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TYCO-MISTRIAL FALLOUT; DEBATE OVER JUDGE'S MOVE AFTER 'THREAT' NOTE

As Tyco ex-CEO Dennis Kozlowski kept out of sight yesterday, a day after a judge declared a mistrial in the corporate looting case, legal experts said they were split on...

'LESBIAN BARBIE' KID TAKES CITY FOR BIG DOLL-ARS

The city yesterday agreed to pay $35,000 to a Queens girl who was kicked out of her junior-high class for wearing a T-shirt that said, "Barbie is a lesbian." Natalie...

RAIDS HIT DRUG GANG

Drug agents busted a $5 million-a-month "ecstasy" ring yesterday in a sweep that netted more than 145 people in 12 states and Canada, authorities said. The alleged ringleaders, Ze Wai...

MARTHA FUROR - TOSS 'LYING' JUROR'S VERDICT: LAWYERS

Lawyers for disgraced domestic diva Martha Stewart asked a judge yesterday to throw out her perjury conviction, saying that one of the jurors who found her guilty lied about his...

'VERSACE' WILL WEAR STRIPES

A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday ordered a man who claims to be Gianni Versace's cousin to go to jail in a long-running dispute over use of the family name....

GANGLAND.COM - COLOMBO SONS IN E-RACKET BUST

Two sons of murdered Mafia boss Joseph Colombo Sr. were nailed in a federal racketeering sweep yesterday, and charged with running a renegade crew that used age-old mob tactics to...

THREE-FRONT ABORT BATTLE IN COURTS

Abortion-rights advocates yesterday launched a three-pronged constitutional challenge to the new law banning partial-birth abortion, with trials beginning before federal judges in New York, California and Nebraska. At the same...

FAKE CIGARS GET ROLLED IN CUBA CASE

Capitalism has its advantages, comrade. A federal judge in Manhattan yesterday said American trademark law protects Cuba's premium Cohiba brand of cigars and ordered a New York company to quit...

TRIBUTES OF STEEL FORGED IN TRAGEDY

IN HOUSTON, a piece of Twin Towers steel sits on a flag on a table in the foyer of a church. In Fountain Valley, Calif., a chunk of steel is...

LARRY'S TURN IN WTC BATTLE

Just a day or two after the Twin Towers fell on 9/11, a friend warned World Trade Center landlord Larry Silverstein that he "was facing a major [insurance] problem," the...

CITY SUED OVER AIDS 'TATTLETALE'

A Queens woman is suing the city for $50 million, charging she was tormented by a welfare-agency temp worker who sneaked a peek at her private case file and then...

CITY WORKER REVEALED WOMAN'S AIDS SECRET: SUIT

A Queens woman is suing the city for $50 million, charging she was tormented by a welfare-agency temp worker who sneaked a peek at her private case file and then...

ANGRY JUDGE LETS LARRY OFF

The judge overseeing the World Trade Center insurance trial stopped just short of calling Larry Silverstein a liar yesterday, saying he didn't believe the developer's testimony in a contempt-of-court hearing....

BIG TOPSY TURVY - CIRCUS IS NEW & OLD

RINGLING BROS. and BARNUM & BAILEY CIRCUSAt Madison Square Garden, through April 11. --- THE Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey circus turns itself upside down in its new show...

STATE EYES HOSPITAL'S 'PORN' FOTOG

The state Health Department is looking into charges that a medical photographer at NYU Hospital took "pornographic" pictures of dermatology patients, the Post has learned. "We are reviewing allegations related...

WTC JUDGE TO BOOT CHATTY LARRY

The judge in Larry Silverstein's $7 billion battle with the World Trade Center insurers took aim at the developer yesterday for talking about the trial in apparent violation of a...

ANGRY WTC JUDGE TO BOOT LOOSE-LIPPED SILVERSTEIN

The judge in Larry Silverstein's $7 billion battle with the World Trade Center insurers took aim at the developer yesterday for talking about the trial in apparent violation of a...

NUDE NOT LEWD - FOTOG SUES HOSP ON MEDICAL PICS

A medical photographer fired from NYU Hospital for allegedly taking pornographic "total body" pictures of dermatology patients is suing his former bosses for more than $140 million - saying he...

GABBY SILVERSTEIN FACES CONTEMPT RAP

World Trade Center developer Larry Silverstein's big mouth has landed him in hot water with the federal judge who's overseeing his $7 billion insurance lawsuit. Judge Michael Mukasey will hold...

IRAQ SPY SUSPECT: I'M JUST A PEACE ACTIVIST

A woman charged with aiding the feared Iraqi spy service pleaded not guilty in Manhattan federal court yesterday, and her father blasted the government for trying to "silence" his "anti-war...