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A surveillance camera caught this gunman as he opened fire on a 29-year-old man at a gas station in Laconia, police said.The suspect (above) allegedly opened the metal barrier and…

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Mayoral candidates yesterday laced into the City Council’s taxpayer-funded member-item system overseen by their rival Christine Quinn in light of a Post report that one member spent millions of dollars…

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Just as his wife and daughters were enjoying their lives out of the public eye, disgraced former Gov. Eliot Spitzer selfishly forced them back in by running for comptroller, sources…

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Stringer or Spitzer? For ex-Gov. David Paterson, it’s a political quandary. Paterson, who succeeded Eliot Spitzer as governor in 2008 after Spitzer resigned in the wake of a prostitution scandal,…

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Country-music star Randy Travis has been hospitalized in critical condition after contracting a dangerous heart infection. The Grammy winner, 54 — who pleaded guilty earlier this year to DWI —…

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An unpatriotic firebug set an American flag ablaze outside a Midtown bar where the owner had hung it to celebrate becoming a US citizen just days earlier. John Doherty, 42,…

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Lawyers for Bonanno-crime- boss-turned-FBI-informant Joseph Massino want the sickly turncoat sprung from jail as a reward for his testimony, papers filed yesterday in Brooklyn federal court show. “Seldom in the…

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I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white. Apparently other Americans also recognize that the sources of racism are different…

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The Sun and Mercury combine on your birthday to fill your head with brilliant ideas, but as Mercury is moving retrograde you will need to check each and every one…

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What starts out as a simple conversation could quickly degenerate into a severe disagreement, but now you know that you will resist the urge to tell people why they are…

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Albums of the Week Skylar Grey “Don’t Look Down” ★★ 1/2 A backroom songwriter who co-wrote Eminem and Rihanna’s “Love the Way You Lie” and recorded in the mid-2000s as…

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There is no point getting involved in a fight you are unlikely to win. It’s all about percentages: if the odds are stacked against you then why waste time and…

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