PAT MILTON

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Last NY Death Row Inmate Gets Life Term

New York's last inmate on death row was resentenced Thursday to life without parole for the execution-style killings of five employees at a Wendy's restaurant.

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Sharpton Speaks at Funeral of NYC Teen

The death of an unarmed teenager in a hail of 20 police bullets should serve as a new cause for his generation, the Rev. Al Sharpton said Tuesday at the teen's funeral.

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Ex-NYC Top Cop Indicted on Fraud Charges

Less than three years ago, Bernard Kerik stood proudly at a White House podium, being introduced as President Bush's pick to head the Department of Homeland Security. Now Kerik stands to face what could be the decisive chapter in a downfall as stunning as his rise.

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Grand Jury Indicts Ex-NYC Top Cop Kerik

A federal grand jury has indicted Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on corruption charges, a person close to the investigation said Thursday.

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Grand Jury Indicts Ex-NYC Top Cop Kerik

A federal grand jury has indicted Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on various fraud charges, a person close to the investigation said Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the indictment was sealed and wasn't expected to be unsealed until Kerik's arraignment on Friday.

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Ex-NYC Top Cop Indicted on Fraud Charges

A federal grand jury has indicted Bernard Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani, on various fraud charges, a person close to the investigation said Thursday.

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Ex-NYC Top Cop Kerik to Be Arraigned

Bernard Kerik, the police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani who nearly became head of the Homeland Security Department, will surrender to authorities Friday to be arraigned on criminal charges, an official said Thursday.

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Ex-NYC Top Cop Kerik to Be Arraigned

Bernard Kerik, a police commissioner under presidential hopeful Rudy Giuliani and a failed nominee for head of the Department of Homeland Security, will surrender to authorities Friday to be arraigned on criminal charges, an official said Thursday.

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Ex-NYC Top Cop Kerik to Be Arraigned

Bernard Kerik, the police commissioner under former Mayor Rudy Giuliani who nearly became head of the Homeland Security Department, will surrender to federal authorities Friday on criminal charges, an official said Thursday.

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Former FBI Spycatcher Calls Poker Bluffs

As an FBI spy catcher, Joseph Navarro could identify traitors through their subtle behavioral tics — even something as simple as a squint could be a giveaway.

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Iran Leader Denied on WTC Wreath Request

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked permission to lay a wreath at the World Trade Center site when he comes to New York City next week, but the request was denied, a police official said Wednesday.

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Broker Accused of 'Spin Rage' at Gym

A Wall Street stock broker has been charged with assault after he became enraged during a cycling class at a posh health club and slammed a fellow member and his bike against a wall, according to a complaint.

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Thomas' Lawyers to Present His Case

Lawyers for a former Madison Square Garden executive suing New York Knicks coach and president Isiah Thomas for sexual harassment rested her case after four days of testimony portraying him as a foul-mouthed lout who loathed and then loved her.

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Imus Could Return to Radio Airwaves

A radio comeback for Don Imus seemed unthinkable at the height of the uproar caused by his sexist and racist comments on-air about the Rutgers women's basketball team.

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ACLU: Boeing Offshoot Helped CIA

A Boeing Co. subsidiary accused by the American Civil Liberties Union of facilitating torture by providing services to the CIA for secret overseas flights said it does not, as a rule, inquire about its customers' business.

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Ex-FBI Director Freeh Endorses Giuliani

Republican presidential contender Rudy Giuliani was endorsed Thursday by former FBI director Louis Freeh, whom he has known for three decades.

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Top US War Boss: We Can't Ignore Iran

The top U.S. commander in the Middle East said Sunday that Iran is a major player in the region that cannot be ignored but that the United States has no intention of leaving, as Iran would like to see happen.

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Former FBI Agent Center of Global Saga

A former FBI agent who vanished in Iran two months ago was apparently investigating a cigarette-smuggling operation, according to a hunted assassin who says he was with the American on the day he disappeared.

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Iran to Look for Missing U.S. Man

Iran said Wednesday it will look into the disappearance of an American man in Iran, a State Department spokesman said. The missing man has been identified as a former FBI agent.

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NYPD Officers Charged With Manslaughter

The last time Joseph Guzman encountered the three police officers, they pulled their weapons and fired a barrage of bullets that killed his friend, Sean Bell, on what would have been his wedding day.

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Grand Jury Indicts 3 in NYPD Shooting

Since the November morning when police fired a 50-bullet barrage that killed an unarmed man on his wedding day, his family members and their supporters have called for the officers involved to be punished.

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Monster Exec Pleads Guilty to Fraud

A former senior vice president of the company that runs the Monster job search Web site pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy and fraud charges.

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NY Officers Save Rookie From Bat Attack

Police officer Patrick Lynch, out of the academy only two months, was on his early morning foot patrol when he spotted a bat-wielding man leaning over the collapsed body of a fellow rookie.

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Police Shooting Victim: 'We Did Nothing'

Wearing a sweatshirt emblazoned with his slain friend's name, a survivor of a fatal 50-shot police fusillade vowed to hold officers accountable for opening fire on the unarmed men.

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Intrepid No Match for Hudson River Mud

The USS Intrepid may have survived five kamikaze attacks and served in three wars, but it was no match for nasty New York City mud.

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