Joe Mollica

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High school sex ‘machine’

A foul-mouthed Bronx principal is under investigation for allegedly rattling female staffers with off-color remarks about having sex with inanimate objects �� like the school copier. At least two women...

Slick click ‘scam’

Seven overseas “cyberbandits” hijacked more than 4 million computers around the world -- infecting them with crooked software that secretly rerouted their Web browsers, the feds charged yesterday.The massive scheme...

Worker killed in B'klyn building collapse horror

Two floors of a Brooklyn condo development collapsed as workers were pouring concrete yesterday, trapping five hardhats under tons of rubble, killing one of them, authorities said. The deadly Brighton...

1 dead, 3 workers rescued following building collapse in Brooklyn

A builder died after a four-story house under construction collapsed Tuesday afternoon in Brooklyn, trapping three workers and injuring two others in an incident blamed on human error. Three workers...

Blind man falls onto subway tracks

A blind man miraculously survived a terrifying fall yesterday onto Brooklyn subway tracks by rolling beneath the platform and avoiding an oncoming train. The unidentified man in his 60s fell...

A tragic choice of two disasters

The chopper pilot whose crash in the East River killed an Australian tourist made a split-second decision to go down in the water to avoid the densely populated Manhattan shoreline,...

Marine’s scream halts rape

A Marine vet who served five years in Iraq and Afghanistan saved a woman from a would-be rapist in Queens yesterday morning -- scaring him off with a jarhead scream....

Hero Marine saves woman from would-be rapist in Queens

A 31-year-old Marine vet who served five years in Iraq and Afghanistan used his best weapon to stop a would be rapist this morning in Queens — a deep jarhead...

Woman plunges to her death from Upper East Side building

A woman apparently committed suicide this morning after jumping from a luxury apartment building on the Upper East Side. Suyeon Kim, 29, of Flushing, Queens, plunged from the 18th floor...

Viet vet gets $15M for baring Medi-fraud

They scammed the wrong guy! A frail but feisty wheelchair-bound Vietnam vet with muscular dystrophy scored a $15 million whistelblower’s reward after uncovering a massive Medicaid fraud scheme -- with...

Tragic dealer a golden target

Neighbors of a Brooklyn coin-store owner savagely beaten to death said yesterday they worried about him carrying around so much gold. "I would tell him, 'The business you're in, gold...

'Roll' playing: 'Killer' hubby in court

A smooth-talking New Jersey two-timer accused of hiring his mistress to kill his wife was wheeled into court yesterday looking like an ad for a personal-injury firm. With his left...

Bail raised for husband in wife's killing

Bail has been tripled for a smooth-talking New Jersey two timer accused of hiring his mistress to kill his wife. Kashif Parvaiz, who was wounded in the brazen attack on...

Sanit rig goes off the wall

That's a helluva place to hang out! A 16-ton salt spreader blasted through the fifth-floor wall of a Queens Sanitation Department garage yesterday and came within inches of plummeting 50...

Sanitation truck plows through repair shop wall

That’s one way to exit a building! A city salt-spreading truck rammed through the wall of a Queens Sanitation Department repair shop at 9:30 a.m. today and wound up dangling...

Tragic SUV cut off

The front-seat passenger who survived the deadly holiday crash on the Garden State Parkway blamed the tragedy on a speeding black sports car that recklessly veered in front of the...

Survivor says fatal crash was caused by another driver's speeding

A survivor of a horrific holiday crash that killed three Staten Island teens on their way home from Atlantic City yesterday said their driver lost control when their SUV was...

Victims of pharmacy massacre say they won't be satisfied until murderer suffers

The handcuffs are a start -- but friends and relatives of the pharmacy massacre victims say they won't be satisfied until their loved ones' murderer is made to suffer for...

Lines are drawn in the sand

In federal Judge Jack Weinstein's storied career, he's decided cases on asbestos, tobacco, and breast implants -- yesterday he trekked to a Brooklyn back yard to rule on a case...

Make our 'scorch' a double

The Big Apple will continue to bake today, with the mercury set to climb to record highs that will make yesterday seem cool in comparison. Forecasters say today's temperatures will...