KUALA LUMPUR (AFP) – A DVD-sniffing anti-piracy dog named Paddy has uncovered a huge cache of 35,000 discs in Malaysian warehouses, many destined for export to Singapore, industry officials said on Wednesday.
The black Labrador helped enforcement officials who carried out raids last week in southern Johor state which neighbours Singapore, the Motion Picture Association (MPA) said in a statement.
Paddy was given to Malaysia by the MPA to help close down piracy… Continue
Cam'ron is getting to the money and apparently has no time for holding grudges. When Killa is cruising, he's not having flashbacks of old beefs. Despite past musical feuds with Nas and Jay-Z, the Harlem Diplomat says that he keeps their music in rotation. A classic is a classic.
"To be honest, I've been listening to a variety of stuff," Cam told us a few weeks ago, when asked whose music he enjoys these days. "The… Continue
A 17-year-old Queens boy was killed and two of his buddies injured during a wreck in Rego Park early Wednesday.
Cops spotted the trio stealing rims from a car at the corner of 59th Road and 68th St. just before 2 a.m. Police said they raced from the scene in a stolen black Lincoln Town Car.
The trio raced down Eliot Ave., turned left onto Woodhaven Blvd. and smashed into a steel support column of the elevated tracks of the LIRR,… Continue
The city has quietly settled with a southeast Asian man who accused the NYPD of racial profiling because he's been searched 21 times at subway entrances, the Daily News has learned.
Brooklyn hospital worker Jangir Sultan filed the suit only three months ago. As recently as April 9, a lawyer for the city tried to have the complaint dismissed.
Federal Judge Raymond Dearie issued an order in Brooklyn Federal Court last week… Continue
SANTIAGO, Chile - Talk about excess baggage.
A woman tried to fly from Chile to Spain with two suitcases that were made out of cocaine.
The drug "was not hidden in the luggage. This time the suitcases were the drug," Detective Leandro Morales of the Santiago airport said yesterday.
Morales said the suitcases were made of a substance combining cocaine with resin and glass fiber. A "chemical process" could be used to separate out… Continue
HARTFORD, Conn. — Rapper 50 Cent said Tuesday that he never would have bought a Connecticut mansion once owned by boxer Mike Tyson had he realized it would require millions in repairs and renovations.
The entertainer, whose real name is Curtis James Jackson III, testified in Hartford Superior Court as part of his lawsuit against BVH Integrated Services, a Bloomfield, Conn.-based engineering firm.
Kanye West is back in the lab, and there's only word to describe his new rhymes: "awes-mazing" (we're guessing that's a cross between awesome and amazing?).
"I kill that rap sh--, that's what I do," he said of his upcoming opus. "Lyrics right now, they're awes-mazing. They're… Continue
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer fed his insatiable appetite for high-priced call girls by frolicking with them in swanky hotels in at least three states, a lawyer for an admitted hooker-booker said Monday.
The love gov partied with a dizzying array of $5,500-an-hour hookers before he was outed as the infamous "Client 9" who paid for sex with hooker Ashley Dupre, lawyer Marc Agnifilo said.
Hooker-booker Temeka Lewis found out the real… Continue
Brooklyn jewelers traded bracelets for handcuffs after a sting operation caught them selling $12 million worth of bling off the books, prosecutors said Tuesday.
"They are stealing money from the taxpayers," said Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes, who slapped the store owners with tax violations.
The two-year probe called Operation Bracelet involved undercover detectives posing as customers and recording the jewelers… Continue
Larry Bowa knew quickly that brand-new Citizens Bank Ballpark was a slugger’s paradise. “We could tell the first time we took batting practice there,” recalled Bowa, the Phillies’ manager when the park opened in 2004.
Balls flew out of the yard at an alarming rate and opponents, especially pitchers, ripped the stadium as homer-happy. To the Yankees, that all probably sounds familiar because the new Yankee Stadium is now the easiest place in… Continue
A bat-wielding would-be bandit left a Long Island convenience store with $40 and a loaf of bread after the forgiving shopkeeper opted for redemption over a rifle blast.
The unidentified robber walked into the Shirley Express Convenience Store, wearing a mask beneath a hooded sweatshirt and demanding money, Suffolk County police said Tuesday.
Store owner Mohammad Sohail - in a riveting showdown captured on a surveillance video -… Continue
FERNANDO DE NORONHA, Brazil – Brazilian military planes found a 3-mile (5-kilometer) path of wreckage in the Atlantic Ocean, confirming that an Air France jet carrying 228 people crashed in the sea, Defense Minister Nelson Jobim said Tuesday. Jobim told reporters in Rio de Janeiro that the discovery "confirms that the plane went down in that area," hundreds of miles (kilometers) from the Brazilian archipelago of Fernando de Noronha.
You knew it was coming: 8 days after DMX was released from jail, he pled guilty to another crime -- and he's about to find out if he'll have to make another triumphant return to Arizona's Tent City Jail.
DMX -- who originally pled not guilty -- copped a plea and pled guilty to attempted aggravated assault (a felony) back on May 22 -- after an incident in which he verbally threatened guards at Tent City back in February.
Forget the 1st of the month ... one of the guys from Bone Thugs-n-Harmony is all about the 2nd -- because today, dude just became a free man.
Stanley Howse, aka Flesh-n-Bone, was just released from a Los Angeles County jail after prosecutors decided to drop parole violation charges -- a case that kept him behind bars after he was arrested for gun and pot possession back in April.
Flesh was cleared of the gun and drug charges a… Continue