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  Bullied teen jumps in front of SI train as horrified classmates look on

   A Staten Island teen who pals said had been relentlessly tormented by bullies leaped to her death in front of a train yesterday as her classmates looked on in horror. The Huguenot Staten Island Railway station platform was packed...  
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  Crane big kid in drug bust

  The son of crane magnate James Lomma was busted for having a slew of drugs in his Staten Island home, authorities said yesterday. Cops arrested James Lomma, Jr., 21, Friday afternoon after executing a search warrant and discovering...  
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  Miracle on the Verrazano

  A man survived a plunge from the Verrazano Bridge yesterday, cops said. A tractor-trailer driver called 911 at around 5:30 p.m. after spotting the 43-year-old man hopping out of his 2012 Honda and walking toward the rail. The jumper,...  
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  Ex-cop working as janitor in SI school after serving 10 years for killing a family while drunk driving

  A former NYPD cop who served more than a decade behind bars for killing an entire family in a notorious drunken car accident is now working as a janitor at a Catholic school on Staten Island. Joseph Gray started Monday as a member of...  

• Cops arrest four in SI high school football attack

  Police nabbed four people who attacked a young man after a Staten Island high school football game, authorities said. Timmie Kelson, 54, and his son Timmie...  
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  DOE bars SI tech teacher from bringing computer equipment to rubber room

  They pulled his plug. The Department of Education is barring a teacher who has been live-streaming his painfully boring and costly work days assigned to a “Rubber Room” from bringing any computer equipment into his holding pen. IS 49...  
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  SI’s ferris ‘boo’er

  Guy Molinari has his own spin on the 625-foot-high Ferris wheel being planned for Staten Island — he wants it to stop before it starts.  “Nobody but nobody is talking about traffic,” complained the former Staten Island borough...  
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  SI pol’s partner is capo’s good pal

  Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm investigated the Gambino crime family as an FBI agent — before opening a restaurant with a business partner so close to one of the mob clan’s capos, he considers him an “uncle,” according to sources...  
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  Angry SI technology teacher streams live video of 'rubber room'

  This is how you stick it to the man 2.0. A rebellious Staten Island technology teacher has been streaming live video of the Queens “rubber room” office to which he’s been banished, in a bid to document the tedium and utter waste of...  
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  SI house crasher claims ‘seizure’

  It wasn’t the booze — it was the shakes! The Staten Island driver who plowed his car into the side of a house Friday told a criminal-court judge yesterday he was neither drunk nor high on prescription medication when he lost control...  
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  ‘Haunted’ SI house hit by ‘DWI’ car again

  A drunken Staten Island driver nearly killed a sleeping mother and child when he plowed his car through the side of their home yesterday morning — 10 years after another boozy motorist crashed through the very same house, police said....  

• Israeli enmeshed in SI Grimm election probe released on bail

  An Israeli national enmeshed in a probe into a Staten Island congressman’s election campaign was released on bail today after spending more than a month behind...  
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  $$-man ecstasy probe

  The Israeli national at the center of a probe into a Staten Island congressman’s 2010 election bid was a suspect in a sprawling ecstasy drug investigation, prosecutors said in Brooklyn federal court yesterday. Prosecutors are trying...  
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  Lady Gaga responds to SI politician's 'slut' remark

  Lady Gaga is fighting back. Days after a Staten Island politican called the entertainer a "slut," Gaga took to Twitter to thank another politican who later defended her. "thanku for your support of my activism as a new yorker," she...  
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  World’s tallest Ferris OK’d for Staten Island

  Ours is bigger than yours!  Describing it as unlike any attraction “on the planet,” Mayor Bloomberg gave the high sign yesterday to a 625-foot-tall Ferris wheel for Staten Island that will become the tallest in the world and could...  
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  2nd bust in political espio-not

  A second Staten Island teen was charged with criminal mischief after confessing to throwing rocks through windows at Rep. Michael Grimm’s campaign headquarters, authorities said yesterday. Avery Gerena, 16, told authorities he was...  
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  Oops! Pol’s ‘enemy’ a kid

  Guess this congressman’s not smarter than an eighth-grader. Despite embattled Staten Island Rep. ’s insistence that “political” enemies tossed cement blocks through the windows of his campaign headquarters, a 14-year-old...  
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  SI pol calls Gaga 'slut'

  A Staten Island politician says Lady Gaga is a "slut." Borough President James Molinaro made the remark Monday. At the time, he was pointing to photos of the pop superstar lighting what appears to be a marijuana cigarettes at an...  

• Grimm’s HQ tale is fishy: cops

  Police are “very suspicious” about a reported break-in at the campaign headquarters of Rep. Michael Grimm on Staten Island — where computer hard drives were...  
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  SI pol hit by saboteur

  New York Congressman Michael Grimm said yesterday an intruder broke into his office over the weekend and erased the hard drive on a computer that contained confidential campaign files and polling data. “It’s a robbery of a congressman...  
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  Tots found roaming SI alone

  Two adorable kids were found wandering alone at a busy Staten Island intersection yesterday after fleeing from their baby sitter’s house while she went to the bathroom, authorities said. The siblings — a 1-year-old boy and 4-year-old...  
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  Good Samaritan’s truck stolen by crash victim he was helping

  No good deed goes unpunished. A driver who caused a car crash on the Bayonne Bridge early yesterday stole the pickup truck of a good Samaritan who had pulled over to help the victims, cops said. “You can’t trust nobody,” a dejected...  

• Cluckin’ nut in new bust

  A Staten Island woman who allegedly shot at her neighbors in August because their child tossed chalk near her chicken coop has been arrested again — this time...  
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  SI doc used teddy bear to cover face during live Web sex shows: suit

  A Staten Island doctor regularly watched live sex shows on Skype while hiding his face behind a teddy bear his kids gave him for his birthday and harassed his office manager, a federal lawsuit charges. Dr. Miguel Tirado made the...  
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  SI Beep’s flick is ‘garbage’: foes

  A taxpayer-funded film about a city dump? It had better win an Oscar. Staten Island Borough President James Molinaro has made a full-length documentary on the closing of the Fresh Kills landfill, directed by his own, $55,000-per-year,...  

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