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Feds find human remains at Queens home of real-life 'Goodfellas' mobster: source

Feds find human remains at Queens home of real-life 'Goodfellas' mobster: source

 Federal agents have found human remains possibly tied to a decades old Mafia murder at the Queens home of “Goodfellas” mobster James “Jimmy the Gent” Burke, law enforcement sources said.  The discovery comes two days after FBI and NYPD...   Full Story

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  • NYPD fights to fight crime with new ad, as Council tries to ban using ‘race, gender, or age’ to ID suspects

    NYPD fights to fight crime with new ad, as Council tries to ban using ‘race, gender, or age’ to ID suspects

    Cops might as well wear blindfolds if the City Council passes a bill that would let them use little more than the color of a suspect’s clothing in descriptions — or risk being sued for profiling, according to this provocative new ad (pictured) from...   12:03 PM

  • ‘Ball buster’ wife is teste: WABC weatherman Bill Evans claims low blow in car fight

    ‘Ball buster’ wife is teste: WABC weatherman Bill Evans claims low blow in car fight

    A knockdown, drag-out brawl between WABC/Channel 7 weatherman Bill Evans and his estranged wife took a nasty turn when she scratched his testicles and bruised his backside with a coat hanger, the meteorologist claimed.  Evans, 52, told police his...   7:27 AM

  • Christie: No, no to Speedo

    Christie: No, no to Speedo

    New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has slimmed down after his belly-band surgery, but he’s not about to make a public splash in a swimsuit. “We are not doing that on Fourth of July. There are some things I absolutely know at my core would be a bad thing...   3:22 AM

  • Feds: Surveillance foiled NYSE attack

    Feds: Surveillance foiled NYSE attack

     Secret US surveillance foiled an al Qaeda plot to blow up the New York Stock Exchange, the FBI revealed to Congress yesterday. A Brooklyn accountant “cased” the stock exchange in 2008 under orders from a mysterious al Qaeda leader in Yemen known...   5:48 AM

  • Tests are lost – so kids flunk: Students told they have to attend summer school after DOE loses their exams

    Tests are lost – so kids flunk: Students told they have to attend summer school after DOE loses their exams

    A Brooklyn intermediate school flunked an entire eighth-grade class and told the kids they’d have to attend summer school — because bungling education officials lost their state English exams, The Post has learned. Panicked 13- and 14-year-olds at...   7:42 AM

  • Reward now 65G for ’08 Times Sq. bomber

    Reward now 65G for ’08 Times Sq. bomber

    The feds and the NYPD yesterday offered a $65,000 reward for information leading to the capture and conviction of the bicycle bomber who attacked the Times Square military recruiting center in 2008. In addition to the reward offer, authorities...   2:36 AM

  • NYC teachers union on verge of endorsing Bill Thompson for mayor

    NYC teachers union on verge of endorsing Bill Thompson for mayor

    Mayoral candidate Bill Thompson is about to get the biggest boost of his campaign — he’ll be endorsed by the teachers union today. The United Federation of Teachers, one of the city’s largest and most politically powerful labor organizations, will...   8:51 AM

  • Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez quizzed in possible homicide case after body found near NFLer's home

    Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez quizzed in possible homicide case after body found near NFLer's home

    A star New England Patriot tight end was questioned by authorities yesterday in a possible homicide investigation, according to reports.  Aaron Hernandez was interviewed by Massachusetts cops after the body of a 27-year-old Boston man was discovered...   7:42 AM

  • Police: NJ 8th-grader brought pot to graduation

    Police: NJ 8th-grader brought pot to graduation

    BAYONNE, NJ — Authorities say a Bayonne, NJ, student was arrested at her eighth-grade graduation after marijuana cigarettes were found in her purse. City police tell The Jersey Journal that a teacher supervising Monday's ceremony at the Midtown...  

  • ‘It should not be a secret’: Ray Kelly rips feds phone & Web snooping

    ‘It should not be a secret’: Ray Kelly rips feds phone & Web snooping

     Police Commissioner Ray Kelly launched a stinging rebuke to the federal government’s secret phone- and Internet-monitoring campaign — and suggested leaker Edward Snowden was right about privacy “abuse.” “I don’t think it ever should have been made...  

  • Dump tarnished Silver: poll

    Dump tarnished Silver: poll

    ALBANY — A majority of voters wants to give Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver the boot over the way he handled sexual-harassment claims against pervy ex-pol Vito Lopez.  Fifty-two percent of state voters think Silver (pictured) should step down,...  

  • Gov pro-abort bill terminated

    Gov pro-abort bill terminated

    ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo suffered several setbacks yesterday and all but admitted defeat of his 10-point women’s-equality agenda after the ranking Democrat in the Senate introduced a bill without the controversial pro-abortion plank the governor has...  

  • It’s a heap of trouble: Vermin fear over Bloomberg's citywide compost bid by 2015

    It’s a heap of trouble: Vermin fear over Bloomberg's citywide compost bid by 2015

    Skeptical city residents say Mayor Bloomberg’s new food-waste-recycling program is a great idea — if you’re a rat. “Recycling, in general, takes a lot of effort,” said Geneva Jeanniton, 22, a hairstylist from East Flatbush, Brooklyn. “People have to...  

  • Two new police boats dedicated to slain NYPD detectives

    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, inseparable police...  

  • A hail of a nerve! $442 rip-off pedicabby whine

    A hail of a nerve! $442 rip-off pedicabby whine

    First, he charges more than $400 for a 10-minute ride, then he claims he’s the victim!  Pedicab driver Savas Avci took the prize for gall yesterday when he testified at a city administrative hearing that he broke just one regulation by billing a...  

  • A peek at $3 billion Brooklyn of the future

    A peek at $3 billion Brooklyn of the future

     Brooklyn’s tech boom will get another boost with a slick “Tech Triangle” development project that includes a massive helium observation balloon overlooking it all.  The $3 billion ambitious plan — which covers the area from DUMBO, to the Downtown...   1:35 AM

  • Quinn uses Weiner’s old 'middle class' campaign slogan

    Quinn uses Weiner’s old 'middle class' campaign slogan

    Mayoral hopeful Christine Quinn has a populist campaign phrase that’s got a familiar ring to it — it’s strikingly similar to rhetoric that rival Anthony Weiner used in his 2005 run for City Hall, documents show.  The City Council speaker — who has...  

  • A grave mistake: Engraver botches Koch’s birth year

    A grave mistake: Engraver botches Koch’s birth year

    How’s Ed Koch’s grave site doing? Horrible! The former mayor’s tombstone at Trinity Church in Washington Heights was mistakenly engraved with the wrong birth year — Dec. 12, 1942, instead of 1924.  The gaffe is enough to have Koch — a proud World...  

  • Cuomo's 'women's equality agenda' introduced as bill without abortion rights proposal

    Cuomo's 'women's equality agenda' introduced as bill without abortion rights proposal

    ALBANY — Gov. Cuomo has admitted certain defeat of his Women’s Equality Agenda, laying blame squarely at the feet of Democratic Senate co-leader Jeff Klein, who has refused to break his power sharing deal with Republicans in order to allow a full...  

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

    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 Office van —...  

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

    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 Renaissance Plaza...  

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

    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 by her happy...  

  • Manhattan defense attorney is in deep $#^% over courthouse slurs

    Manhattan defense attorney is in deep $#^% over courthouse slurs

    A criminal-defense lawyer with a randy reputation could get the book thrown at him for using language that won’t be found in any law library. Paul Lieber, a married 69-year-old father of two, called two female public defenders “f--king c--ts” in an...  

  • THE RED HOOK: A hero for hipsters!

    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 — best known...  

  • Mobile DNA-testing truck gives New York City fathers paternity proof

    Mobile DNA-testing truck gives New York City fathers paternity proof

     It’s Father’s Day — but do these New York men have reason to celebrate? The Post spent the past few weeks cruising shotgun in a mobile DNA-testing truck helping doubtful dads find proof of their progeny. Health Street, the testing company, has two...  

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