The partner of a city housing cop caught on videotape pummeling an Iraq war veteran testified Monday that the vet was aggressive throughout the encounter.
Walter Harvin - confronted by Officer David London as he tried to enter his mother's W. 93rd St. building without a key - hurled obscenities before, during and after the baton beating inflicted by London, Mohammed Khan said on the stand.
Harvin yelled "I'll kill you mother----er," and "I'll f--- you… Continue
ALBANY - Holy smokes!
The Legislature on Monday night narrowly approved boosting the state's tax on cigarettes by an additional $1.60 - to a national-high $4.35 a pack. Factoring in city and federal levies, a single pack is taxed to the tune of $6.85, which translates to a counter price of $12 - $13 for New York City smokers.
The tax hike came as part of an emergency spending plan to keep New York government running for another… Continue
It costs Jay-Z roughly $250k to spend 55 hours on a private jet -- and that's with a celebrity discount -- but according to a new lawsuit, the rapper never paid the entire cost to fly like a boss.
Jay-Z -- aka Shawn Carter -- is being sued by Air Platinum Holding, a private jet company which claims Jigga spent 55 hours on their planes back in 2009 ... but only paid for 37 hours of service.
The suit also claims Jay-Z flaked out on… Continue
A Bronx firehouse is feeling the heat after officials discovered an image of President Obama was painted on a toolbox - and then defaced with the word "hustler." An iconic picture of the President above the word "BELIEVE" appears to have been stenciled on a large toolbox visible inside Engine 45, Ladder 58 in East Tremont.
Right across Obama's face is the word "HUSTLER" in big red letters.
Cyrus' earlier MMVA performance was a little less exotic. As she sang "Party in the U.S.A.," a hooded creature on a bike emerged from back stage. Cyrus then changed the song's lyrics from "a Jay-Z song was on" to a "JB song was on" and the hooded biker revealed himself to be...Justin Bieber! The tween audience nearly exploded as Cyrus rubbed up against her 16-year-old peer who looked happy to oblige.
Cyrus pulled double duty as MMVA presenter. While introducing Canadian… Continue
Compton, California rapper Game is responding to growing reports and rumors that he is dead.
Reports began to spread across the Internet that Game was shot and killed last night (June 20th) during an altercation at the Beverly Center, just after midnight in Los Angeles.
"All these rumors that I've been shot are phony just like half the rappers in the game," Game told AllHipHop.com in an exclusive statement. "I'm still here, promoting my… Continue
Lil' Wayne is in Rikers, but he is still fighting other cases outside of the bing. He was forced to plead guilty in AZ instead of looking at jail time. He caught a case in '08, where the coppers found a gun, weed, coke and some ex pills on his tour bus. Wayne just pleaded guilty and now he's going to go through 36 months of probation. Don't dudes get tired of going through the system? It has to be a… Continue
Bret Carr knows that his mom loved him more than her dog. And now he's saying that his heiress mother -- who left millions of dollars in cash to her beloved pooches instead of to him -- was manipulated by her staff.
Conchita, a pet Chihuahua, and two other dogs were left with a $3 million trust fund and a Miami Beach mansion by their recently deceased owner, Gail Posner.
Her staff, including bodyguards, housekeepers and a personal… Continue
Katy Perry and Rihanna have been palling around since last year - but now Perry hopes the two will become even closer.
The "California Girls" singer says she wants RiRi to strip for her at her upcoming bachelorette party.
"You see people coming and they strip at your bachelor party," Perry said to Chicago's KISS-FM radio show, "but I want her to strip at my bachelorette party."
Platinum-selling rapper Fat Joe was detained by police in Madison, Wisconsin last night -- after a 33-year-old woman told cops that Joe and his entourage sexually assaulted her inside a Cadillac limo.According to the Madison PD, the woman claims the incident went down after the rapper -- real name Joseph Cartagena -- performed at a concert at The Orpheum Theater last night.
Cops say the woman claims, "shortly after the concert had concluded ...… Continue
The Denver Nuggets superstar rookie went to his Twitter page today and posted the following message, "I heard if u hit a kardashian i win a championship .. Kim k holla me!!! I need ya for 17 min."
Lawson continued, "I'll take one for the team lol ... If miles Austin miles or wateva his name is win a chip next ye ... Then thing is amazing."
As TMZ previously reported, the Kardashians are 2-for-2 in the last year -- with Reggie Bush… Continue
All that was missing were some fava beans and a Chianti.
A real-life Hannibal Lecter allegedly butchered his cellmate in a French prison, intending to fry up the man's heart with onions on a makeshift grill and devouring it.
But the anatomically ignorant psychopath ate the man's lung by mistake.
Nicolas Cocaign, 39, appeared in a court room Monday to face murder charges in the grisly January 2007 murder of Thierry Baudry,… Continue