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THUG IS FINALLY NAILED FOR MURDER

A Queens con who had dodged the bullet on two murder raps - including a cop-killing - was convicted yesterday of slaying in Kissena Park. A jury took an hour...

'ZUCCHINI BANDIT' FACES DEPORTATION

An 11th-hour deportation order kept the so-called Queens zucchini bandit in the cooler last night. Fulton Guevara, 33, served about seven years in prison for using a zucchini he pretended...

DOG VICTIMS MAY SUE CITY

Lawyers for the Rockaway dog-pack attack victims plan multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the city. A lawyer for Marlene Fils-Aime, 51, whose leg was chewed to the bone during the Dec. 26...

JURY SPARED XXXTREME FILM

Embarrassed Queens jurors were spared viewing hard-core porn in court yesterday when an elderly baby-sitter accused of sodomizing a 9-year-old girl pleaded guilty to his crime. The X-rated film was...

'HOOKER' DA QUITS HIS JOB

A Queens assistant district attorney who confessed to patronizing a prostitute resigned from $98,000-a-year job yesterday, authorities said. A Bronx prosecutor will oversee the criminal case against Michael Connolly, 49,...

'ZUCCHINI BANDIT' SQUASHED AT LAST

Queens' infamous "zucchini bandit," accused of using the elongated vegetable to simulate a gun in a 1995 robbery, pleaded guilty of attempted robbery yesterday, ending years of twists and turns...

MOM'S NEIGHBORS HEARTBROKEN

Friends of Kim Young, 60, were distraught yesterday to learn she was killed by a van in Herald Square. The mom of two from Woodside, Queens, had just celebrated the...

BRITNEY 'BONDAGE' BALLAD HITS SOUR NOTE

Pop tart Britney Spears has rubbed anti-slavery activists the wrong way with her latest single "I'm a Slave 4U." The song, which seems to be more about a romantic entanglement...

SLAY SUSPECT IN COURT AFTER 20 YRS. ON LAM

A wannabe wiseguy on the lam for 20 years pleaded not guilty to murder charges in Queens Supreme Court yesterday for his alleged role in a 1981 double homicide. Assistant...

'LOWLIFE' JAILED IN WTC CON GAME

Jerome Brandl, the ex-con accused of posing as a firefighter and using the Sept. 11 tragedy to scam a firehouse and an unsuspecting woman, was called "a thief and fugitive"...

2 NABBED IN CHARITY SCAM

Authorities busted two men for allegedly selling illegally copied CDs and falsely claiming the profits would go to World Trade Center relief efforts. Police arrested Jian Shuang Ye, 19, and...

35 YRS. FOR PUNCHY RAPIST

The punchy perp who threw a Queens courtroom into chaos when he clobbered his defense counsel was sentenced to 35 years in prison yesterday for the rape of an elderly...

JURY KOS PUNCHY RAPIST

A Queens jury yesterday convicted a raging rape defendant who only a day earlier decked his lawyer in front of them for "not doing his job." Punchy perp William Scott,...

CELL-PHONE NUMBERS KEY TO RESCUE

Federal officials yesterday asked people to come forward with cell phone and pager numbers for the thousands of people missing in the World Trade Center rubble. The Federal Emergency Management...

RESCUERS TOIL AMID NEW DANGER - THREE BUILDINGS NEAR COLLAPSE

Exhausted - and increasingly pessimistic - rescuers yesterday battled their way through the twisted World Trade Center carnage, desperately seeking possible survivors, as three other buildings teetered on the brink...

STRESS DROVE KILLER PRINCE: MAG

The prince of Nepal who massacred the royal family before shooting himself to death was driven to kill by "stress, arrogance and depression" - not anger at his parents for...

MOURNERS BID FAREWELL TO 'THREE BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN'

Hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims gathered at a New Jersey mosque last night to mourn the 13-year-old girl drowned in the Rockaways with two cousins - a loss their shattered family...

WANNABE STARS PAY PRICE - BIG BUCKS CAN'T BUY CAREER

Thousands of wannabe stars are forking over up to $10,000 to attend a convention that promises a shot at the big time - and offers little in return, The Post...

AT FREEDOM'S DOOR - SLAY CONVICT OVERJOYED PRIEST BROKE SILENCE

Ruben Montalvo is still behind bars, but yesterday he told The Post he can almost taste freedom. "The moment I've been waiting for all these years is finally here. It's...

'FOREVER JOINED' - HERO FIREFIGHTERS' WIDOWS TELL OF LIFE AFTER TRAGEDY

The children of the three firemen who died in the Astoria blaze last month are still asking how their lives will go on without their dads. "Who will tighten our...