Shoplifter’s shampoo heist fails when he smacks into tour bus
He’s Head & Shoulders below your average shoplifter. A drunken dandruff-shampoo thief dashed out of a Duane Reade near Times Square on Friday afternoon — and ran smack into a tour bus, breaking his...
View ArticleStarbucks settles suit with mall giant over Teavana stores
The months-long bitter battle between Starbucks’ Teavana chain and the country’s No. 1 mall operator is over — with the java joint’s tea chain winning the right to shutter some of its stores. Simon...
View ArticleCBS, Viacom stocks rally on rumors of possible merger talks
CBS and Viacom shares jumped Friday as rumors swirled that the formerly joined media giants had re-entered merger talks. Both companies are controlled by the Redstone family — which split them in two...
View ArticleWoman asks judge for $15M condo after deadbeat hubby skips town with mistress
A Florida woman is asking a Manhattan judge to give her a stake in the $15 million Plaza pied-à-terre she once shared with her husband — until he fled the country with his mistress and millions of...
View ArticleWall Street not a fan of Facebook’s new News Feed
Facebook’s latest changes to its News Feed left investors searching for a dislike button. Shares of the social network plunged 4.5 percent on Friday, to $179.37, one day after the company said it would...
View ArticleLeBron James loses his cool as Cavaliers fall again
INDIANAPOLIS — When Pacers coach Nate McMillan went small Friday night, Lance Stephenson came up big. He baited LeBron James into a late technical foul. He made play after play down the stretch and...
View ArticleNonprofit CEO wins News Corp.’s Murdoch Community Hero Award
The president and CEO of Per Scholas — a nonprofit that provides free IT job training — has been named the recipient of News Corp.’s Murdoch Community Hero Award. Per Scholas CEO Plinio Ayala said he...
View ArticleWomen come out in support of Klein amid forcible kissing claims
It didn’t work for grabby lawmakers John Conyers or Al Franken, but Bronx state Sen. Jeff Klein hopes that support from women who know him could protect him from any fallout over an accusation of...
View ArticleNets rebound from Pistons debacle with gritty road win
ATLANTA — The Nets ended the first half of the season with a humiliating loss to the Pistons that left a bad taste in their mouths. They opened the second half Friday night with a sweet...
View ArticleTim Hardaway Jr.’s return can’t save Knicks from another road ‘L’
MINNEAPOLIS — Twenty-five minutes of Tim Hardaway Jr. wasn’t enough to lift the Knicks out of their road doldrums. A not-so-rusty Hardaway made his long-anticipated return Friday, coming off the bench...
View ArticleRory McIlroy has a heart irregularity
As he prepares to return to action after being sidelined almost four months by a rib injury, Rory McIlroy has another health issue to monitor: a heart irregularity. “The rib’s fine, no problems...
View ArticleEagles stand in way of surging Falcons and unfinished business
Ignore the seeds. Forget the records. The sixth-seeded Falcons will invade Philadelphia expecting to return to the NFC Championship game, a three-point favorite that is soaring at the right time. They...
View ArticleDon’t tell Titans they’re just cannon fodder for Patriots
FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Most of the attention for Saturday night’s AFC divisional playoff game between the Patriots and Titans at Gillette Stadium has focused on the defending Super Bowl champions and...
View ArticleCops probing squad car caught doing doughnuts in parking lot
YONKERS, N.Y. — Police in Yonkers say they are taking action after a video of one of their department’s police cars doing doughnuts in a parking lot surfaced online. The video posted to Twitter early...
View ArticleSlain Ivy League student's friend arrested
SANTA ANA, Calif. — Authorities on Friday arrested a friend in the killing of a 19-year-old University of Pennsylvania student whose body was found buried in a shallow grave at a California park....
View ArticleVideo-gamer allegedly gunned down his mom after dispute
CERES, Calif. — Police have arrested a Northern California man they say shot his mother to death after he began yelling during a video game. Twenty-eight-year-old Matthew Nicholson of Ceres was...
View ArticleDoug Weight hopes philosophy change a wake-up call for Isles
Doug Weight is honest beyond the point of politeness, especially when it comes to his team. So the Islanders head coach laid it all out pretty clearly in explaining why they have gone 6-11-2 over their...
View ArticleRangers know biggest weakness but fixing it will take work
The common thread that runs through the Rangers’ season is the unacceptable number of times they have been marked absent at the drop of the puck. The Blueshirts have come out flat well in excess of the...
View ArticleFBI documents unsealed in Las Vegas massacre
LAS VEGAS — FBI agents knew the gunman behind the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history left behind big caches of guns, ammunition and explosives when they sought warrants to search his...
View ArticleTrapped butcher uses sausage to ram his way out of freezer
LONDON — A British butcher who got locked in a freezer says he was saved by a frozen sausage that he used as a battering ram. Chris McCabe says he became trapped in the walk-in freezer at his shop in...
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