BY JENNIFER SMITH
Trace amounts of a chemical used by dry cleaners and auto
body shops have been detected in a section of the New York City water system
serving parts of southeastern Queens, city health and environmental officials
said last night.
BY LAUREN JOHNSTON
Visitors to the city's Gateway Park are more likely to
find sewage and trash than fish and birds, according to a study from an
advocacy group that ranked it the country's worst national park.
BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
For the second time in two months, a Rikers Island
inmate has been arrested for trying to hire a hit man to kill a cop,
authorities said yesterday.
BY KARLA SCHUSTER
Invoking the names of two firefighters killed in a
floor collapse last year, the City Council yesterday unanimously approved a new
law requiring the Fire Department to be notified when a building is being
renovated.
BY KARLA SCHUSTER
On Monday, he said he wasn't running for president.
BY ROCCO PARASCANDOLA
A wealthy real estate investor recently convicted of
federal tax and fraud charges was badly wounded early yesterday by a
hit-and-run driver while walking toward his Rolls-Royce after leaving a West
Side club, police said.
BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO
A government witness testified yesterday that he was
promised $25,000 to kill a derelict in Richmond Hill as part of a
murder-for-hire plot in the Guyanese community.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A husband and wife who robbed gangland social clubs in the
early 1990s - sometimes forcing their victims to drop their pants - were
brutally rubbed out for humiliating the mob, a prosecutor said yesterday during
closing arguments at a federal racketeering trial.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
City education officials have selected a new, temporary
site for a controversial public school focusing on Arab language and culture
after opposition from parents stifled an earlier placement plan. The school
will open now with a smaller inaugural class.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
State prison officials will let a Muslim correction
officer wear a skullcap while on duty as part of a settlement of a federal
lawsuit that contended it was unconstitutional for the state to refuse to make
religious accommodations for prison guards.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Religious leaders from different faiths promised
yesterday to help families they said are facing deportation because of unjust
immigration laws.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The ex-girlfriend of a man on trial for posing as a
firefighter and sexually abusing a co-worker recalled through tears Wednesday
how her former lover relentlessly tormented her - and even posted her nude
photos and contact information on the Internet.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A 90-year-old Colombo crime family leader who rubbed elbows
with celebrities including Frank Sinatra during his mob heyday was arrested
yesterday for associating with known mobsters, his fifth parole violation in 25
years, the FBI said.
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