Joe Mcgurk
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TOUR TEENS INJURE COP
May 9, 2006 | 4:00amThree Virginia teenagers on a school trip to Manhattan were busted after they lobbed cans of paint from the roof of a Midtown hotel, sending one cop to a hospital...
4 WOUNDED IN B'KLYN GUNFIGHT
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA gun battle inside a Brooklyn housing project spilled out of an apartment and raged over several blocks, leaving four people wounded, police said. An 18-year-old man was shot in...
WILD WEST SIDE HORSE CRASH
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA spooked carriage horse ran amok on the West Side last night, leaving a wake of wreckage. "It was just wild - the horse knocked its cab on its side....
SICKO LICKER ATTACKS GIRL, 9
May 6, 2006 | 4:00amA teenage pervert on a bicycle horrified a 9-year-old Queens girl yesterday when he rode up to her as she made her way to school - and licked her face....
BIKER DEATH PLUNGE - W'BURG HORROR CRASH
May 5, 2006 | 4:00amA 38-year-old Queens man riding his motorcycle to Manhattan last night was killed when he rear-ended a livery cab on the Williamsburg Bridge - and flew over the guardrail into...
LETTER CARRIER BURNED SACKS OF MAIL: COPS
May 4, 2006 | 4:00amA first-class weirdo postman was arrested for stealing mail yesterday after firefighters discovered hundreds of undelivered letters smoldering in his boarded-up Brooklyn apartment, authorities said. Gregory Mewborn, 47, was nabbed...
MAN, 81, BRUTALLY BEATEN IN ELEVATOR
May 4, 2006 | 4:00amAn 81-year-old man was clinging to life today after he was savagely beaten in his Washington Heights building by a thug who stole $40, cops said yesterday. Jacob Gerstle was...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 3, 2006 | 4:00amQUEENS * A woman was held hostage for more than hour last night after her boyfriend smashed her in the head with a hammer and kept cops and paramedics out...
FAMED SHRINK HURT IN CENTRAL PK. BIKE MISHAP
May 3, 2006 | 4:00amA renowned 80-year-old psychiatrist and NYU professor was critically injured last night when he tumbled off his bike after colliding with a jogger in Central Park. Sabert Basescu, of NYU's...
NYPD DAILY BLOTTER
May 2, 2006 | 4:00amTHE BRONX * A badly decomposed body was found inside the trunk of a car that city marshals towed to a repossession lot yesterday, police said. The unidentified victim, a...
G-MAN CRITICAL AFTER CRASH
May 2, 2006 | 4:00amAn off-duty FBI agent was clinging to life after he slammed his motorcycle into a city bus last night on the Upper East Side, law enforcement sources said. The 31-year-old...
TRAFFIC STOP GETS 'RAPIST'
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amA rapist who terrorized women in several Queens neighborhoods for more than 10 years was busted yesterday after cops matched his fingerprints - taken during a traffic arrest - to...
3 ON GRILL IN QNS. CHASE-SLAY
April 28, 2006 | 4:00amThree men suspected of wounding another man, then chasing him down and murdering him, were being questioned early today in Queens. Victim Joseph Forbes, 23 - who had a rap...
'ACID' GRAFFITI VANDAL BUSTED
April 27, 2006 | 4:00amA Brooklyn graffiti vandal, described as "the worst of the worst," was nabbed yesterday after years of spray-painting his signature "Acid" tag, cops said. Joseph Rotelli, 24, was arrested at...
CRUSHED WORKER FOUND
April 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe body of a Brooklyn recycling-plant employee was found crushed beneath tons of scrap metal in a Long Island Dumpster yesterday - four days after his family reported him missing,...
CRUSHED WORKER'S BODY FOUND IN BIN
April 26, 2006 | 4:00amThe body of a Brooklyn recycling-plant employee was found crushed beneath tons of scrap metal in a Dumpster on Long Island yesterday, three days after his family reported him missing,...
PASSERS-BY FLEE DEATH SHOTS
April 26, 2006 | 4:00amA Harlem man was killed in a drive-by shooting outside a Washington Heights apartment building last night, sending panicked pedestrians ducking for cover. Joel Javier, 26, was shot several times...
'WOLF PACK' ON WHEELS ATTACK
April 26, 2006 | 4:00amA man walking on an Upper West Side street yesterday was surrounded by a pack of teens on bikes and slashed in the face by one of them, police said....
BRONX CRASH HORROR
April 25, 2006 | 4:00amA Bronx man was clinging to life early today after he was crushed by an SUV that ran a red light and rammed into his car, partially ejecting him, cops...
B'KLYN POT FARM SMOKED OUT
April 23, 2006 | 4:00amBrooklyn cops found a high-tech pot farm in a warehouse with an elaborate lighting and ventilation system. Police discovered the indoor marijuana farm at 6 p.m. Friday after neighbors of...