State Sets Plan To Fix Schools In Lawrence

The Brooklyn man whose girlfriend shot him in the face loves her so much, he testified in her defense yesterday. “I love her. Yes, I care about her,” Randy Costa, 59, said at the attempted-murder trial of Evelyn Barnave, 43, who prosecutors say shot him in Crown Heights on Jan

Federal agents revived the hunt for the remains of Jimmy Hoffa (pictured) yesterday, bringing excavation equipment to a field in suburban Detroit where a reputed Mafia captain says the Teamsters boss’ body was buried. Hoffa, Teamsters president from 1957-71, was an acquaintance of mobsters and an adversary of the feds

His poker face could lose him the game. Accused bathtub strangler Nicholas Brooks showed no emotion — and no curiosity — when a cop told him “something happened to your girlfriend,” a Manhattan murder jury learned yesterday as the second week of testimony began in the watery death of his swimsuit-designer girlfriend

A 10-year-old Queens boy begged his mother to let him visit the cop who was shot while saving them both, leading to an emotional reunion between the youngster and his hero.“He saved my life, me and my mom’s,” said young Jacob Rodriguez, sporting a wound under an eye

ALBANY — A majority of voters wants to give Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver the boot over the way he handled sexual-harassment claims against pervy ex-pol Vito Lopez. Fifty-two percent of state voters think Silver (pictured) should step down, according to a Siena College Poll released yesterday. They say he “failed the