MR GRADY'S DAILY BLOG: AMERICAS EARLY BIRD NEWS

'They hold children’s lives in their hands': City will install more speed cameras to slow down reckless drivers as schools open their doors

With summer vacation ending and children returning to classes, the city has begun installing more speed cameras to catch lead-footed drivers near public schools, Mayor de Blasio announced Tuesday.

Woman may have been getaway driver in robbery that ended with ‘Cops’ sound engineer dead

A 24-year-old woman who allegedly robbed an Omaha restaurant last week may also have been the getaway driver for a man whose holdup of a Wendy’s ended with his death and the death of a “Cops” cameraman.

WARNING: GRAPHIC VIDEO Chicago man allegedly runs over infant girl after tossing her out of SUV in horrific attack

A Chicago man allegedly threw an 8-month-old girl out of a moving car before running the child over in a horrific attack that was caught on video.

Bondy: Another doubles disaster spells trouble for Serena, Venus Williams

There are rules that apply to everybody else in tennis, and then rules for the Williams sisters. It is the price paid for keeping them around, for having the two divas light up the U.S.

Miss. woman sentenced to life in prison for fatal silicone butt injection

A Mississippi woman convicted of killing a Georgia woman through illicit silicone buttocks injections has been sentenced to life in prison.

Stasi: I ache for the decision Joan's daughter is facing

EXCLUSIVE Overhaul to school discipline code won't be made this year

Changes to the city schools’ discipline code will not be implemented this year as originally planned, education officials said Tuesday.

'YOU'RE THE DUDE THAT SHOT ME!': Dad beats down youth football coach who gunned him down four years earlier

A Seattle dad signing up his kid to play football beat up the coach last week after recognizing the man as the one who had shot him during an incident years before.

'I don't care about the consequences — put this plane down now': Delta flight from LaGuardia diverted over ANOTHER reclining seat argument

A flight from LaGuardia to Palm Beach International Airport was forced to make an unexpected landing after a heated argument over legroom, according to a witness.

'HE HAD NO FACE': Texas man armed with pellet gun killed by Laredo cops who unleashed 80 gunshots: family

A man armed with a pellet gun was shot dead by police in Texas early Saturday morning, and family members claim officers unleashed some 80 shots in the fusilade.

WHO IS DAVID HAINES? British aid worker threatened as next victim in latest ISIS video

The twisted terrorists behind the beheading of American journalist Steven Sotloff also threatened on camera to execute a British captive identified as David Cawthorne Haines.

Al Shabab terrorist leader targeted in U.S. drone attack

WASHINGTON — A U.S. strike may have killed the reviled leader of the Al Qaeda-affiliated group Al Shabab — dealing a major blow to the Somali terror network, the Pentagon said Tuesday.

Baghdad car bombing kills up to 13 Iraqis, wounds 45

As violence continues to erupt in Iraq, at least 13 people were killed and 45 others were wounded in a double car bombing Monday night in Baghdad, according to CNN.

White House 'offers our thoughts and prayers' to Sotloff family after video surfaces of reporter's apparent beheading

The White House quickly underscored Tuesday that "our thoughts and prayers first and foremost are with" the family of apparently murdered American journalist Steven Sotloff.

IS THIS 'JIHADI JOHN'? Masked terrorist seen in latest ISIS execution video appears to be James Foley's killer

The cloaked ISIS terrorist seen while appearing to execute American journalist Steven Sotloff in a newly released video has apparently returned and with a message for the U.S. President: "I'm back, Obama."

READ IT Transcript reveals American journalist Steven Sotloff's final words before apparent beheading

In the transcript of the gruesome video, in which the American journalist appears to be beheaded by ISIS militants, Sotloff slams Obama ‘seemingly marching us, the American people, into a blazing fire.’

‘Sleepy Hollow’ marketers apologize for ‘National Headless Day’ promo

Marketers of the Fox series “Sleepy Hollow” have apologized for kicking off a “National Headless Day” promo as terrorists released a video showing the beheading of an American journalist.

EDITORIAL The barbarains' beheading of Steven Sotloff is a stark reminder of why they must be defeated

The beheading of a second American confirmed, where no confirmation was necessary, that ISIS is a determined and depraved enemy at war with the United States and civilization itself.

New York

Two white men charged with hate crime in alleged attack of 56-year-old black auxiliary cop in Brooklyn

Two white men were charged with a hate crime after they attacked and hurled racial slurs at a 56-year-old black man in Brooklyn, authorities said.

Staten Island man accused of killing stroke victim homeowner in burglary had cased out home weeks ago

A Staten Island woman who was stabbed by a suspected burglar in a confrontation Sunday that claimed her husband’s life had previously filed a complaint after the same man made two “creepy” visits to her home, a source said Tuesday.

Parents shocked as city reinstates disciplined teacher accused of physical punishment, verbal abuse at Forest Hills elementary

The teacher, Richard Parlini, has racked up a record of verbal abuse and corporal punishment since he started working at Public School 101 in 2000, and parent leaders say he has exhibited a pattern of troubling behavior.

Politicians demand stop to subsidies for deadbeat adoptive parents who sent their kids away

Fix it. That was the cry from politicians Tuesday in the wake of a Daily News report showing the city has turned a blind eye to hundreds of adoptive parents who continue to pocket subsidies for kids they have discarded.

LATEST FROM AROUND NEW YORK

SEE IT Brooklyn J'Ouvert partiers filmed kicking NYPD patrolcar

Authorities are reviewing a video that shows a group of riotous revelers jumping on a police patrol car hours before the West Indian Day parade, police said.

Brooklyn Cyclones' season end gives way to new developmental football league coming to MCU Park

The season's over for the Brooklyn Cyclones, but Coney Island shopkeepers are cheering a new developmental football league coming to MCU Park.

Two crooks steal $1,000 in burglary of Mermaid Oyster Bar in Greenwich Village: NYPD

Cops are hunting for two men who burglarized a Greenwich Village seafood restaurant, police said Tuesday.

Apple shifts blame in naked celebrity photo hack to 'very targeted attack,' not software flaw

The tech giant said 'after 40 hours of investigation' into the hacking and leaking of naked photos of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, Rihanna and others that it was not due to a flaw in iCloud or Find My iPhone systems.

OPINION Hackers expose nude photos of celebrities, but who’s at fault?

A pseudo-intellectual debate of sorts has emerged online over who is to blame for hackers who found and then publicly posted hundreds of nude photos of celebrities from iCloud.

OPINION The law must be reformed to make invasions of sexual privacy punishable

The recent large-scale hack of female celebrities’ private nude photos has been greeted by patronizing statements about how victims should 'know better' than to have pictures like this, often topped off by a sanctimonious and unoriginal admonition along the lines of 'it’s a shame that bad people exist, but they do, so lock your doors if you don’t want to get robbed!'

Brangelina pockets $2M from mags for wedding snaps

Supporters of Okla. City cop accused of on-duty sex assaults caution against rush to judgment

An Oklahoma City police officer accused of raping and sexual abusing at least eight different black women while on duty is backed by online supporters who hope to raise money for his defense.

Contract talks between the principals union and the city break down over issue of back pay

Negotiations between the city and principals union have again stalled over back pay for administrators who previously worked as teachers.

Two French Muslim girls, ages 15 and 17, used social media to plot suicide attack on synagogue: report

Two teenage girls were reportedly caught collaborating over social media in a plot to bomb a French synagogue and die like martyrs.

Decomposing body found in Washington home linked to burning, blood-stained carpet: deputies

Authorities have been searching for 30-year-old Brandon Zomalt ever since DNA collected from the burning items found on Aug. 13 tested positive for his blood.

Pretty in pink: RiRi soaks up the sun aboard yacht

Princeton University worker is put on leave over medical marijuana

A Princeton University employee and marijuana legalization activist who said he was told to choose between his job and using medical marijuana is on paid leave as the university works to figure out accommodations for his disability.

U.S. adds 350 troops in Iraq — raising number of soldiers in embattled country to more than 1,000

The U.S. is adding 350 more troops to help protect the American Embassy in Baghdad and its support facilities in the capital, raising the number of U.S. forces in the country to more than 1,000, officials said Tuesday.

Georgia pair posed as engaged couple buying a new home just to scout out, then burglarize house: cops

Georgia detectives say a pair of conniving burglars posed as a newly engaged couple looking for their first home--but were in fact scouting the place out for a robbery.

CEO resigns from sports catering firm Centerplate after video shows him abusing puppy

Desmond Hague, the CEO of Centerplate, faces possible criminal charges in Vancouver for the heart-wrenching footage of him kicking a 1-year-old Doberman pinscher and hanging the dog by its leash, several feet off the floor.

Sports

Girardi won't drop slumping Yankees captain Jeter in batting order

If the Yankees go down, it appears they will do it with struggling Derek Jeter batting second in the lineup, just as he has all season.In the month of August, Jeter gave Joe Girardi every reason to move him down in the batting order.

Juan Lagares off to the races, sparks Mets to win with bat, legs

On days such as Monday, when the Mets were a mess against the Marlins, David Wright just looks around him and thinks big picture. The Mets captain focuses on Matt Harvey and Bobby Parnell working their way back from injury for 2015 and he thinks about Dilson Herrera learning the big leagues or Juan Lagares growing into an impact player.

Mehta: Jets defense needs to dominate Raiders rookie QB in opener

The Jets had been eagerly anticipating the Human Pick-Six Dispenser for months, amped to get the 2014 season off the right way before those tricky Raiders flipped the script to shift all of the pressure on Rex Ryan’s defense this Sunday.

Caroline Wozniacki powers into U.S. Open semifinals once again

The courtside gales kept lifting Caroline Wozniacki’s towel off her changeover chair Tuesday night, and she kept running over to straighten it out. It was about the only force that could deter the resurgent Wozniacki.