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NY gets green light on cabs

The city's drive to green its taxi fleet scored a victory yesterday when a state Supreme Court judge backed rules meant to steer more cash to owners of hybrid cabs. More owners may buy the eco-friendly cars now that they can charge cabbies an extra $3 ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  21 Nov 2009

Super $lap at Bowl fans

Greedy airlines are sacking football fans with jacked-up fees the day after the Super Bowl. Delta, Northwest and American are shamelessly charging a $50 surcharge for flights Feb. 8 from Miami, the host city. "They figure if you can spend several grand ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  18 Nov 2009

Palin's 'virgin' shock

Sarah Palin had no idea her teenage daughter Bristol was sexually active until she learned the girl was pregnant, she says in a TV interview. "That's why I was shocked. Truthfully, we were devastated," Palin tells Barbara Walters in an ABC News ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  15 Nov 2009
Related Topics: Sarah Palin,  Barbara Walters,  U.S. Republican Party

Bank blunder stiffs 60,000 ex-teachers

A $189 million bank bungle has made November pension checks disappear for 60,000 retired city teachers and school administrators, officials said yesterday. Bank of New York Mellon promised to quickly restore the missing millions to retirees' accounts -- ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  7 Nov 2009
Related Topics: United Federation of Teachers,  Michael Mulgrew,  Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Stray volts E. Side, W. Side, all around the town

Hardly anyplace in New York is free of potentially deadly stray voltage, with Con Ed crews finding dozens of hot spots around City Hall, Midtown, the Village -- and even near utility CEO Kevin Burke's Upper East Side home. But while Con Ed is on pace ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  6 Nov 2009

Gotta 'sea' it to believe it

The world's biggest cruise ship is on its maiden voyage from a Finnish shipyard to its Florida home, where its shakedown cruise will be an invitation-only pre-Thanksgiving overnight voyage featuring pop singer Rihanna. The Oasis of the Seas weighs an ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  31 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Rihanna,  Chrysler

Smile! You're on hacker cam

Keep it clean in front of your Web cam -- anyone could be watching. Up to 65,000 Time Warner computer routers have flaws that could let hackers record user activity by infiltrating Web cams and Wi-Fi devices, the company admitted yesterday. "You could ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  23 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Time Warner Inc.,  Columbia University

Rape kits get DNA upgrade, 'SVU' star

Two decades after their first use in New York emergency rooms, rape testing kits are being updated for the DNA age. State officials today will unveil the new kits -- which also include instructions on collecting evidence of assaults on men. They come ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  22 Oct 2009

Bettor rev. is unholy roller

An old-school Irish priest confessed yesterday that he let his gambling bug get the better of him when he took $432,000 from his Westchester church -- some of it meant for Hurricane Katrina victims -- and blew it in Atlantic City. The Rev. Patrick ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  21 Oct 2009
Related Topics: Patrick Dunne

Hudson horror tapes

Talk overtook action when a Teterboro air controller gabbed with his girlfriend instead of dealing with midair chaos that killed nine people, a newly released recording of control-tower conversations revealed yesterday. As the deadly danger unfolded in ...

From BILL SANDERSON, New York Post,  9 Oct 2009
Related Topics: National Transportation Safety Board

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