After years of significant drops, rape complaints are up dramatically - but Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly still thinks the crime is being underreported.
The NYPD logged 340 rape complaints in the first three months of this year, compared to 274 during the same period in 2010, a 24% jump.
It isn't a blip: The numbers are up 32% over… Continue
The CEO of Burger King is getting grilled for telling a group of students that British women are ugly and that food in the U.K. is "terrible."
Bernardo Hees, who was named the head of worldwide fast food chain in September, was speaking to a group of students in Chicago late last week when he unfondly recalled his days as a young scholar working on and MBA at the… Continue
Prostitutes in the earthquake-ravaged city of Christchurch, New Zealand, are cashing in on the disaster by servicing horny emergency workers arriving from around the globe.
One local hooker, "Candice," told the Christchurch Press that she earned more than $1,000 in a single evening by soliciting workers just outside the… Continue
ALBANY - The fat tax had fat-cat special interests spending record-breaking lobbying bucks in Albany last year.
Groups pumped $210.6 million into efforts to influence state lawmakers in 2010, a 6.5% increase from the year before, the New York Public Interest Research Group reported yesterday.
The American Beverage Association, which vehemently opposed ex-Gov.… Continue
Deciphering the instructions on a prescription bottle is a big headache for patients - who are popping pills more often than necessary, researchers say.
A survey of nearly 500 people found they took pills six times a day on average - when they needed to take them only four times a day, the Archives of Internal Medicine reports.
I USUALLY F**KS WITH THE NY DAILY NEWS! BUT THIS ARTICLE RIGHT HERE MADE ME DISGUSTED! HOW CAN THEY BLAME HIP HOP AS A CULTURE FOR WHAT THIS STUPID B!TCH DID? IT WAS HER CHOICE TO CARRY & SELL GUNS & DRUGS FOR HER BOYFRIEND! SHE WAS LIVING HIGH OFF THE HOG WITH THAT DRUG MONEY! IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO BLAME SOMEBODY FOR THIS GOOD GIRL GONE BAD! BLAME SOCIETY &… Continue
The Game is officially on the hook ... again ... this time for $90,999 -- after the rapper allegedly failed to pay for some ridiculously expensive custom jewelry he commissioned over three years ago.
An L.A. judge handed the order down last week ... demanding Game -- real name Jayceon Taylor -- settle his astronomical balance with jewelry company Lemmerman's Inc.… Continue
This has got to be the funniest thing I have heard I a minute. Timbaland has claimed that some mystical force is holding him back from releasing a new song every week on his “Timbo Thursdays.” Who “they is” happens to be a mystery. Here is what Timbo said.
"Here we go "they" up to it. "They" tryin to shutdown my timbo Thursdays. I [know] some of yall been askin bout… Continue
Marvel Comics has snuffed out the Fantastic Four's Human Torch.
In the most shocking death to hit the comic book industry since - well, the publisher knocked off Captain America four years ago - the fiery Johnny Storm goes out in a blaze of glory saving his young niece and nephew from an army of insect creatures in Fantastic Four #587, in stores… Continue
Cops are on the hunt for a group of Queens bandits who hold women captive in cars during robberies - even stuffing one into a trunk.
On April 14, two or three men put a 63-year-old woman into a trunk of a car near Grand Central Parkway in Utopia - releasing her only after a female accomplice made a withdrawal with her ATM card.
Violence in city housing developments spiked last year, led by a sharp increase in Bronx murders and Harlem shootings, statistics show.
Residents were not surprised.
"You can't avoid it," Bronx resident Maria Rojas-Garcia, 61, said of the violence. "We got everything here. Just last summer a young man was shot in front of our building.
TOKYO (AFP) – Japanese researchers will launch a project this year to resurrect the long-extinct mammoth by using cloning technology to bring the ancient pachyderm back to life in around five years time.
The researchers will try to revive the species by obtaining tissue this summer from the carcass of a mammoth preserved in a Russian research laboratory, the Yomiuri… Continue
Is this the day your astrologer says you'll find Prince Charming? Too bad: You're likely following the wrong sign, experts say.
Because the Earth's axis has shifted since the Babylonians determined the dates of the Zodiac 3,000 years ago, the signs most people follow are now about a month off.
"When [astrologers] say that the sun is in Pisces, it's really… Continue
Rihanna and Nicki Minaj think each other are fly, and they don't care who knows it.
RiRi posted photos on Twitter Saturday from the set of their new music video, "Fly," with jokes about hooking up with the 26-year-old "Here I Am" singer.
"Me and Nikki in our new crib, lol! Gettin busy on set of FLY!!!" Rihanna wrote. "Its so hard to keep my hands… Continue
LOS ANGELES - The defense for the doctor facing trial for involuntary manslaughter in Michael Jackson's death will suggest the singer actually killed himself, a prosecutor said during a hearing Wednesday.
"I do think it's clear the defense is operating under the theory that the victim, Michael Jackson, killed himself," said Deputy District Attorney David… Continue
Attempted murder charges have been reinstated against the managers of Hip-Hop label Trill Entertainment, home to rappers like Lil Boosie, Webbie and others.
The Louisiana Supreme Court issued the ruling yesterday (December 22nd) in relation to the shooting of local rapper Bruce "Beelow" Moore in 2005.
According to sources, Below was shot in the face at… Continue
THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY MAKING FUN OF KALEENA! THE CHICK FROM DIRTY MONEY! I HEARD PEOPLE ON TWITTER CALL HER JUWANNA MAN & EVEN SAID SHE LOOK LIKE AN ALIEN! LOL! I HAVE TO ADMIT SHE IS UGLY! BUT I BET 90% OF YOU GUYS WOULD HIT IT! LOL! I HEARD THEM SAY ALL KINDS OF SH!T LIKE TURN THAT THE OTHER WAY &… Continue