Sunday, October 26, 2014

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DOC IN 'NEXT PHASE': Ebola patient Craig Spencer continues to struggle with deadly disease as he is given promising experimental drug

Dr. Craig Spencer gets experimental anti-viral drug Brincidofovir to fight Ebola As doctors scramble to improve Craig Spencer's condition at Bellevue, his fiancée returned to the couple's messy — but decontaminated — W. 147th St. apartment.

Army football players lured recruits with boozy bus tour, dinner dates and the company of cheerleaders

Army football players lured prospective recruits with an alcohol-fueled bus trip earlier this year, and 20 cadets, two officers and two coaches have been disciplined, according to a Colorado report.

NYPD cops recovering from injuries by hatchet-wielding man who was bent on terror

Zale Thompson tried to kill four NYPD officers with an 18-inch ax in Queens on October 23rd before being shot dead on Jamaica Avenue near 162nd Street in Queens. The police officer whose skull was bashed in by a hatchet-wielding, radicalized maniac was on the mend at a Queens hospital, while another wounded cop was seen stepping out of his Long Island home Saturday.

New York City doctor who contracted Ebola in West Africa getting treatment with experimental anti-viral drug

Dr. Craig Spencer was helping to fight Ebola in West Africa when he became infected with the virus. Dr. Craig Spencer, who arrived Thursday at Bellevue Hospital, was now receiving Brincidofovir to combat the potentially lethal disease.

Mali health officials search for people who made contact with 2-year-old Ebola victim

A view of the entrance to Dousseyni Daou Hospital in Kayes October 25, 2014. A two-year-old girl who was Mali's first case of Ebola died on Friday, shortly after the World Health Organization warned that many people had potentially been exposed to the virus because she was taken across the country while ill. The girl had travelled with her grandmother hundreds of kilometres by bus from Guinea via Mali's capital to the western town of Kayes, where she was diagnosed on Thursday. REUTERS/Stringer (MALI - Tags: HEALTH DISASTER) Health officials in Mali scrambled Saturday to identify everyone who made contact with the country’s first Ebola fatality — a 2-year-old girl.

Billy Joel bio reveals suicide attempt, juggling supermodels

Hunter Pence, Pablo Sandoval help Giants rally to beat Royals and even World Series, 2-2

Bruce Bochy gambled by not bringing back Madison Bumgarner on short rest for Game 4. Now the Giants' ace has a chance to put his team in prime position for a third World Series title in five years.

COFFEE JERK: Drunken man smashed bottle, then grabs Chihuahua and throws pooch at Texas Starbucks window

‘Starbucks’ is recovering with a broken leg after being thrown at a Starbucks window in Houston, Texas by a disgruntled customer. A little Chihuahua is recovering after a disgruntled Starbucks customer in Texas threw the dog at a window after he was banned for shop for three months over harassment claims.

Lupica: The Jets are better off throwing in the towel at this point to get a better 2015 draft pick

The last time the New York Jets won a football game was Sept. 7. They beat the Raiders, a team that still hasn’t won a game this season.

Osterholm: Protect New Yorkers by stopping the Ebola epidemic in West Africa

Evangelical Christians march for a spiritual solution to the Ebola virus epidemic in Monrovia October 25, 2014. The death toll from the Ebola epidemic rose to 4,922 out of 10,141 known cases in eight countries through October 23, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Saturday. REUTERS/James Giahyue (LIBERIA - Tags: RELIGION SOCIETY HEALTH DISASTER) If everybody coming through Newark and Kennedy airports is placed in supervised quarantine, and not allowed to go to their final destination, it’s a terribly bad use of quarantine to protect the public.

Ottawa's Parliament Hill reopens after fatal shooting

Imam Haider al-Shawi from the Ottawa al-Mahdi Centre gets a hug from Ottawa paramedic Kyle Pooler during a ceremony honoring slain Cpl. Nathan Cirillo at the War Memorial in Ottawa Saturday October 25, 2014. The site of a homegrown terror attack in Ottawa that left a Canadian soldier dead was reopened Saturday — and a moment of religious solidarity marked the solemn occasion.

North Dakota man let mentally ill brother freeze: charges

Ronald Simmons failed to take care of his brother who was found frozen to death in a house on family property last January, North Dakota prosecutors say. He was supposed to be his brother’s keeper. A North Dakota man let his mentally ill sibling starve and eventually freeze to death in a family farmhouse filled with trash and rodents, authorities said.

Raissman: Funny how all these stories leak out after Percy Harvin arrives to Jets from Seattle

OC.T 12, 2014, PHOTO For all the stories written about Percy Harvin’s Jets arrival, all the columns, all the sociological treatises (Was Harvin exiled from Seattle because he didn’t like Russell Wilson or think he was “black enough?”)

Georgia man pleads guilty after texting probation officer to buy weed

Alvin Cross Jr., of Albany, Georgia, will serve two years in prison after being caught asking his probation officer for weed by mistake. A Georgia man pleaded guilty to violating his probation by mistakenly asking his probation officer for marijuana.

Bill Murray fan has dream meeting on Brooklyn set

Bill Murray spent time with fan Thomas Cerone, a fellow actor who has Down syndrome, on the set of 'St. Vincent'
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Families living in NYCHA developments can visit American Museum of Natural History free

'Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs' will focus on the flying reptiles from April 5, 2014, to January 4, 2015. The best-known genus of pterosaur is the pterodactylus, commonly called pterodactyls. Families living in NYCHA developments will be able to enjoy free trips to the American Museum of Natural History, city and museum officials announced Saturday.

Brooklyn man charged in boyfriend's fatal stabbing would 'never hurt a fly,' says his sister

A 13-year-old boy was hospitalized after he is shot in the ankle on Classon Ave. near Prospect Place. A 27-year-old Brooklyn man who relatives said would “never hurt a fly” is facing murder charges for stabbing his live-in boyfriend to death, authorities said Saturday.

Easy winter on the wallet? Regulators forecast lower gas, electricity costs though city residents are not so sure

Milder weather is expected to ease financial pain of energy deliveries this winter, say regulators. State regulators anticipate natural gas and electricity prices to be down from last year. Bills will vary by utility, but natural gas bills especially look to be lower, energy experts said Saturday.

Mother confesses to beating death of daughter, 4: cops

Briarwood Residence, a woman’s and children’s shelter, was the site of the death of Linayjah Meraldo, 4. The mother of the 4-year-old girl found dead in a Queens shelter confessed to cops she beat her defenseless daughter for spilling hand lotion on the floor, police said Saturday.
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Thief breaks into more than 20 businesses in Queens, Bronx: police

SENDER: DCPI A bendable burglar has broken into more than 20 delis and restaurants in Queens and the Bronx by squirming through ventilation ducts and bashing in rear and rooftop doors, police said Saturday.

Two stabbed at Brooklyn strip club in fight over music

NR A 38-year-old man was knifed in both biceps, the left hand and lower stomach and a 39-year-old man was slashed in the left cheek, stomach, and left arm by an assailant in the loo of Lust Gentlemen’s Club on 47th St. in Sunset Park about 3:45 a.m., cops said.

HERO MTA worker who saved fallen man tracks nominated for Hometown Heroes in Transit

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi On a quiet Easter Sunday, a subway rider fell to the tracks from an otherwise empty platform in Manhattan. He tried to climb up to safety, but didn’t have the strength.

Queens residents STILL struggling with red tape after Hurricane Sandy destroyed homes

Helicopter views of damage from hurricane Sandy in Rockaway, Queens, on Oct. 31, 2012. Two years later, residents are still making their feelings known toward Sandy in the dust of still-unrepaired Belle Harbor building (above).

Grief caused by Hurricane Sandy continues to hang over hard-hit Staten Island

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Amal's parents throw Clooney bash in England

Man killed in shootout with Border Patrol agents in Arizona

One person was killed and another man was on the loose after a shootout Friday morning with two Border Patrol agents in Arizona. One man was killed and another is at large following a shootout with Border Patrol agents near the Tohono O'odham Reservation in Arizona, authorities said.

Indiana man opens fire on 13-year-old who LAUGHED at him after his house was robbed: report

Kobe Jones, 13, was shot nine times by his neighbor near his home in Gary, Indiana, after reportedly laughing about his neighbor's home invasion, authorities said. An enraged Indiana man blasted his 13-year-old neighbor nine times when he returned home on Friday to find his house burglarized and spotted the boy chuckling, police and relatives said.

Texas sex offender gets 99 years for assaulting girl in shower

Juan Cerda Alvarado was found guilty of sexually assaulting an 8-year-old girl while she showered in 2011. Juan Cerda Alvarado received the maximum sentence Friday for the 2011 assault in Fort Bend County. Prosecutors said he attacked a girl he had known for years while she showered at her home. The girl’s mom caught the perv when she noticed his wet clothing.

Las Vegas cop arrested on child porn charges

Las Vegas Police Department Officer James Henry has been arrested on child porn charges and is being held without bail. Las Vegas Police Officer James Henry, 37, has been arrested on child porn charges following a three-month investigation prompted by a tip from the social media giant Google.

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California middle school teacher arrested for lewd acts on 8th grade boy

Kristen Roush, 34, was taken into custody on Friday at her residence in Aliso Viejo. The eighth grade teacher at a Mission Viejo junior high school has been arrested on suspicion of lewd acts with a student, authorities said. Kristen Goodwin Roush after she allegedly started an 'inappropriate relationship' with a student. The English teacher at La Paz Intermediate School is married and has two young daughters.

Number of world Ebola cases pass 10,000, with nearly half that have been fatal, WHO says

The number of people infected with Ebola during the 2014 outbreak has surpassed 10,000, the World Health organization said Saturday. The UN health organization confirmed 10,141 cases — and 4,922 deaths — in eight countries since the March onset of the outbreak. Only 27 of those cases have been outside of West Africa.

Eleven members of Brazilian family hospitalized after eating pufferfish

A boy uses a stick to play with a puffer fish caught and discarded by the local fishermen of the coastal commune of Port Bouet, just east of Abidjan and west of Grand-Bassam, on October 23, 2014. Hundreds of building were torn down in this area as part of a clean-up operation by the Ivorian government, which also aims to prevent the dangers of the advancing sea. AFP PHOTO / SIA KAMBOU (Photo credit should read SIA KAMBOU/AFP/Getty Images) Eleven members of a Brazilian family have ended up in the hospital after eating a poisonous pufferfish. They are in critical condition, according to a relative, who did not eat the fish.

NYPD SUE: Ex-cop sues city for $125M after allegedly being assaulted by officer then bosses tried to cover it up

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Marco Trujillo, 44, claims in a federal lawsuit filed Friday that the fight with Sgt. John Rajan was a culmination of unjustified demotions and transfers that landed him in a Midtown patrol borough.
Sports

Madden: Roc-y relationship has Red Sox looking to deal Yoenis Cespedes

Yoenis Cespedes’ decision to switch agents to Roc Nation is said to increase the likelihood the Red Sox will trade the Cuban slugger this winter while they can still get something substantial in return for him with his free agency pending after next season.

Sunday Morning QB: Peyton's passing records will stand a long time

Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (18) scrambles as San Diego Chargers outside linebacker Dwight Freeney (93) pursues during the second half of an NFL football game, Thursday, Oct. 23, 2014, in Denver. (AP Photo/Jack Dempsey) Brett Favre didn’t push the all-time record for touchdown passes out far enough. Peyton Manning is making sure that’s not an issue for him.

WATCH Chris Fowler rants about SEC bias theories on 'College GameDay’

Chris Fowler tries to set the record straight on 'College GameDay.' Chris Fowler got up on his soapbox during "College GameDay" Saturday to try to once again debunk theories that the success of the SEC is related to ESPN's launch of the SEC Network.

End Zone: In high-scoring, fast-paced, less-physical NBA, thin is definitely in

Deron Williams felt sluggish. The pressure on his joints was hampering his ability to move quickly, to stay healthy. The bottom line, the Nets point guard concluded during the 2012-13 season, was that he was too heavy.
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Naked burglar busted by police while pilfering in the buff

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Texas pastor resigns from church after prostitution arrest

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