MR GRADY'S DAILY BLOG: AMERICAS EARLY BIRD NEWS

GRID HORROR: S.I. teen collapses and dies on football field after running sprints in heat for showing up late to practice

Miles Kirkland-Thomas, a 16-year-old defensive tackle who was set to start his junior year, was ordered to do wind sprints after showing up late for the Curtis High School varsity football team’s 9:30 a.m. practice, his father, Jamar Thomas, 44, told the Daily News.

Hamill: Obama’s ‘military’ plan should be to help veterans here rather than start another war

This week they pounced on President Obama for saying he had “no plan yet” on dealing with Islamic State militants. These same warmongers hammered Obama for announcing his plan for withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bondy: Serena Williams shows she's still player to beat at U.S. Open

There was a moment in the second game of the second set on Monday when Kaia Kanepi looped a high ball back to Serena Williams standing in the middle of the court on Ashe Stadium, and the American star suddenly looked like a public courts hacker.

Hero pit bull saves 8-year-old Oregon boy from deadly bee attack by dragging him to safety

Jesse-Cole Shaver was playing with pals in an Oregon City forest on Tuesday evening when one kicked a hive and unleashed a swarm of angry bees.

Doctors to assess damage to Joan's brain post-coma

Dallas car crash kills 6, including 3 high school football players, as cops say vehicle was going more than 100 mph

A speeding sedan spun out of control Sunday night along a residential Dallas street, killing six people, including three high school football players, riding inside the car.

Outgoing Iraqi PM says Iraq will be a ‘grave’ for ISIS jihadists

Following a rare victory over ISIS, the outgoing Iraqi prime minister pledge Monday that his country will be a “big grave” for the Islamic jihadists.

Manhattan man who died in NYPD custody was high and 'danger to himself and others': De Blasio

De Blasio, in his first remarks on the death of Ronald Singleton, said it doesn't appear that the cops who restrained him in the back of a taxi did anything wrong.

FIRST LOOK: Jolie stuns in wedding dress on mag cover

EXCLUSIVE Ninety city schools failed to pass a single black or Hispanic student on state tests, study says

Pro-charter school group Families for Excellent Schools found no black or Hispanic kids passed the standardized tests — based on the more stringent Common Core standards — at 90 schools with diverse student bodies.

Lawsuit foiled when killer refuses to wave HIPPA rights

Stringent patient privacy laws scuttled a lawsuit against a doctor who supplied two drug addicts with prescription painkillers before they pulled a 2011 robbery of a Long Island pharmacy that resulted in the death of four people.

GRUESOME SUICIDE: Man decapitates himself by chaining head to pole and stepping on gas of car

The victim tied a chain from his head to a pole, then hit the gas on his 2005 Honda CRV in Hunts Point, cops said.

Ferguson cops start wearing body cameras after shooting death of unarmed teen Michael Brown

Police in the St. Louis suburb where a white officer shot and killed an unarmed 18-year-old have started wearing body cameras.

Just like mom! Kim and baby North don matching outfits

SEE IT Colorado woman impaled in buttocks by metal guard rail after crashing truck while texting

Christina Jahnz was left with a metal guard rail piercing through her thigh and buttocks after the horror smash in Elizabeth on Wednesday morning.

Dallas teen strangled 5-year-old cousin and dumped her tiny body in vacant apartment: police

Angel Lizandro Sanches-Zenteno, 17, was booked Monday morning, some 12 hours after police found little Kathrine Alejandra Gonzalez dead in a unit at the Lake Highlands apartment complex.

Ariz. mom who left kids in hot car during job interview gets custody of children back

An Arizona mom regained custody of her two children last week, months after the kids were taken by state officials when she was arrested for leaving them in a car as she interviewed for a job.

EXCLUSIVE Two major unions throw support behind Gov. Cuomo, Kathleen Hochul ahead of Democratic primary

ALBANY — Two key labor unions are ramping up their efforts to help Gov. Cuomo and his pick for lieutenant governor ahead of next Tuesday’s Democratic primary.

New York

Four dead, 21 hurt across five boroughs in Labor Day weekend gun violence

Gun violence across the five boroughs over Labor Day weekend claimed four lives and wounded at least 21 people, including a city cop, authorities said.

Raise funds for Brooklyn Bridge Park, without housing towers

As the Brooklyn Bridge Park Corp. moves toward erecting housing towers on Pier 6 in the waterfront park, they are resisting a transparent financial analysis that would reveal maintenance and operations could be more than fully funded without building 31-story and 15-story buildings on what is already limited park space.

Suspect in red hoodie wanted for attempted strangling of 88-year-old Brooklyn woman: NYPD

A hoodie-wearing suspect is being sought after he tried to strangle an 88-year-old woman on the stoop of her Brooklyn home, police said Monday.

Lieutenant governor candidate Tim Wu says Paterson insults are sign of 'desperation'

Lieutenant governor candidate Tim Wu said it's a sign of "desperation" that former Gov. David Paterson is attacking his fitness for the job.

LATEST FROM AROUND NEW YORK

G train's Greenpoint Tube back in service Tuesday

Starting in the morning, G trains will resume making all stops between the Long Island City-Court Square station and Nassau Ave. in Greenpoint, NYC Transit officials said Monday.

Cuomo nearly encounters challenger Zephyr Teachout at West Indian Day Parade

Gov. Cuomo and his long-shot challenger Zephyr Teachout marched Monday in Brooklyn’s West Indian Day Parade, nearly crossing paths for the first time in the campaign.

Brooklyn car service fleet owner fights battles UBER and Lyft for market share

One Brooklyn car service says it has managed to restore some of its market share and reclaim some of the employees it lost after a tech-driven taxi alternative came speeding into town.

Donnie Wahlberg and Jenny McCarthy tie the knot

'Crazy' Florida man fatally shoots 3 kin, tries to gun down fourth until passing truck runs murderer over: police

George Mason III, 42, barely survived after a person driving by the murder scene accidentally hit him with a truck. Mason faces murder and attempted murder charges for gunning down his grandmother, brother and girlfriend.

NATO moving to create a rapid-reaction force to protect against Russian aggression in Eastern Europe

News of the planned force emerged as Ukraine's defense minister warned of a "great war" with Russia in which tens of thousands will die.

'I'm desperate to get back': Americans detained in North Korea plead for U.S. help

Three Americans detained in North Korea — Jeffrey Fowle, Mathew Miller and Kenneth Bae — were allowed to speak to foreign media and made pleas to the U.S. for help.

Obama, Biden tout economic gains to union crowds in fiery Labor Day speeches

President Obama and Vice President Biden both delivered fiery Labor Day speeches Monday, in separate but unified events designed to enliven the national Democratic base just two months before Election Day.

Nicole Scherzinger brings the heat in a teeny bikini

Marines, Navy sailors survive helicopter crash

A marine helicopter crashed in the Gulf of Aden, off Africa’s east coast, on Monday — but all 25 people on board survived, the Navy said.

Panda at Scotland zoo may have had miscarriage

The Edinburgh Zoo warned Monday that its female giant panda may have lost her cub.

Body of Montauk Marine Basin businessman found floating in harbor waters

The longtime owner of a Montauk, L.I., marina was found dead on Monday, floating in the harbor waters that had supported him his entire life. Carl Darenberg Jr., 64, who ran Montauk Marine Basin, was discovered in Montauk Harbor, off the Uihlein’s Marina docks, at 9:30 a.m. A worker at the marina noticed the body when she went to clean out rental boats, according to owner Henry Uihlein.