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Starving passengers rationed Pringles

Starving passengers rationed Pringles

They were supposed to be taking a direct flight from LAX to JFK -- but wound up on a 16-hour nightmare tour by air and bus of New York state. Before finally arriving at their destination, the starving passengers of jinxed Virgin...  Read Full Story

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    Most of the kids were back in school Tuesday, the sun emerged and utility crews slowly returned electricity customers to the grid after a soaking...   6:41 PM

  • 'Growing Pains' producer sentenced for child porn

    LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas — An executive producer for the 1980s sitcom "Growing Pains" has been sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison for distribution of...   5:00 PM

  • Corey Haim's mom in frantic 911 call moments before his death

    Corey Haim's frantic mother can be heard screaming into the phone at a 911 operator just moments after she found her son's limp body in her bedroom....   5:15 PM

  • Dig me out

    "Oh my God," I yelled, peering out the window. "Daddy’s had a heart attack. Wait here." I ran down the freshly paved path to the far end of my...   6:41 PM

  • Holder: Osama bin Laden will never face trial in US

    WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder says Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive....   4:10 PM

  • Cameron Douglas' gal pal gets time served in drug case

    The girlfriend of actor Michael Douglas' druggie son was given no new jail time at her sentencing today in Manhattan federal court. Kelly Sott, 33,...   4:41 PM

  • Dems defend plan to push health care through House without vote

    Dems defend plan to push health care through House without vote

    WASHINGTON — Democrats defended plans to push massive health care legislation through the House without a direct vote and Republicans assailed the strategy Tuesday, as both parties fenced ferociously over the health overhaul end game. House...   3:09 PM

  • Over two dozen busted for drug dealing near Lincoln Center

    These accused drug dealers will finally be facing the music. Over two dozen people were busted today for selling crack, cocaine and heroin out of a...   3:09 PM

  • Madoff's sons seek to have complaints dismissed

    Madoff's sons seek to have complaints dismissed

    Andrew and Mark Madoff, sons of fraudster Bernard Madoff, have submitted a request with a U.S. court to dismiss all the complaints against them, with prejudice, court documents showed. In a filing on Monday with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern...   11:14 AM

  • Homeless mom gets 25 years to life for 'depraved' baby slay

    Homeless mom gets 25 years to life for 'depraved' baby slay

    Calling the monstrous woman "depraved," a Manhattan judge today sentenced a homeless mother to 25 years to life in prison -- the maximum allowed -- for the 2004 beating and starvation death of her own three-month old baby boy. Little Colesvintong...   1:16 PM

  • Man admits strangling girlfriend, dumping body on road in ’08

    WATERTOWN, N.Y. — A 30-year-old man has admitted strangling his girlfriend and stuffing her body into a suitcase he dumped along a rural northern New...   10:24 AM

  • Actor Steven Seagal a deadbeat: former business partner

    Actor Steven Seagal a deadbeat: former business partner

    On TV, he's "Steven Seagal Lawman" -- but to his mobbed-up, ex-business partner, he's "Steven Seagal Deadbeat." Film producer Julius Nasso filed suit today against the former action-movie star over $165,000 Nasso claims he's owed under a 2007...   1:37 PM

  • Tiger Woods says he will return to golf at the Masters

    Tiger Woods says he will return to golf at the Masters

    Tiger Woods is coming back to the links. The embattled golfer said today that he will return to golf next month and compete at the Masters -- ending a four-month hiatus brought on by a salacious sex scandal that shattered his once-spotless image....   4:41 PM

  • Judge: Winfrey must defend ex-headmistress’s suit

    Judge: Winfrey must defend ex-headmistress’s suit

    PHILADELPHIA — Talk show host Oprah Winfrey must defend a defamation suit over remarks she made about a headmistress at her girls’ school in South Africa after a sex-abuse scandal erupted there, a U.S. judge ruled. The case is now set for trial on...   1:21 PM

  • Ex-Harvard student indicted in NYC shooting death

    BOSTON — A former Harvard University student has been indicted on accessory and firearms charges in the 2009 shooting death of another Harvard student....   1:03 PM

  • City restaurants to display health inspection grades

    New York City’s 24,000 restaurants — from its internationally known eateries on down to its most modest pizza counters — will have to display large...   1:03 PM

  • Elin's porn star problem

    Elin's porn star problem

    Well, she has a point. As Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren navigate the rocky road to repairing their marriage, she keeps reminding him, "You slept with a porn star," according to a report. A source told Radaronline.com that one of Elin's biggest...   11:52 AM

  • Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing

    Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing

    HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A 38-year-old father of two was jogging and listening to his iPod when he was hit from behind and killed by a small plane making an emergency landing on the beach, officials said Tuesday. Robert Gary Jones of Woodstock,...   10:25 AM

  • Andrews says she had 'meltdown' after her stalker was sent to prison

    Andrews says she had 'meltdown' after her stalker was sent to prison

    LOS ANGELES -- ESPN reporter Erin Andrews said today that she had "a meltdown" after the peephole peeping perv who secretly videotaped her and then posted it on the Internet was sentenced to 2 1/2 years behind bars. A day after begging the court...   10:42 AM

  • British nurse glues six-year-old boy's eye shut

    A boy of six was left in agony after a nurse in an English hospital glued his eye shut, The Sun reported Tuesday. The adhesive dripped into Lewis...   8:11 AM

NYC Local

City got taken by $torm

City got taken by $torm

The raging nor'easter that tore into the five boroughs over the...  

Old coots take Brooklyn street fight to court

Old coots take Brooklyn street fight to court

An 83-year-old Brooklyn brawler, charged with thrashing a man who...  

Mystery Midtown plunge

Mystery Midtown plunge

A young man described as "happy, bright and full of hope" tumbled...  

Monserrate gal pal stumps for him ahead of special election (video)

Monserrate gal pal stumps for him ahead of special election (video)

Karla Giraldo, the girlfriend who Hiram Monserrate was charged...  

Bx. faces a brutal re'train'ing

Bx. faces a brutal re'train'ing

Slow it down, Bronx straphangers. The MTA is shutting down...  

SI Ferry cab plan

SI Ferry cab plan

The city wants to install a livery stand at the St. George...  

Weird But True

A Wisconsin man truly bled for his Green Bay Packers -- and that devotion saved his life. Jim Becker, 79, says that in...  

NYPD Blotter

Manhattan A gunman has been busted for shooting a man in both legs at a Washington Heights restaurant, police said...  

Business

What's in a name?

What's in a name?

Phillips-Van Heusen wants to own both Tommy Hilfigers....   2:22 AM

Crime

Erin's revenge: Peeper jail hike

Erin's revenge: Peeper jail hike

LOS ANGELES -- ESPN's Erin Andrews yesterday begged a court to...   4:54 AM

US News

Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing

Plane kills jogger in SC beach emergency landing

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. — A 38-year-old father of two was...   10:25 AM

World News

Palestinians riot in Jerusalem over Israeli building plan

Riots erupted in Jerusalem Tuesday as Palestinians marked a "day...   1:42 PM

Politics

Dems defend plan to push health care through House without vote

Dems defend plan to push health care through House without vote

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