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Anthony released early this morning

Anthony released early this morning

Casey Anthony is free. The nation's most reviled woman was released from jail at 12:14 a.m. after spending nearly three years behind bars on charges related to the shocking death of her adorable...  Read Full Story

Leiby's family keeps horrific details of death from mom

Leiby's family keeps horrific details of death from mom

The family of murdered 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky spent the Sabbath trying to keep his grieving mom from learning the horrific details of his death, while cops scoured the alleged killer's home for...  Read Full Story

Gropes of wrath — fed-up flier 'molests' TSA screener

Gropes of wrath — fed-up flier 'molests' TSA screener

She gave the TSA a taste of its own medicine. A 61-year-old woman fed up with manhandling security screeners allegedly gave a female agent at the Phoenix airport a pat-down of her own, it was...  Read Full Story

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  • Armed nut nabbed at airport

    A crazed, knife-wielding Lower East Side man was in custody last night after he was caught running on the tarmac at Newark Airport. Xiang Xun Shao,...   7:00 AM

  • Thug guns down B'klyn teen

    A gunman killed a 15-year-old boy near a Brooklyn school playground last night, and wounded a 13-year-old friend, authorities said. The violence...   7:00 AM

  • I'm just Inga - the real diva is Foxy Brown

    I'm just Inga - the real diva is Foxy Brown

    "That's not me," protests Inga Marchand, a k a Foxy Brown, when asked whether she's a diva. It's 7 p.m. and she's three hours late to a photo shoot, accompanied by an entourage of six. They got pulled over for speeding and sweet-talked their...   7:16 AM

  • Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'slept with three women' the same weekend he allegedly assaulted maid

    Dominique Strauss-Kahn 'slept with three women' the same weekend he allegedly assaulted maid

    It was a sexual trois-fecta! Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn bedded three women during the course of a few hours the same weekend he allegedly assaulted a Manhattan hotel maid, a French magazine has reported. DSK confessed to his...   7:35 AM

  • Fire kills tranny in dairy den

    A transvestite hooker who turned an unused Elmhurst Dairy trailer into her longtime personal crack den and brothel burned to death there yesterday,...   7:00 AM

  • Lifeguard busted in 'high' drive

    He may be the city's worst lifeguard -- and his parenting skills need some work, too. A pool patrolman driving to work high as a kite yesterday was...   7:00 AM

  • Hey, Yo swear-o Taco Bell

    His exit strategy was strictly outside the bun. A fed-up Taco Bell manager who had a simmering beef with his bosses got even with an F-bomb...   7:00 AM

  • Worst of the wurst

    Worst of the wurst

    That's wheely gross. Mobile food vendors racked up a stomach-turning 2,517 violations this year -- ranging from poor personal hygiene, to serving up mystery meat, to live rodents -- but the city Health Department doesn't grade them or let the...   7:00 AM

  • Bloomberg uses fines, fees as stealth tax on New York City businesses

    Bloomberg uses fines, fees as stealth tax on New York City businesses

    It's tough enough to run a restaurant in the city without having to worry about rain runoff. But for Anthony Fasolino, a family member who helps run the kitchen at Yolanda's restaurant near Yankee Stadium in The Bronx, the weather is as costly...   4:23 AM

  • Brooklynite shoots for poker glory

    Brooklyn’s got its very own five-card stud. Manoj Viswanathan, 32, an MIT and NYU Law grad from Flatbush, sat atop the leader board at the start of...   7:00 AM

  • Life on the 'Pry' Line

    They live in a peep show. Residents of apartments along the newly opened stretch of the High Line say they feel like zoo animals, constantly...   7:00 AM

  • Vets rip actor's 'no-pay' charity

    Wounded war vets say actor-turned-philanthropist Jack Scalia left them high and dry. J.R. Martinez, a badly burned Iraq veteran who now plays an ex...   7:00 AM

  • '1st Blood' hound

    '1st Blood' hound

    This puppy named Rambo lived up to his name. The 6-month-old Australian shepherd jumped out a shattered window to escape a major smashup on the New Jersey Turnpike, dodged a mile of highway traffic, slipped a dognapper's grasp, and eventually...   7:23 AM

  • Scare over beef contamined with radioactivity spreads across Japan

    TOKYO -- A scare in Japan over beef contaminated with radioactivity was spreading Sunday, with more parts of the country reporting tainted food four...   7:03 AM

  • Flying Solo: I am my dad's 'keeper'

    Flying Solo: I am my dad's 'keeper'

    Her name's Solo -- but she won't be alone in the goal today when the US women's soccer team faces off against Japan for the World Cup. Hope Solo, the team's star goalkeeper, says she will have the spirit of her late dad, a once-homeless Bronx...   7:03 AM

  • O: 'Hello, Dalai!'

    President Obama met yesterday with the Dalai Lama, defying a last-minute call by China for the United States to pull the invite. The Tibetan...   6:55 AM

  • Taliban spy kills NATO man

    A man wearing an Afghan army uniform fatally shot NATO service member yesterday. The Taliban claimed the assailant was one of its sleeper agents...   2:42 AM

  • N. Korea 'roid rave

    The North Korean government came up with an electrifying excuse for five soccer gals caught doping -- blaming an obscure Chinese remedy to treat...   7:03 AM

  • 'Carmageddon' fears don't come true in LA

    'Carmageddon' fears don't come true in LA

    LOS ANGELES — Southern Californians appeared today to be willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to avoid the dreaded "Carmageddon" — leaving their cars in the garage. Unusually light traffic flowed freely through the nation's second-largest city...  

  • Back in jail: ID-swap 'killer' turns self in to cops

    Back in jail: ID-swap 'killer' turns self in to cops

    WASHINGTON -- A man charged with first-degree murder who allegedly swapped identities with another prisoner and walked out of a Washington courthouse has turned himself in to authorities. The U.S. Marshals Service said in a statement that 24-year...   7:03 AM

  • Rod Blagojevich puts Chicago home up for sale

    CHICAGO -- Disgraced former lawmaker Rod Blagojevich was being forced to sell the Chicago home he shares with his wife as the costs of his corruption...  

  • Yankees' Sabathia wins seventh straight start

    Yankees' Sabathia wins seventh straight start

    TORONTO -- CC Sabathia is making the hardest chore in sports look easy. "Win when you are expected to win" is considered the most difficult assignment an athlete or team can receive. And since the Yankees' rotation is full of question marks...   5:38 AM

  • Mechanics an issue for tinkering Hughes

    Mechanics an issue for tinkering Hughes

    TORONTO -- A lot has been made of how much Bartolo Colon and Freddy Garcia can contribute to the Yankees in the final 11 weeks of the season. Watching the veteran right-handers pitch Thursday and Friday against the Blue Jays has people inside...   6:28 AM

  • Girardi no fan of Blue Jays' sign language

    TORONTO -- Even though Joe Girardi stopped short of accusing the Blue Jays of stealing signs with off-the field devices, the Blue Jays believe the...   2:17 AM

  • Mets backup Hairston flattens Phillies

    Mets backup Hairston flattens Phillies

    Carlos Beltran took a sick day yesterday, but an even sicker day by his replacement in right field made everything just fine in the Mets’ world. The last time anyone had heard Scott Hairston’s name, he was taking Brian Wilson deep in the ninth...   5:38 AM

  • Mets' Parnell passes test -- and it wasn't even 'close'

    Terry Collins tested Bobby Parnell yesterday -- and the Mets' fireballing closer candidate passed with flying colors. In the eighth inning of the...   8:17 AM

  • Murphy finally cleaning up at plate for Mets

    Bobby Parnell was at Triple-A Buffalo last June when Daniel Murphy was taken out by a slide at second base in a game against Syracuse. The play left...   8:20 AM

  • Mets manager not worried about Tejada's fielding woes

    Ruben Tejada doesn't carry much of a stick, but the Mets love his glove. That makes his recent defensive struggles a little confounding to manager...   8:18 AM

  • Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Mark Sanchez

    Serby's Sunday Q & A with... Mark Sanchez

    The Post's Steve Serby caught up with Mark Sanchez at the "Good Morning America" studios, where the Jets quarterback/heartthrob talked about his team, his Super Bowl obsession, his quarterbacking and his locked-out offseason. He also announced that...   5:38 AM

  • New Jersey community eager to welcome Jets

    New Jersey community eager to welcome Jets

    MADISON, N.J. — Cortland’s loss is Madison’s gain, or at least the New Jersey borough hopes it will be. When and if the NFL finally settles on a new collective bargaining agreement, the Jets plan to hold training camp at their practice facility,...   8:19 AM

  • Chaos coming after NFL labor deal

    Bar the door! Thanks to the lockout, no one person — not NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, not players exec DeMaurice Smith, not a single owner, general...   8:18 AM

  • U.S. women take stage for their biggest act

    U.S. women take stage for their biggest act

    Today's outsized Women's World Cup final in Frankfurt, Germany, is rife with side stories and subplots, dynasty vs. destiny. It features a powerhouse U.S. team looking to win its third title -- and finally emerge from the shadow of Mia Hamm & Co. --...   6:28 AM

  • Clarke holds 1-stroke lead

    Clarke holds 1-stroke lead

    SANDWICH, England — The pubs in Northern Ireland had better be poised for another massive party tonight. The Guinness could be flowing from the taps at an even more rapid rate than usual. Another one of the small but proud country’s golf heroes is...   6:28 AM

  • Gone to Potter

    Gone to Potter

    Sitting unmoved and uninterested through all eight Harry Potter movies over the last decade or so, I often had the thought: Please don’t let this all be leading up to Harry P. and Lord V. standing a few yards apart zapping each other with their...   6:47 AM

  • A hero grows in Brooklyn

    A hero grows in Brooklyn

    Lots of superheroes call New York City home. Peter Parker/Spider-Man hails from Queens. Tony Stark/Iron Man has an office in Midtown. Matthew Murdock/Daredevil lives in Hell’s Kitchen. But only one Marvel comic-book star is a Brooklyn boy — Steve...   8:11 AM

  • Puritan pops

    Puritan pops

    You might think that a song with lyrics like, “If you want this good bitch/Sicker than the remix/Baby, let me blow your mind tonight” might be automatically disqualified for inclusion on an album of children’s songs. If so, count yourself out for a...   7:52 AM

  • 'Bad' to the bone

    'Bad' to the bone

    It’s been over a year since we last left Walter White, the terminally ill chemistry teacher/multi-millionaire meth “cooker” in “Breaking Bad.” That’s over 365 days in the real world, but only a matter of seconds in the inky-black world of “Breaking...   7:52 AM

  • The home stretch

    The home stretch

    Laughing Lotus yoga 7 p.m. at the 14th Street Park, 10th Avenue between 14th and 15th streets; Through Aug. 31 Cars whiz around this small park near the High Line, which one might assume would make for a less-than-Zen experience. But once this...   8:17 AM

  • Coming of age

    Coming of age

    Cocktails are showing their age this summer, but not because they’re old hat — they’re sitting around in oak barrels for weeks on end to gain flavor. A handful of the city’s mixologists credit trend-setting mix master Jeffrey Morganthaler of Clyde...   7:52 AM

  • Death star!

    Death star!

    Death has never seemed so delicious. In the Roundabout’s new musical, “Death Takes a Holiday,” the Grim Reaper takes human form — and he’s to die for. Eager to taste life, he shows up at a family’s country estate in the guise of the Russian Prince...   7:52 AM

  • We’re off to see the lizard

    What's the recipe for the best Western cartoon ever made? First, start with a pirate, namely Captain Jack Sparrow. Then add a dose of “Star Wars” with...   8:07 AM

  • Phoebe gets ‘Therapy’

    Phoebe gets ‘Therapy’

    In the years since her career-making run as Phoebe on “Friends” ended, Lisa Kudrow had been routinely approached about creating something for the Internet, but always declined. And then came “Web Therapy.” “Web series mostly seemed to be sitcoms...   2:26 AM

  • Don't miss

    Don't miss

    Brillo mouth is back GORDON Ramsay is still screaming in the kitchen. Eighteen new aspiring chefs compete for the grand prize of a head chef position at BLT Steak in NY on the new season of “Hell’s Kitchen.” Chef Ramsay asks the contestants to...   12:01 AM

  • Rise of Lafayette

    Rise of Lafayette

    Actor Nelsan Ellis, who plays Lafayette Reynolds on HBO’s hit vampire series “True Blood,” remembers what he’d hear in meetings when he was a Juilliard graduate trying to land roles in Hollywood. “Everybody kept saying, ‘I just don’t know how to...   8:07 AM

  • My New York: Andy Warhol

    My New York: Andy Warhol

    Getty ImagesIt might seem odd, but pop artist Andy Warhol lived on the Upper East Side, where he spent his days roaming antique and toy stores, and hanging out at Serendipity. It was at night that he went downtown to work at his famous Factory —...   8:07 AM

  • String-a-ding-ding

    String-a-ding-ding

    Two Croatian classical musical prodigies — for a decade thought to be rivals, but really best friends — finally play together for the first time. They film themselves playing a version of Michael Jackson’s “Smooth Criminal” that they arranged in...   8:19 AM

  • The big app-le

    The big app-le

    What better time to look at the best New York iPhone apps than when there are actual cash prizes involved? With the announcement this week of an “MTA App Quest” — with $15,000 in prizes for anyone who creates the best apps using city data — The...   8:07 AM

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Diaper-inspired

Diaper-inspired

What inspired Robert Rodriguez to make "Spy Kids: All the Time in...   3:55 AM

LA all the way

LA all the way

Justin Bieber couldn't deny his devotion to the Lakers when he...   3:55 AM

Sports

Yankees' Sabathia wins seventh straight start

Yankees' Sabathia wins seventh straight start

TORONTO -- CC Sabathia is making the hardest chore in sports look...   5:38 AM

Mets backup Hairston flattens Phillies

Mets backup Hairston flattens Phillies

Carlos Beltran took a sick day yesterday, but an even sicker day...   5:38 AM

Joel Sherman Joel Sherman

Mets will get what they ‘pay’ for in Beltran deal

There was surprise in the major league landscape. Not that the...   1:38 AM

Entertainment

A hero grows in Brooklyn

A hero grows in Brooklyn

Lots of superheroes call New York City home. Peter Parker/Spider...   8:11 AM

'Bad' to the bone

'Bad' to the bone

It’s been over a year since we last left Walter White, the...   7:52 AM

Ashley Dupre Ashley Dupre

Ask Ashley: Thinking of you...and him

My girlfriend has an admirer who sends her Facebook messages —...   12:25 AM

Business

Bloomberg uses fines, fees as stealth tax on New York City businesses

Bloomberg uses fines, fees as stealth tax on New York City businesses

It's tough enough to run a restaurant in the city without having...   4:23 AM

Employers are saying, 'Sorry, kid, no job here'

Employers are saying, 'Sorry, kid, no job here'

It's a teenage wasteland out there. At least when it comes to...   4:23 AM

John Crudele John Crudele

Marts are just legal crapshoot

Dear John: I just wanted to relay a quick thought I have every...   4:23 AM

Opinion

Hide these numbers!

Hide these numbers!

Many Americans are suffering under the ailing economy — but not...   4:37 AM

Mike's gridiron goof

Mike's gridiron goof

Mayoral control of the schools may be almost a decade old, but...   4:37 AM

Maureen Callahan Maureen Callahan

When cool died

The notion of cool is a distinctly American one; along with...   2:28 AM

In Today's Paper

One haul of a bad $$ move at court

One haul of a bad $$ move at court

Here's one case that should have been tabled. Judge Luis...   2:44 AM

Eight survive plunge horror off the FDR

Eight survive plunge horror off the FDR

A speeding SUV with seven passengers catapulted from an elevated...   7:08 AM

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