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MAN ACCIDENTLY STABS HIS TODDLER IN HEAD

A Brooklyn man who stabbed his toddler in the head with a butter knife yesterday apparently impaled the tot by accident -- as he was lunging for they boy's mother. Cops were searching for suspected stabber Jamarr Brown, 24, even as the little boy, ...

From ALEX GINSBERG, JOSEPH MOLLICA AND JAMIE SCHRAM, New York Post,  3 May 2009

SLAY AT TEENS' DANCE

An attractive and popular Brooklyn honors student was gunned down yesterday - the apparent victim of random violence - when someone shot up a crowded dance party in Bedford-Stuyvesant, police and witnesses said. Nyasia Pryear, 17, a junior and star ...

From JOSEPH MOLLICA, JAMIE SCHRAM AND ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  19 Jan 2009

GIRL SHOT AT NO-ALCOHOL BROOKLYN TEEN PARTY

A Brooklyn teen was shot and killed early this morning and two others wounded when a gunman shot up a dance party in Bed-Stuy, police and witnesses said. Nyasia Pryer, 17, was struck in the face around 3:30 a.m. as the "teen night" no-alcohol party at ...

From JOSEPH MOLLICA, JAMIE SCHRAM AND ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  18 Jan 2009

WIFE-KILLER CONVICTION BIASED: SON

The son of a Westchester lawyer who is a neighbor of Bill and Hillary Clinton - and was convicted of murdering his wife - yesterday accused the jury and district attorney of unfairly targeting his father, claiming racism was partly to blame. "We're ...

From JOSEPH MOLLICA AND ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  6 Oct 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton

UPPER E. SIDE FIRE KILLS PAIR

Fire ripped through an Upper East Side apartment early yesterday, killing a retired postal worker and his elderly, wheelchair-bound mother, authorities said. The blaze in the five-story building at 327 E. 93 St. broke out shortly after midnight. ...

From JOSEPH MOLLICA AND ALEX GINSBERG, New York Post,  11 Aug 2008

What's a "proxy battle"?

An attempt to win over so many of a company's shareholders that you can oust some or all of its board of directors. The most straightforward way for Microsoft to complete a hostile takeover would be to buy a majority voting share of Yahoo's stock, thus ...

From ALEX JOSEPH, Slate,  9 Apr 2008
Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation,  Michael Eisner

Bloggers on the newly released Yoo memo.

Bloggers jump on a newly released memo by former Bush official John Yoo and discuss the congressional hearings in which oil executives were drilled about their record profits. Did you get the memo? A 2003 memo by then-Deputy Assistant Attorney General ...

From ALEX JOSEPH, Slate,  2 Apr 2008
Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  George W. Bush,  John McCain,  U.S. Republican Party,  Ed Markey

Bloggers on Hillary Clinton's meeting with Richard Mellon Scaife

Bloggers are taking Hillary Clinton to task over her meeting with Richard Mellon Scaife and debating John McCain's speech on Iraq. Byron York at the National Review's Corner has the photographic evidence: "We've heard reports of a rapprochement between ...

From ALEX JOSEPH, Slate,  26 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Richard Mellon Scaife,  Barack Obama,  John McCain,  Vince Foster

Bloggers on Ashley Dupré's music and her real identity.

Gawker points out the hilarity of the past week, as media personalities scramble to make money off the scandal: "In America, when two adults have consensual sex, and the circumstances are just right, they give birth to a vibrant media subeconomy, and ...

From ALEX JOSEPH, Slate,  14 Mar 2008
Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Hillary Rodham Clinton,  Richard Gere,  Eliot Spitzer,  Mark Penn

What's the legal definition of blindness?

We're looking for a new Explainer—click here to apply for the job. Your vision is 20/200 or worse in your best eye, even with corrective lenses or surgery. According to the federal statute that defines legal blindness, a person also merits the ...

From ALEX JOSEPH, Slate,  13 Mar 2008

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