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‘Fraud’ owner shutters club
A swanky Russian-themed Brooklyn hot spot shut down yesterday, just over a week after its owner was busted on fraud charges.The feds accused Rasputin Supper Club owner Michael Levitis, 36, of masterminding a crooked debt-relief agency.Neighbors said they saw city marshals shut down the club and change the locks last night. Defense attorney Jeffrey Lichtman said Levitis shut down temporarily to ...
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Axing Jay a liberal NBC laugh gaffe
Andrea Peyser Bring back Jay Leno!He hasn’t left the building yet? Maybe there’s still hope.This boneheaded move stands to go down along with history’s greatest mistakes:The ascent of Anthony Weiner. Tiger Woods, too. The public disembowelment of former NBC "Today’’ show host Ann Curry.Now we can add to this list the painful decision that, come February, the ...
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LI Navy SEAL killed
A Navy SEAL from Long Island was killed and seven fellow service members were injured when their Humvee overturned during a training exercise, the Navy announced yesterday.Wednesday’s accident at Fort Knox, Ky., took the life of Special Warfare Operator Third Class Jonathan Kaloust, 23, of Massapequa, said Lt. David Lloyd.The cause of the accident is under investigation. No details have ...
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‘Glass’-action suit vs. Mickey D
A Brooklyn gospel singer says she bit into a piece of glass bigger than a penny while eating a chicken sandwich at a lower Manhattan McDonald’s and it ruined her voice."Now when I sing, I have a hoarse, rattly voice," said Jacqueline Simpson, 52, who yesterday filed suit in Brooklyn Supreme Court. "I still sing alto, but I can’t sing soprano like I used to."She ...
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Juror Caroline gets a peek of the crack rock
Caroline Kennedy got what is presumably her first look at a crack rock yesterday - and she and her fellow jurors on a small-time Harlem buy-and-bust trial didn’t seem too impressed."I’m now going to show you what’s been offered into evidence as People’s Exhibit 7," a prosecutor announced before pulling two double-bagged crack rocks out of an evidence box in the ...
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Bank bandit tells yelling teller shhhhhhhhhh
A well-dressed bank thief desperately tried to quiet down a freaked-out Midtown teller - who screamed when he slipped her a note saying he’d kill people unless she handed over cash. The Bank of America worker - described as a "sweet girl in her 20s and not originally from New York" - began yelling, "Oh, my God!" when she read the letter, sources said.The dumbfounded ...
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Phelps Yanks aim to continue home dominance of Jays
With it being nearly two weeks since he last took the hill, Blue Jays right-hander Brandon Morrow is ready to make his eighth start of the season on Saturday against the Yankees in the Bronx. Scratched twice because of soreness in his upper back and neck, Morrow and the team now feel he is healthy enough to make the start. "We'll be cautious, it has been a little while since he has ...
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Car-ram tragedies in Bronx
A 16-year-old girl was killed and five other Bronx pedestrians were injured yesterday when they were struck by vehicles in three accidents, police said.The 16-year-old victim along with two other women, 16 and 51, were struck on Grand Concourse near Mt. Eden Parkway at around 3:30 p.m. The two teenagers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where one of the girls was declared dead and the other ...
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‘1199’ boost for de Blasio
Bill de Blasio’s mayoral bid just got a big jolt - an endorsement from Local 1199-SEIU, which represents 200,000 health-care workers. The powerful union is the first to get behind the public advocate, whom many see as labor’s darling in the race.The move, meanwhile, is a blow to two of his Democratic rivals: City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and former city Comptroller Bill ...
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Co-ed beauty in hofstra horror
A beautiful Hofstra University sorority girl was shot dead during a home invasion early yesterday after a masked gunman stalked her and her twin sister from a bar to their home near campus, law-enforcement sources told The Post.Andrea Rebello, a 21-year-old junior at the Hempstead, LI, college, pleaded for her life right before the gunman exchanged fire with Nassau County police, officials and ...
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Party girl who celebrated life
She wasn’t just a pretty face.Andrea Rebello, 21, was a stunning social butterfly who plastered party pictures all over social media - but she also had a little-known domestic side in which she cooked, gardened and enjoyed family. The beloved sorority girl - a junior public- relations major with a sociology minor at Hofstra University - was rarely seen without her twin sister, Jessica, ...
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Cory’s figure of speech $1.3M
Newark Mayor Cory Booker has made $1.3 million in fees for 90 speeches he has delivered around the country since 2008, including nearly $500,000 since the start of last year.Booker disclosed his income from speaking engagements in a filing made yesterday with the US Senate. The Democrat is required to report his income because he is running for the Senate in 2014.His campaign staff provided ...
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What’s the deal NJ sets rules on ’Net bets
ATLANTIC CITY - New Jersey moved forward yesterday with its plans to offer Internet gambling, issuing regulations on how new online bets are to be handled.The rules offered by the state Division of Gaming Enforcement include techniques to verify that players are within New Jersey’s geographic boundaries, include a 15 percent tax on casinos’ online winnings and add cautions for people ...
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Shocker Post finds honest NY politician
EXCLUSIVE Finally, an honest pol!City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer helped bust a businessman on a bribery charge, The Post has learned.Mike Wolfert, who’s developing a massive indoor rock-climbing center in Queens, allegedly asked Van Bramer (D-Sunnyside) to pull strings for him after he was slapped with a stop-work order for doing construction work without a permit.But rather than accept ...
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Lawyer Assault on Brown athlete from Norwood was self-defense
PROVIDENCE - A Connecticut Marine accused of beating a Brown University basketball player from Norwood, Mass., so badly that he was hospitalized with head injuries acted in self-defense, his attorney said ...
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Watch New York Mega Millions Drawing
Across America. Evening America I'm Brian hooker it's Friday may seventeenth the night mega million jackpot -- an estimated in the ninety million dollars. Our first quite well tonight. 43 and a ...
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Raccoon found in Marcellus tests positive for rabies health department says
Marcellus, NY -- A raccoon found in the town of Marcellus has tested positive for rabies, the Onondaga County Health Department said Friday evening. "This is the first positive rabies findings of the season," Commissioner Dr. Cynthia B. Morrow said in a news release. "It is important not to touch or feed wildlife because they may be rabid." The raccoon was seen in the ...
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UPI Sports Calendar for Saturday May 18
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Conn. commuter trains collide 60 go to hospitals
FAIRFIELD, Conn. -- Two commuter trains serving New York City collided in Connecticut during Friday's evening rush hour, sending 60 people to the hospital, including five critically injured and one very critically injured, Gov. Dannel Malloy said. There were no reports of ...
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Stop Persecution Solemn Peaceful Protest in New York
Falun Dafa practitioners protest peacefully in front of the Chinese Consulate General in New York on May 17, calling for an end to the persecution of the practice in China. (Edward Dai/The Epoch ...
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Stewart to miss a few games but DL not necessary
Email NEW YORK -- Yankees general manager Brian Cashman said Friday that catcher Chris Stewart would not be put on the 15-day disabled list and that the result of an MRI indicated Stewart did not seriously injure his left groin Thursday night, as the club had feared. The club had been concerned that the catcher might have required a DL assignment, too. Rookie Austin Romine was in the starting ...
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Kuroda stifles Blue Jays with eight two-hit innings
TOR@NYY: Kuroda fans five, holds Blue Jays scoreless NEW YORK -- This was supposed to be a down year for the Yankees, even before Opening Day. The adjusted assessments, following injuries to key personnel, were for an even more bleak season. At the same time, the Blue Jays were expected to make a move, one year after the fall of the Red Sox and simultaneous with the expected Yankees decline. ...
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N.B.A.s Concussion Policy Has Major Role in Knicks-Pacers Series
Professional basketball players do not routinely collide at full speed, or fire small objects at one another with extreme velocity. They do not tackle, ram or body-check. Their heads may rise to startling heights, but they are not in ...
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Reyes rejoins Jays in New York rehab of sprained ankle progressing well
Toronto Blue Jays Jose Reyes, who twisted his left ankle during a Friday game, watches from the dugout during the second inning of a baseball game against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., Saturday, April 13, 2013. (Orlin ...
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Naked man found dead inside car in Rockaways
The body of a dead naked man was found in a car in the Rockaways this afternoon, police said.The unidentified 51-year old man was discovered by cops in the front seat of a 2002 white Ford Mustang on Beach 120th Street near Rockaway Beach Boulevard at 2:55 p.m., police sources said.EMS declared the man dead at the scene.According to sources, the man was believed to be drunk and there were no ...
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Buffalo Zoo goes ape for the gorillas
The Buffalo Zoo is a historic landmark in Buffalo city. It is the third oldest zoo in the United States and has an amazing array of over 1000 species of animal. The zoo is also a tourist attraction, bringing in 400 000 visitors each year.
Zoos are an important educational facility for children, a means by which younger generations can see wild and endangered animals in real life, in an environment as close as is reasonably possible to what their natural surroundings would be, and by seeing a real-life image, rather than a picture in a text book, children develop a more intimate understanding of the challenges facing these rare and beautiful creatures. Read more
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