Wednesday, October 1, 2014

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EXCLUSIVE: 'People are going to be impressed... it's dramatically different': No. 7 subway extension to West Side on track for Feb. opening

The No. 7 subway line extension to the far West Side is on track to open for riders in February, a top transit official said Tuesday.

'I’m convinced all white people are the devil': Teen son of Chirlane McCray's chief of staff wrote derogatory tweets about cops, whites and women

Rachel Noerdlinger had to answer forrants by boyfriend Hassaun McFarlan (r.), and now for son. The teen son of First Lady Chirlane McCray’s chief of staff is running a Twitter feed that contains explicit, derogatory messages about cops, whites and women.

California nuclear power plant engineer convicted of 1994 killing wife with lethal dose of nicotine

Paul Marshal Curry, 57, is accused of slowly poisoning his wife, 50-year-old Linda, to death with nicotine from 1993 to 1994 to collect her life insurance benefits. Paul Curry, 57, sedated his wife Linda Curry in June 1994 and then took her life with a lethal shot of nicotine administered behind her ear, prosecutors said during the trial.

EXCLUSIVE Police Commissioner Bill Bratton to present plans with senior-level NYPD members

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi About 800 senior-level members of the NYPD have been summoned to the new Police Academy for a daylong meeting at which top cop Bill Bratton will lay out his game plan for the department’s future.

Homeless Boston woman accused of punching commuter in face with a corkscrew in 'unprovoked' attack

Candace Daley, 32, a homeless Boston woman was ordered held without bail for allegedly attacking a subway commuter with a corkscrew. A woman bound for Harvard Law School brutally stabbed several times in the head by a homeless person wielding a corkscrew, Boston authorities said.
Tony Bennett and Gloria Estefan "mentors" Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande on "the right path".

CLASSIC INFLUENCE: Tony helps Gaga turn the other 'Cheek'

ALARMING: Security contractor with gun and violent criminal history got into elevator with Obama, source says

President Barack Obama pauses during a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office of the White House on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Washington. The signing of a security deal allowing U.S. forces to stay in Afghanistan aims to keep the country from slipping into the kind of chaos that followed the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq. Critics accuse President Barack Obama of putting the political goal of ending the Iraq war ahead of efforts to sign a similar pact there. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) A private security contractor with a gun and a violent criminal past rode in an elevator with President Obama during a visit to Atlantic in September, a congressional source confirmed Tuesday.

EXCLUSIVE Gonzalez: City fails to respond to East Harlem tenants who complain about lack of building repairs

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi If Mayor de Blasio wants to reach his ambitious goal of building or preserving 200,000 units of affordable housing, he should overhaul the city agency that’s supposed to get landlords to fix major building violations.

Miami nightspot where 15 patrons were shot was operating illegally, police say

The Spot, a restaurant in Miami where 15 people were wounded in a shooting early Sunday. Miami police said gunfire erupted around 1 a.m. Sunday at the club. The Miami restaurant where 15 people — mostly underage teenagers — were shot early Sunday was illegally operating as a nightclub and selling liquor without a permit, police said.

Royals advance after beating A’s in extra-inning wild card playoff thriller

Kansas City Royals' Christian Colon celebrates as he rounds third and heads for home to score the winning run during the 12th inning of the AL wild-card playoff baseball game against the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2014, in Kansas City, Mo. The Royals won 9-8. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson) The Kansas City Royals had waited 29 years to reach the postseason. They weren’t going down without a fight. Salvador Perez singled down the left-field line with two outs in the 12th inning, allowing Christian Colon to score from second base and giving the long-suffering Royals a 9-8 victory.

Justin, Kendall dine in Paris as dating rumors swirl

Justin Bieber and Kendall Jenner have dinner in Paris

EXCLUSIVE NYPD's top overtime earner pulled in $82G extra in past year: city records

Badge of a New York City Police Department Sergeant. (Marc A. Hermann for New York Daily News) The NYPD's top overtime earner is a sergeant in the detective bureau who pulled in $82,115 in extra pay last years, city records show.

Suspect named 'Macgyver' arrested in fatal hit-and-run in Union Square: NYPD

Doohee Cho who was killed d in a fatal hit-and-run early Sunday morning. Police have arrested a suspect named 'Macgyver' in the fatal hit-and-run that killed Doohee Cho, a 33-year-old financier, in Union Square over the weekend.

2 suicide bombers attack Afghan troops in Kabul, killing 7, wounding 21

epa04425532 Afghan security officials inspect the scene of a suicide bomb attack that targeted the Afghan National Army (ANA) in Kabul, Afghanistan, 01 October 2014. Number of casualities or injuries were not immediately available. EPA/JAWAD JALALI Afghan police say two suicide bombers in the capital have targeted two buses carrying Afghan army troops, killing seven and wounding 21 people.

'We heard a thump, a thump, thump': Missing Kentucky woman found alive in car trunk

"We heard a 'thump, a thump, thump,'" passerby Tiasha Chaplin told Wave3 News. "We thought it was prank." A Louisville woman reported missing on Saturday found herself trapped in the trunk of her daughter's Mazda 48 hours later with no clue how she got there.

Anne: Fame 'f--ked me up for a really long time'

Anne Hathaway in the November 2014 issue of Elle U.K.

Drugged, naked teen girl tried to run during sex abuse and beating behind a Mass. school: prosecutors

A shackled Rashad Deihim, 19, was arraigned Monday in Lynn District Court after turning himself in on several charges related from a disturbing Sept. 3 attack. A drugged teen shook her head “no” and tried to run away from three assailants who sexually abused and beat her while filming the vile acts behind a Massachusetts elementary school, prosecutors said.

Fern Creek school shooting suspect in custody, one student hospitalized

A shooting was reported at Fern Creek High School where one person was loaded into an ambulance A student was rushed to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a shooting at Fern Creek High School in Kentucky Tuesday afternoon, and by nightfall police had a 16-year-old suspect in custody, authorities said.

'He managed to flush the suspect out': Missouri police dog immortalized in video of robbery suspect capture dies in line of duty

The death of a canine officer in the line of duty, Brunie. On Sunday night, he was helping Belton Police search for a suspect in a wooded area. He managed to flush the suspect out of the woods, but somewhere in the woods, it appears he ingested something poisonous. A beloved Missouri police dog who captured an armed robbery suspect last year in a chase caught on video has died in the line of duty.

OPINION Sarah Brown: The world’s children belong in classrooms

TO GO WITH PAKISTAN-UNREST-WOMEN-EDUCATION-UN A neatly pressed uniform, a warm breakfast, a short walk or a bus ride, the bell, friends, laughter, books, teachers. Tomorrow and every day, millions and millions of children across the globe will do what they do every morning and think nothing of it. They will go to school.
New York

Andrew Cuomo's weekend trip to Afghanistan sparks political battle

EUO 3TP Gov. Cuomo’s weekend trip to Afghanistan sparked a furious political battle Tuesday, with Republicans charging that the journey was a political stunt.

Brooklyn DA is probing cop who wrestled with pregnant woman

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Brooklyn prosecutors are investigating the cop who was caught on tape wrestling with a pregnant woman and flinging her friend to the ground, authorities said Tuesday.

PICTURED NYPD seek teen suspect sought in killing of 14-year-old peacemaker at Bronx party

The NYPD released this picture of Ken Goodwin, 18, who is wanted for killing a 14-year-old boy during a fight at a birthday party in the Bronx early Sunday. An 18-year-old boy was identified as a suspect Tuesday for stabbing four teenagers, one of them fatally, at a booze-filled birthday party in the Bronx over the weekend.

Al Qaeda wannabe appeals his conviction after sentenced to prison for supporting terrorists

Sabirhan Hasanoff (c.) appears in Manhattan Federal Court today before Judge Kimba Wood (l.) Hasanoff is charged with providing support to Al Qaeda. (Copy photo by Marc A. Hermann/Freelance NYDN) An Al Qaeda wannabe raised in New York City appealed his conviction Tuesday, arguing his lawyer failed to challenge government evidence obtained through NSA spying.
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Charter school maven Moskowitz to offer lessons to public school principals

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi Eva Moskowitz, whose Success Academy charters outperform district schools on state exams, will host a conference Oct. 30 for the first 60 principals who sign up.

Rutgers student did not provoke bear before fatal mauling: police

A black bear, like the one above, fatally attacked Darsh Patel, who failed to regroup with friends hiking in the Apshawa Preserve Authorities believe 22-year-old Darsh Patel and four of his friends were aggressively targeted and chased by the bear while trekking West Milford's Apshawa Preserve on Sept. 21.

Ex-con boyfriend of First Lady Chirlane McCray's top aide went on web rants about race, women

Rachel Noerdlinger, center, and boyfriend Hassaun McFarlan, right. The ex-con boyfriend of First Lady Chirlane McCray's top aide doesn't just go after cops as "pigs" in his web rants -- he also has referred to whites as "crackers" and made extremely graphic comments about sex and women.

'She’s no-bulls---': Lena bares all about sex and drugs in new memoir

Lena Dunham talks about her troubled past in her new book, 'Not That Kind of Girl'

ISIS will get nukes if allowed to consolidate: expert

Militant Islamist fighters on a tank take part in a military parade along the streets of northern Raqqa province June 30, 2014. Militant Islamist fighters held a parade in Syria's northern Raqqa province to celebrate their declaration of an Islamic "caliphate" after the group captured territory in neighbouring Iraq, a monitoring service said. The Islamic State, an al Qaeda offshoot previously known as Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), posted pictures online on Sunday of people waving black flags from cars and holding guns in the air, the SITE monitoring service said. REUTERS/Stringer (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST CONFLICT) - RTR3WJA0 The risk of a terrorist attack using nuclear or chemical weapons has just gone up.

Ex-cruise ship worker admits to beating and raping passenger

Arrest photo of Ketut Pujayasa, 28, a Holland America cruise worker who confessed to raping and trying to throw a passenger overboard on Valentine's Day during a cruise that left Fort Lauderdale's Port Everglades. Credit - Broward County Sheriff's Office An Indonesian cruise ship worker who beat, raped and attempted to throw a female passenger overboard during a Holland America excursion from Fort Lauderdale, Fla. pleaded guilty in federal court on Monday.

Oklahoma nursing home worker arrested on terrorism for vowing to behead colleague — day after food plant beheading just 18 miles away

Jacob Mugambi Muriithi, 30, worked 20 miles away from beheading scene at Vaughan Foods, at Bellvue Nursing An ISIS terror wannabe vowed to behead a coworker because she was a Christian, cops said — just a day after another Oklahoma man decapitated a colleague during a rampage on his former workplace.

ISIS NUKE THREAT: British security chief warns terror thugs could 'acquire nuclear weapons' to attack the West

British Home Secretary Theresa May addresses delegates on the third day of the annual British Conservative Party conference in Birmingham, central England, on September 30, 2014. AFP PHOTO/LEON NEALLEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images Top British official Theresa May said ISIS terrorists could become a nuclear threat and attack the West, and emphasized that the country “must not flinch” in the face of fear.

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'Why would they do this?': Boy, 13, shot to death after walking girl to bus stop on Chicago’s South Side

13-year-old Demureye Macon was shot and killed near Marquette Park in Chicago. Suspected gang members shot a seventh-grader to death on Chicago's gun-plagued South Side Sunday, authorities said.

Florida thief moves the surveillance camera, forgets about floor-length mirror 

Authorities in Coral Gables, Fla., are looking for a thief who moved a surveillance camera to hide his identity. But his reflection was caught in a floor-to-ceiling mirror. Apparently, the only person this crook outsmarted was himself. A man in Coral Gables, Fla., thought he was covering his tracks when he repositioned the security camera inside a law office he was about to burgle.

Imprisoned killer Joran Van der Sloot, suspect in Natalee Holloway case, is now a dad

PHOTO TAKEN THROUGH A GLASS OF WINDOW Jailed Dutch murderer is new father of daughter named Dushy. The convicted killer was married this summer at his Peruvian jail.

Preet Bharara won't say whether he's interested in succeeding Eric Holder as attorney general

MAY 19, 2014 FILE PHOTO Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara won't say whether he's interested in being the next attorney general — but his priorities do happen to align nicely with Eric Holder's.
Sports

Bondy: Knicks star Carmelo Anthony off on right foot

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi The only two measurements that matter, Derek Fisher’s first day on the job went very well at West Point. Phil Jackson didn’t stand up from his seat by the bleachers to take over the defensive drills.

Derek Fisher spends all of first practice as Knicks coach on defense

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi The implementation of Phil Jackson’s famed triangle offense will be a running theme throughout Fisher’s initial training camp and season in New York, but the fact that the first-year coach spent the entirety of his first official three-hour session working exclusively on defensive drills tells you what kind of team he expects to field with the Knicks following last year’s disastrous failure to reach the playoffs.

METS KEEP 'EM DUMP 'EM! Let us know who should remain in Queens and who should just hit the road in 2015

New York Mets Daniel Murphy? Terry Collins? Matt Harvey? David Wright? Now that the Mets season is officially over, step in to GM Sandy Alderson's chair and tell us who stays and who goes for next season.

'He'll be back': Yanks, GM Brian Cashman close to new deal: source

Brian Cashman during pre game warm ups before game action against the Boston Red Sox at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. (Mark Bonifacio/New York Daily News) It has been assumed for months that Brian Cashman would return with a new contract to continue as the Yankees' general manager. With the Bombers' season officially over, that process is underway

NFL power rankings: O-line powers the Cowboys into Daily News' Top 10

ARLINGTON, TX - SEPTEMBER 28: DeMarco Murray #29 of the Dallas Cowboys runs for a touchdown against the New Orleans Saints in the first half at AT&T Stadium on September 28, 2014 in Arlington, Texas. (Photo by Tom Pennington/Getty Images) In an always-volatile NFL, the top of the Daily News Rankings remain unchanged after Week 4. That’s because the first four teams had byes so it’s still Seahawks and Broncos, followed by the league’s only two unbeatens, the Bengals and Cardinals.

YANKEES KEEP 'EM DUMP 'EM! Tell us who should stay in the Bronx and who should follow Jeter out the door

The Captain is gone and there is no coming back. But who else could and should leave the Yankees before 2015? Step in to Brian Cashman's chair and tell us who stays and who goes!
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Illinois college student threatens on-campus beheadings in disturbing letters signed 'Terrorist of America': officials

Southern Illinois University Investigators said 21-year-old Derrick Dawon Burns was a student at Southern Illinois University when he sent a series of seven disturbing letters to the school outlining his plans to terrorize the campus.

Oklahoma beheading suspect likely to face death penalty as it emerges he tried to cut off head of another co-worker

MARCH 25, 2013 PHOTO; AP PROVIDES ACCESS TO THIS PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED HANDOUT PHOTO PROVIDED BY OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Alton Nolen beheaded one co-worker last Thursday and was trying to behead a second when he was shot by an executive at the Moore, Oklahoma food plant where he worked, prosecutors said Tuesday.

'I just want justice': Molest victim makes stand at Fordham against Jesuit priests

NYC PAPERS OUT. Social media use restricted to low res file max 184 x 128 pixels and 72 dpi A Connecticut screenwriter chose the Bronx as the location to make a statement against sexual abuse on Tuesday.

Channing Tatum flexes muscles for new 'Magic Mike'

Utah family found dead in home showed no signs of trauma as police probe tragedy

Benjamin and Kristi Strack, 37 and 36, were found dead in their house with three of their children: Benson, 14, (top-right) Emery, 12, (bottom right) and Zion, 11, (left). Their oldest son was not home at the time. Autopsies conducted on a Utah family found dead in their home this weekend revealed there were no signs of trauma, authorities said.

Bear scales tree in Ridgewood, N.J., delaying dismissal at three schools

A bear went into a tree near Ridge Elementary School in NJ, prompting three schools to delay dismissal. A tree-hopping bear was on the loose near a New Jersey school Tuesday, prompting officials to keep students in hibernation past dismissal.

British warplanes finally join the fight against ISIS, bombing terror targets in Iraq

Two British RAF tornado fighter arrive in Cyprus on September 27, 2014, after a mission over Iraq. The United Kingdom reportedly launched its first airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq Tuesday.

She's all legs! Guess which model shared this sexy snap

Miranda Kerr posted a picture from of herself from behind on instagram on Sept. 30, 2014.

California becomes first state to ban single-use plastic bags

Plastic single-use bags will no longer be allowed to be distributed at stores under a new California law.

Who wore it better? Amal takes on Michelle and Taylor

fashion faceoff - Amala vs Michelle Obama

Couple leaves $100 tip to encourage overwhelmed waiter

A copy of the receipt left by Makenzie Schultz that included a $100 tip to an overworked waiter. The receipt has gotten almost 1.5 million likes on Facebook.
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Honda Civic Type-R Concept headed to the Paris Motor Show

The Honda Civic Type-R is motivated by a 276-horsepower turbocharged 2.0-liter 4-cylinder. All that power is routed to the front wheels, via a trick 6-speed manual and suspension tuning designed to minimize torque steer. Turbocharged to the tune of 276-horsepower, Honda’s European-spec Civic Type-R Concept looks blisteringly quick.
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Hong Kong protesters stockpile supplies, fear fresh police advance

A protester speaks to the crowd as they block the areas around the government headquarters building in Hong Kong, September 30, 2014.

Calif. mom pleads insanity in stabbing deaths of 3 baby girls

Carol Coronado, 30, pleaded insanity in the stabbing deaths of her baby girls.

Ciara falls victim to red carpet prankster Vitalii Sediuk

BIRD OF PLANE: Falcon prepares to take off as it sits in cabin

Falcon gets restless while sitting on owners knee as an airplane lands

Pope summons Mideast envoys to Rome over ISIS progress

Pope Francis will hold a meeting later this week to discuss the rise of the Islamic State terrorist group in the Middle East.

N.Y. principal joins 'laser cat' teen for new pic to protest animal cruelty

Adam Levine strips in new video, but who's that woman?

Adam Levine stalks wife Behati Prinsloo in Maroon 5's new video 'Animals'

Cop fired for lauding Ferguson shooting on Facebook

Officer Jason Lentz, of the Elgin Police Department in Illinois, was fired after posting potentially racialy-charged posts on his Facebook page about the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson.

Creep wearing ninja mask arrested for attempted rape

Nick James Nardelli was arrested for sneaking into a woman’s house in Florida and trying to rape her.

Hikers cling to cliff's edge in Scotland after path collapses

Two walkers were stranded in Hart Fell, near Moffat Hills, Scotland, when the earth suddenly crumbled beneath them as they hiked up the ridge. Both were rescued. Image a handout from the UK Ministry of Defence.

Student shot, gunman in custody after N.C. school shooting

Albemarle High School, Park Ridge Road, Albemarle, NC

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