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John Wayne Gacy may have had accomplices

ROLANDO PUJOL — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:00:00 GMT

The sordid saga of “Killer Clown” John Wayne Gacy has taken a new twist almost 20 years after he was executed for the torture, rape and killing of 33 boys and young men in 1970s Chicago.

Gabrielle Union’s hair weave flagged by TSA

AMANDA MIKELBERG — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:01:36 GMT

Gabrielle Union's hair is fly - but it almost grounded her at the airport on Wednesday.

Driving high on pot doubles risk of car crash: study

AMANDA MIKELBERG — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 05:10:54 GMT

Smoking pot within three hours of driving doubles your chance of a major crash, Canadian researchers have found.

Sanitation worker arrested in iPad theft

JOHN DOYLE — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 04:51:21 GMT

A New York City Department of Sanitation worker was busted after he was caught stealing an Apple iPad from an East Village cafe.

Remains of 1,633rd World Trade Center victim identified

DOUGLAS FEIDEN — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:35:30 GMT

The remains of a globe-trotting Brooklyn Heights woman whose journeys took her to Tuscany, Asia and Africa have finally been identified.

Boston trip winner to be picked

TINA MOORE — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:30:16 GMT

Want to win an all-expense paid trip to Beantown? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Shot cop goes home from hospital

JOE KEMP — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:58:01 GMT

Hero cop Kevin Brennan enjoyed a miracle homecoming Friday just 10 days after a thug’s bullet nearly killed him.

Cashman gal pal tormented N.J. man for 2 yrs.

KERRY WILLS, GLENN BLAIN, JANON FISHER — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:56:35 GMT

The woman accused of shaking down Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, threatening to out their 10-month affair to the world, has done this before.

Madonna stalker caught after hospital escape

NINA MANDELL — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:32:41 GMT

A crazed stalker who scaled a wall at Madonna's Hollywood Hills home and threatened to slit her throat was nabbed by police a week after he escaped from a psychiatric hospital, the Los Angeles Police Department said Friday.

Girls excluded from 'Red Tails' field trip

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:18:55 GMT

When 5,700 fifth-grade boys in Dallas' public schools recently went to see a movie about black fighter pilots in World War II, the girls stayed in school and saw a different movie instead.

Pioneering Harlem native Norma Merrick Sklarek dies

NANCY DILLON — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:01:04 GMT

Norma Merrick Sklarek, a Harlem native who became the country’s first African American female licensed architect, died Monday in southern California at age 85.

Al Qaeda terrorist dad sent to jail for 4 1/2 years for lies to FBI

JOHN MARZULLI — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:49:13 GMT

THE FATHER of Al Qaeda terrorist Najibullah Zazi was sentenced Friday to 4 1/2 years in prison for obstructing the probe of his son’s plan to detonate bombs in Manhattan subway trains.

North Carolina father shoots daughter’s laptop after she complains on Facebook about her chores

TAYLOR HOM — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:47:06 GMT

Talk about tough love! A North Carolina dad's video lecturing his daughter for being spoiled — and then shooting her laptop full of bullets — has received millions of hits on YouTube.

Russians alarmed by teenage suicides

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:41:01 GMT

Russia has the world's third-highest rate of suicide among teenagers aged 15-to-19, with about 1,500 taking their own lives every year, according to a recent UNICEF report.

Obama a fan of ‘Homeland’, says star

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:15:41 GMT

Actor Damian Lewis has a warning for Barack Obama. He says the U.S. president shouldn’t watch the Showtime TV series “Homeland” too much “because he won’t sleep at night.”

Obama backtracks on controversial birth control mandate

BY THOMAS M. DeFRANK and TRACY CONNOR — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:08:33 GMT

President Obama is abandoning a plan that would have forced faith-based groups to provide insurance coverage for birth control. An uproar over the new rule - led by New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan and the political conservatives - turned into an election-year nightmare for the White House.

Uzbek man Ulugbek Kodirov pleads guilty in plot to kill Obama

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:07:33 GMT

A man from Uzbekistan has pleaded guilty to terror-related charges in a plot to assassinate President Barack Obama. Ulugbek Kodirov entered the plea Friday in federal court in Birmingham, Ala.

Woman credits breast implants with saving her from car crash

NINA MANDELL — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:53:06 GMT

A woman is crediting her record-setting bosom for saving her life after she wrapped her car around a tree. Sheyla Hershey, of Houston, Tx., told Radar Online that she was driving to pick up her husband after a Super Bowl party when she lost control of her car and slammed into a tree.

Suicide seen in death of hockey coach Ivan Pravilov

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:47:53 GMT

Federal officials say a Ukrainian hockey coach has died of a suspected suicide while in custody in Philadelphia on child-molestation charges.A prison spokesman says 48-year-old Ivan Pravilov was found unresponsive in his cell at 3 a.m. Friday.

Bank of America listed living customer as dead for three years

BRADEN GOYETTE — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:05:24 GMT

Bank of America has listed Arthur Livingston as deceased for the past three years. Just one problem: Livingston is alive and well, and was hoping to buy a home soon.

World Press Photo of the Year awarded

EHAB ZAHRIYEH — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:51:43 GMT

The World Press Photo of the Year 2011 was awarded to Samuel Aranda, a Spanish freelance photographer for the New York Times, for capturing a moment in Yemen that illustrated the stakes of the mass protests that rocked much of the Arab world since early last year.

Swedish businessmen hauled into court for Manhattan tourist sex assault

MELISSA GRACE — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:13:53 GMT

Two Swedish e-commerce honchos appeared in a Manhattan court on sex assault charges Friday for allegedly attacking a 19-year-old tourist from Texas in a midtown hotel.

Purple squirrel’s color driving experts nuts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:54:13 GMT

A squirrel trapped by a Pennsylvania couple is quickly becoming an Internet celebrity because of the strange color of its fur: purple. Percy Emert and his wife, Connie, were shocked to find the purple creature in a trap they set to stop squirrels from eating their bird feed at their home in Jersey Shore, Pa.

Baby snatcher Ann Pettway pleads guilty to kidnapping Carlina White

ROBERT GEARTY — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:47:52 GMT

The woman who sparked a nationwide manhunt by snatching a baby from Harlem Hospital a quarter century ago closed the book on the sensational case Friday by pleading guilty to kidnapping.

Shocking photos of teacher accused in California molestation horror surface

NANCY DILLON — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:24:18 GMT

Shocking photos of accused pedophile Mark Berndt offer a glimpse into his disturbing behavior at scandal-rocked Miramonte Elementary School in South Los Angeles. In the newly-surfaced pictures, the 61-year-old is seen wearing a bizarre costume clearly geared to the Disney set.