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Rod a road test cheater

Have I told you lately that I never took my road test?Rod Stewart has admitted that road manager Pete Saunders sat in for the rock legend on his British driving...

Mafia-tied tough guy in new stab trouble

That wasn’t red sauce on his hands. A Gambino crime-family associate who beat charges of knifing the owner of popular Brooklyn pizza joint Lucali almost two years ago was again...

NYPD Daily Blotter

Staten Island Oh, he’s gonna pay, all right. An admitted drunk said he would foot the bill for the damage he caused in an accident in Silver Lake, authorities said....

‘DWI’ dummy cops attitude

Wrong answer! A drunk driver mouthed off to cops after a boozy wreck in Staten Island, authorities said yesterday. “I was going to your mother’s house!” John Klinkosz, 48, barked...

NYPD, DEA find cop-shoot gun

The gun used to blast a cop in the chest at a Lower East Side housing project over the summer has been recovered, thanks to a five-month undercover investigation into...

Gun used in cop shooting netted in undercover buy

The gun used to blast a cop in the chest inside a Lower East Side housing project over the summer has been recovered, The Post has learned. The .22-caliber handgun...

NYPD Daily Blotter

Manhattan Police are looking for the teen suspect pictured who allegedly attacked a woman and snatched her iPhone in a Washington Heights subway station. Tamek Skinner, 17, walked up behind...

SI father fatally stabs daughter's boyfriend

A Staten Island man was fatally stabbed early this morning by his girlfriend’s father, The Post has learned James Parker, 59, plunged a knife into Henry Raftrey’s abdomen during a...

Bravest’s new squeeze: strangle-case transgal

Now they’ve both been acquitted of throttling transsexuals. Kinky FDNY hunk Taylor Murphy, who successfully fought off felony strangulation charges brought by his jealous, blond, pre-op transsexual ex-girlfriend, is now...

Qns. thug brutally killed both parents within 15 months: officials

A Queens man will be arraigned tomorrow for murdering his two parents a mere 15 months apart, authorities said today. On Aug. 20, Gregory Cucchiara, 36, allegedly killed his father...

Tower heists baffle police

Detectives are in the dark when it comes to finding the thieves who burglarized four apartments in a ritzy Financial District tower that lost power during Hurricane Sandy and was...

Thieves swiped valuables from posh apartments following Sandy evacuations

What a bunch of “Gold” diggers! Stealthy thieves swiped valuables from luxury apartments at ritzy 2 Gold St. in the Financial District after residents there were forced to vacate because...

NYPD Daily Blotter

Manhattan *** A man was busted yesterday after trying to hold up two banks in Harlem, authorities said. Luis Colon, 44, went into the Chase Bank at West 125th Street...

This time, a happy ending! Track rescue

Two men escaped the path of an oncoming subway train in lower Manhattan last night after one tumbled onto the tracks and the other went down to help.The drama at...

Slain ma’s final plea

The Staten Island mom bludgeoned to death allegedly by her husband for cheating on him had stumbled into her teenage daughter’s room begging for help after the beating, police sources...

Secret Santa gives Staten Island Sandy victims reasons for joy

The Secret Santa who generously gave out $100 bills to Staten Islanders suffering from the catastrophic aftermath of Hurricane Sandy says he was in awe of neighbors helping each other....

Staten Island has secret $anta: Big-hearted Kansas City man hands out $100 bills to storm victims

He’s “Sandy” Claus! A wealthy, anonymous Missouri businessman passed out $100 bills yesterday to Staten Islanders still struggling to recover from last month’s superstorm. “The money is not the point...

LIPA customers who spent weeks without power due to Sandy get zapped with normal electric bills

LIPA customers who spent weeks without power got zapped with their normal electric bills — as if the outages never happened. The clueless utility charged Sandy-soaked Long Island residents an...

Blaze kills woman, 87

A three-alarm fire raging through a Washington Heights apartment early yesterday killed its sole occupant, an 87-year-old woman who had lived there for decades and seldom had visitors, according to...

Deadly Queens wreck

A motorist was killed yesterday when he crashed on the Grand Parkway in Forest Hills, Queens, police said. The 53-year-old victim was driving a 2011 Honda Accord eastbound on the...