppg average contains totals of 44, 35, 44...
6 interior design books to lift your home’s spirits
Mies If you’ve been coveting the definitive guide to one of the world’s most celebrated architects, this epic 543-page volume is worth the splurge. Author and scholar Detlef Mertins spent...
Mets' Ruben Tejada doesn’t have to be Amazin’
PORT ST. LUCIE — Cal Ripken Jr. can stay retired — the Mets don’t need him. But in trying to project what Ruben Tejada might be at shortstop this season,...
New trio happy to get on field in Yanks’ spring loss
BRADENTON, Fla. — Center fielder Jacoby Ellsbury and right fielder Carlos Beltran will use the exhibition season to familiarize each other with their routes to the ball. Ellsbury will do...
Castle king may owe his life to gun misfire
The masked gunman who shot a political power broker at his opulent Long Island castle attempted to squeeze off more rounds, but his pistol apparently misfired, surveillance video shows. "After...
Nova crucial in Yankees rotation of veterans and mysteries
BRADENTON, Fla. — Former Yankees prospect Jose Tabata smoked a line drive into the glove of new Yankees right fielder Carlos Beltran on Wednesday afternoon, securing the Pirates’ first out...
'Son of God' fails to deliver a holy message
I’m pretty much without sin, so gimme some rocks: “Son of God” envisions a J.C. that’s strictly J.V. It’s a film inspired less by the Bible than by a somewhat...
Yankees legend Rivera enjoying the retired life
Mariano Rivera is spending his first spring training in retirement and has no regrets about his decision to leave the game. “It’s definitely different because I’ve been in baseball so...
Struggling Tiger looks to get back into swing of things
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla. — It is almost as if those five wins Tiger Woods posted in 2013 — double a successful career’s worth for most PGA Tour players —...
Site matches city dwellers with their ideal 'burb
Being a New York City lifer isn’t a choice. The asphalt got in my bloodstream at an early age: I walked to my school in Brooklyn Heights. Dinner was takeout....
Rookie Islander Brock Nelson new ‘center’ of attention
Here is one stark reality for the Islanders: Brock Nelson is their first-line center. At least that will be the case when the 22-year-old rookie leads the Islanders into the...
Clichéd drama destroys explosive ‘Stalingrad’
Fedor Bondarchuk, sometimes described as the Michael Bay of Russia, serves up the bloodiest battle of World War II for the first time in 3-D and IMAX in the decidedly...
Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer vetoes 'anti-gay' bill
PHOENIX — Gov. Jan Brewer on Wednesday vetoed a Republican bill that set off a national debate over gay rights, religion and discrimination and subjected Arizona to blistering criticism from...
Carter: J.R. 'just joking' with headband pull
It was just a joke. At least that's the way J.R. Smith's headband tug seems to the Mavericks' Vince Carter. Early in the fourth quarter of Monday's Knicks-Mavericks game, which...
Rangers aim to keep focus with key players on block
Core Four charter members Dan Girardi and Ryan Callahan are both one day closer to the end of their respective Rangers careers than they were on Wednesday. For without any...
NFL discusses moving Super Bowl from Arizona over 'anti-gay' law
If Arizona allows an "anti-gay" bill to become law, it could be game over for Super Bowl fans in the Grand Canyon State.The NFL has begun preliminary discussions about moving...
Elderly man brings wrong child home from school
A 79-year-old man who thought he was picking up his great-grandchild from school on Friday drove home with the wrong tot — and didn’t realize the snafu until his wife...
New Metro-North chief says timeliness trumped safety
Metro-North's new president said Wednesday that on-time performance had trumped safety at the railroad's culture, and he plans to change that after last year's litany of accidents. Joseph Giulietti, a...
The day in photos
Struggles in Ukraine, smog in China, prep for Carnival, a newborn monkey, baby polar bear twins, and more.
10 weirdest fast foods ever sold
Get your barf bags ready. On Monday, Taco Bell announced that it was getting into the morning breakfast business. Stop in on the way to work for a waffle taco...
Accused Queens firebug thought arson 'was fun'
A man busted for setting several fires inside two Queens malls told police he "thought it was fun" and that he wanted to "be on the news." Dereck Sumair, 23,...
Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox subpoenaed after cyber attacks
Manhattan Attorney Preet Bharara has sent subpoenas to Mt. Gox, other bitcoin exchanges, and businesses that deal in bitcoins to seek information on how they handled recent cyber attacks, a...
NYPD officer shot in Brooklyn
A rookie NYPD officer just out of the Police Academy became the first city cop shot on duty this year when he was wounded in a Brooklyn parking lot Wednesday....
Workers plummet two stories in building collapse, 8 injured
Eight construction workers suffered serious trauma when the third floor of an East New York building they were working on collapsed, officials said. The floor and the workers plummeted two...
Miracle baby born in crosswalk heads home
The baby born in an Upper East Side crosswalk arrived home from a hospital safe and sound Wednesday — and her mom says she already has some real New York...
Sarah Jessica Parker's shoe collection to debut at Nordstrom
In an exciting bit of shoe news, Sarah Jessica Parker’s line is finally hitting stores. Though SJP Collection is set to be exclusively available at Nordstrom and nordstrom.com, from Feb....
Video shows moment Syrian Army bombs huge rebel group
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian army troops on Wednesday killed 175 rebels, many of them al-Qaida-linked fighters, in an ambush described as one of the deadliest attacks by government forces against...
Chris Snee wants one more season with Giants
About 10 seconds. That’s how long Chris Snee said he considered playing somewhere else if the Giants were uninterested in bring him back. “If there was no interest from their...
Showbiz veteran blasts Oscar nominees in ballot peek
And the winner is . . . awful! A cranky member of the Motion Picture Academy offered up a “brutally honest” peek at his Oscar ballot — rife with snarky...
Top 13 'Idol' contestants take stage for 1st live performance
America, meet your Top 13. The remaining 13 contestants on “American Idol” will take the stage Wednesday night (8-10 p.m. on Fox) for the 13th season’s first live performance show...
Spike Lee rants on hipsters, gentrification
Spike Lee went on a seven-minute, profanity-laced tirade against the influx of white “hipsters” into the city’s formerly poor neighborhoods during a Black History Month event on Tuesday. When an...
Cusack, De Niro fail to shine in 'The Bag Man'
Here's what you need to know: John Cusack ends up lying in the middle of a road at night, bleeding and getting peed on by a Serbian dwarf. And not...
Jerry Jones: Cowboys failures my fault, not Romo's
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones has a message for anybody looking to blame quarterback Tony Romo for the team's recent mediocrity: Blame me. "We should have been knocking on the door...
NASA announces mother lode of new planets: 715
WASHINGTON — Our galaxy is looking far more crowded. NASA has confirmed a bonanza of 715 newly discovered planets outside our solar system. Scientists using the planet-hunting Kepler telescope have...
Rangers tab J.T. Miller for injured Zuccarello’s spot
J.T. Miller, recalled on Tuesday from the AHL Wolf Pack, will take Mats Zuccarello’s spot in the lineup when the Rangers face the Blackhawks in Thursday night’s season reopener at...
NYC celebs remember iconic Meatpacking eatery Pastis
Pastis, one of the city’s most iconic restaurants, will serve its last order of steak frites this Friday. When restaurateur Keith McNally opened the French bistro in 1999, the Meatpacking...
LeBron applauds Carmelo's readiness to take Knicks pay cut
MIAMI — LeBron James applauded the statement Carmelo Anthony made during All-Star Weekend that he would take “a pay cut’’ to stay with the Knicks to help the team’s financial...
Why John Tortorella is apologizing to all of Canada
John Tortorella is in hot water yet again. The irascible former Rangers coach apologized Tuesday for remarks he made regarding the Sweden-Canada Olympics gold medal game. Tortorella, who is in...
FDNY racial discrimination retrial will be celeb circus: city lawyers
The feds want to turn next month's hotly anticipated FDNY racial discrimination retrial into a star-studded media attraction, city lawyers argued in a scathing Brooklyn federal court filing. Lawyers for...
Vegas doesn't think much of Yankees and Mets
Despite being ravaged by injury, the Yankees managed to scrape together an 85-win season last year, and were in wild-card contention until the season's final week. They then made quite...
Queens deacon guilty in Chinese immigrant fraud scheme
A Queens deacon has been convicted of helping Chinese immigrants seek asylum over bogus religious beliefs by coaching them in how to lie to the feds. Liying Lin, a 30-year-old...
Will clueless Oscar voters snub '12 Years’ star for J.Law?
Sunday may be a night that goes down in Oscar infamy: There appears to be a chance that Brooklyn’s own Lupita Nyong’o will NOT win Best Supporting Actress for her...
Taxi medallion auctioned for record-setting $965,000
For the first time in six years the city auctioned taxi medallions for yellow cab drivers on Wednesday and the winning bids ranged up to a record-setting $965,000. "I’ve been...
'The Lunchbox' delivers a clever plot that never follows through
A clever setup that harkens back to “You’ve Got Mail” and “The Shop Around the Corner” doesn’t quite pay off in India’s warm-hearted comedy-drama “The Lunchbox.” Ila (Nimrat Kaur) plays...
1931 office comedy ‘London Wall’ gets deserved NY premiere
We didn’t wait until the invention of “chick lit” to have romantic workplace comedies. Take the Mint company’s “London Wall,” a chestnut from 1931: Affairs, female friendship, women wondering whether...
Felton says legal issues won’t be distraction for struggling Knicks
Nowhere looks more inviting, seems more comfortable at the moment than a basketball court for the legally, personally, professionally troubled Raymond Felton and his beleaguered Knicks teammates. Felton’s season has...
Concern around Mets as Jon Niese heads for MRI
PORT ST. LUCIE — Even before their first pitch of the Grapefruit League season has been thrown, the Mets have a significant injury concern. Jon Niese was headed back to...
Best Buy cutting 2,000 managers
Best Buy has a major cost-cutting operation in the works, and the code word is “pink slip.” The nation’s biggest electronics chain — which saw sales fall 2.6 percent during...
Extremist gets life sentence in hacking murder of UK soldier
LONDON — An al Qaeda-inspired extremist was sentenced to life without parole Wednesday for hacking a British soldier to death on a London street in front of horrified passers-by. Images...
NHL Power Rankings: Life after the Olympic break
The Olympic Break has come and gone, as Canada again claimed gold. One of the other big storylines was the number of NHL players who got injured. The biggest was...
NY's decrepit roads costing drivers over $20B each year
New York’s decaying and congested infrastructure is costing drivers billions in vehicle repairs, crashes and wasted fuel burned sitting in traffic, with motorists in the five boroughs paying the most....
Chumley's to neighbors: We're 'the fabric of Greenwich Village'
The owner of a shuttered Greenwich Village pub that dates back to the Prohibition Era says a lawsuit filed by neighbors claiming his planned reopening would turn their quiet block...
Darrelle Revis a popular candidate to be traded again
Let's hope Darrelle Revis rented in Tampa. The Buccaneers cornerback, who was traded there from the Jets last April, could be on the move again, according to a report in...
Beijing skyline disappears behind heavy smog
BEIJING — The smog is so bad even the statues wear masks. Or at least they do in pictures of a campus stunt that circulated online Tuesday as parts of...
Manziel bashing: Switzer slams personality, Jaworski questions talent
In recent history, there have been few NFL Draft prospects who polarize quite like former Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel. The 5-foot-11 quarterback may be taken with the No. 1...
App gives users the ability to speed read
The problem with reading? You have to move your eyes too much. This might sound like a line from the world’s laziest person, but it has been discovered that the...
Republicans blast FDA for spying on whistleblowers
WASHINGTON — Republicans are blasting the Food and Drug Administration for secretly monitoring the emails of agency scientists who went public with allegations that they were pressured to approve certain...
FDA weighs unknowns of 3-person embryo fertilization
WASHINGTON -- Genetic experts cautioned that it could take decades to confirm the safety of an experimental technique, meant to prevent children from inheriting debilitating diseases, that would create babies...
'Ripper Street' to get third season in US
‘Ripper Street” will live to see another season. The BBC America drama, cancelled by the BBC after a two-season run in the UK, will plow ahead with a third season...
Kanye gushes on fatherhood with ‘Seth Meyers’
http://youtu.be/Wdea0kYYwvQ How will Seth Meyers continue to keep people up for his late-night time slot? With a controversial personality, of course. And, who other than Kanye West to do the...
Jets searching for right veteran to backup Geno
This is the first in a nine-part series examining the Jets’ needs position by position as free agency gets set to begin the afternoon of March 11. We start with...
Cashman: Jeter's health least of Yankees' infield worries
BRADENTON, Fla. — Brian Cashman’s level of concern about Derek Jeter’s return to the Yankees’ infield is at zero. The same can’t be said about second and third base.Weather permitting,...
Who’s fallen victim to the Oscar curse?
There are so many first-time nominees for this year’s Oscars (Matthew McConaughey, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jared Leto, Barkhad Abdi, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o, June Squibb, Sally Hawkins) that it will be...
RuPaul's 5 most outrageous music videos
http://youtu.be/R0PoSClDsV8 Tuesday the world’s most famous (infamous?) drag queen, RuPaul, released her seventh album, “Born Naked.” The star brings her signature high camp as hard as ever with tracks such...
Bitcoin prices rise as authorities probe exchange closure
Bitcoin prices rose on Wednesday, recovering sharply from lows hit Tuesday, as authorities in the U.S. and Japan begin looking into the sudden closure of Tokyo-based exchange Mt. Gox. Meanwhile,...
LeBron expects to play with mask vs. Knicks
MIAMI - LeBron James will take a page from J.R. Smith and said he expects to suit up Thursday vs. the Knicks with a mask protecting his broken nose. Like...
Kerry Kennedy reminds jury: ‘Daddy was killed’
Kerry Kennedy testified in her own defense at her drugged driving trial Wednesday – wasting no time invoking her assassinated “daddy” Robert F. Kennedy. “Daddy was the attorney general during...
Hoffman's pal uses libel lawsuit to create playwriting foundation
A close friend of Philip Seymour Hoffman has settled a libel lawsuit against The National Enquirer by creating a playwriting foundation to be initially funded by the tabloid. In a...
J.Crew in talks for possible 2014 IPO
J. Crew -- the retailer owned by TPG Capital and Leonard Green & Partners -- is talking with banks as it shops around for an initial public offering later this...
Paul Rudd destroys Fallon in 'Tonight Show' lip sync battle
Paul Rudd was a guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday, and the host challenged the funnyman actor to a lip sync battle — to some pretty...
Confused Japanese tourists set off high speed chase
Welcome to the States! The first night in the US for a family of Japanese tourists unfamiliar with local traffic laws ended with the parents being yanked from their rental...
Kids attacked by dogs, buried alive in North Korean prison
Ahn Myong-Chol saw many nightmarish atrocities during his years as a prison guard - including one horrific incident in which ferocious dogs attacked and killed innocent school kids, according to...
How drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman hid for 13 years
WASHINGTON — Mexico's most powerful drug cartel leader employed high-tech communications gadgetry and sophisticated counterespionage practices to elude an international manhunt for 13 years, The Associated Press has learned. In...
Putin orders military drills on Ukraine border
President Vladimir Putin ordered an urgent drill to test the combat readiness of the armed forces across western Russia on Wednesday, news agencies reported, flexing Moscow's military muscle amid tension...
Obama threatens Karzai with full US withdrawal
WASHINGTON — Frustrated with his Afghan counterpart, President Barack Obama is ordering the Pentagon to accelerate planning for a full US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan by the end of this...
Target's profits down $440M after data breach
Target reported a profit drop of $440 million for its fiscal fourth quarter as a result of the credit card breach on Wednesday. Profit fell to $520 million, or 81...
Is this Beyonce’s sexiest video? (Hint: Yes it is)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ12_E5R3qc If you thought Beyonce and Jay-Z’s opening number at the Grammy’s was hot — think again. The bootylicious global superstar has taken sexy to a whole new level with...
Pre-school obesity rates are dropping: study
ATLANTA — Toddler obesity shrank sharply in the past decade, a new study suggests. While promising, it's not proof that the nation has turned a corner in the battle against...
New Yorkers favor letting cities boost local minimum wage
ALBANY — A new statewide poll shows a large majority of New Yorkers support giving municipalities authority to raise the minimum wage locally, something Gov. Cuomo opposes. The Siena College...
State might give $500K to program accused of misusing $200K
The state is preparing to award a half-million-dollar grant to an after-school program that government auditors accused of misusing nearly $200,000 in public funds. SCO Family of Services, an extended...
World Trade Center's PATH station reopens
A vestige of the original World Trade Center still graces the brand-new PATH train platform that opened Tuesday. The original slurry wall continues to be used to keep water out...
Aaron Hernandez beat up inmate
Disgraced former NFL star Aaron Hernandez beat up a fellow inmate who had been harassing him, according to a report. The former Patriots tight end pummeled the man in a...
Warren: Terrorism Risk Insurance Act program a 'giveaway'
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) startled fellow lawmakers on Tuesday by describing a commercial real estate terrorism risk insurance program as a “giveaway.” The program, the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, or...
All that jazz and good food meet at Minton’s Harlem revival
A surprised look stole over my friend at Minton’s when the house jazz sextet launched into the opening chords of the night’s closing number. “ ‘Rikki Don’t Lose That Number’?” she...
'The Voice' finalist Caroline Pennell records five-track EP
Caroline Pennell, a finalist last season on “The Voice,” has recorded a version of Badfinger’s classic tune, “Come and Get It,” for a five-track EP CD called “Music for Linda”...
Veteran DJ Scott Shannon lands at WCBS FM
Well, that didn’t take long. Veteran DJ Scott Shannon, who announced his exit from WPLJ’s popular and long-running “Scott & Todd” morning show on Feb. 7, has landed at WCBS...
New eyes at SAC Capital after guilty plea to insider trading
Steve Cohen, the multibillionaire hedge fund legend whose firm became synonymous with illegal trading, will soon have another person looking over his shoulder. SAC Capital Advisors, which has pled guilty...
Dish chief compared to Nixon by LightSquared’s Falcone
Satellite-TV mogul Charlie Ergen is just like Richard Nixon, according to billionaire investor Phil Falcone. Ergen’s “non-denial denials” of his Dish Network’s intent to buy debt in Falcone’s bankrupt LightSquared...
DreamWorks writes down underwhelming 'Turbo' sales
Jeffrey Katzenberg’s DreamWorks Animation surprised Wall Street on Tuesday with a Turbo-charge. The Hollywood studio wrote down its $135 million-budgeted movie “Turbo” after an underwhelming US box office of $83...
Universal Music Group hit hard by Lady Gaga’s album flop
Lady Gaga’s “ARTPop” album last fall certainly didn’t give Universal Music Group any pop. Gaga’s fourth-quarter flop helped cut Universal’s revenue in the period 9.3 percent, the company said in...
Loss means no margin of error for St. John's
This is when you know the night hasn’t gone as well as you had hoped on your home floor: from 40 rows up, as the final seconds ticked away, you...
Mets' ‘Dominican Mafia’ has a new leader
PORT ST. LUCIE — In less than two weeks with the Mets in spring training, Jose Valverde has emerged as the leader of, what the reliever calls, the team’s “Dominican...
The key questions in Felton's case
Raymond Felton faced an uncertain Knicks future entering last week’s trade deadline and now faces one again post-deadline in the wake of his gun-charge arrest. Felton didn’t speak to reporters...
Teacher who threatened to pull a 'Columbine' sues NYPD
First, she threatened to pull a “Columbine” on her own school. Now, a former Brooklyn high-school teacher is suing the NYPD for $6 million for arresting her over the “terroristic threat”...
Rapper Fabolous outed gun-toting Felton as a cheater in song
The marriage between Knicks point guard Raymond Felton and his beautiful wife, Ariane Raymondo-Felton, crumbled less than 19 months after they wed — and hip-hop star Fabolous apparently knew there...
Pension payment pushes Christie's proposed budget to historic high
A mandatory pension payment forced Gov. Chris Christie Tuesday to propose the biggest budget in New Jersey history, a $34.4 billion spending plan that does not include a once-ballyhooed tax...
Daily Blotter
Manhattan Two would-be robbers used a bomb threat to try to knock off a Hamilton Heights check-cashing joint, authorities said. The suspects walked into the Pay-O-Matic on Broadway near West...
New school bus routes leave disabled kids stranded
A bus company stranded scores of disabled students for hours this week, thanks to a Department of Education glitch over bus routes. Parents of special-needs students had to drop their...
Plaxico: Felton should learn from me, know city's gun laws
Former Giants star Plaxico Burress had stern advice Tuesday for accused gun-toting hoopster Raymond Felton, saying the Knick was probably ignorant of New York City’s tough firearms laws. Burress infamously...
De Blasio: 29K pre-K seats filled if Albany approves funding plan
Mayor de Blasio is throwing down the gauntlet to Gov. Cuomo on expanding pre-K, claiming he’s got 29,000 new seats ready to go for September — if Albany approves his...
Not even priest can whitewash away Kennedy's charges
Kerry Kennedy played the Catholic card in her drugged-driving trial Tuesday, producing an actual Irish priest who testified that in the 41 years he’s known the jet-setter — from the...
New Ukraine government struggles for stability
Ukraine’s nascent government struggled for stability Tuesday as a top aide to fugitive President Viktor Yanukovych was shot and pro-Russian demonstrations in Crimea raised new fears that the country might...
NYPD bailing new mayor from serious controversies
In their 20 combined years at City Hall, Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg routinely protected the police from political attacks and hucksters. Even when an officer was involved in questionable...
Brazil yanks sexy shirts for World Cup
These tawdry T-shirts are getting the boot — no ifs, ands or butts. Adidas yanked a pair of World Cup soccer T-shirt designs from its website Tuesday after angry Brazilian...
'Let's Move' campaign adds ban on soft-drinks ads at school
WASHINGTON — The administration is adding some teeth to First Lady Michelle Obama’s “Lets Move” campaign with new rules that ban sugary soft-drink ads from school property, including scoreboards. Student...