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• 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...  

• Push-in robbery ends in victim's 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...  

• Bronx hit-run victim tossed into Medical Examiner’s van with trash

  He was thrown out with the trash. A young Irishman who came to the city to work for the summer was killed by a hit-and-run driver in The Bronx early yesterday, and his body was then stuffed into the back of a city Medical Examiner’s...  

• Girl struck by stray bullet gives her dad the best Father's Day gift of his life

  A Bronx dad had the best Father’s Day of his life yesterday when his 9-year-old daughter, who was wounded by a stray bullet while playing outside Friday, was released from the hospital. Amanda Chauan left Jacobi Medical Center flanked...  

• School on trial

  The Riverdale Country School goes on trial today for allegedly espousing a sham “diversity” program that actually only sought to enroll full-paying Asians and...  

• Newcomer named Joel R. Rivera running for 'real' Joel Rivera's City Council seat in The Bronx

  They may not know him, but Joel R. Rivera bets that voters know the name. He’s one of seven Democratic candidates vying for the seat being vacated by term-limited City Councilman Joel Rivera, causing an identity crisis in The Bronx....  

• Another kid caught in crossfire

  An adorable 9-year-old girl was shot in The Bronx — the third time in a month that an innocent child was caught in the crossfire, police said yesterday. Amanda Chauan, an energetic third-grader who loves basketball, was playing in a...  

• Former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. slapped with 5-year prison sentence

  There’s no lobster where he’s going. Disgraced ex-state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. — who looted his taxpayer-funded Bronx nonprofit to pay for lavish meals and a fancy car — was slapped with five years in prison yesterday after refusing to...  

• Translate this: Immig kids’ test scores soar

  Students at a Bronx high school for new immigrants may struggle with learning English — but they can suddenly spell success. The International School for Liberal Arts boosted its passing rates on the English Regents exam from a dismal...  

• 9-year-old girl shot in Bronx, latest child victim of stray gunfire

   An adorable 9-year-old girl was shot in the Bronx last night — one of three tragic cases in which a child has been struck by a stray bullet in the past month, police sources said. Amanda Chauan was playing outside with her brother...  

• Cops hunting man who sexually assaulted bus driver

  The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance in locating a suspect over a sexual assault of a BX18 bus driver in the Highbridge/ Mount Eden section of the Bronx. The suspect, who is described as a black male in his 30s, 5’7 in...  

• TV chef Charlie Trotter sued over 'fake' $46,227 bottle of wine

  This wine could drive you to drink! Two Bronx wine collectors bought a $46,227 bottle of red from a celebrity chef only to learn he sold them a phony, a new lawsuit claims. “It’s frustrating. I thought it was a bargain, but it turned...  

• Feds net $8M in Bronx heroin bust

   Feds last night busted up a Bronx heroin outfit and seized $8 million in drugs, law-enforcement sources told The Post. The DEA Task Force, which was surveilling the Kingsbridge apartment, arrested three men who were spotted leaving...  

• Prep school perv teacher hit with additional statutory rape charges

  A former math teacher at the exclusive Riverdale Country School in the Bronx has been slammed with additional felony statutory rape charges for an affair he's already accused of having with a 16-year-old female student. Richard Hovan,...  

• Bx. Science ‘hazing scandal’ principal to exit

  The principal at an elite Bronx high school is retiring amid a hazing scandal that resulted in the suspension of the athletic director and two coaches. Valerie...  

• Former state senator and convicted tax evader Pedro Espada Jr. calls judge a liar

  Now he’s calling the judge a liar. Convicted former state Sen. Pedro Espada Jr. is demanding a review of surveillance tapes and other records from a Brooklyn courthouse to determine a judge’s whereabouts while a jury was deliberating...  

• Man found dead in Melrose apartment

  A 64-year-old man was found dead in his Bronx apartment this afternoon, authorities said. The grisly discovery was made by the superintendent of 650 Melrose...  

• Child, 2 others injured in Bronx crash when livery cab driver passes out at wheel, runs over mom pushing stroller

  A Bronx livery cab driver nearly killed a teen mom pushing her baby in a stroller after he passed out behind the wheel and crashed into a store, cops and...  

• Bronx woman helps track down her father's killer after 26 years

  A determined daughter tracked down the thug suspected of killing her father 26 years ago by conducting an online manhunt. Joselyn Martinez, 36, an aspiring actress from The Bronx, spent years trying to find the man who shot her father...  

• Principal who quit Bronx school after cheating scandal is under investigation again

  A disgraced principal who resigned amid a 2004 cheating scandal in The Bronx has resurfaced in a Hamptons school that's being investigated for a testing irregularity. Eric Casale, 41, high-tailed it out of PS 91 during a probe into...  

• Woman loses leg getting into car

  A woman lost her leg after a car plowed into her in a Bronx street this afternoon, witnesses said. According to witnesses, the unidentified woman was trying to...  

• Long Island family of firefighter who died in 'Black Sunday' blaze terrorized by house 'demon'

  The widow of a Bronx firefighter who died in the “Black Sunday” blaze moved with their two daughters to a new home on Long Island in 2006 for a fresh start. But Jeanette Meyran, 53 — whose husband, Lt. Curtis Meyran, leaped to his...  

• Famous panhandler who won $100K in NYPD settlement died penniless and alone

  It was the city’s largest legal payout last year — $15 million to be split among a group of beggars. But the Bronx panhandler who started it all never got to see a happy ending. Instead, he died penniless and alone in January, leaving...  

• Lawyer: Espada was perv victim as kid

  As his sentencing on corruption charges approaches, former state Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr., in a bid for leniency, is claiming that he was nearly molested as a child. The disgraced former lawmaker made the revelation as...  

• 12,000 Bx. bees get boot to Conn.

  A swarm of 12,000 bees that infested a Bronx block was boxed up and relocated to Connecticut yesterday, authorities said. “This is what they call swarm season,...  

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