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Hospital celebrates 25 years of changing kids' hearts
Nine-year-old Lauren Shields has no worries. The sweet-faced little lady received a new heart last March after doctors at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital gave her parents, Jeanne and David, the grim...
Joe manages to be a hero
World Series-winning manager Joe Girardi can add another title to his résumé: Highway hero. Hours after guiding the Yankees to baseball's ultimate prize, the selfless skipper rushed to the aid...
Search for tragic mom
State police trawled an upstate river yesterday following the disappearance of a terminally-ill Staten Island woman whose father is serving life in prison for hiring a hit man to murder...
NYU death plunge
A 20-year-old NYU student leaped to his death yesterday from a 10th-floor balcony in the school's library -- becoming at least the eighth student at the Greenwich Village university to...
She's fooled by a screwball
PHILADELPHIA -- She thought she was being Punk’d. One minute, Phillie fanatic Susan Finkelstein was having a “jovial, friendly, joking” conversation at a bar with a man she’d just met...
Phillie femme: you've got to be kidding me
She thought she was being Punk’d. One minute, rabid Phillie phanatic Susan Finkelstein was having a "jovial, friendly, joking" conversation at a bar with a man she’d just met —...
Brooklyn kids score touchdown for slain cop
The spirit of slain cop Omar Edwards, who was killed in a friendly fire incident this year, is busy roaming the sidelines for a group of teenage Brooklyn football players...
Grandma: Stephanie 'was stupid' to date CBS producer
"Late Show" staffer Stephanie Birkitt "was stupid" to ever go out with CBS News producer Robert "Joe" Halderman — who is now charged with shaking down David Letterman for $2...
Jayson investigator admits using n-word
A prosecution investigator admitted yesterday to uttering racist comments about former NBA star Jayson Williams. William Hunt, who led the probe into charges that Williams fatally shot his limo driver...
Prosecutor: Prober used 'N-word' to describe Williams
SOMERVILLE, N.J. -- The New Jersey prosecutor who headed the office that tried Jayson Williams in the death of a limo driver said today he reacted with “anger and disappointment”...
'Drunk' cop kills pastor's daughter
A drunk NYPD officer struck and killed a Brooklyn woman early this morning - and his three passengers, including at least one other cop, fled the deadly scene and left...
Terror tent down at Camp Trump
Moammar Khadafy's Bedouin-style tent -- erected on a lawn on Donald Trump's sprawling Westchester property -- was dismantled yesterday, as officials said the colonel would be steering clear of the...
Dad-mutilator inspired by Bobbitt
An airport security guard on trial for killing her father and cutting off his penis testified yesterday that she carefully researched the procedure by studying Lorena Bobbitt's attack on her...
Scratches on lovelorn suspect in Yale student's murder
A Yale lab technician with an unrequited love for grad student Annie Le emerged as the prime suspect in her coldblooded murder after he failed a lie-detector test and couldn't...
Grim search ends on wedding day
Grim-faced authorities last night said they found a body believed to be that of Yale grad student Annie Le stuffed in a wall at the school lab where she vanished...
Woman disappears before wedding
A brilliant Yale grad student mysteriously vanished just days before her Long Island wedding -- setting off a desperate search and sparking speculation about whether the petite stunner was the...
A femme 'fatal'
A battle between two middle-aged men over a 24-year-old temptress ended in death in Brooklyn over the weekend. Pedro Marquez, 46, fatally stabbed Michael Lebron, 40, in the heart with...
School grades are clash act
It's a mixed message that would drive any parent crazy. Your child's school is on the state's list of "persistently dangerous" schools, a warning of violence so severe, the state...
DAY-CARE THIEF STRIKES AGAIN
A thief posing as a parent hit a ritzy Midtown day-care center for the second time this summer -- this time swiping a laptop and an iPod from a roomful...
BX. CABBY SHOT DEAD IN ROBBERY
A Bronx livery-cab driver was shot and killed during an apparent robbery yesterday, just days after starting work driving the dangerous night shift. Amadou Ndiaye, 47, was found shot once...