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  • Gov pro-abort bill terminated

    ALBANY - Gov. Cuomo suffered several setbacks yesterday and all but admitted defeat of his 10-point women’s-equality agenda after the ranking Democrat in the Senate introduced a bill without the controversial pro-abortion plank the governor has pushed.Cuomo’s measure sought to codify under state law abortion rights currently guaranteed on the federal level by the Roe vs. Wade Supreme ...

  • ‘I want cop killer to live’

    The former Brooklyn prison guard who had sex romps behind bars with convicted cop killer Ronell Wilson confirmed the thug is her baby daddy via paternity test, it was disclosed in Brooklyn federal court yesterday. Judge Brian Cogan that asked Nancy Gonzalez why she would want to provide evidence that proves her guilt in her own criminal matter.While prosecutors could spin the impregnation as ...

  • Corpse driver on ice

    A medical-examiner worker who transported the corpse of a young man in a city van filled with bags of recycled bottles was suspended yesterday - as the dead man’s pals blasted the "disgraceful’’ incident."The employee has been suspended without pay pending an investigation. We take this very seriously," said Ellen Borakove, spokeswoman for the city Medical ...

  • More pol busts loom Preet

    The federal prosecutor who recently slapped several city and state lawmakers with corruption charges said last night that more arrests of politicians are on the way. US Attorney Preet Bharara warned during an interview on "Capital Tonight that "you can expect more cases to come, because there is a lot more corruption that has not yet been brought to light.""We investigate ...

  • ‘It should not be a secret’ Ray Kelly rips feds phone Web snooping

    Police Commissioner Ray Kelly launched a stinging rebuke to the federal government’s secret phone- and Internet-monitoring campaign - and suggested leaker Edward Snowden was right about privacy "abuse.""I don’t think it ever should have been made secret," Kelly said yesterday, breaking ranks with other US law-enforcement officials.His blast came days after the ...


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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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  • Rikers jailers in the ‘joint’

    Two city correction officers were charged yesterday with dealing pot to inmates on Rikers Island.Austin Romain and Khalif Phillips, both 31, were busted while on the job after being ratted out by jailhouse snitches, who were alleged customers, officials said. Both guards operated independently but used similar methods to sell marijuana and other contraband, including scalpels and tobacco, to ...

  • Cat killer facing jail

    A Queens man killed an alley cat and now faces up to two years behind bars.Richard Ferrugio, 51, of Ozone Park, used a tire iron to fatally beat the homeless black-and-white cat after it supposedly scratched his arm outside Neir’s Tavern, where he’s a regular, in February 2012.Ferrugio told cops he gave the animal one swipe with the tool, but then "I saw the cat shaking and in ...

  • Pension boost for city vets

    The city has agreed to recalculate pension benefits for municipal workers who lose out on overtime and other extra pay while serving in the military, the feds announced yesterday.The proposed deal settles a class-action suit initially filed by the Manhattan US Attorney’s Office on behalf of retired NYPD Detective David Goodman, who claimed he was short-changed on his retirement income by ...

  • A grave mistake Engraver botches Koch’s birth year

    How’s Ed Koch’s grave site doing? Horrible!The former mayor’s tombstone at Trinity Church in Washington Heights was mistakenly engraved with the wrong birth year - Dec. 12, 1942, instead of 1924. The gaffe is enough to have Koch - a proud World War II veteran and stickler for detail - rolling in his grave."Do you belieeeevvveee it???!!!," longtime Koch confidant ...

  • Lifelong PA perks OK court

    Port Authority retirees will get to keep free tolls and parking as a lifetime perk, a Manhattan Supreme Court judge has ruled. The PA filed suit in Manhattan Supreme Court last year after an arbitrator ruled that about 100 ex-lieutenants should receive the benefits - equivalent to a $2,000-a-year pension bump if used daily. The PA board had voted to pull the perk for all retirees in 2011 to save ...

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