Stabbed police officer’s 4-year-old waits as he heals in hospital
A 4-year-old girl has desperately waited to see her hero cop father since he was stabbed in the brain by a mental patient, a relative told the Daily News Saturday.
“I wanna see my dad,” the little girl has been telling her family as her father, Police Officer Eder Loor, makes a painful recovery from the knife wound that nearly left him dead.
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Maryland brothers accused of beating black teenager on neighborhood watch patrol to go on trial amid Trayvon Martin case
Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
The brothers, who are white and Jewish, have claimed self-defense, saying the teen was holding a nail-studded board. Local civil rights activists hope the Martin case will draw more attention to what they believe was racial profiling by neighborhood watch vigilantes.
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‘Several other Secret Service agents’ will be leaving the agency in the ‘very near future,’ Rep. Peter King says
More Secret Service agents will take the fall in the Colombia sexcapades scandal, but the agency’s chief is secure at this point, a top Congressman said Sunday.
Congressman Peter King, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, said additional agents will join the six who have already been forced out.
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Cardinal Dolan baptizes daughter of shot cop at St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Cardinal Dolan on Sunday baptised the infant daughter of Kevin Brennan, the NYPD cop who recovered from being shot point blank in the head.
“Our gratitude to God was on steroids today,” the Cardinal exulted.
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and his wife also attended Sunday Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral to see Maeve Brennan baptised.
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Schumer Wants Student Loan Rates To Stay Put
Senator Charles Schumer is pushing legislation to block interest rate hikes on student loans nationwide.
The bill would delay a July 1 interest rate increase on federally subsidized Stafford Loans.
Passage of the legislation would extend the current rate of 3.4 percent for another year, which Congress lowered back in 2007.
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Etan mystery: Playroom eyed as hell cellar
They are looking for evidence of death in a SoHo basement that once bustled with life.
Photos emerged yesterday that show beaming kids in the basement of 127 Prince St., where FBI investigators have been searching for evidence in the disappearance 33 years ago of Etan Patz.
The cellar that police now believe may hold the answers to the city’s most heart-wrenching mystery was a space transformed by industrious parents from a commercial cellar to a bright playground.
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Up to 10 injured after Jaguar crashes into other cars, overturns on sidewalk in Manhattan
Up to 10 injured after Jaguar crashes into other cars, overturns on sidewalk in Manhattan
A three-car accident on 42nd Street near Bryant Park injured as many as 10 people Saturday — including at least three pedestrians on the sidewalk, authorities said.
The horrific crash sent people who were out enjoying the nice weather fleeing for their lives as one of the vehicles, a black Jaguar, flew up onto the sidewalk before it overturned, witnesses said.
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Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer, still in intensive care: doctor
LONDON — Bee Gees star Robin Gibb has colorectal cancer and remains in intensive care after waking from a coma, his doctor said Sunday.
Dr. Andrew Thillainayagam said Gibb was being treated for advanced colorectal cancer and had caught pneumonia as he was weakened from grueling doses of chemotherapy and two operations.
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Obama ‘apoplectic’ over GSA spending scandal, senior adviser says
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is “apoplectic” over reports of lavish spending at the General Services Administration, senior adviser David Axelrod said Sunday.
The GSA is under congressional investigation for spending more than $820,000 on a Las Vegas-area conference — a revelation that has led to other allegations about the agency’s practice of improperly billing taxpayers for meals, trips and other expenses.
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