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• 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...  

• Dog owner faces 2 years in jail for killing alley cat

  A Queens dog owner killed an alley cat — and now faces up to two years behind bars. Richard Ferrugio, 50, of Ozone Park used a car wrench to beat the homeless...  

• Off-duty cop shot in arm saving woman after young boy’s plea for help: sources

   A 10-year-old boy whose mother was saved by hero cop Joseph Koch last night begged to visit the wounded officer in the hospital to thank him, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said today. Jacob Rodriguez “wanted to meet Police Officer...  

• Shell of a save: JFK barriers to block runway turtles

  Stay the shell off the runways! In a desperate bid to keep slow-moving turtles from causing delays at JFK, officials are installing a massive barrier that will keep the critters in their natural habitat. The plan is to...  

• Teacher on stand: I’m no molester

  A Queens teacher accused of molesting several students took the stand yesterday to defend his record and vehemently deny any wrongdoing. Simon Watts (left, at court yesterday) is accused of touching five students between 2007 and 2010...  

• Two thugs taken down by phone wielding grandma

  Two thugs proved no match for a feisty Howard Beach grandma armed with her house phone yesterday. The would-be home invaders tried to push their way into the house of Margaret Mazzio, 75, around 1:30 p.m. — but the elderly Queens...  

• Former bodyguard to Mayor Bloomberg sentenced to 7 years in love-triangle shooting

  A veteran NYPD detective, once assigned to protect the mayor and his family, got seven years in the slammer yesterday for shooting his girlfriend’s former beau in the buttocks. Convicted shooter Leopold McLean, 49, also got a verbal...  

• Two men killed in accidents

  Two men were killed in accidents in Queens and Brooklyn, police said today. Kiyanoush Asif, 20, was riding his motorcycle in Murray Hill about 5:30 p.m....  

• Teach groped aide, too: girl

  A 14-year-old Queens girl yesterday testified that her teacher back in the third grade molested not only her but also an assistant teacher on a regular basis. ...  

• Wake up! Photos, video show JFK Airport security guards dozing at key posts

  Terror-targeted JFK Airport has become a giant slumber party for some of its security guards — who regularly doze on duty at key posts, according to a former boss and damning photos obtained by The Post. Although the airport has been...  

• TV anchor Molly Rokasy says politician hubby dumped her for state employee

  Months after beautiful news anchor Molly Rokasy and Queens power broker Austin Shafran married, she claims, he left her for a state employee who’s steadily risen in the government ranks. Shafran, a City Council candidate, fell in love...  

• Man fighting for his life after Queens shooting: police

  A man is fighting for his life after a gunman pulled up to a luxury vehicle in Richmond Hill and shot him in the face on 116 Street near 101 Avenue around 7 p...  

• Wife killed by NYPD cop husband in murder-suicide had called to have locks changed hours before brutal slay

  The Queens woman killed by her cop husband contacted a locksmith to have her front-door locks changed just hours before she was gunned down, sources said yesterday. NYPD school-safety agent Lana Morris — whose husband, Sherlon Smikle,...  

• Jumping ‘jacker’ flashed

  She carries the phone — and wears the pants.  A fearless wife confronted the crook who jacked her van by snapping a cellphone photo that led to his arrest —...  

• Coverup rap in disappearance

  A Queens nursing home director has been charged with falsifying medical records in order to hide the disappearance of a 74-year-old man with dementia, Attorney...  

• Swing and a miss! Weiner beats on Mets during pitch for soccer in Queens

  The Mets’ opponents aren’t the ones beating up on the lackluster team. Morose Mets’ fan Anthony Weiner threw a bean ball at the Amazins’ during a Queens mayoral forum this morning. “I’m a pro-development Democrat. I think we should...  

• Retired federal agent fires at burglars inside his Queens home: sources

  A retired federal agent fired at two burglars when he returned to his Queens home and found the men inside, sources said. The retired Department of Homeland...  

• 7 hurt after livery car crashes into Queens deli

  Seven people were hurt this morning after a livery cab smashed into a Queens deli, authorities said. The Lincoln town car mowed into the LaVilla Deli and Grocery in Hollis on the corner of 190th Street and Jamaica Avenue about 8:10 a...  

• Queens man freaks over IRS bill, attempts suicide outside 'Today' studios

  A distraught Queens man, ranting about a $1.3 million IRS bill, tried to kill himself outside the Rockefeller Center studios of NBC’s “Today” show yesterday morning, authorities said. Pak Chong Mar, 72, sliced his wrists with a...  

• DA: Teach used kid as ‘sex toy’

  A Queens public-school teacher used a fourth-grade girl as a “personal sex toy,” prosecutors charged yesterday before the girl bravely took the stand to face...  

• Off-duty Queens cop allegedly kills wife before turning shotgun on himself after she didn't cook dinner

  An off-duty police officer gunned down his wife on a Queens street last night before turning the weapon on himself, all because she didn’t cook dinner,...  

• ‘Role’ over! Judge slams 'Meryl madam's' Oscar-worthy performance after faking cancer to stay out of jail

  She’s the “Meryl Streep” of the criminal-justice system.  The alleged Queens madam who feigned cancer to stay out of jail on prostitution charges was told by a judge yesterday that she’s “worthy of an Academy Award” — and a whopping...  

• Bust in Queens bus-kid slay

  The alleged gangbanger who killed a 14-year-old girl when he opened fire on a Queens bus last month was nabbed yesterday, cops said. Kevin McClinton, 21, was busted at a cousin’s place in Cayce, SC, a small town just outside Columbia,...  

• Woman who murdered grandmother was killed by jealous boyfriend: sources

  A Queens woman who went to prison for strangling her 91-year-old step-grandmother upstate was killed by her jealous boyfriend, police sources said. Pedro Sanchez, 38, visited Katherine Seeber, 32, at work about 11 a.m. Tuesday and...  

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