Wednesday, July 9, 2014

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EXCLUSIVE 'I taught in the hall & near dumpsters': Shocking report reveals 1 in 3 NYC schools is grossly overcrowded — SEE THE VIDEO

A shocking one-third of the city’s nearly 1,500 public school buildings were overcrowded during 2012, yet school officials produced no clear plan to deal with the problem, a new audit by city Controller Scott Stringer has found. A shocking one-third of the city’s nearly 1,500 public school buildings were overcrowded during 2012, yet school officials produced no clear plan to deal with the problem, a new audit by city Controller Scott Stringer has found.

Teen chasing callous criminal who stole iPhone dies after crook swerves to shake her off car

Ruby Rubio’s last word before she died was ‘mom.’ The 15-year-old suffered severe head trauma after she was thrown from a car as she chased down an iPhone thief. A 15-year-old California girl who jumped onto a car after a thief snatched her brand-new iPhone died two days after the crook shook her off the vehicle, Santa Ana police said.

Fort Carson employee threatened to turn base into ‘Fort Columbine,’ prosecutors say

Federal authorities have charged Douglas Kunz, a former butcher at the Fort Carson commissary, with terroristic threats and disrupting interstate commerce with threats of explosions or fire. A former Fort Carson civilian employee was arrested for making terrorist threats after bragging about being a domestic terrorist and promising to turn the Colorado Springs-area military base into “Fort Columbine.”

Boy, 11, kills his own GRANDFATHER with shotgun at North Carolina mobile home, cops say

Lloyd Woodlief, 84, had wounded 49-year-old son Lloyd Peyton Woodlief with a .22 caliber handgun before the boy fired a shotgun at his grandfather. Lloyd Woodlief died at the scene. An 11-year-old boy fatally shot his grandfather at a North Carolina mobile home during a bloody domestic dispute, authorities said.

Oregon tech CEO facing sexual assault allegations likened to 'Fifty Shades of Grey' by ex-girlfriend

Scott Kveton, 40, is the CEO of Urban Airship, a mobile marketing startup in Portland Oregon. Kveton's is currently under investigation for sexual assault of his ex-girlfriend between the years of 2012 and 2013. In a slew of emails and text messages published last week, Scott Kveton, who co-founded Urban Airship, is accused of not only raping his then girlfriend but videotaping the sex acts without her consent.
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EXCLUSIVE 'Bishop' Legrand's son settles suit of busts years after dad's crimes

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi THE SON of notorious self-proclaimed “Bishop” Devernon Legrand will pocket $27,500 to settle his federal lawsuit stemming from raids by the NYPD on the family’s Brooklyn townhouse where three women were murdered and dismembered in the 1970s, the Daily News has learned.

South Dakota man chokes to death during hot dog eating contest

Walter Eagle Tail, of Custer, choked to death while competing in a hot dog eating contest during Fourth of July festivities. Fourth of July festivities in a small South Dakota town took a grim turn when a man choked to death during a hot dog eating contest.

Black, Latino defendants more likely to be held on bail, denied release: study

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Black and Latino defendants are more likely than their white or Asian counterparts to be held on bail or denied release altogether in Manhattan, a new study found.

Carmelo Anthony has not made free agency decision, Knicks, Lakers and Bulls waiting

Carmelo Anthony has not yet made a decision about free agency, but it seems the Rockets and Mavericks are out of the mix, leaving the Lakers, Bulls and Knicks waiting around. Carmelo Anthony’s ever-changing deadline was extended another day, thus leaving the Knicks wondering if the free agent forward is laying the groundwork to leave New York.

Prince wears the emperor's new clothes for ESPN's Body Issue

iDOPE: Dimwit New Jersey man steals man's iPhone, then posts selfies on owner’s iCloud

When Dan McLoughlin of Hoboken, New Jersey had his iPhone stolen, the man who took it has been posting selfies to Loughlin’s iCloud account. He's a brazen, and stupid, phone thief. A New Jersey man believed to have stolen the cell phone of Hoboken resident Dan McLoughlin is apparently posting selfies of himself and his family.

Lenox Hill Hospital to open health center in Greenwich Village

Exterior of Lenox Hill HealthPlex Four years after St. Vincent's Hospital went broke and shut its doors leaving Greenwich Village residents in the medical lurch, Lenox Hill Hospital is opening a freestanding, 24/7 emergency center.

IS A STRIKE LOOMING? Talks between MTA, LIRR union officials break down without a deal

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Long Island Rail Road riders rolled closer to a system-crippling strike when a new round of contract negotiations Tuesday ended without a deal.

Man loses cell phone in Oklahoma grain elevator, later gets it back from Japan

It still works: Kevin Whitney, an Oklahoma farmer, has his phone back in hand after it went to Japan and back in a mess of grain. Nine months after it went on a journey halfway around the world, Kevin Whitney of Chickasha, Okla. has his iPhone back.

City Controller Scott Stringer will launch ClaimStat to track City Hall's legal claims

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Controller Scott Stringer is launching a sweeping program to analyze each of the thousands of legal claims filed against the city every year.

Pamela files for divorce from hubby Rick Salomon — again

Pamela Anderson has reportedly filed for divorce from husband Rick Salomon

‘IT’S TIME TO IMPEACH’: Sarah Palin blasts Obama in stinging article calling for an end to his presidency

JUNE 15, 2013 FILE PHOTO In a biting editorial for Breitbart.com, the ex-Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate pointed to problems with immigration, the national debt, and Obamacare.

Man who slaughtered family 30 years ago arrested in Texas for harassing ex-fiancée who learned of his past

Collier’s latest arrest came over the weekend in Waco, Texas, and follows a similar trend of duping women about his past and then stalking and threatening them after they learn he killed three people as a 14-year-old. A man who slaughtered his adoptive family more than 30 years ago as a 14-year-old in Wisconsin was arrested in Waco, Texas for allegedly harassing his fiancée who had learned of his dark past.

GAG ORDER: Judge tells Supreme Court to shut up after Hobby Lobby ruling

Customers leave a Hobby Lobby store in Oklahoma City, Monday, June 30, 2014. The Supreme Court ruled Monday that employers can hold religious objections that allow them to opt out of the new health law requirement that they cover contraceptives for women. The Hobby Lobby chain of arts-and-crafts stores is by far the largest employer of any company that has gone to court to fight the birth control provision. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki) A federal judge in Nebraska demanded the Supreme Court “stfu” in response to the group of nine’s widely-covered decision in favor of craft chain Hobby Lobby last week.

Brooklyn DA says people caught with small amount of marijuana won't be prosecuted if they have no criminal record

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi District Attorney Kenneth Thompson released a statement Tuesday saying that those busted in Brooklyn with little or no criminal record for small amounts of marijuana will have their arrests dismissed.

Lenox Hill Hospital to open emergency medical center in Greenwich Village

View of St. Vincent's Hospital on Seventh. Ave. in Manhattan.Doctors, Nurses and community gathered to protest the impending closure of St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan on April, 13, 2010. Four years after St. Vincent's Hospital went broke and shut its doors leaving Greenwich Village residents in the medical lurch, Lenox Hill Hospital is opening a freestanding, 24/7 emergency center.
New York

Daniel Halloran accused of arranging $15G bribe for ex-Bronx GOP chairman

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi “Tell me you love me,” then-City Councilman Daniel Halloran gleefully wrote in a text message to Bronx County Republican Party Chairman Joseph (Jay) Savino on Valentine’s Day, 2013.

City Human Rights Commission handing out 10G anti-bias stickers

A TUESDAY, APRIL 22, 2014 PHOTO City anti-discrimination watchdogs are handing out 10,000 stickers to businesses that affirm the city’s anti-bias laws.

Body of woman found partially dismembered in Long Island parking lot

A FRIDAY, NOV. 16, 2012 PHOTO The partially dismembered body of a woman was found Tuesday morning in a Bay Shore, Long Island, parking lot, police said.

Ex-New York supermarket boss threatened with genital mutilation gets workers’ comp, court rules

NR A former manager at a Hannaford supermarket in upstate New York is eligible for workers’ compensation after being targeted for murder and genital mutilation by an employee’s jealous husband.
LATEST FROM AROUND NEW YORK

Two workers, volunteer suffer burns in 'electrical malfunction' at Intrepid Museum

A group of men talk on the waterfront near Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum after an electrical accident earlier in the morning closed the museum for the day in New York July 8, 2014. Two people were transported to a local hospital with burns to their arms and a third was being evaluated at the scene after the 11:25 a.m. electrical accident involving a malfunctioning transformer, a spokesman for the New York City Fire Department said. REUTERS/Lucas Jackson (UNITED STATES - Tags: DISASTER) Two workers and a volunteer at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum were injured, two with burns, when a transformer malfunctioned Tuesday morning, authorities said.

Carriage driver on NYCLASS video: I broke no law, didn’t work overheated horse

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi The outspoken carriage driver on the hot seat for allegedly keeping a horse going in extreme heat told her critics Tuesday to hoof it.

With the budget behind him, Mayor de Blasio is ready to rein in city horses

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Bad news for the city's horse carriage industry. Mayor de Blasio said he's been too busy to deal with the controversial ban - despite promising to enact it in his first week in office - but is now ready to make a move on it.

PHOTOS: Celebrities show their support in the World Cup

Trouble-plagued U.S. nuclear missile system is just plain old, experts say

PHOTO TAKEN JUNE 24, 2014 Nukes hidden in plain view across the prairies of North Dakota reveal one reason why trouble keeps finding the Air Force. The "Big Sticks," as some call the 60-foot-tall Minuteman 3 missiles, are just ancient.

Queens woman in coma and suffered brain damage after waiting 30 minutes for ambulance to arrive: court papers

A guardian for Janice Marrow filed papers in Manhattan Supreme Court seeking to preserve all records related to Marrow’s May heart attack. Janice Marrow, 57, suffered a heart attack on May 15. Firefighters reached her on Far Rockaway at 6:19 p.m. but an ambulance didn't show up until 6:48 p.m., according to Manhattan Supreme Court papers.

Ninja roller coaster derailed by entire tree falling on tracks, injuring 4 people at Six Flags Magic Mountain

NO SALES; MAGS OUT; HILLS OUT, LOS ANGELES TIMES OUT; VENTURA COUNTY STAR OUT ANTELOPE VALLEY PRESS OUT A large pine tree smashed onto a Southern California roller coaster’s tracks Monday, derailing one car, injuring four people and leaving more than 20 people dangling some 30 feet in the air for hours.

Texas cops searching for twisted suspect who killed and mutilated two cats

Universal City, Texas authorities are currently searching for a sadistic cat killer. Scared Universal City residents are concerned that the deranged suspect may start harming humans. 'If they are doing this to a cat and feel no remorse, who is to say they can't do it to a person,' Megan Walker said.

Ex-Alabama pastor charged with sexual abuse, sodomy of children

A former pastor Jay Strickland has been charged with sexual abuse and sodomy after two adult victims came forward claiming he abused them as children. Rev. Jay Strickland has since bonded out of jail following last month's charges of two counts of sexual abuse and one count of first degree sodomy after two adults accused him of molesting them as children.

PHOTOS: Check out the hottest fans of the World Cup

The hottest fans in attendance at the 2014 FIFA World Cup

Torture in Brazil: Biden forks over our long-held knowledge of waterboarding, secret executions

EUO 3TP On the same day Brazil was waxed in the World Cup came further evidence of a horrible past. The U.S. has forked over its own, long-classified documents about the abuse of alleged political dissidents by Brazil’s longtime military government.

Mobile payment company Isis changing name due to confusion with Iraq-based ISIS terror group

Isis, a mobile payments system, is getting a facelift as a means to avoid an unfortunate and inadvertent association with the ISIS militant group in the Middle East. We're not that ISIS! A mobile phone payment app that shares a name with the Jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria says it's being mistaken for the extreme Sunni organization that's gobbling up Iraq.

Astorino starts anti-Common Core ballot line

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Republican Rob Astorino, seeking to capitalize on parents’ ire over the Common Core curriculum, has launched a “Stop Common Core” ballot line for his gubernatorial bid.

Hillary Clinton says it's not a problem Americans keep electing people from the same families: 'We had two Roosevelts'

epa04302274 Former US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton presents her new memoir 'Hard Choices' in Berlin, Germany, 06 July 2014. EPA/MAURIZIO GAMBARINI Former Secretary of State says it’s not a problem that Americans keep electing people from the same political families - something that would happen again if she or Jeb Bush wins the presidency in 2016.

GOP IN CLEVELAND! Ohio to host 2016 Republican National Convention

Cleveland will host the 2016 Republican National Convention, RNC Chairman Reince Priebus announced Tuesday. The GOP announced Tuesday that the city will play host to the 2016 Republican National Convention, where the party will nominate its candidate for President.
Sports

Bondy: A World Cup rout 11 years in the making

TOPSHOTS FOR EDITORIAL REPORTS, NO ALERT/PUSH TO MOBILE It was a national disaster, a global humiliation and, above all else, this 7-1 Brazilian defeat was a reminder to every ambitious country around the world: Be careful what you sign up for, when it comes to extravagant, costly sports events. Happy endings are never guaranteed.

Brazil fans at Copacabana shake off World Cup loss

A devastating 7-1 loss in the World Cup semifinal to Germany has Brazil fans shaken up... but not for long. The Copacabana restaurant and bar, a Brazilian hot spot in Port Chester, was hopping as girls and guys, decked out in the nation’s yellow, green and blue were dancing under the party tent of the beach-like, outdoor bar.

Critics target Messi alone entering World Cup semifinal with the Netherlands

Photo should not be used for mobile push alerts unless approved by FIFA. Life is Messi. It’s a great ad slogan, just waiting for some Nike adman to get a clue. But it’s also been the on-field philosophy of the Argentina national team, which has been taking considerable heat for its Messi dependency.

L.I.'s Algieri has offer to fight Pacquiao

Chris Algieri is 20-0 with eight knockouts. Bob Arum of Top Rank has made a formal offer to Long Island's Chris Algieri to face Manny Pacquiao on Nov. 22 in Macao, China, continuing a string of incredible good fortune for the Huntington native, the Daily News has learned.

Bellyache has van Persie in doubt for Dutch against Messi & Co.

Netherlands' coach Louis van Gaal (r.) doesn’t expect to make a decision on Robin van Persie’s availability against Argentina until the day of the game. Dutch captain and all-time top scorer Robin van Persie is in doubt for the World Cup semifinal against Argentina after succumbing to a stomach problem.
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Chelsea Clinton shows off her growing baby bump in New York

Mother-to-be Chelsea Clinton shows off her baby bump

SEE IT Kim Jong Un limps across stage in rare state-released video

EUO 3TP TPSOUT KOROUT The state-released video showed the 31-year-old ruler hobbling across stage during a national ceremony. Recorded proof of leaders' flaws is rare in North Korea, where national heads are seen as god-like.

Florida teen shot in the back by friend playing with gun doesn't want shooter charged

Ronniesha Hart, 15, was shot in the back when a 15-year-old boy playing with a gun accidentaly fired. A 15-year-old Florida girl said she didn’t want trouble for the teen who put a bullet in her back — but her mother may press charges against the accused shooter’s brother for harassing the victim online.

California pastor, 2 others plead guilty to torturing 13-year-old boy, forcing him to dig his own grave in effort to 'scare' him straight

Pastor Lonny Lee Remmers, 56, and two members of a Corona, Nicholas James Craig, 24, and Darryll Duane Jeter Jr., 30, church pleaded guilty Monday to federal charges of beating and threatening the life of a 13-year-old boy, who was forced to dig his own grave, authorities said. The pastor of a small Southern California church and two of his parishioners tortured a 13-year-old boy who lived at a church-run group home, savagely beating him and grinding salt into his raw wounds.

JLaw nearly has wardrobe malfunction at Paris Fashion Week

Jennifer Lawrence showing off a lot of side action in this outfit she wore in Paris

Obama to ask Congress for $3.7 billion in border control aid

President Obama will seek nearly $4 billion to respond to the flood of immigrants illegally entering the U.S. through the Rio Grande Valley area of Texas. President Obama will ask Congress for $3.8 billion to deal with unaccompanied immigrant kids at the U.S.-Mexico border, sources told the Associated Presss.

Insurance rating agency under probe for causing Brooklyn factory to close

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi State officials have launched a probe into how an obscure insurance rating agency caused a family-owned factory in Brooklyn to shut its doors.

'What else is he capable of?' Utah man allegedly poisons neighborhood dogs, killing one of them

Both dogs suffered from seizures July 1 morning and were rushed to the veterinarian. Blue heeler/Lab mix Lucy (above) survived. A Utah man allegedly poisoned two dogs in his neighborhood and killed one of them.

HARRY'S BACK! J.K. Rowling surprises fans, pens new Potter story

JK Rowling publishes new Harry Potter short story

Top TV weatherman loses sight in left eye after freak fireworks accident

Dave Rexroth of WXYZ-TV in Detroit was seriously injured during a fireworks accident on the Fourth of July.

HEAR IT HEAR IT: Florida woman calls 911 after pet cat goes berserk, traps them in bedroom

The couple declined to go to a hospital for treatment to several cuts and scratches to their arms and legs.

Mothers of Clooney and Amal Alamuddin seen bonding in Italy

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin's parents seen bonding in Italy.

Forgotten vials of smallpox found in Maryland storage room

FILE - This 1975 file electronmicrograph from the Centers for Disease Control shows the smallpox virus. Government officials say workers cleaning a storage room at the National Institute of Health's campus in Maryland made a startling discovery last week _ decades-old vials of smallpox forgotten in a cardboard box. (AP Photo/CDC, File)

At least 10 injured as typhoon pounds Japan's Okinawa, forces U.S. bases to cancel outdoor activity

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Ex-stripper who could flip butt implants rips botched surgery

Renee Talley, 45, said the botched operation that enabled her to move her implants underneath her skin

Kate McCann tells Portugal court her son asked if she hid Madeleine’s body

Kate and Gerry McCann, the parents of the missing British girl Madeleine talk to the press after appearing in court for the libel case against former Portuguese police chief Goncalo Amaral.

City lawyers: Customer detained after Barneys purchase 'provoked' incident

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Jenny McCarthy saw herself on ‘The View’ for 20 years

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Outraged protesters wait in vain in Murrieta, Calif. for arrival of illegal immigrants

Protesters leave an anti-illegal immigration protest outside the U.S. Border Patrol in Murrieta, Calif., on Tuesday. They've vowed to return every 72 hours.

De Blasio prepping for 2017 elections by registering with city's Campaign Finance Board

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Autos

Subaru recalls more than 8,500 cars over defective air bag issue

Subaru has joined seven automakers in recalls relating to potentially defective air bag inflators. Subaru of America is recalling 8,557 older model cars in the United States equipped with potentially defective air bag inflators made by Japan's Takata Corp, the automaker and U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesday.
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Kim Kardashian looks red hot in curve-hugging dress

Kim Kardashian shows off her amazing curves in orange dress on a boating dock in NJ with sister Kourtney at baby event for pregnant soliders moms in the armed services.

BARING IT ALL: Katie Holmes talks motherhood, life after divorce

Katie Holmes in July issue of Glamour

Cameron shows off super svelte figure poolside in Miami

Cameron Diaz wears bikini on the beach

Suicide bomber kills 16 people near clinic in eastern Afghanistan in Taliban attack

Afghan police officers stand guard at the scene of a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. A suicide bombing tore through a crowd of Shiite worshippers marking a holy day Tuesday in the Afghan capital, the deadliest of twin attacks that killed scores of people in a rare burst of violence targeting the minority Islamic sect. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)

SEE IT New Jersey boy, 2, takes first steps with amputated left leg and right foot

New Jersey boy, 2, takes first steps with amputated left leg and right foot.

Two University of Miami football players kicked off team after raping 'drugged' 17-year-old in dorm

University of Miami football players Alex Figueroa, 19, and JaWand Blue, 20 were arrested for raping 17-year-old in dorm room

Prisoner accidentally freed from jail because he had same last name as inmate due for release

Anthony Douglas, in his 20s, reportedly walked out of West Midlands' HMP Hewell last Wednesday after chiefs confused him with another convict who'd completed his sentence.

Sofia Vergara reportedly dating 'True Blood' hunk

Newly single Sofía Vergara has moved on from her ex-fiancé Nick Loeb with “True Blood” star Joe Manganiello.

Minnesota preschooler and 89-year-old WWII vet, best friends forced to part ways — VIDEO

For these two best buds, age is just a number. A Minnesota preschooler has befriended his neighbor, an 89-year-old World War II veteran, over a love of tomatoes, tractor racing and the simple joys of life. But for Erling Kindem and his little pal Emmett Rychner, 3, their fast friendship will soon see a split: the growing Rychner family plans to move out of their Farmington home, while Kindem, nearing 90, will move into a senior home with his ailing wife For these two best buds, age is just a number. A Minnesota preschooler has befriended his neighbor, an 89-year-old World War II veteran, over a love of tomatoes, tractor racing and the simple joys of life.

'STEP AWAY FROM MY S--T!' Fla. man busts women trying to steal his beach gear but thieves insist it's theirs — VIDEO

A florida man called "Rich" caught on camera two women taking his beach gear
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