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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A 5-foot-long snake slithered through the Dominguez family's Bronx apartment Tuesday - and they definitely were not charmed.
"They were so scared," Maria Dominguez said of her three children. "They went to school, but they don't want to come back in here."
Dominguez, a 37-year-old flower shop worker, said the drama began at 7 a.m., when she spotted the tan-colored snake under a living room table in their fourth-floor apartment on…
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Eminem DEFINITELY agreed to the Bruno stunt. Here's what one of MTV's head writers wrote on his blog:
Yes, the Bruno/Eminem incident was staged. That's all anyone wants to talk about, so let's get it out of the way.
They rehearsed it at dress and yes, it went as far as it did on the live show.
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Lightning may have knocked an Air France jet carrying 228 people from Rio de Janeiro to Paris out of the sky, officials said Monday.
The airliner was flying over the Atlantic when it disappeared, and France fears "the worst," chief Air France spokesman Francois Brousse said.
"It is possible" that Flight 447 was hit by lightning, Brousse said as worried and weeping relatives of those on board met with government ministers at…
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The Nintendo Wii has positioned itself as the gaming console for everybody. As it turns out, that includes the Queen of England. Well, sort of. It's not like Her Royal Highness went down to Wal-Mart and bought one with her summer job savings. Rather, she was given a special version by gaming company THQ.
What makes the Queen's "Royal Wii" different? It's gold-plated, sucka! None of that lame white plastic for Buckingham Palace — the Queen…
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Pink is talking REAL CRAZY about Kanye West. Apparently Pink is involved in PETA and she doesn’t like Kanye’s appreciation for animal fur.
Here are Pink’s EXACT WORDS – courtesy of our peoples over at the UK newpaper The Sun:
Kanye West is the person p***ing me off right now.
I was at STELLA McCARTNEY's Paris fashion show with the vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PAUL McCARTNEY and Kanye…
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