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Shocking bus fuss over texting driver

A city bus driver caught red-handed texting on his cellphone while driving with one hand is under investigation by transit officials. A frightened front-seat passenger on the X5 express bus from Manhattan to Staten Island on Thursday snapped the ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  1 Nov 2009

LI wife busted in gory slay

A Long Island mother of three launched a murderous assault against her lawyer husband, stabbing him a dozen times with a kitchen knife, authorities said yesterday. The couple's 22-year-old son heard his father's screams around 8:30 a.m. Friday and ...

From TAYLOR K. VECSEY AND CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  1 Nov 2009

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Behind that amazing chimp photo

Dorothy — the grande dame of chimpazees, whose picture this week became a worldwide phenomenon — always had the power to move both people and animals. When she died, at the wizened age of 49, the other chimpanzees of the Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  1 Nov 2009

Related Topics: National Geographic

Carnegie gall

How do you fight Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. Famed 97-year-old portrait photographer Editta Sherman has had plenty. For the past 3½ years, she's been fighting eviction from her studio loft above the West 57th Street concert hall where ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  25 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Yul Brynner,  Tyrone Power,  Boris Karloff,  Andy Warhol

Cab baby is 'fare' born

A Manhattan playwright unexpectedly starred in his own drama when he helped his wife deliver their baby girl in the back seat of a speeding taxi. Addison Proctor, 36, and his wife, Sally Schuiling, 35, were rushing from their Upper West Side apartment ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  18 Oct 2009

Chilling forecast: Hard rain's gonna fall

Keep your scarf and umbrella handy -- dreary, soggy, winter-like weather will continue until Tuesday, with temperatures plunging to 20 degrees below normal. Today's high is forecast to be 49 degrees -- but with 15- to 20-mph wind gusts, it will feel ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  18 Oct 2009

2nd shot at $147M da Vinci

He lost the woman he once loved, but wasn't going to let it happen again -- especially since he had a hunch she was worth millions. Art collector Peter Silverman told The Post yesterday that the portrait of a woman he sold for a mere $19,000 at a ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Leonardo da Vinci

'Money lisa' is found

A forensic art expert says he found Leonardo da Vinci's finger and palm prints on an anonymous $22,000 portrait -- instantly transforming it into a $147 million work of art credited to the Renaissance master. The unsigned chalk, ink and pencil on ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Leonardo da Vinci,  Martin Kemp,  Jackson Pollock

Let's hope he doesn't do a Bello flop

Look out Bello-w! Daredevil clown Bello Nock hams it up on the high wire yesterday, awing onlookers with a death-defying stunt-walk hundreds of feet over Lincoln Center's plaza fountain. The big-top redhead kept those in the crowd craning their necks ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  7 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Big Apple Circus

Awesome foursome

Call them the fab four of New York's Finest. When US Airways Flight 1549 crash-landed in the Hudson River on Jan. 15, four NYPD detectives -- Michael Delaney, 33, and Robert Rodriguez, 37, of the Scuba Unit, and James Coll, 37, and John McKenna, 40, of ...

From CYNTHIA R. FAGEN, New York Post,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Rodriguez,  US Airways

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