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  Jurors see bus-kill vid

  Crime-scene video of the horrific bus crash that killed 15 people on their way home from a casino trip last year shows a sad mix of suffering and loss. Jurors in the Bronx manslaughter trial of bus driver Ophadell Williams saw a video...  
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  Kerik ‘loan’ crony on stand

  A real-estate pal of Bernard Kerik testified yesterday about loans he made to the former police commissioner to help buy a Bronx apartment at the center of a perjury trial.  Developer Nathan Berman said he gave Kerik several checks...  
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  Ex: Cop 'confessed' to wife slay in chilling 2 a.m. phone call

  The ex-girlfriend of a former housing cop on trial for the murder of his wife told jurors yesterday that he confessed to the gruesome crime to her, calling in the middle of the night to say that he’d “snapped.” “There is no easy way...  

• One person seriously injured in Bronx apartment fire

  The Fire Department says a person has been seriously injured in a Bronx apartment building fire. The fire was reported just after 7:30 a.m. Friday. The co-op...  
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  Lawyer disses Espada, who still thinks he’s ‘VIP’

  He may be a crooked ex-pol with a trip to the slammer in his future, but Pedro Espada Jr. insists he’s still a “VIP.” The former state Senate majority leader interrupted a court proceeding yesterday when his disgruntled defense lawyer...  
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  WATCH: Thug beats Bronx man, steals chain in grisly elevator robbery

  A grisly beatdown was caught on surveillance video in The Bronx, authorities said.  The pint-sized creep is seen following the 69-year-old victim into an elevator of a Huntspoint building and then lurks against the back wall of the...  

• Diaz case gets special prosecutor

  Bronx District Attorney Robert Johnson has brought in a special prosecutor to handle a criminal case against the borough president’s sister.  Damaris Diaz,...  
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  ‘Navy’ kid slain in Bronx

  A Bronx teen set to join the Navy was gunned down trying to play peacemaker, cops and relatives said yesterday. Victor Maldonado, 19, was visiting a friend when he encountered two women arguing in a building on Heath Avenue in...  
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  Kerik bro’s $weet deal: Testifies pal gave him 5 months’ pay

  It sure is sweet being Bernie Kerik’s little brother. The disgraced ex-NYPD commissioner’s younger sibling got a jaw-dropping five months’ severance when he quit a $90,000-a-year job at a waste-management firm less than a year after...  

• Toll speeder causes 8-car pileup on Whitestone Bridge

  A man zooming through a toll booth on the Whitestone Bridge headed for Queens caused an 8 car pileup after he swerved out of control sending himself and...  
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  VIDEO SHOCKER: Thug shoots up Bronx bodega

  Police have released video of the gunman who fired into a Bronx bodega – wounding a clerk on his first day of work.  The shooter had asked a 20-year-old employee inside Taiz Deli & Grocery on Valentine Avenue for a “loosey” – a single...  

• One dead, two hospitalized in early morning Bronx shooting

  The NYPD is investigating an early morning shooting that left one person dead and two others hospitalized. Police found the victims around 2 a.m. Tuesday in...  
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  Son’s torment: Tells how ‘killer’ dad lugged mom’s ‘body’

  A young man yesterday heartbreakingly took jurors through a surveillance video that caught his abusive ex-cop stepdad allegedly carrying out his mom’s corpse in a duffel bag last year. “Eddy is walking out of my house with my mom,”...  

• ‘Needle-threat thief’ nabbed

  A Bronx man suspected of robbing nine people — in some cases while wielding a hypodermic needle — was arrested yesterday, police said.  Angel Cintron, 39, was...  
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  What went right?

  It’s finally living up to its name. Bronx Academy of Promise Charter School was among just three schools in the city to vault from an F grade in 2011 to an A grade on this year’s city report cards. The Highbridge school saw its...  
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  Diallo cop gets his gun back, 13 years after slay

  One of the four cops involved in the fatal shooting of unarmed Bronx immigrant Amadou Diallo finally got his NYPD gun back yesterday — more than 13 years after the 41-bullet debacle that rocked the city. Officer Kenneth Boss, 41, had...  
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  Bronx bodega worker shot on first day at work

  A Bronx bodega clerk was shot yesterday on his first day at work by an enraged customer in an argument over a cigarette, cops and the victim’s family said. The trouble began at about 11 a.m. when a man entered the Taiz Deli & Grocery...  
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  Cops charge suspect in hypodermic needle robbery spree

  Cops have charged a man wanted for wielding a hypodermic needle to rob nine people in the Bronx and Manhattan, police said. The thief most recently struck in Manhattan, when he threatened a 14-year-old on the northbound no. 1 train at...  
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  WATCH: Thug's gun fight caught on camera

  A gun-toting thug was caught on surveillance video yesterday shooting a man in The Bronx, authorities said. The grisly attack unfolded at 5:05 a.m. when the gunman is seen pointing his weapon downward and firing at the victim, who is...  
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  Gal held in fatal fire

  A Bronx woman has been charged with manslaughter for setting a blaze that killed her boyfriend and seriously injured three others — including a 4-year-old boy, authorities said yesterday. Wendy Walston, 46, allegedly started the blaze...  
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  Happy the elephant's sad life alone at the Bronx Zoo

  In 2006, in a yard at the Bronx Zoo, Happy the elephant took a few steps toward an eight-foot mirror — and lumbered into history. A researcher had painted a white X on her head, just above the right eye. She couldn’t see it or feel it...  
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  Bronx boy, 4, dies after falling out of window

  A 4-year-old Bronx boy died yesterday after he fell out of a fourth-story window, authorities said. Witnesses saw briefly hanging out of the window at 3:45 p.m. at the Morissania Houses on East 161st Street. “We heard...  
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  ‘Needle mugger’ in ninth attack

  A Bronx thug who wields a hypodermic needle as a weapon is suspected of mugging a 14-year-old on the subway yesterday — but fled before cops could catch up with him, sources said. Angel Cintron, 39 — suspected in a string of eight...  
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  Mike: It’s the voters’ job to oust Bronx DA

  You can vote him out.  Mayor Bloomberg said yesterday that Bronx DA Robert Johnson is “dead wrong” in his handling of trespassing busts — and that voters can have the final say on the matter.  “District attorneys are elected,”...  
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  Reliving Bx. bus horror

  Survivors of a horrific Bronx bus crash that killed 15 people returning to Chinatown from Connecticut’s Mohegan Sun casino told jurors yesterday their motor coach swayed wildly before it tipped over and its roof was sliced off by a...  

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