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Great granny! Clerk, 91, battles thug

Great granny! Clerk, 91, battles thug

A feisty 91-year-old Long Island pharmacy cashier fought with a robber -- then insisted on finishing her work shift. "I want him to get caught because I want to smack him," said Florence Critelli after completing her day's work at the...  Read Full Story

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    HITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A retired New York City policeman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for drugging a woman in a Bronx bar and raping her in a...  

  • Judge sets special hearing in WTC workers case

    Judge sets special hearing in WTC workers case

    Thousands of people sickened in the World Trade Center rescue and cleanup efforts will have a chance to weigh on a proposed $657 settlement with the government at a special hearing next week, the federal judge overseeing the case said. Before the...  

  • Student stabbed repeatedly in one of two high school knife attacks

    Two stabbings between students took place today at two separate city high schools, authorities said. One stabbing occurred at Newtown HS in Queens at...  

  • Toyota engineer to assist probe of W'chester Prius crash

    HARRISON, N.Y. — Toyota is sending an engineer to help with the investigation of an accident in which a driver said her Prius accelerated on its own...  

  • Yassky named new TLC boss

    Former City Councilman David Yassky has been tapped to head the Taxi and Limousine Commission, Mayor Bloomberg announced today. Yassky will replace...  

  • Prius crash gal on way to car checkup

    The Westchester County housekeeper who escaped death when her boss's Prius accelerated out of control and smashed into a stone wall was actually on the...  

  • Jet gets goosed

    Jet gets goosed

    Those flocking geese! Terrified passengers aboard a geese-stricken jumbo jet out of Newark found themselves circling New Jersey for almost 90 white-knuckle minutes as the pilot dumped fuel from what they feared was a crippled plane, sources...  

  • Andy gets off Dave's case

    ALBANY -- Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, facing declining poll ratings and calls that he step aside from two explosive investigations of Gov....  

  • 'Special' Kaye made herstory

    'Special' Kaye made herstory

    Judith Kaye -- New York's former chief judge, who's been tapped to lead two investigations into Gov. Paterson -- is an upstate native famous for championing judicial pay raises, gay marriage and much-imitated special courts to address drug abuse...  

  • 'Shotgun Gus' pities robbers

    Charles Augusto Jr. feels sorry for the two thugs he filled with buckshot last August when they tried to rob his Harlem restaurant-supply store and...  

  • Colt-dolt cop to admit guilt

    A top NYPD supervisor and his girlfriend will surrender to the DA and plead guilty to allegations unearthed in a Post investigation that they rigged a...  

  • Stun-gun tragedy

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  • MTA now mulling a 2010 hike

    Hold onto your wallets. MTA brass are considering a fare hike as early as this year as they struggle to fill a $750 million budget gap, The Post...  

  • GED cuts earning a bad grade

    For the second straight year, state officials have proposed cutting funds earmarked for General Educational Development testing -- a reduction that...  

  • City OKs $657M for ailing WTC heroes

    City OKs $657M for ailing WTC heroes

    Lawyers for the city and more than 11,000 Ground Zero rescue and cleanup workers reached a tentative settlement last night that will give them as much as $657 million, The Post has learned. The proposal, presented yesterday to Manhattan federal...  

  • Howard Stern crowns $75G Tiger trollop

    Howard Stern crowns $75G Tiger trollop

    There she is . . . Miss Adultery. Man-stealing cocktail waitress Jamie Jungers took home $75,000, as she was named the winner of the "Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant," which took place on the Howard Stern Show yesterday. Dressed in a...