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  • New York school bus workers denounce layoffs

    As the last day of classes approaches, bus drivers and attendants across the New York City public school system will say goodbye to their students. It's a familiar ritual, often tinged with sadness, given the bonds built up over the previous 10 months. This year is different, however. For approximately 2,000 of the nearly 9,000 drivers and matrons, the goodbye is not for merely two months. ...

  • Push-in robbery ends in victims three-story fall

    A man took a three-story plunge out of his apartment window in Soundview after two thieves forced their way in to his home, cops said. It wasn’t immediately clear if the victim was pushed or jumped on his own near Morris Park and Hunt Avenues around 9:30 p.m.Cops are searching for two suspects.The victim was rushed to Jacobi Medical Center in stable condition, cops said.It’s unknown ...

  • It’s a heap of trouble

    Skeptical city residents say Mayor Bloomberg’s new food-waste-recycling program is a great idea - if you’re a rat."Recycling, in general, takes a lot of effort," said Geneva Jeanniton, 22, a hairstylist from East Flatbush, Brooklyn."People have to be willing to do it. We might not have room for compost inside. It’s difficult to make space for, and pests are ...

  • Slay left Soho beau unfazed

    His poker face could lose him the game.Accused bathtub strangler Nicholas Brooks showed no emotion - and no curiosity - when a cop told him "something happened to your girlfriend," a Manhattan murder jury learned yesterday as the second week of testimony began in the watery death of his swimsuit-designer girlfriend, Sylvie Cachay."Did he ever ask, ‘What happened to my ...

  • WABC guy in storm

    Arraigned with wife. "Obviously, divorces can get emotional and we expect Dana to be cleared of these charges in due time," said her lawyer, Mark Sherman.The weatherman’s lawyer, Philip Russell, also said in a statement he expects his client to be cleared:"We expect that Bill will be exonerated and this case will be quickly forgotten." He added that the couple is ...


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Movie Review

The Dukes of Hazzard

The Dukes of Hazzard

When I was in kindergarten, even though I didnt know what moonshine was and I was too young to appreciate Catherine Bach in her Daisy Dukes, The Dukes of Hazzard was my favorite television show. Thus, as I settled down a quarter-century later to wa ... ...

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  • Stupid Cupid Shot lover testifies for shooter

    The Brooklyn man whose girlfriend shot him in the face loves her so much, he testified in her defense yesterday."I love her. Yes, I care about her," Randy Costa, 59, said at the attempted-murder trial of Evelyn Barnave, 43, who prosecutors say shot him in Crown Heights on Jan. 11, 2011."We had a good relationship. Just the drugs got in the way. We took care of each ...

  • Body hunt at home of ‘Goodfellas’ mobster

    Organized-crime investigators swooped in on the Queens home of James "Jimmy the Gent" Burke yesterday - digging for human remains in the driveway, back yard and basement of the late Luchese killer made famous by Robert De Niro in the film "Goodfellas."Acting on a tip, FBI and NYPD agents showed up at the Ozone Park triplex at around 8 a.m., carrying sledgehammers, trowels, a ...

  • Dump tarnished Silver poll

    ALBANY - A majority of voters wants to give Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver the boot over the way he handled sexual-harassment claims against pervy ex-pol Vito Lopez. Fifty-two percent of state voters think Silver (pictured) should step down, according to a Siena College Poll released yesterday. They say he "failed the people of New York and the women who worked for Lopez by not addressing ...

  • Boy visits shot cop who saved him ma

    A 10-year-old Queens boy begged his mother to let him visit the cop who was shot while saving them both, leading to an emotional reunion between the youngster and his hero."He saved my life, me and my mom’s," said young Jacob Rodriguez, sporting a wound under an eye from when he tried to stop his mom’s ex from allegedly beating her at their Jamaica home Sunday night.Jacob ...

  • Mike UFT Kiss of death vs. diss of doom

    in the race for mayor yesterday."It’s almost the kiss of death," a chuckling Bloomberg said during a question-and-answer session at Department of Education headquarters. "The last time the UFT’s endorsement got somebody elected was better than two decades ago," he went on. "I don’t know what goes through voters’ minds, but maybe they understand - ...

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