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,…
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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…
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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…
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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.
50 Cent testified that his…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 -…
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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.
He said…
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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.
The…
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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…
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We've learned Brandy has just reached a settlement with the kids whose mother died in the singer's 2006 car crash.
Awatef Aboudihaj's two children will receive a total of $600,000 -- $300,000 each -- according to court documents filed in L.A. County Superior Court moments ago.
Aboudihaj died in 2006 after her car was struck by Brandy's Range Rover near the interchange of the 405 and 101 freeways in Los Angeles.
Her…
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NEW YORK (AP) — In order to keep their brotherly love flowing, members of Day26 felt they had to fight — both physically and verbally — to mature as a group.
On the latest season of their MTV reality TV show, "Making the Band 4," fans not only got to see the boys squabble and sing their hearts out, they also saw the demise of their labelmates, girl group Danity Kane.
The men of Day26 thought it would be best for their fans…
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CAIRO (AP) -- A 25-year-old Egyptian man cut off his own penis to spite his family after he was refused permission to marry a girl from a lower class family, police reported Sunday.
After unsuccessfully petitioning his father for two years to marry the girl, the man heated up a knife and sliced off his reproductive organ, said a police official.
The young man came from a prominent family in the southern Egyptian province of Qena,…
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