Angela Montefinise
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Home-ed 'germ carrier' tussle
Despite a plea from the family's doctor, city educrats have refused home instruction for a 9-year-old girl whose sister is suffering from a rare bone disease. Christina Tavolacci was supposed...
Weird but true
A store in Detroit was shut down after authorities uncovered a $130,000 scam that had food-stamp credits being used for Viagra, liquor and porn. The recipients would get the non-allowable...
Not easy going green
A city plan to go green is hitting plenty of red lights. Two years after Mayor Bloomberg launched his ambitious blueprint for a greener Big Apple, nearly a third of...
Mailman's ZZZZZIP code
So that's why they call it snail mail. US Postal Service carrier Keith Goode enraged Upper East Side residents recently after he plopped down on a stoop in the middle...
Tribute in Light due to dim out
The World Trade Center's annual Tribute in Light could go dark next September. There is no funding in place for the 9/11 memorial, which sends two beams of light into...
School's in for double-dipper
A double-dipping assistant principal who turned a Brooklyn rubber room into her own personal office is being kicked out and forced to work, after she was exposed by The Post...
Principal is a 'double dipper'
Raquel Downing spends her busy days behind a desk, yapping on the phone and toiling over two laptop computers as she wheels, deals and runs her online business selling personalized...
Slain Yale grad flown to Calif. for funeral
Annie Le has gone home for the last time. The body of the slain 24-year-old Yale grad student was flown back to the small, rural California town where she grew...
'Kid'-lock alert
It's the school of hard knocks -- and sharp elbows. Francis Lewis HS in Queens will be the city's most overcrowded when classes start Wednesday -- cramming an astounding 4,700...
Ticketed-off pol: Slam brakes on summons-crazy agents
It's meter maids gone wild. Ticket-happy traffic agents are slapping Big Apple drivers with "unfair" summonses, according to a lawmaker who wants to put the brakes on the orange blizzard....
DWI victim's kin suing bar for not saying, 'Enough!'
The family of a doctoral student killed last year by a drunken driver is suing the popular Queens bar that allegedly kept serving the man until his blood-alcohol level was...
Church's third act: mini-mall
The Limelight is getting ready to shine again -- sort of. The former Chelsea church that became home to the notorious, drug-laden nightclub is moving toward a heavenly makeover, with...
The infiltrator
From 1986-88, customs agent Robert Mazur hopped private jets, partied in the finest nightclubs and wore thousand-dollar threads -- all to infiltrate Pablo Escobar's powerful Colombian drug cartel. Mazur led...
GAS-BLAST WIDOWER TO SUE
The family of a Queens mother of three killed in a horrific Con Ed gas explosion has taken another step toward suing the utility. Dindial Boodram -- whose wife, Ghanwatti,...
CITY $OCKS TAXPAYERS OVER 'ART'
Art, schmart. That's what one critic thinks about the city's "Percent for Art" law, which mandates 1 percent of public construction budgets be earmarked for artwork -- a rule that...
GEEZER'S FUN TIMES END AT 113
The world's oldest man -- who once attributed his long life to "cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women" -- died peacefully in his sleep yesterday at age 113. Henry Allingham,...
HORNY POTTER
Sparks are flying in the wizarding world -- and not just in potions class. In "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" the now-teenage characters are facing a new kind of...
CITY'S $5.5M PAYOUT TO INJURED CRACKHEAD
Taxpayers forked over $5.5 million to a crackhead rendered a paraplegic while fleeing from police. Manuel Martinez, now 29, received one of the top city personal-injury payouts this year after...
GEM OF A PROPOSAL FOR LIBERTY BELLE
It was the crown jewel of marriage proposals. Aaron Weisinger, 26, climbed 354 narrow steps to the top of the Statue of Liberty yesterday to take a giant leap, dropping...
NO JUSTICE FOR TRAGIC LAURA
It's been seven months of relentless pain, unanswered questions and frustrating dead ends for the family of missing Brooklyn beauty Laura Garza -- and there's no end in sight. Garza,...