A Queens narcotics cop was robbed of his weapon and his car in an undercover gun-buy operation gone bad yesterday, law-enforcement sources said.
It was the latest embarrassment for the Queens narcotics unit.
The officer met with a weapons dealer near 167th Street and Linden Boulevard in South Jamaica at about 5 p.m., but the seller asked the cop to go to another location. When they got there, the cop was searched and the gun dealer… Continue
NEW YORK — No fair: 50 Cent is cheating.
Well, it's not really cheating when you have producers such as Dr. Dre, Timbaland and Polow Da Don working on your album. Fif is stacking the deck for his current incarnation of Before I Self Destruct. Fif is on his third different production of the album, and he said the third time's the charm.
"I feel like my album is as close to perfect as it's gonna get," 50 told MTV News last week. "I'm reaching the point to where… Continue
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Maino doesn’t need to hit the mixtape scene anymore. The Brooklyn native made his name on the underground by blitzing every mix tape from Clue to Kay Slay. With his debut album “Tomorrow Never Comes” ready to hit stores next week and 2 singles in the Billboard Top 100, Maino is now ready to… Continue
Incarcerated rapper Charly "Max B" Wingate recently gave fans an update on his condition behind bars and where his relationship with Jim Jones currently… Continue
Lil Wayne's lawyer went to court today ... ready to pull the trigger on the "bad dog" defense!
Weezy was busted in January 2008 at a border checkpoint in Arizona, where authorities found cocaine, ecstasy and a handgun on his tour bus. Wayne's lawyer told the judge he thinks the drug-sniffing dogs used in the bust may not have been reliable because they weren't adequately trained.
R. Kelly has been dragged into a massive investigation in South Africa -- but the singer claims he's the victim of a grifter gone mad.
It all started when a woman accused of scamming more than 50 people out of tons of money claimed Kelly played a part in the plot.
She allegedly conned her victims into investing money in an R. Kelly tour that never existed. The woman reportedly says she deposited the money… Continue
First Chris Brown beat Rihanna, then he beat jail.
The heavy-handed crooner copped an 11th-hour deal, pleading guilty to one felony count of assault for pummeling his former flame, in return for probation, community service and domestic-violence counseling.
The deal came just minutes before Rihanna was set to sing on the witness stand and recount the ugly attack that left her bloody and bruised four months… Continue
Last week, Belgian teen Kimberly Vlaminck told reporters she fell asleep while getting a tattoo and woke up to find 56 stars inked on the left side of her face when she had asked for 3.
“It is terrible for me. I cannot go out on to the street. I look like a freak,” Vlaminck said at the time.
It turns out she was awake the whole time, had asked for all 56 of the stars, and was “fully aware” of what tattoo artist Rouslan… Continue
HOW DOES A GAY GUY LIKE PEREZ HILTON CALL A STRAIGHT GUY A FAGGOT?
SHOULDNT THAT BE ILLEGAL?
UPDATE: In a statement to E! News, Hilton says: "I am saddened GLAAD chose to victimize me further by criticizing me for how I nonviolently dealt with a very scary situation that, unfortunately, turned violent. While I doubt I will get an apology from GLAAD, nor do I expect one, I would just hope people know how difficult it is to… Continue
More controversial pictures of Miley Cyrus have surfaced on the Internet. This time Miley's not posing topless, flashing her bra or making slant eyes.
She's letting her hair down behind the scenes of her new movie 'The Last Song,' directed by Adam Shankman, who posted the pictures on his Twitter and appears in a close embrace with her in one of them.
Shankman is 44. When he realized the pictures were causing yet another Internet… Continue
Joanna Krupa has a mouth like a sailor -- and for some reason, it only makes her hotter.
Warning: This clip has REALLY, REALLY bad language.
Somehow, someway, a clip from the new show "The Superstars" got leaked to the 'net and picked up by our friends over at WithLeather. The clip shows Krupa cussing like crazy as she loses some physical challenges and then bashing NFL star Terrell Owens -- her teammate -- for screwing up.
WASHINGTON – One Metro transit train smashed into the rear of another at the height of Washington's Monday evening rush hour, killing at least four people and injuring scores of others as cars of the trailing train jackknifed into the air and fell atop the first.
District of Columbia fire spokesman Alan Etter said crews were cutting apart the trains to get people out in what he described as a "mass casualty event." Rescue workers propped… Continue
Video footage of the heated confrontation between Perez Hilton and Will.I.Am -- in which Perez can clearly be heard calling the Black Eyed Pea a "f**king f*ggot."
The footage begins in the middle of the verbal altercation outside an after-party for a music award show in Toronto -- moments after Hilton claims Will went after him like a "heat-seeking missile" and unleashed a verbal tirade at him.
With a crowd surrounding Perez, Will and Will's manager,… Continue
It's the last place he thought he'd catch a bullet.
A drug suspect being transported in a police van was hit by random gunfire sprayed across a Brooklyn street early today, cops said.
Edward Espinal, 26, was with two other prisoners in a van driven by cops from the Brooklyn South Narcotics squad when shots rang out at Atlantic Avenue and Saratoga Avenue in Brownsville.
One of the bullets struck Espinal in the back, cops… Continue
New York City was speaking diva last night, and to the luck of thousands, the Diva spoke back.
Beyonce ignited America last night as the firecracker of pop kicked off her "I Am" world tour at Madison Square Garden. Complete with a roped off "Diva Section" and a set list that did not disappoint, Ms. Knowles -- or is it Miss. Z? -- gave a stellar performance.
Speaking of Mr. Z -- or is it Mr. Knowles? -- he made a cameo during her show, bringing his rap chorus… Continue
About 800 Canada geese have been trapped and gassed around New York City’s two airports in an effort to reduce the kinds of bird strikes that led to the ditching of a jetliner in the Hudson River last winter
Birds have been culled from 15 sites within five miles of LaGuardia and Kennedy airports.
U.S. Department of Agriculture spokeswoman Carol Bannerman says agency biologists and other specialists are trapping and euthanizing… Continue