February 18, 2015
Newbie cops' dog tale probed after shooting incident
The NYPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau is investigating how a newbie cop ended up shooting his boss in the foot during a call in Brooklyn, police sources said Wednesday. Philip Longo,...
One al Qaeda 'terrorist' grills another at subway bomb plot trial
It was accused terrorist versus terrorist in Brooklyn federal court on Wednesday. A suspected Osama bin Laden lackey accused of plotting to blow up a mall in England tried to...
Bronx pol claims his borough gets the 'worst teachers'
A Bronx legislator charged Wednesday that the “worst teachers” are being dumped in his borough, as parents and elected officials rallied to demand that Albany allow more charter schools. “Nobody...
Niagara’s icy chill headed toward city
The frigid weather that turned Niagara Falls into a stunning spectacle of snow and ice is going to make life miserable for New Yorkers through the rest of the week....
Sister says 'American Sniper' killer battled 'demons'
STEPHENVILLE, Texas — She loved her brother, but his “demons” ripped them apart. The sister of “American Sniper” killer Eddie Ray Routh had to distance herself from her disturbed, violent...
This cop has stopped a dozen people from suicide on NYC bridge
He’s got more saves than an NHL goalie. A veteran Port Authority cop has stopped a dozen suicidal people from jumping off the George Washington Bridge — and put his...
Woman saves stray dog by sleeping in freezing park
An upper Manhattan woman slept outside in a makeshift shelter for two days straight — braving ruthless winds and bone-chilling temperatures — as she risked her life to save a...
Obama refuses to acknowledge ‘Muslim terrorists’ at summit
WASHINGTON — They’re burning and beheading victims in the name of Islam, but President Obama delivered a major speech Wednesday on combating violent extremism — while refusing to use the...
Creditors want hedge funds probed in RadioShack's fall
A legal battle royal is threatening to break out in the RadioShack bankruptcy — and Princess Leia of “Star Wars” fame has entered the picture. “Some rescue,” lawyers for unsecured...
'Clueless' activists protest luxury high-rise's tax breaks
Activists protested at Midtown high-rise One57 Wednesday against the luxury condo building’s tax breaks — but a group of needy Bronx residents indirectly benefiting from the discounts thinks they’re clueless....
Ex-fiancee of 'pervy' teacher accused of lying under oath twice
The ex-fiancee of a prep-school teacher who is accused of bedding a 16-year-old student landed on the hot seat herself in Manhattan court Wednesday for lying under oath twice. The...
Forget A-Rod, attention turns to Tanaka's first bullpen session
TAMPA — When you truck through the never-ending drama of Alex Rodriguez’s reentry into the fraternity of active big leaguers, you arrive at the most important element of the Yankees’...
Want to go to the Oscars? Better be nominated for an award
Scoring a ticket to Hollywood’s biggest night has never been easy — and it just got more expensive. It doesn’t matter where you are on the Tinseltown totem poll, the...
Jeb Bush takes on Obama's foreign policies
Jeb Bush slammed President Obama on Wednesday, on issues ranging from relations with Israel to fighting terrorism, in the former Florida governor’s first foreign-affairs speech as a likely 2016 presidential...
Burkle bags $67 million in Soho House building deal
Ron Burkle has unloaded his stake in the building containing Soho House, the members-only celebrity hangout at Ninth Avenue and West 13th Street. The Yucaipa Cos. founder sold his stake...
Tallulah Willis uses her old hair as decor
Tallulah Willis, daughter of Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, has been rocking a new buzzcut at Fashion Week. "I am loving my new haircut, but I have to admit, sometimes...
Man lights woman's face on fire in fight over $10: cops
A Bronx man who doused a woman with lighter fluid and set her face on fire has been arrested, cops said. William Norwood, 52, horribly burned a 48-year-old acquaintance outside...
Martha Stewart is totally fine with Twitter wars
Martha Stewart is A-OK with Khloé Kardashian battling it out with Amber Rose via Twitter. “I don’t mind Twitter wars. It’s a form of expression!” Stewart told The Post as...
Case builds against former NY hedgie 'Buddy' Fletcher
Disgraced former hedge-fund operator Alphonse “Buddy” Fletcher’s broken promises are catching up with him. A Manhattan judge has ruled that the 49-year-old investor owes his former law firm $2.7 million...
Throw a toaster in ‘Hot Tub Time Machine 2,’ this franchise is done
"Hot Tub Time Machine 2” isn’t a time-travel movie so much as a time-murder movie, with a hairline-thin plot bulked up with fillers involving puke, penile damage and gay panic....
Anna Camp almost saves new play ‘Verité’ from its convoluted premise
The new comedy “Verité” has a lot going for it, like an appealingly weird vibe and a very funny lead performance by Anna Camp (late of “Pitch Perfect” and “True...
Suit claims bigots abound at banking giant Société Générale
International banking giant Société Générale is loaded with hate-spewing bigots in at least one of its Manhattan offices, where a boss routinely harassed and ridiculed a gay underling and superiors...
Groupon offers PYT burger for 40¢ a day for a year
Even I know this burger deal is bad for you — even though it’s a great deal. PYT, a restaurant in Philadelphia, which is opening its first New York City...
Multiple city offices lose control of email service
A communication breakdown brought the gears of city government grinding to a halt Wednesday as at least three major city offices couldn’t receive incoming, external email for most of the...
Cam Talbot saving Rangers, and auditioning well for rest of NHL
It was very casually the way Henrik Lundqvist walked passed the assembled media on the sidelines of Rangers practice at the MSG Training Facility on Wednesday, in gym clothes and...
Singer sued for being 'too ugly' files second lawsuit
The Pink tribute artist sued by a Long Island band promoter for allegedly being too old, ugly and off-key to pull off the act — and who then helped draft...
Jets GM shopping for 'high-dollar' free agents and QB solution
INDIANAPOLIS — New Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan is ready to spend. The Jets are expected to have around $50 million in salary-cap space once the cap is set for...
We hear ...
... That the Big Apple’s real estate brokers won’t be shedding any tears for ex-New York Knicks player Amar’e Stoudemire, who lived in New York City for five years but...
Reality TV broker sells SoHo's only freestanding townhouse
SoHo’s only freestanding townhouse, which went on the market for $9.99 million last May and was decreased most recently to $7.99 million, now has a buyer. The listing brokers were...
Stealing home: Ichiro's full-floor apt is for sale/rent
Now that Ichiro Suzuki is with the Miami Marlins, the ex-Yankee's former home base that he rented is up for rent again -- or sale -- at 111 Central Park...
New house state of mind: Billy Joel buys $22M Florida home
Long Island’s favorite son, Billy Joel, is also spending time these days in Florida, where he has just purchased a $22 million oceanfront home in Manalapan, south of Palm Beach....
NYC's most expensive 1-BR rental is $300K/month
The city’s most expensive one-bedroom rental is a staggering $300,000 a month — or $3.6 million a year — at The Surrey, at 20 E. 76th St. The penthouse unit...
Tech it up a notch: Q&A with futurist designer Yves Béhar
The Swiss-born/San Francisco-based product guru Yves Béhar may very well be the hardest working man in design. The founder of Bay Area-based creative lab Fuseproject has devised some of the...
New partnerships are helping NYC brokers conquer the world
New York City real estate biggies are going global! Or, are major international brokerages invading Gotham? Perhaps it’s a bit of both as local heavy-hitters Town Residential, The Corcoran Group...
Live like a Manhattanite muckety-muck in Brooklyn
Manhattan, you’ve got competition. Savvy developers behind some of the priciest developments in the inner borough are now spreading their wings — bringing high-end, luxury condominium projects to many Brooklyn...
Designer Fawn Galli brings wit and whimsy to Brooklyn pad
Ten years ago, then-pregnant interior designer Fawn Galli decided to bid adieu to her out-all-night Manhattan lifestyle — as well as her West Village rental — and move with her...
Judging the Gov
Staten Island may finally be represented in Congress. Gov. Cuomo has just promised to set a date for a special election to fill the House seat that’s been vacant since...
Albany needs more lawyers
Eric Schneiderman is worried lawyers will be discouraged from going to Albany. The attorney general’s remarks come at a time when the speaker of the state Assembly has had to...
Friends of the Clintons
In a front-page story on the Clinton Foundation back in 2013, The New York Times noted “how difficult it can be to disentangle the Clintons’ charity work from Mr. Clinton’s...
Lippman's lunatic grand-jury 'fix'
The chief judge of New York’s highest court, Jonathan Lippman, this week announced that the need for significant changes in grand-jury protocols is “obvious.” The only thing obvious to me...
Reality is far worse: 'House of Cards' sanitizes DC
Political junkies will rejoice Feb. 27 as Netflix releases the third season of “House of Cards” for binge-watching. Too bad the drama of intrigue, crime and corruption misses the truth...
Bibi: Why I'm speaking to Congress
Excerpted from the Israeli prime minister’s remarks Monday in Jerusalem to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Why am I going to Washington? Because, as prime minister...
Hillary's boring: Worse for her, the 2016 Republicans aren't
Is Hillary Clinton too boring to be president? This could turn into the unspoken issue of 2016 — in large measure because the Republican field is very, very interesting. Once...
Cops stumped by gender of wig-wearing bank robber
The cops are going to have a hell of a time figuring out what jail to lock this crook in. A gender-bending bandit armed with a scary-looking weapon targeted a...
Father and uncle of slain boy busted for robbing bank
The father and uncle of a Brooklyn boy who was butchered to death by a madman in an elevator last year have been busted for a 2012 armed bank heist,...
Ex-cop sentenced in credit-card scam, identity theft plot
A disgraced ex-NYPD cop was sentenced to 28 months behind bars Wednesday after admitting to giving other people’s personal information -- including even of an officer in his own precinct--...
Obama: American Muslims must do more to counter 'violent extremism'
President Barack Obama on Wednesday called on American Muslim communities to do more to counter what he called "violent extremism," speaking at a three-day White House summit on the issue....
‘The DUFF’ isn’t a ‘Mean Girls’ retread, but a sweet rom-com
High-school movies usually have as much to do with high school as “Godzilla” does with Tokyo. “The DUFF” is slightly radical in portraying high schoolers as human beings of normal...
NFL's circus Deflategate probe turns up black-market ball thief
Any case the NFL might have against the Patriots over Deflategate appeared to take a major hit Wednesday. ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported an unnamed league employee was fired after attempting...
Opposing exec mocks Knicks’ chances at Dragic: 'Good luck'
Goran Dragic wants out of Phoenix, Reggie Jackson wants out of Oklahoma City, Enes Kanter wants out of Utah. And everybody want to hit the MegaMillions lottery. Dragic, part of...
6 Joe Biden gaffes that prove the VP dances to the beat of his own drum
There’s an entire generation of balding, middle-aged men who dance embarrassingly and clumsily flirt with girls at parties — and then there’s Joe Biden. Our gregarious vice president, well-known for...
Phil Jackson: Knicks 'in the conversation’ at trade deadline
Knicks team president Phil Jackson said he and his staff are “busy’’ trying to make a splash before Thursday’s trade deadline with impending free-agent point guards, Goran Dragic, Reggie Jackson...
Tommy Hilfiger was too small to make his high school football team
http://instagram.com/p/zNANRaynlW/?modal=true Tommy Hilfiger scored a touchdown with his pigskin-themed fashion show on Monday — but the designer admits that as a young boy, he was too small to make his high...
The day in photos
A baby kangaroo melts hearts, subzero temperatures freeze waterfalls over, revelers ring in Carnival and Chinese New Year and more.
Gorgeous Brit film 'Queen and Country' wins our affection
Veteran British director John Boorman is best known in this country for “Deliverance," but his finest achievement may be “Hope and Glory’’ (1987), an autobiographical comedy about growing up in...
Kevin Costner runs a schmaltzy marathon in ‘McFarland, USA’
"Dad, tell me you took the wrong exit,” groans the teen daughter of high school coach Jim White (Kevin Costner), who’s relocating his family to the dusty migrant town of...
Oscar-nominated 'Wild Tales’ spins 6 stories of bloody revenge
This cheerfully lunatic anthology film from Argentine director Damián Szifrón consists of six tales linked by the theme of power (or lack thereof) and revenge (the bloody taking of). Each...
Boy cross-examined by 'sex abuser' dad in molestation case
A Brooklyn dad accused of molesting his son acted as his own lawyer in court Wednesday — forcing the now-14-year-old to be cross-examined by him. As if taking the stand...
Browns coach: Manziel in 'better place,’ but we're looking for QB
INDIANAPOLIS — Browns coach Mike Pettine visited Johnny Manziel in the treatment facility the quarterback checked into last month to let him know the team is proud he decided to...
US will auction nearly $12M in bitcoins seized from Silk Road
The US government on Wednesday said it plans to auction 50,000 bitcoins on March 5, following the recent criminal conviction of Ross Ulbricht for being the mastermind behind the online...
Bobby Parnell: I'm coming for Mets closer job -- after the DL
PORT ST. LUCIE -- Bobby Parnell wants his old job back and isn’t afraid to say it. “I want to be there at the end of the game,” the fireballling...
Fashion Week creator Fern Mallis is unimpressed by Kanye
While fans swarmed singer/wannabe fashion designer West, Mallis remained unimpressed.
City's most dangerous intersections targeted for improvements
The city will target several dozen Manhattan intersections and corridors that account for a majority of pedestrian traffic deaths and severe injuries, officials said Wednesday. Department of Transportation researchers have...
Meet the men who love My Little Pony
PonyCon, the annual convention dedicated to celebrating My Little Pony, saw its attendance grow 300 percent this year, and the excited fans were out in force. We attended the gathering,...
The biggest question for all 30 MLB teams in spring training
In each baseball season, there exist questions that can’t be answered until we play out 162 games and then some. We need that long to tell us whether the Yankees’...
John Slattery reveals his fave ‘Mad Men’ moment
Like everyone else, John Slattery is getting ready for the last season of “Mad Men.” As he sat front row next to Kelly Rutherford at his old friend Nanette Lepore’s...
Terry Collins leaves Mets following death of his father
Manager Terry Collins will be away from the Mets for the start of spring training, following the death of his father Loren – known to most as “Bud” – on...
Museum to create video game hall of fame
The Strong — a Rochester, New York-based museum dedicated to the “history and exploration of play” — announced that it will establish the World Video Game Hall of Fame. This new hall...
Niagara Falls freezes over
Niagara Falls has turned to ice.
Hacker 'mastermind' faces 7 years behind bars
The accused mastermind behind the distribution of malicious software that infected a half-million computers worldwide — including one belonging to former Miss Teen USA Cassidy Wolf — faces up to seven years...
ISIS jihadi who led execution of Christians could be an American
The masked jihadi who led the executions of 21 Egyptian Christians in Libya over the weekend could be an American recruited by ISIS, a US official told The Post on...
Rex Ryan is done talking about failed Jets tenure
INDIANAPOLIS – Bills coach Rex Ryan did his best Mark McGwire imitation on Wednesday, basically saying he was not there to talk about the past. Ryan ducked questions on Darrelle...
You can now tweet your friends from Sesame Street
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Tweet? Beloved kids institution “Sesame Street” has been spreading its reach beyond TV sets lately, giving some of...
The Kevin Durant free-agency sweepstakes sound wide open
Now that Carmelo Anthony is finally ready to shut himself down for the season, the Knicks’ attention can fully turn to remaking their roster. Though there are plenty of moves to...
Italian model-turned-referee is best thing to happen to soccer
With referees like this, we may see a spike in voluntary fouls. Italian model Claudia Romani is now eligible to officiate matches in Serie A and Serie B — her native land's top...
Building encased in ice after firefighters try to extinguish blaze
https://twitter.com/VinceLattanzio/status/567404036845228032 A west Philadelphia medical center — which was encased in a thick layer of ice after firefighters doused it to extinguish a blaze — is in danger of collapsing under...
Columbia conflict-mediation professor busted for punching boyfriend
A nutty professor who teaches city cops and firefighters how to cool down heated situations assaulted her ex-cop boyfriend because he allegedly cheated on her, police sources said. Joann Baney,...
Man sues city after spending 25 years in prison for murder he didn't commit
A Brooklyn man who spent 25 years behind bars for a 1989 murder he didn't commit is suing the city and a slew of cops for egregious civil rights violations,...
Girl's dramatic rescue from icy waters caught on tape
A New Jersey girl is expected to recover after being rescued from icy waters in the Sandy Hook Bay.
What do ‘The Hunger Games’ costume designers have in store for the final film?
THE final installment of “The Hunger Games” trilogy is set for release later this year, and the costume designers behind “Mockingjay, Part 2” reveal their inspirations for the newest looks....
Pussy Riot releases Eric Garner music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXctA2BqF9A MOSCOW — Two members of the punk provocateur band Pussy Riot have released a new music video dedicated to Eric Garner, an unarmed man who was killed when a...
Ethics commission demands more information from Silver about his income
A legislative ethics commission has sent a notice of delinquency to former New York Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver demanding information about his outside income. The Manhattan Democrat stepped down as...
The playbook to forgiveness that A-Rod seems destined to ignore
Jason Giambi retired a statesman. Andy Pettitte, it was announced, will have his number retired this August. Mark McGwire, respected Dodgers hitting coach, will be in Arizona for spring training....
Teacher accused of sex with 6 students, making sex tape
A New Jersey high- school teacher is facing prison time for her extra-curricular activities — having sexual relations with six students in school and her car, authorities said on Wednesday....
Suspect accuses cops of assault after punching himself in face
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grO9l_I1Oog EUGENE, Ore. — Lane County authorities say a suspect brought in for questioning later punched himself in the face and then signed an assault complaint against detectives. But unfortunately...
The hidden oasis of the Arabian desert is Heaven on Earth
The French novelist Antoine de Saint-Exupéry once said, “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” Nowhere is this statement more apt than in Oman. The...
Taylor Swift, Jimmy Fallon show off their moves on JumboTron
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-nkRBlqHzA When it comes to dancing, Taylor Swift loves to “Shake It Off.” Whether she’s swiveling around in a cringe-worthy music video or awkwardly bobbing back and forth at an...
Teens bum-rush theater after being denied entry to '50 Shades of Grey'
OCOEE, Fla. — Teens must now be accompanied by adults at night in a Florida mall where youths mobbed a movie theater after they were barred from seeing the R-rated...
New York sues UPS for shipping untaxed cigarettes
The state and city filed suit seeking more than $180 million against UPS for allegedly shipping 136 million untaxed cigarettes into New York between 2010 and 2014, authorities said Wednesday....
Ramona Singer writing tell-all book
The Real Housewife of NYC revealed Tuesday night at Sonja Morgan's fashion show at the Carriage House Center for the Arts that she’s hard at work on a new book.
Woman kills herself trying to adjust her bra holster
ST. JOSEPH, Mich. — Police say a 55-year-old southwestern Michigan woman who died after accidentally shooting herself in the head in January was adjusting a handgun in her bra holster...
Bethenny and Ramona duke it out at Sonja Morgan's fashion show
Bethenny Frankel’s right back in the “Housewives” drama.
Behind ‘Real Housewife’ Kristen Taekman’s Insta-fabulous snaps
http://instagram.com/p/uSuTzHAfT_/?modal=true No Housewife does Instagram quite like Kristen Taekman. The star of “The Real Housewives of New York City” has a feed full of glamorous snaps of herself — not...
'NBC Nightly News' loses 700K viewers after Brian Williams scandal
The “NBC Nightly News” lost 700,000 viewers last week — Lester Holt’s first subbing for the disgraced Brian Williams. The viewer hemorrhage was magnified by the fact it happened in...
Former Fortune editor Andy Serwer to head Yahoo Finance
Former Fortune editor Andy Serwer said he is returning to his “digital roots” as the new head of Yahoo Finance. “I’ve accepted an offer to join Yahoo as the Editor-in-Chief...
Carmelo Anthony's knee surgery rehab may take 4-6 months
The first of Carmelo Anthony’s 5-year, $124 million contract has ended and it was nothing short of a disaster. With the Knicks at a league-worst 10-43, Anthony will have surgery...
Smuggler busted ferrying $150K in Nutella jars
This guy was nuts for thinking this could work. Customs officers in northern Italy arrested a man who tried to smuggle nearly $150,000 in cash inside two jars of Nutella....
Rape allegations won't stop Bucs from drafting Jameis Winston
INDIANAPOLIS — The Buccaneers sound unfazed by the issues surrounding Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston when it comes to taking him with the No. 1 overall pick. Buccaneers coach Lovie Smith...
Red Bulls’ young Brazilian hope: 'Smart coach’ can spark me
New Red Bulls coach Jesse Marsch hasn’t managed a team since being fired by Montreal in 2012. New midfielder Felipe Martins hasn’t managed to play his best since that season...
How heartbreak helped Sharon Van Etten catapult to success
Since Sharon Van Etten released 2014’s “Are We There,” she’s played some of the biggest shows of her life, been featured on virtually every Best Albums of 2014 list and...
A-Rod’s year off: 'F’ on college exam, Katy Perry and grief
Alex Rodriguez apparently turned his yearlong suspension into an audition for "Back to School 2." After very briefly considering retirement following his ban by Major League Baseball, the Yankees third...
The ‘Married at First Sight’ experts are matching NYC singles on blind dates
The experts behind reality show “Married at First Sight” are using their matchmaking savvy to connect compatible New York City singles — but without the wedding vows. A&E is hosting...
'Racist' Chelsea fans shove commuter in disturbing video
PARIS — With a racist song ringing in his ears, a black man trying to board a subway train in Paris stands back after twice being pushed away by a...
CCRB member drunkenly touched co-worker on business trip: court filings
An embattled member of the police watchdog Civilian Complaint Review Board — already under fire for allegedly sexually harassing female staffers — has been accused of inappropriately touching another co-worker while on...
Carnegie Mellon ‘tech glitch’ mistakenly admits 800 computer scientists
Maybe this school’s computer science program should give the admissions department some pointers. Carnegie Mellon University mistakenly told 800 students they’d been admitted to its computer science master’s program, before...
Kids' photos being stolen for online role-playing fantasies: cops
Denver police are investigating a new trend: adults using pictures of children found on the Internet to fulfill a role-playing fantasy where strangers pretend to be a child and an...
Sony CEO pins comeback plan on movies, music and games
Sony is doubling down on movies, music and gaming. CEO Kazuo Hirai, who laid out his strategy for overhauling the struggling Japanese entertainment and electronics giant, said Wednesday that those...
Obama defends the 'true peaceful nature of Islam'
President Obama defended the "true peaceful nature of Islam" on Wednesday — saying terrorist groups like ISIS promote a "twisted interpretation of religion that is rejected by the overwhelming majority of...
Russia-backed rebels take control of key Ukrainian rail hub
ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine — After weeks of relentless fighting, the embattled Ukrainian rail hub of Debaltseve fell Wednesday to Russia-backed separatists, who hoisted a flag in triumph over the town. The...
ISIS harvests organs to fund terror: Iraqi ambassador
A top Iraqi diplomat told world leaders that ISIS is harvesting the organs of its victims to fund its murderous operations, the latest charge of barbarity in a list that...
Meet 'muscle Barbie'
There's a new "human Barbie" in town. Meet Julia Vins, the 18-year-old with the face of a porcelain doll — and the body of the Hulk. Powerlifter Julia has scored...
Vegas mom tracked road-rage driver before deadly shooting
LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas mother of four killed in a road-rage shooting last week got in her car with her adult son and his gun and drove around their...
Krispy Kreme cancels 'KKK Wednesday' promotion
A UK Krispy Kreme branch apologized for a promotion created to draw more kids into its store during Britain's half-term, a short holiday for students in the middle of each...
France tracking 400 believed to be in terror sleeper cells
PARIS — France is tracking hundreds of people believed to belong to possible sleeper cells for terror organizations like al Qaeda or the Islamic State, the country's top security official said....
A-Rod, stop trying to get sympathy — you don't deserve it
Alex Rodriguez, during his one-year banishment from baseball, considered retirement. He underwent therapy. He cursed himself for his decision to jump back into the dangerous waters of illegal performance-enhancing drugs,...
Gay ex-employee hits Breitling USA with discrimination suit
A gay salesman for high-end watchmaker Breitling USA claims he was fired because the new boss didn’t think he fit the definition of a “man’s man.” Frederick Cargian slapped the...
LinkedIn is expanding its editorial staff
LinkedIn, the business networking site with 350 million subscribers and a stock up 43 percent in the last year, is beefing up its small but growing editorial staff. “Our plan...
Media pals reminisce about David Carr's 'terrible' poker game
One group of media heavyweights had a whole different reason to regret the passing of David Carr. They had lost a poker playing buddy — and one who they fondly...
Fond, tearful (and funny) send-off for David Carr
Tears mixed with a lot of laughs — and a call for a memorial poker game — as friends, family and stars bid farewell on Tuesday to David Carr, the...
NYC, NY state to probe firm with accused murderer as president
The city and state are investigating a government contractor for allegedly failing to disclose that a convicted Bonanno family racketeer and accused murderer had held a top position in the...
Cop accidentally shoots his sergeant instead of wild dog
A Brooklyn cop accidentally shot his own sergeant in the foot Tuesday night as the pair responded to a dangerous pit bull in an East Flatbush apartment. The cop was...
US to arm Syrian rebels with high-tech gear for airstrikes
Moderate Syrian rebels will get heavily armed pickup trucks and high-tech gear to call in American airstrikes against ISIS terrorists, under a new plan revealed Tuesday. The Pentagon will give...
Female ISIS captives endure 'brutal and abnormal' sex
Perverted ISIS militants are trying to score Viagra to fuel their lust for “brutal and abnormal” sex, according to a shocking report from activists in the terror group’s main Syrian...
Williamsburg gets a ‘wild’ deal
The former home of Wild Turkey’s distributor is the subject of a “wildly” significant deal. We now hear Jared Kushner, LIVWRK and Rockpoint are in contract with Jason Halpern to...
Say it, Obama: ‘Islamic’
A recent news bulletin announced that police in Nova Scotia broke up a plot by two men who aimed to carry out mass murder at a shopping mall and then...
Beagle wins Best in Show at Westminster
She’s one regal beagle! A 15-inch, 4-year-old beagle named Miss P won the Westminster’s Best in Show at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. She beat out a Shih Tzu owned...
New York fans to A-Rod: Your apology was just plain sorry
Alex Rodriguez smacks of phoniness, and unsurprisingly, New Yorkers are seeing right through his latest attempt to set things right: a handwritten apology he published Tuesday afternoon. “I don’t think...
Delay in Obama's immigration program leaves illegal aliens in limbo
The Obama administration was forced to delay its expanded immigration-relief program Tuesday to comply with a federal judge’s order, leaving millions of undocumented residents in a holding pattern. “I don’t...
'American Sniper’ killer still collecting VA paycheck
He killed the “American Sniper” but still gets to keep his government paycheck. The disturbed former Marine who shot Chris Kyle and his pal to death is raking in $2,800...
Judge gives Cuomo til Friday to set Staten Island election date
Brooklyn federal Judge Jack Weinstein said Tuesday he would set a date for a special election to fill the seat of former Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm if Cuomo doesn’t...
Patriots staffer gave official an unapproved football: report
Another angle to Deflategate emerged late Tuesday with a report a Patriots locker-room attendant tried to insert an unapproved football into the AFC Championship Game last month. ESPN quoted an...
Civil-rights group head under fire for 'hoarding' $10M settlement
A civil-rights group is under fire for collecting $10 million as part of a 2009 federal discrimination-suit settlement in Westchester County and not disbursing a dime to help poor minorities secure...
3 questions Nets need answered if they want to make playoffs
LOS ANGELES — After getting a week to relax and recover from a decidedly up-and-down first few months of the season, the Nets will reconvene Wednesday afternoon to begin preparations...
Expert questions 'high speed' in fatal hit-and-run crash
A Brooklyn hit-and-run driver who plowed into a livery cab, killing a Hasidic Jewish man and his pregnant wife, was going much slower than the 70 miles per hour prosecutors...
Daily Blotter
Manhattan A graffiti vandal was caught red-handed by detectives in Midtown Tuesday, police said. The tagger was putting the word “Fuel” on public property on the southeast corner of East...