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  • NYPD Daily Blotter
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:41 AM

    Brooklyn

    Cops have identified two suspects in a Boerum Hill street robbery.
    The 34-year-old victim was walking on Smith Street near Atlantic Avenue at 3:05 a.m. June 14 when Marcia Richard (pictured), 42, allegedly asked him for spare change.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Shot cop: I felt thug’s slug hit me
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:51 AM

    Already hailed as a hero for his actions in the field, a Brooklyn cop bravely described during courtroom testimony yesterday the chilling surveillance video depicting a coldblooded gang-banger shooting him in the head.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Paula’s ‘N’ hot water
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:17 AM

    Celebrity chef Paula Deen is back in the deep fryer after reportedly admitting that she regularly used the N-word — and we’re not talking about nutrition.
    The Southern-cuisine queen also confesses to a penchant for racist jokes.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Foes hit Quinn’s rush for ‘anti-profile’ vote
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:25 AM

    Christine Quinn is rushing to pass the anti-racial-profiling bill before the Sept. 10 democratic mayoral primary to pander to liberal and minority voters, Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. charged yesterday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Human bones at Goodfella’s Qns. home
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:45 AM

    Human remains that may be tied to a decades-old Mafia murder have been dug up at the Queens home of “Goodfellas” mobster James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Diddy is downright Revolt-ing on TWC
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:50 AM

    Sean “P. Diddy” Combs’ cable revolution is more of an evolution.
    After months of negotiations, his yet-to-launch channel, Revolt TV, has reached an agreement with Time Warner Cable to offer the channel to some of its roughly 12 million subscribers.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • UFT’s nod a major boost for Thompson: pundits
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:58 AM

    Chalk one up for Bill Thompson!The city teachers’ union is putting its significant manpower and money behind Thompson in the race for mayor.The former comptroller and Board of Education president got the official nod from the United Federation of Teachers late yesterday after emerging as the heavy favorite...

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  • You bet your Astor he’s guilty, jurors say
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:01 AM

    Toss the swindler in the clink!
    Anthony Marshall jurors who have been accused by a fellow panelist of using dubious reasoning and falling sway to their emotions in convicting Brooke Astor’s son of a multimillion-dollar swindle defended their 2009 guilty vote on the eve of his incarceration.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • 30G Mandela portrait swiped
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:04 AM

    This heist was a real work of art. A $30,000 portrait of Nelson Mandela disappeared from its creator’s Manhattan storage space, the artist said.Conor McCreedy sold the work last month, but it was “missing” when he went to retrieve it, he said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Fit them for prison stripes
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:12 AM

    ROME — An Italian court yesterday sentenced celebrated fashion-house duo Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana to one year and eight months in prison for avoiding taxes totalling about $266 million.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Quinn: I’d fire a too-frisky Kelly
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:51 AM

    Mayoral candidate Christine Quinn dealt a blow to Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and his stop-and-frisk policies during a televised mayoral forum last night.
    The City Council speaker previously has said she’d wants Kelly to stay on board as commissioner if she’s elected.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Last act for tony soprano
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:14 AM

    James Gandolfini, the Hollywood heavyweight who won multiple Emmy Awards for his role as mob boss Tony Soprano in the smash HBO series “The Sopranos,” died of a heart attack yesterday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • UFT’s nod a major boost for Thompson: pundits
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:25 AM

    Chalk one up for Bill Thompson!The city teachers’ union is putting its significant manpower and money behind Thompson in the race for mayor.The former comptroller and Board of Education president got the official nod from the United Federation of Teachers late yesterday after emerging as the heavy favorite...

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  • Lhota: City should double down on charter schools
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:25 AM

    In his boldest move yet on the campaign trail, GOP mayoral candidate Joe Lhota today will call for doubling the number of charter schools here, The Post has learned.In a speech this morning before the Association for a Better New York, Lhota will announce the dramatic proposal, setting himself...

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  • When nerds attack
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:50 AM

    Take that, Twitter!
    Facebook’s Instagram is expected to roll out a new video feature today to rival Twitter’s 6-second video service Vine — escalating a digital tit-for-tat between the social-media players.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Business briefs
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:52 AM

    Powerful GM All of GM’s US brands ranked above average in J.D. Power & Associates’ Initial Quality Study, led by its GMC truck brand, which trailed only the Porsche sports-car line.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Foes hit Quinn’s rush for ‘anti-profile’ vote
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:00 AM

    Christine Quinn is rushing to pass the anti-racial-profiling bill before the Sept. 10 democratic mayoral primary to pander to liberal and minority voters, Queens City Councilman Peter Vallone Jr. charged yesterday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • High & bye: NYC ‘pot’ big busted
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:02 AM

    Cops arrested an alleged drug dealer known for selling mind-blowing marijuana in the Garment District — leaving his young professional clientele high and dry for the summer.Westchester police busted Ron Bordin, 55, of Pleasantville with more than 10 pounds of weed and thousands of dollars in cash — slapping him with...

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  • Clothes the door on your way out!
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:08 AM

    At least he’ll have plenty of suits for job interviews.
    Men’s Wearhouse abruptly fired its founder and public face, George Zimmer, just hours before its annual meeting yesterday.
    The 1,143-store discount apparel chain gave no reason for ousting Zimmer, who is familiar to TV audiences for commercials...

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  • Rxxx at Duane Reade
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:13 AM

    A Lebanese fashion editor in Manhattan on business was sexually assaulted by a Duane Reade pharmacist claiming to give her a breast exam, according to a new $40 million lawsuit.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Ho’s, pimps pumped by ‘acquittals’
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:50 AM

    The ho’s got action. Cheered on by loyal hookers, father-and-son pimps Vincent George Sr. and Jr. were acquitted of the top sex-trafficking charges yesterday, with a Manhattan judge apparently swayed by testimony from the prostitutes, who claimed the men were swell bosses.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Raped for ‘being gay’
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:16 AM

    A woman told police she was raped at knifepoint in Brooklyn Sunday morning because she’s gay, law- enforcement sources said.The 26-year-old woman said the man followed and attacked her at Franklin Avenue Java Street in Greenpoint, cops said.According to sources, the victim told police the man forced...

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  • Mum-ble on play
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:18 AM

    New England Patriots star Aaron Hernandez was partying at a Boston bar Sunday night with the friend who was later found shot to death, according to reports.
    Hernandez, victim Odin Lloyd, 27, and two other pals were at the watering hole and left together in one car, according to FOX...

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  • What a catch by Torre kid!
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 02:36 AM

    The Yankees should play her in left field!
    Joe Torre’s daughter made an amazing catch yesterday when she fielded a baby who fell from a storefront awning in Brooklyn, officials and witnesses said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Ex-probers: US ignored ’96 TWA ‘missile hit’
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:46 AM

    Six former investigators of the crash of TWA Flight 800 say they have new evidence that the jumbo jet was brought down by an “external explosion” off Long Island — and are demanding that the 17-year-old case be reopened.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • ‘Drunk’ demolition
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:46 AM

    A wasted driver lost control of his rental car and rode up on an East Village sidewalk yesterday, striking three pedestrians and sending a fire hydrant flying into a Citi Bike rider, cops and witnesses said.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Lhota: City should double down on charter schools
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 12:58 AM

    In his boldest move yet on the campaign trail, GOP mayoral candidate Joe Lhota today will call for doubling the number of charter schools here, The Post has learned.In a speech this morning before the Association for a Better New York, Lhota will announce the dramatic proposal, setting himself...

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  • Fears for Kim before birth
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:04 AM

    Kim Kardashian delivered her baby weeks early because doctors feared she suffered from a potentially dangerous condition, according to published reports yesterday.Kardashian experienced severe swelling in the days before her daughter with Kanye West was born Friday, sources close to the family told People magazine.Doctors feared she had...

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  • ‘Monster’ teach
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:07 AM

    A Bronx special-education teacher raped a 10-year-old student in a school parking lot — after convincing her parents he was escorting her to a fictitious event where she was to receive an award, cops said yesterday.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

  • Grieving for head of family
    Thursday - 06/20/2013 - 01:39 AM

    Tributes to the late James Gandolfini poured in from his “Sopranos” castmates and Hollywood stars as they learned of his sudden death in Italy yesterday.
    “The guy was like a brother to me.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share