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• Stupid Cupid! Shot lover testifies for shooter

  The Brooklyn man whose girlfriend shot him in the face loves her so much, he testified in her defense yesterday. “I love her. Yes, I care about her,” Randy...  

• ‘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,...  

• ‘Fiend’ to shot cop: Just die!

  “F--k you! Die!” Those were the words an evil gangbanger hissed at a brave NYPD cop right after he put a bullet in the officer’s head, prosecutors revealed...  

• Vito to run on tax $$

  Taxpayers may soon shell out more than $120,000 to Vito Lopez.  The disgraced former Assemblyman, who’s running for the City Council, has joined the public...  

• THE RED HOOK: A hero for hipsters!

  Gotham has Batman — and now Brooklyn has its own scrappy superhero. An edgy new Web comic by an award-winning artist centers on “The Red Hook” — a street-smart superhero inspired by the gritty waterfront neighborhood. Dean Haspiel, 46...  

• Two new police boats dedicated to slain NYPD detectives

   A pair of cops who paid the ultimate price protecting New York were honored today by the city and Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, who dedicated two harbor boats in their names. "We will always consider them a part of our one,...  

• NYC DOT workers suspended after they were caught working out at gym during work hours

  Three beefy city Transportation Department workers have been suspended after they were caught pumping iron at a Brooklyn gym on the taxpayer dime, The Post has learned.  A DOT probe found that assistant city highway repairer Alvero...  

• Brooklyn DA Charles Hynes pays top price for his office’s downtown real estate

  It’s good to be Kings County’s top lawman. District Attorney Charles Hynes spends nearly twice as much to rent his cushy staff headquarters as all of the city’s four other district attorneys combined, The Post has learned. The posh...  

• Speed kills in B’klyn

  Speeding vehicles kill more people in Brooklyn than in any other borough, according to research by a transportation advocacy group. The study, conducted by Transportation Alternatives, examined the state’s most recently available...  

• Annual Father’s Day event at NYC Transit Museum in Brooklyn a big hit

  About 150 fathers and their children yesterday explored the New York City Transit Museum in Downtown Brooklyn with city officials as part of a sixth annual...  

• Brooklyn DA fires head of Gang Bureau over racial and homophobic slurs

  Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes has fired the head of his Gang Bureau for using homophobic language and calling a top prosecutor “the head n----r,” The Post has learned.  Deanna Rodriguez had been suspended since March for...  

• Fatal ‘DWI’ in B’klyn

  A Madison Square Garden cook was fatally mowed down in Brooklyn early yesterday by an alleged drunk driver — who was nabbed by cops after smashing his car into...  

• Bag-snatching thug on the run after crashing into Brooklyn home

   A thug is on the loose after he robbed a woman this morning, then crashed into a Brooklyn home while trying to drive off with her purse, police sources said. The crook held up a woman on Flatbush Avenue and Avenue T this morning,...  

• Retired NYPD detective promotes 'bikini bar' plan near Barclays Center in Brooklyn

  Cops and strippers — they’re not just for bachelorette parties anymore. A retired NYPD detective wants to open a “bikini bar” complete with pole dancing — and possibly stripteases — near the Barclays Center to attract fans seeking...  

• Park Slope calls foul on road to Barclays

  They’re on the cutting edge of trends, but when it comes to one of their major roadways for bypassing the Barclays Center, Park Slope residents like things...  

• Shot girl, 11, rallies

  The 11-year-old Brooklyn girl who was shot in the neck by a stray bullet sat up in her hospital bed for the first time yesterday, according to her family. The mother of Tayloni Mazyck said she was able to sit up for the first time...  

• Tot survives plunge

  A young child miraculously survived a two-story fall from a Brooklyn apartment building yesterday, authorities said. The incident occurred at about 7:25 p.m....  

• Anguish of slain immigrant cabby’s kin

  The Brooklyn cabby who was killed with an umbrella came to the United States to provide a better life for his five children, grieving relatives said yesterday.  “He didn’t go to university, and he wanted to do everything in his power...  

• Claw of the land

  Brooklyn has clawed its way to the top of the food chain. The Red Hook Lobster Pound was voted the country’s best food truck by the Web site The Daily Meal, which examined 450 trucks in 40 cities to compile a list of the country’s 101...  

• Road-rage chase through Brooklyn ends in crash into building, driver beaten

   A man drove into a Brooklyn building this afternoon while trying to escape another driver, authorities and witnesses said. The driver smashed his red Lincoln Navigator into a Bedford-Stuyvesant building on Marion Street near Howard...  

• Brooklyn teacher pleads guilty to sleeping with 16-year-old student in no-jail deal

  A tattooed Brooklyn high school teacher pleaded guilty to bedding a 16-year-old student yesterday in a no-jail deal that will yank her teaching license. Park Slope seductress Erin Sayar answered, “Yes,” when a Brooklyn Supreme Court...  

• Gas-rate freeze

  The state ordered National Grid not to raise delivery rates for its 980,000 natural-gas customers in Brooklyn until 2015, after finding that the company...  

• Man refuses to testify against woman who allegedly shot him — so he can marry her

  This Brooklyn couple is ready to take another shot . . . at love. Randolph Costa says he’s still too enamored of his girlfriend to testify against her at her Brooklyn criminal trial — although she allegedly put a bullet in his head...  

• Trial for thug accused of shooting cop in head postponed after 'foreign object' found hidden in his body

  The trial of a Brooklyn thug accused of shooting a cop in the head had to be postponed today when correction officers found a “foreign object” hidden inside his body, authorities said. Latin King Luis Ortiz, 23, was supposed to be...  

• I was a hero: BK dad says he was protecting his family when he shot assault rifle at a group of teens

   He did it to protect his family. A Brooklyn dad on trial for shooting at a pack of rowdy teens with his assault rifle testified today he only fired because he was afraid for the lives of his wife and baby son – and he thought one of...  

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