MR GRADY'S DAILY BLOG: AMERICAS EARL BIRD NEWS

UBER MISTAKE: Exec apologizes for tirade about digging into personal lives and discrediting journalists who report on his taxi app company

Emil Michael, senior vice president of Uber, is sorry after being outed for his creepy tirade against his company's sometimes unflattering press coverage.

'I AM ENTIRELY RESPONSIBLE': Utah woman sobs as she pleads guilty to murdering 4-year-old son, whose beaten and burned body was dumped in shallow grave

Stephanie Sloop, the 31-year-old mother of a little boy whose disfigured remains were found in a shallow grave in 2010, sobbed while pleading guilty before a judge Monday.

'It looks like he set it up': Store worker arrested in suspected Diamond District heist: NYPD source

The suspect, Rondu Frisby, was in custody and due to be charged Monday night. Investigators suspect he set up Tuesday's heist at Watch Standard Jewelry on W. 47th St., a cop source said.

Forget the bad press! Michael Grimm is really a great catch, Gov. Cuomo, too

While everyone was gearing up for recent elections, Town & Country Magazine late last month ranked Staten Island Rep. Rep. Michael Grimm among the “10 most eligible bachelors in politics.”

Arizona mom who left kids in hot car durin job interview spent donation money 'to finish her baby daddy's rap album': ex-pal

The Arizona mother who left two of her kids in a hot car during a job interview spent thousands of dollars in donation money "to finish her baby daddy's rap album," a former supporter claims.

One Direction's Zayn rips Lauer's drug abuse accusations

Missouri governor declares state of emergency in Ferguson ahead of grand jury's decision on shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown

Gov. Jay Nixon issued an executive order activating the National Guard in Ferguson and the St. Louis area as the region braces for the results of a grand jury investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown.

Warrants issued for two Americans who allegedly attempted to mail stolen body parts from Thailand to U.S.

New details surfaced in the case Monday when Bangkok's Siriraj Hospital said the body parts were stolen from its museums.

'How dare they put me and my sons through this': Widow forced to take her husband's ashes to T-Mobile to prove he's dead

Maria Raybould called burying her late husband as easier than trying to cancel his cell phone plan after his death.

Calif. high school basketball coach sues 'helicopter parent' for $1M in libel lawsuit, claims student's dad had mission to get him fired

A California high school coach is suing a parent of a former player for more than $1 million for the father's "personal vendetta" to get him fired and ruin his reputation, according to the libel lawsuit.

Meet the loveable kitty behind Beth Stern's new book

Hamill: Airport workers claim to be victims of subcontractor wage rip-offs

Gian Lopez, 21, supports his girlfriend, Yaquira Collado, 20, and their daughter, Yliaelena Lopez, 2, working as a $9-an-hour nonunion subcontracted baggage handler for Aviation Safeguards in Terminal D of LaGuardia Airport, where he’s worked for three years.

Myers: Tom Coughlin-Steve Spagnuolo reunion could fix Giants

With each awful defeat, the heat on Tom Coughlin intensifies. At 3-7, the Giants are off to their worst start ever under the veteran coach and there are already rumblings about Coughlin and his two Super Bowl rings being shown the door at the end of season.

Woman 'humiliated' after real estate agent's drone snaps her sunbathing in nothing but a G-string

Mandy Lingard was reportedly stunned to see the saucy snap of her lying face down in just a G-string splashed on an advertisement for her neighbor's property.

EBOLA DOCTOR DEAD: Dr. Martin Salia dies just 2 days after arriving in U.S. from Sierra Leone, where he contracted virus

Dr. Martin Salia, 44, arrived at Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha on Saturday in extremely critical condition and was described as "possibly sicker than the first patients successfully treated in the United States."

Piece of 'Cake': Jen garnishes Oscar buzz in new flick

Top Senate Democrats back Obama's plan to issue executive order protecting immigrants from deportation

A group of top Senate Democrats urged Obama to ignore the Republican's threats to block government funding over the expected orders.

Horror car crash claims lives of five British teens from same school

Four of the victims killed in the tragic collision Saturday evening were reportedly students at the Danum School in Doncaster, Yorkshire.

'Maybe next time I'll pull a Machete': New Mexico middle school teacher accused of threatening student with knife during test

Bernalillo Middle School math teacher Benjamin Nagurski waved a knife in his hand as he told a 12-year-old student to stop talking during a pop quiz, police said.

Ferguson corrections officer accused of raping woman, who is now pregnant, in boiler room of city jail

A corrections officer in Ferguson, Mo., is accused of brutally raping a woman in jail last year in another troubling incident involving law enforcement in the midwestern city.

Lupica: Rachel Noerdlinger coverage is news, not McCarthyism

It was not a political hit, as Noerdlinger suggested Monday. It was not McCarthyism, as Bill de Blasio suggested in a rather undignified and unhinged way. It was news.

Mark Green: De Blasio's blasting of Noerdlinger coverage is overblown

Criticism of Rachel Noerdlinger is hardly McCarthyism, as Mayor de Blasio seems to suggest it is.

New York

HO HO HURL! Drunk bearded men are heading to Bushwick for booze-filled SantaCon 2014

The annual bar-hop — which has produced numerous complaints from locals of revelers vomiting, urinating or brawling on the streets — is heading to Brooklyn.

City eyes neighborhoods in Queens, Bronx for affordable housing

The city has picked two more neighborhoods to target in its affordable housing push — Flushing in Queens and a Bronx neighborhood dubbed “Cromwell-Jerome.”

Housing chief in hot seat over contractors who owe $11 million in backwages to workers

A top de Blasio official came under fire Monday over a program that allows builders cited for cheating workers on wages to construct city-run affordable housing projects.

'My daughter’s eyes are beautiful so I don’t want them removed': Judge orders Brooklyn girl, 2, to remain on life support until parents resolve feud over organs

Thaiya Spruill-Smith, who was allegedly shaken into a coma by her stepfather, was granted at least one more day of life Monday.

Six months ahead of schedule, MTA fixes up Rockaway bridge damaged in Sandy

The lights adorning a Queens bridge are shining for the first time since Hurricane Sandy knocked them out.

LATEST FROM AROUND NEW YORK

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos supports legislative pay raises, but rejects Bill de Blasio’s proposed laws

Senate GOP Leader Dean Skelos left the door open Monday for a legislative pay raise — but not if it means accepting parts of Mayor de Blasio’s liberal agenda.

CAN YOU SPARE A QUARTER? New MTA budget plan may include 25-cent increase in bus, subway fare

The MTA officially released budget proposals Monday that could raise the base bus and subway fare 25 cents to $2.75 - and the cash toll at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge from $15 to $16.

Sam Kellner, who helped put child molester in jail, sues Jewish Forward

A Brooklyn dad whose allegations of sexual molestation helped put a prominent Hasidic man in jail says he was defamed by The Jewish Forward.

19-year-old student from Bronx died from booze-filled binge: police

Albany cops, responding to a report of an intoxicated man in need of medical attention, went to a house in Albany about 2 a.m. on Sunday.

Can you guess how much Bey spent on her bridal dress?

KILL MY BOSS? N.J. man fires at employer, faces attempted murder

Horrible boss or bad employee? A disgruntled day laborer at a New Jersey landscaping firm shot the window out of his boss' truck and then held off police for five hours in a tense standoff.

Snapchat announces ‘Snapcash’ feature to pay friends on photo-sharing app

Snapchat users share pictures with each other for seconds at a time. But the mobile application now gives clients the opportunity to send cash.

Man shot by hunter while hauling away DEAD DEER in Hudson Valley woods

A man who had shot a deer in the Hudson Valley woods was hauling it away on a cart when he was wounded by second hunter firing at the dead animal, authorities said.

2 injured after tornado touches down near maximum security prison in Florida

The tornado hit the Calhoun Correctional Institution around 4 a.m. damaging between 25 and 30 vehicles.

Solange's 1st official pics from white wedding revealed

GUTTER BRAWL: Ex-con bites off Oklahoma man's ear in bowling alley melee

A spilled drink stirred an Oklahoma bowling alley fight that degenerated into an ex-con biting the ear off another man.

MOMMY FEAREST: St. Louis mom who waterboarded, beat her daughters slapped with 78-year sentence

Schonta Stanley reportedly confessed Friday to the sickening attacks on her two daughters, pleading guilty to 34 felonies, including multiple counts of assault and endangering the welfare of a child,

EUROPEAN FIENDS: Frenchman, Brit among ISIS thugs seen on tape of Peter Kassig beheading

A 22-year-old Frenchman and a young Brit, both of whom left their homes to join ISIS, are among the thugs seen on tape butchering Syrian soldiers in a video showing beheaded American Peter Kassig.

2-year-old girl abducted by mom's ex-boyfriend in Bronx: cops

A 2-year-old girl was abducted by her mother’s ex-boyfriend in the Bronx on Monday night, police said.

Sports

HOLY HOT STOVE: Giancarlo Stanton gets PAID, Braves and Cards swing deal

Quick hits and reporting on Marlins' Stanton, Cardinals/Braves Jason Heyward trade, Blue Jays' Russell Martin signing.

Russell Martin gets five-year, $82M contract from Blue Jays

Russell Martin agreed to a five-year, $82 million deal with the Blue Jays Monday, becoming the first major free agent to sign this offseason.

Pablo Sandoval in Boston for talks with Red Sox

Pablo Sandoval has never played at Fenway Park. The Red Sox are hoping his first time will be in a Boston uniform. The free-agent third baseman known as "Kung Fu Panda" was in Boston on Monday to meet with the Red Sox.

Giants Insider: Eli Manning made call to pass on goal line

In the most critical sequence of Sunday’s game, four yards away from the potential game-winning score, the Giants called four straight pass plays.

Canseco finally tweets pic of mangled finger

Turkish president claims Muslim sailors reached Americas more than 300 years before Christopher Columbus

Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a group of Muslim leaders from Latin America that the sailors beat Columbus by 314 years, landing in 1178.

Woman, 20, plummets 80 feet down rocky San Diego cliff

A 20-year-old woman tumbled 80 feet down a cliff in Southern California early Monday, prompting a helicopter rescue from the rocky La Jolla shoreline, officials said.

Two brothers among four dead in Texas DuPont plant chemical leak

Gilbert Tisnado rushed to try and save his brother Robert, pictured, after a valve failed at the La Porte plant Saturday, sending a cloud of toxic gas that killed the brothers and two other workers in Houston.

Angie tears up on 'Unbroken' red carpet with Brad

GOTCHA! German neo-Nazis tricked into raising money for anti-Nazi group

A German village tricked a group of neo-Nazis by turning their march into a fund-raiser for groups that help people reject extremist right-wing views.

WHAT GAUL! France's former first lady Valerie Trierweiler spills dirt on cheating President Francois Hollande

The former First Lady of France is stabbing President Francois Hollande with a poison pen, revealing in a new memoir how his philandering drove her to a suicide attempt.

SEE IT NAUGHTY: Australian 'Santa' enters Melbourne post office, demands cash

A man dressed as Saint Nick stole cash from the Snell Grove store in Oak Park, Melbourne, at 11:30 a.m. Saturday morning, according to cops.

'10 Things I Hate About You' cast reunites for 15th anniversary

Elaine Stritch remembered at star-studded 'Everybody Rise' tribute

EXCLUSIVE $100/mo. UES tenant loses suit against high-rise

Mitt Romney cautions Obama on immigration reform

Autos

Sweat-free cycling: A2B e-bikes give an extra kick

Pedal-assist electric bicycles seek to solve this problem, letting you put in as much effort to accelerate as it does to keep moving, making them very practical for getting around without overexertion.