A Brooklyn man who’s been locked up for over four months, charged with raping his S&M “slave,” was set free Wednesday after prosecutors said his accuser is balking from taking the stand.
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A Manhattan judge ordered prosecutors to hand over gruesome crime scene photographs to the lawyer for a Portuguese model charged in the castration slaying of his companion. Renato Seabra’s lawyer wanted the pictures so an expert psychiatrist can evaluate his client’s claims of insanity.
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Ex-TV weathercaster Heidi Jones pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges she faked a claim she was assaulted in Central Park – but her lawyer said the case should be tossed because it has dragged on for too long.
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Mayor Bloomberg wants a full $600 million refund from the main contractor in the scandal-scarred CityTime payroll project. The system for approximately 163,000 employees is up and running, but “because the project was apparently tainted by fraud and kickback schemes, the city must be made whole,” the mayor said in angry letter.
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Two young men wearing bandanas over their faces tried to torch a Brooklyn token booth with the terrified clerk was still inside early Wednesday, officials said.
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The ex-con father of a high school football star killed in a graduation day fight with two parking attendants triggered the tragic, deadly brawl, cops said Wednesday.
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Jehad Mostafa is being sought for his alleged terrorist activities and acting as an operating member of al-Shabaab, a Somalia-based terrorist organization.
On October 9, 2009, a federal arrest warrant was issued for Jehad Serwan Mostafa in the United States District Court, Southern District of California. Mostafa was charged with the following crimes: conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists; conspiracy to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization; and providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
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The shooter in the pharmacy massacre is in total denial about the horrid crimes, while his wife constantly complains about a stomachache, a prison source said.
A Queens judge sentenced a remorseless thug to 100 years in prison yesterday for setting his pregnant ex-girlfriend on fire – vowing he is “never going to get out of jail.”
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A federal judge meted out a minimum 25-year sentence Wednesday to three men convicted of a plot to blow up Bronx synagogues – but not before knocking the government for provoking the crime.