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Heroin how-to is shot down

Heroin how-to is shot down

Junkies won't be learning better ways to shoot up on the taxpayers' dime after all. A city-funded pamphlet instructing New Yorkers on ways to inject heroin will not be produced in the coming fiscal year, city Health Commissioner Thomas...  Read Full Story

Manhattan

  • Furiou$ ex sues Lady Gaga, claims he created her

    Furiou$ ex sues Lady Gaga, claims he created her

    Now that's a bad romance -- Lady Gaga's ex-boyfriend says she's cheated him out of millions of dollars since he dumped her, a sensational new lawsuit charges. Songwriter and producer Rob Fusari says in a $30 million lawsuit that he helped...  

  • 'Liquored-up' cop fired off gun on St. Pat's day: records

    Erin go bang! An off-duty court officer, who reeked of more than just blarney after hitting a bar on St. Patrick's Day, pulled out his service weapon and...  

Brooklyn

  • Blood, threat and fears! Prospect Park has become a macabre crime scene

    Splattered blood on the rocks of Prospect Park, smashed turtle shells, a suspicious attempt at a campfire — and finally, arson in the reedy underbush. It’s...  

  • Cleared cop wants NYPD payback

    A 25-year NYPD veteran yesterday slammed the Police Department, which fired him last week without explanation, and vowed to seek justice for what he called a...  

Queens

  • JFK gizmo wind-socked

    JFK gizmo wind-socked

    Kennedy Airport controllers lost their wind-measuring equipment in last weekend's nor'easter, forcing them to resort to phone updates from Weather Service forecasters. "Wind-measuring equipment just shattered on the field," a controller...  

  • Rape-slay to jury

    A Queens prosecutor accused a rape suspect of killing his alleged victim in a trade of "her life for his freedom," as the murder case of Hemant Megnath was...  

Bronx

  • Bx. kids' 'jig' is up

    Bx. kids' 'jig' is up

    WASHINGTON -- They might not be Irish, but their eyes are smiling. The Keltic Dreams Irish Dancers, a troupe of 7- to 12-year olds from PS 59 in The Bronx, will take center stage today at the White House St. Patrick's Day Celebration. The...  

  • Ahhh, that 70s show!

    Ahhh, that 70s show!

    Winter is so yesterday. The city is enjoying an end-of-season heat wave -- the first stretch of sun-filled 70-degree days in months. Forecasters said the thermometer will be in the low 70s today -- not far from the 92-year-old record of...  

Staten Island

  • Cops seal deal

    Cops seal deal

    A stranded seal is swimming with the fishes instead of sleeping with them, thanks to NYPD cops The pup yesterday got a hand from police divers, who freed it after it became tangled in fishing wire off Staten Island. NYPD Harbor Unit...  

  • Taxi-scam raps eyed

    Thousands of cabbies accused of overcharging unknowing passengers could face criminal prosecution. The Department of Investigation is conducting a criminal...  

Sports

  • Fredette leads BYU Cougars to double-overtime win

    OKLAHOMA CITY -- When Jimmer Fredette planted a seed with Florida's Chandler Parsons before their NCAA Tournament game, he couldn't have known it...  

  • Upstart Murray State more dandy than Vandy

    SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Murray State coach Billy Kennedy went with his gut and drew up a play his team had never run before, with Isacc Miles the go-to guy...  

  • Top-seed Orange raise red flags

    BUFFALO -- Syracuse is the No. 1 seed in the West, and it has the advantage of playing its first two games in nearby Buffalo. The Orange were peppered...  

  • A Hurley could get Hall pass

    With a Big East job open in the state of New Jersey, it was only a matter of time before the name Hurley popped up. But with Seton Hall now in the...  

  • St. John's, get Mark Jackson!

    Should St. John's spike Norm Roberts, it's unfathomable the university would contact or consider anyone without first feeling out Mark Jackson. Yet,...  

  • 14th seed Ohio blasts No. 3 Georgetown in NCAA shocker

    Armon Bassett scored 32 points to help No. 14 seed Ohio beat Georgetown 97-83 and become the second team seeded in the teens to win in the NCAA...  

  • No. 13 Murray State stuns Vanderbilt at buzzer

    No. 13 Murray State stuns Vanderbilt at buzzer

    SAN JOSE, Calif. -- The president called this one, all right. Murray State needed every last chance and every last second to get back in the NCAA tournament win column. This had been 24 years in the waiting for basketball fans back in Murray, Ky.,...  

  • No. 2 Villanova survives overtime scare from Robert Morris

    No. 2 Villanova survives overtime scare from Robert Morris

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Scottie Reynolds and No. 2 seed Villanova nearly had their NCAA tournament run end in the biggest of upsets. Reynolds responded to his benching with a clutch performance at the foul line in the final minutes of regulation, and...  

  • BYU needs two overtimes to sink Florida

    Jimmer Fredette and BYU survived a thrilling reminder that March Madness is back. Fredette scored 37 points, including two 3-pointers in double...  

  • Notre Dame knocked off by Old Dominion, 51-50

    Notre Dame knocked off by Old Dominion, 51-50

    NEW ORLEANS -- Carleton Scott's 3-pointer rattled out in the closing seconds, and 11th-seeded Old Dominion delivered the first upset of the NCAA tournament when it stunned sixth-seeded Notre Dame 51-50 on Thursday in the South Regional. The...  

  • Ex-Seton Hall player Mitchell pleads not guilty

    A former Seton Hall basketball player has pleaded not guilty to charges of robbing eight people at gunpoint earlier this week. Robert Mitchell, a...  

  • BYU sharpshooter scares Gators coach

    BYU sharpshooter scares Gators coach

    OKLAHOMA CITY -- No offense, John Wall. Florida coach Billy Donovan believes his Gators are about to open the NCAA Tournament against someone who's even more dangerous than Kentucky's player of the year candidate. High-scoring BYU guard Jimmer...  

  • Prez fingers Murray St. upset

    SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Before Murray State coach Billy Kennedy could really start talking basketball, he had an important injury update: Starting guard B...  

  • No. 1 -- chalk up quick profit with Kansas, Kentucky

    Each day during the NCAA Tournament, the Post's Tim Sullivan offers his plays: THE tide started to turn four years ago, just as the new NBA Draft...  

  • Felony raps for ex-Seton Hall star Mitchell

    Felony raps for ex-Seton Hall star Mitchell

    Former Seton Hall basketball player Robert “Stix” Mitchell was arrested Tuesday and charged with kidnapping (first degree); robbery (first degree); burglary (third degree) and weapons offenses (second and third degree). The 23-year-old Brooklynite...  

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