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Workers tracked down in bogus disability-pension plot: feds

Workers tracked down in bogus disability-pension plot: feds

Former Long Island Rail Road workers who lied about being disabled rode a “train of lies’’ to golden retirements in an audacious, $1 billion pension scam, the feds said yesterday. Eleven suspects were charged: six retired workers, two...  Read Full Story

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  • East Harlem grandmother died brutal death: DA

    East Harlem grandmother died brutal death: DA

    The great-grandmother was reaching for her phone, trying to call for help, when Gregory Velez went berserk -- leaving her bludgeoned and strangled on her blood-smeared floor, prosecutors said this morning, describing Wednesday's brutal slaughter in...   12:39 PM

  • TSA to fire screener who wrote 'get your freak on girl' note after sex toy find

    TSA to fire screener who wrote 'get your freak on girl' note after sex toy find

    NEWARK, N.J. -- The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has decided to fire a screener at New Jersey's Newark Airport who found a sex toy in the baggage of a transatlantic traveler -- then advised her in writing what to do with it. "[The]...   12:40 PM

  • 125 New Americans sworn in for Statue of Liberty’s birthday

    125 New Americans sworn in for Statue of Liberty’s birthday

    A total of 125 immigrants from 46 countries have been sworn in as United States citizens at a ceremony marking the 125th anniversary of the Statue of Liberty. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar told the new Americans on Friday that diversity...   11:55 AM

  • Kevorkian suicide machine, paintings in NY sale

    Kevorkian suicide machine, paintings in NY sale

    Dr. Jack Kevorkian's suicide machine and other personal items are being sold in New York amid a legal dispute between his estate and a suburban Boston museum. Estate attorney Mayer Morganroth says 17 disputed paintings also will be auctioned Friday...   12:00 PM

  • Stun gun found in carry-on at Newark airport

    NEWARK, N.J. — Transportation Security Administration officers at Newark Liberty International Airport detected a stun gun in a carry-on bag. A...   11:51 AM

  • LI construction worker killed in hit-run crash

    FORT SALONGA — Police on Long Island say they're investigating a hit-and-run crash that killed a construction worker in Fort Salonga this morning. The...   11:10 AM

  • City may see snow tomorrow

    Get ready for some early season snow. The city may see some snowfall tomorrow, with the nothern suburbs getting significant amounts. Already today...   12:27 PM

  • 16 cops arraigned in ticket fixing scandal

    16 cops arraigned in ticket fixing scandal

    Sixteen cops were arraigned today in the NYPD ticket-fixing scandal as hundreds of cops turned up to the Bronx courthouse in a show of support for their fellow officers. The cops were arraigned in Bronx Supreme Court -- and all of them, with the...   1:04 PM

  • FDNY takes Occupy Wall Street generators

    FDNY takes Occupy Wall Street generators

    FDNY firefighters moved into the Occupy Wall Street camp at Zuccotti Park this morning for a safety inspection and ended up hauling out at least two generators. A department spokesman said the firefighters were looking for fire hazards in the...   10:58 AM

  • First flakes coming

    Get ready for snow -- yes, in October. A prewinter storm is expected to arrive at about 7 to 8 a.m. tomorrow and should bring a snow-rain mixture by...   7:44 AM

  • NY’s Iran $queeze play

    Companies doing business with Iran’s energy industry would be barred from bidding on state or municipal contracts under a bill introduced yesterday by...   7:07 AM

  • Conn. fiend kin testify

    Conn. fiend kin testify

    More than a decade before Joshua Komisarjevsky committed one of Connecticut’s most gruesome crimes, he harbored homicidal thoughts about his devoutly religious father and got tattoos -- two upside-down crosses and a marking declaring that Jesus was...   9:57 AM

  • Pine nuts recall

    ROCHESTER, NY -- Wegmans Food Markets is recalling 5,000 pounds of pine nuts, citing possible salmonella contamination. The Turkish pine nuts were...   8:08 AM

  • Silver renews call for rich tax

    Silver renews call for rich tax

    Albany Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver renewed his call yesterday for a state millionaires tax as another poll showed strong backing by voters. The top tax rates on New Yorkers with taxable incomes above $200,000 are set to expire on Dec. 31, and...   8:13 AM

  • Mike, Liu eye funds merger to up returns

    Mike, Liu eye funds merger to up returns

    The city’s $120 billion pension system is set for a major overhaul intended to lower the cost to taxpayers and weed out the potential for corruption, Mayor Bloomberg and Comptroller John Liu announced yesterday. Bloomberg and Liu, usually at odds...   9:57 AM

  • ‘Chimp’ gal: I’m beautiful

    ‘Chimp’ gal: I’m beautiful

    The Connecticut woman who was horribly mauled by a friend’s chimpanzee says her new face has drawn some compliments. “A lot of people tell me I look beautiful,” said Charla Nash, who received a pioneering face transplant after she was maimed by...   9:57 AM

  • Rich snapping up lux Hamptons homes

    The rich are scooping up luxury homes in the Hamptons again -- in volumes that haven’t been this high since the good ‘ole days pre-Lehman. So far...  

  • LI fish clan off the hook

    LI fish clan off the hook

    The fish scales of justice have been tipped. A Long Island judge sank a criminal case against a family of Hamptons fishermen who claim a 1686 royal decree protects them from some state regulations. Kelly Lester, 34, of Amagansett, was charged by a...  

  • Big Sean takes plea in NY concert assault case

    Big Sean takes plea in NY concert assault case

    LEWISTON, N.Y. — Rapper Big Sean has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of unlawful imprisonment stemming from a backstage incident at a New York concert over the summer. The Niagara Gazette reports the Detroit entertainer, whose real name is...  

  • Kevorkian estate to auction disputed paintings in NYC

    The estate of Dr. Jack Kevorkian is proceeding with plans to auction 17 paintings by the assisted-suicide advocate that are in storage at a...  

  • Some Facebook funds to Newark go to consultants

    NEWARK, N.J. — Some of the $148 million contributed to Newark’s schools by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and other donors has made its way to...  

  • Man wanted in Bronx shooting captured upstate

    ELMIRA, N.Y. — A man sought in a double shooting in New York City has been arrested after a five-hour standoff at an upstate home. Elmira media...  

  • Most NY'ers support Wall St. protest, millionaire's tax: poll

    New Yorkers support Occupy Wall Street and the extension of a millionaire’s tax – and it isn’t just the Democrats backing a levy on the rich. A...  

  • 3 more face bust in SAT cheating scam

    Get some more dunce caps ready -- cops in Nassau County are preparing to arrest three more students in the SAT cheating scandal, sources said. The...  

  • Alec & GOP in war of twitwits

    Alec & GOP in war of twitwits

    ALBANY -- Liberal standard-bearer Alec Baldwin launched a Twitter tirade yesterday at New York’s top Republican, who earlier called out the sitcom star for pushing a new millionaires tax. In a string of tweets yesterday, Baldwin attacked Senate...  

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