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Police searching for man in hit-run crash that killed young parents, newborn

Police searching for man in hit-run crash that killed young parents, newborn

 Cops identifed the driver in a Williamsburg hit-and-run that left a young couple and their newborn son dead. Police were searching for Julio Acevedo, 44, in the horrific crash that killed Nachman and Raizel Glauber as they were driving...   Full Story

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  • Dust settles on MTA's 72nd St 'warzone'

    Dust settles on MTA's 72nd St 'warzone'

     The MTA has wrapped up blasting on the Second Avenue Subway at 72nd Street, relieving residents and businesses who say the neighborhood has been transformed into a war zone.  “We call ourselves the Baghdad Cafe around here,” said Miguel Andujar, a...   4:42 PM

  • Twelve former Florida A&M band members charged with manslaughter for 'hazing'

    Twelve former Florida A&M; band members charged with manslaughter for 'hazing'

    ORLANDO, Fla. — Twelve former Florida A&M University band members were charged Monday with manslaughter in the 2011 hazing death of a drum major. Ten of the band members had been charged last May with third-degree felony hazing for the death of 26...   4:02 PM

  • Queens father sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for shaking infant daughter to death

    Queens father sentenced to up to 15 years in prison for shaking infant daughter to death

    An angry judge threw the book at a brutal Queens father today, sentencing him to five to 15 years in jail in the violent shaking death of his infant daughter. "The blood of Annie is on your hands and the stain will never wash away," said Queens...   3:05 PM

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    Tiny terror titan: North Korea's Kim Jung Un has first baby

    There’s a new Kim in town. South Korea ended months of speculation by verifying that the wife of North Korea’s dynastic dictator Kim Jong Un secretly gave birth late last year. The newborn, whose gender is not known, could become the fourth...   3:48 PM

  • Mayoral hopeful Catsimatidis unveils first radio ad

    Mayoral hopeful Catsimatidis unveils first radio ad

    GOP mayoral candidate John Catsimatidis today unveiled the first radio ad of the campaign, touting his immigrant upbringing and the fact that he’s not a “career politician.” The 30-second spot describes the Greek-born billionaire supermarket mogul...   3:52 PM

  • Aqueduct operator gambles on new Vegas venture

    Aqueduct operator gambles on new Vegas venture

    The operator of the Aqueduct gambling parlor is going to roll the dice in Vegas. Not content with waiting for New York State to legalize Vegas-style casinos, Malaysian-based Genting announced today its building a multi-billion dollar, full-fledged...   1:30 PM

  • WATCH: Six-year-old breakdancer stuns with killer moves

    WATCH: Six-year-old breakdancer stuns with killer moves

    She may be young, but this breakdancing tot has better moves than most. In a video posted online of a British breakdancing competition called Chelles Battle Pro 2013, six-year-old dancing sensation B-Girl Terra shows off her moves and dominates her...   1:30 PM

  • Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg slip in 'world's richest' rankings

    Warren Buffett, Mark Zuckerberg slip in 'world's richest' rankings

     NEW YORK — Mexico's Carlos Slim remains the world's richest man for the fourth year in a row, according to Forbes, while Warren Buffett dropped out of the top three for the first time since 2000. And Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg saw his ranking drop...   3:06 PM

  • Jury sees sick images at 'cannibal cop' trial

    Jury sees sick images at 'cannibal cop' trial

    Jurors appeared uncomfortable Monday as prosecutors showed a video of a screaming woman being cooked alive over an open flame and other disturbing images from Web sites devoted to torturing and eating women — evidence prosecutors say proves a New...   3:51 PM

  • Ohio zoo workers play 'mom' to abandoned baby gorilla

    Ohio zoo workers play 'mom' to abandoned baby gorilla

     CINCINNATI — Some zoo workers in Cincinnati are going ape over a baby gorilla. They are wearing all-black outfits, grunting affectionately, and generally imitating mother gorillas to help the month-old baby adjust to a new home and get ready for a...   12:43 PM

  • Mayor Bloomberg's net worth jumps $5B, making him 13th richest person on planet

    Mayor Bloomberg's net worth jumps $5B, making him 13th richest person on planet

    Mayor Bloomberg's net worth has skyrocketed in the last year and he's now the 13th richest person on the planet, according to Forbes magazine. The magazine estimated the mayor's net worth at $27 billion, up $5 billion in a single year. In 2012,...   1:13 PM

  • Queen Elizabeth leaves hospital after stomach bug

    Queen Elizabeth leaves hospital after stomach bug

     LONDON — Queen Elizabeth II returned home Monday after receiving treatment for a stomach infection that prompted a brief and rare hospitalization for the 86-year-old monarch. A smiling Elizabeth walked unassisted out of King Edward VII Hospital on...   12:50 PM

  • New Jersey Sen. Menendez sponsors legislation which could help political donors

    New Jersey Sen. Menendez sponsors legislation which could help political donors

    WASHINGTON — Sen. Robert Menendez sponsored legislation with incentives for natural gas vehicle conversions that would benefit the biggest political donor to his re-election, the same eye doctor whose private jet Menendez used for two personal trips...   12:19 PM

  • FDNY hunk sentenced to five years probation for assaulting transsexual stripper ex-girlfriend

    FDNY hunk sentenced to five years probation for assaulting transsexual stripper ex-girlfriend

    A beefy FDNY calendar boy with a weakness for glamorous transsexual strippers was sentenced to five years probation today for assaulting and then continuing to compulsively contact one of his exotic she-male exes. Taylor Murphy, 29, had last come to...   12:13 PM

  • Calif. woman dies after nurse refuses to do CPR

    Calif. woman dies after nurse refuses to do CPR

    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A county official says a dispatcher followed general protocols when she pleaded with an independent living facility nurse to perform CPR on a woman who later died in California. The statement came Monday after the facility...   12:10 PM

  • 'Fake' bishop gatecrashes top secret meeting as cardinals prepare for pope vote

    'Fake' bishop gatecrashes top secret meeting as cardinals prepare for pope vote

     VATICAN CITY — A bogus bishop today crashed a top secret meeting of Catholic cardinals – as senior clergy from around the world gather inside the Vatican to elect the next Pope. Ralph Napierski, dressed in fake ecclesiastical robes with a purple...   3:29 PM

  • Gov't: Budget cuts already causing airport delays

    Gov't: Budget cuts already causing airport delays

    WASHINGTON — US airports, including Los Angeles International and O'Hare International in Chicago, are already experiencing delays as a result of automatic federal spending cuts, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Monday. Both of...   12:04 PM

  • Casey Anthony comes out of hiding for meeting

    Casey Anthony comes out of hiding for meeting

     TAMPA, Fla. — After 19 months of seclusion, Casey Anthony emerged into the public spotlight once again on Monday for a meeting with creditors in her bankruptcy case. Dressed all in black, Anthony arrived at the federal courthouse in Tampa with her...   3:45 PM

  • 'Cannibal cop's' online pal allegedly wanted to eat UK food worker

    'Cannibal cop's' online pal allegedly wanted to eat UK food worker

    A British nurse arrested by cops probing an international ring of cannibal suspects fantasized about killing and eating a woman who worked in his local Chinese take-out. Dale Bolinger, 57, befriended Lian Chen, 27, at the Chop Chop shop in...   10:22 AM

  • Mark Kelly to testify for Colo. gun-control bill

    Mark Kelly to testify for Colo. gun-control bill

    DENVER — Former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' husband, Mark Kelly, is scheduled to testify Monday in support of at least one of the seven gun-control bills before the Colorado Legislature in Denver. The president of Colorado Ceasefire Capitol Fund...   9:48 AM

  • Extradition hearing set for suspect in fiery Vegas strip shootout

    Extradition hearing set for suspect in fiery Vegas strip shootout

    LOS ANGELES — The man charged in a shooting and fiery crash on the Las Vegas Strip is to appear Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court for an extradition hearing. Ammar Harris, 26, a self-described pimp, was arrested Thursday in Los Angeles, ending a...   9:46 AM

  • Person killed by Metro-North train in Darien

    Person killed by Metro-North train in Darien

    DARIEN, Conn. — Metro-North officials are investigating the death of a person struck by a New Haven Line train at the Noroton Heights station in Darien. Officials say the Manhattan-bound train hit the person shortly after 6:30 a.m. Monday. The...   8:46 AM

  • LI officer injured after 'drunk driver' rear-ends his car: police

    LI officer injured after 'drunk driver' rear-ends his car: police

     PATCHOGUE — A Long Island police officer was injured when his vehicle was rear-ended by a drunk driver. It happened in Patchogue while Suffolk County police were conducting a follow-up investigation Sunday at the scene of a fatal car crash a day...   6:27 AM

  • Retired police captain now a pastor with a gun in Staten Island church

    Retired police captain now a pastor with a gun in Staten Island church

    A pistol-packing retired police captain who worked the city’s mean streets during its darkest decades still lays down the law — God’s law. Tough-talking John Rocco Carlo, now a pastor on Staten Island, saw it all in his 28 years as a transit cop —...   5:17 AM

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