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- ‘Madden 10’ brings big changes to long-running video game franchise
- ‘Sex and the City 2’ filming gets chaotic, as Sarah Jessica Parker and co. need extra security
- I want to kill Phillip Garrido, says kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard’s dad
- Dying Charles Manson pal Susan Atkins to stay behind bars
- Never mind starters, Mariano Rivera deserves Cy Young
- The Battle of Saratoga: Sept. 3
- Serena Williams topples Melinda Czink, 6-1, 6-1, in 2nd round at U.S. Open
- Guest list for Libyan strongman Moammar Khadafy’s party includes thugs, dictators
- No loaded guns while loaded: Mayor Bloomberg proposes “carrying while intoxicated” law
- Loads of candidates vie for 2 Brooklyn Council seats vacated by seekers of higher office
- KIND aid for youngest of the undocumented through Kids in Need of Defense
- ‘Prototype’ is a poor imitation of much better games
- Working Families Party candidates warned about financial dealings with Data and Field Services firm
- Jason Giambi breaks tie in 8th inning as Mets fall to Rockies 5-2
- District Attorneys praise ‘Boss’ Robert Morgenthau as award named for Manhattan DA
- Thurs. 9/3 Death Notices
- Controller candidate Melinda Katz says she’d take 10% pay cut: Rival Weprin calls it posturing
- Hate Crime task force hunting for thugs in epithet-filled attacks on Mexicans in Bronx
- Fourth of July fireworks
- Councilman Barron calls out advocate candidates Siegel and de Blasio for race issues in campaign
- Crowded classrooms: Manhattan Borough President Stringer challenges Mayor on number of schools built
- High Line park opens
- Indian politician Y.S.R. Reddy, Andhra Pradesh minister, killed in jungle helicopter crash: reports
- Yankees’ Mariano Rivera is put on the shelf with groin tightness
- Yankees’ CC Sabathia is first American League pitcher to win 16 games
- Mets don’t intend to adjust dimensions or walls at Citi Field for 2010 season
- Chris Brown assigned to clean up graffiti and trash as community service for beating Rihanna
- Inside the Outside Lands Music Fest
- 7.0 earthquake in Indonesia kills at least 57, dozens missing
- Sen. Ted Kennedy writes in ‘True Compass’: I was haunted by Chappaquiddick tragedy
- Gunmen kill 17 execution-style at El Aliviane drug rehab center in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico
- City schools that failed Education Department’s evaluations last year received A’s
- Georgia man Roger Stephens hits child that’s not his at Wal-Mart when she won’t stop crying: cops
- FDA confirms frog or toad was in Florida man Fred Denegri’s Diet Pepsi can
- Claims for jobless benefits fell, but last week’s numbers were revised upwards
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development: Global recession ending faster than thought
- Employer health care mandate would make a terrible system worse
- Sex with Bernard Madoff doesn’t pay? Alleged mistress Sheryl Weinstein’s book only sold 3,000 copies
- New pill shows promise in hard-to-treat cancers
- Advertisers continue to abandon Glenn Beck after pundit had called President Obama a ‘racist’
- DJ AM laid to rest; funeral attended by family and friends including Travis Barker, Haley Wood
- That’s a slick find! BP unearths “giant” oil area in Gulf of Mexico
- Iran approves hardline cabinet including Ahmad Vahidi, wanted in Jewish center bombing
- Giant national debt needs giant new calculator, so developer Matt Miles created the “Big Red”
- Katherine Heigl taking 5-show leave of absence from ‘Grey’s Anatomy’: So what happens to Izzie?
- Japan’s next first lady Miyuki Hatoyama: I met Tom Cruise in previous life, my soul took ride in UFO
- Graying work force: Older people staying in work force, younger people stay in school
- Series of blunders frees schizophrenic cannibal Peter Bryan, who kills 2 more people
- Lisa Loeb expecting first child with husband Roey Hershkovitz
- Michael Jackson to be laid to rest in Los Angeles mausoleum Thursday
- David Beckham shows off rose tattoo for 10th wedding anniversary
- Carla Bruni Sarkozy, First Lady of France, will take lead role in next Woody Allen movie – report
- Wide receiver Sinorice Moss gathers gloom as Giants’ final cut nears
- Fighting ‘the man’ can pay off: Pfizer whistleblower gets $51M+
- 76-year-old man Tasered by police, almost sparks riot at town parade
- Hawaii B.O.: Honolulu considers odor ban on buses, public transportation
- Gmail fail! Google’s e-mail service shuts down for two hours Tuesday, causes worldwide panic on Web
- MLB Power Rankings: Yankees battle for postseason awards as they roll on
- Bikini-clad Kim Kardashian shows off svelte figure in Twitter photo
- Debris heads toward space station, not expected to threaten spacewalk
- Hope he has insurance! Protester’s pinky finger bitten off at health care reform rally
- Is Google evil?
- CDC: 1 in 13 U.S. swine flu deaths have been children, most of school age
- Naomi Campbell is a Moscow maven in Karl Lagerfeld photo shoot
- Chris Brown on ‘Larry King Live’: Relationship with Rihanna ‘was sort of like Romeo and Juliet’
- Shock jock Don Imus signs television deal with Fox Business Network
- Libya leader Moammar Khadafy to United Nations: Abolish Switzerland!
- ‘All About Steve’ is all wrong for Sandra Bullock – and just about everyone else
- Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel welcome baby boy, Walker Diggs
- Malaysia flipflops, will let Muslims attend Black-Eyed Peas concert sponsored by Beer maker
- Filmmaker Christian Poveda found slain in El Savador; murderers believed to gang he documented
- Keep the play dates coming: Busy kids are happy and socially mature, not stressed, study finds
- Hundreds of Chinese protest deteriorating public safety
- ‘Million Dollar Quartet’ to bring Elvis, Johnny Cash, Perkins back to life on Broadway
- Police investigating after pastor killed in sting
- American teenager Melanie Oudin stuns No. 4 Elena Dementieva at U.S. Open
- Erin Andrews back in front of camera for ESPN tonight: says she was treated ‘like Britney Spears’
- Charles Gibson ‘livid’ Diane Sawyer is replacing him, says report; exec calls claim ‘nonsense’
- Thoroughbred horse racing is just one of many activities at Saratoga Springs
- NFL announces Eagles QB Michael Vick is eligible to play in Week 3
- Tweets of the Week: Tyra Banks is not engaged; Meghan McCain wanted to join the circus
- First Lourdes, now Rocco: Madonna’s kids follow her right into spotlight in front of thousands
- Eating at night linked to greater weight gain than daytime snacking: study
- President Obama has turned mortal right before our eyes
- South African mom’s brilliant idea: Baby Hotel lets parents check kids in without daycare hassles
- Former Red Sox ace Curt Schilling won’t rule out making run at Ted Kennedy’s Senate seat
- Federal judge says Major League Baseball Players Association can’t destroy steroid evidence
- Broncos accuse Jets of tampering with wide receiver Brandon Marshall
- Need some pals? uSocial will sell you Facebook friends
- Traffic forecast for Sept. 4, 2009
- Pat Misch (finally) earns first career win as Mets rock Rockies at Coors Field
- Contemporary sounds, film, dance & food at Mexican fest
- ‘Extract’ is answer to ‘Office Space’ for the beleagured boss; this comedy sides with management
- The Big Picture: ‘Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid’ at BAM and more movies around town
- Fri. 9/4 Death Notices
- Short film reviews: ‘Unmade Beds,’ ‘American Casino’ and more
- TNA president Dixie Carter celebrates new three-year extension with Spike TV
- Rachel Alexandra’s day is a photo finish
- Signs of hope seen despite retailers’ yearlong slump
- Voice of the People for Sept. 4, 2009
- Obama’s 9/11 problem: Adviser Van Jones signed creepy conspiracy petition
- New York anglers aboard party and charter boats now allowed increased limits of porgies
- Obama’s 9/11 gift: Does the right thing and restores WTC health czar
- Caught in the act: Working Families Party pulls election funding scam
- Rachel Alexandra’s biggest test could be Macho Again
- Congestion plan not in cards – Governor Paterson’s choice for MTA head, Jay Walder, says at hearing
- Doped martini has Edward Quartermaine shaken on ‘General Hospital’
- Lights out: Construction, economy are reasons yule see no X-mas tree at Lincoln Center
- Rex Ryan: Patriots have better coach in Bill Belichick & QB in Tom Brady
- Osi Umenyiora can run from Giants camp, but can’t run from the law
- President Obama needs to provide us with answers during his pivotal speech on health care
- Birth ticket: Fast track baby born on the BQE, thanks to cop
- One final weekend: Back rent still unpaid, Coney Island’s Dreamland reopens for Labor Day
- History Channel tackles ‘Manson’ mystery, but still can’t answer core question: Why they listened?
- Ted Kennedy insists he was not an alcoholic in his memoir ‘True Compass’
- Jaycee Lee Dugard’s aunt: Kidnapped niece ‘remarkable young woman who raised 2 beautiful daughters’
- Relatives of gunshot victim say her husband was constant terror
- Teacher’s aide says cops ruined his reputation during arrest for obstruction in manhunt
- Best of the Rest: Keanu Reeves to pony up DNA in paternity fight with Canadian woman
- After blackout woes-biz owners shocked by Con Ed’s spot in Queens Chamber of Commerce Hall of Fame
- Governor Paterson says bonuses paid to Wall Street financial executives were good for state
- Sam Querrey beats fellow American Kevin Kim, 7-5, 6-7, 6-4, 6-4
- Mayor signs bill to give Queens business Flying Food Group tax breaks for more jobs
- Danny Pudi sniffs out the comedy on NBC’s funny ‘Community’
- There is no doubting Melanie Oudin ability to believe in self at U.S. Open
- As natural gas prices tumble, heating bills could cool off quite a bit this winter
- More than 6 million receiving jobless aid as new unemployment claims fall
- North Korea close to having second way of building nukes
- Aaron Tveit back with ‘Next to Normal’ after ‘Catch Me If You Can’ run in Seattle
- Not enough masks: Union bigs complain city workers aren’t getting proper swine-flu protection
- King of Pop laid to rest
- Groin trouble means Yankees won’t go to Mariano Rivera as they enter stretch
- ‘Miracle cat’ Brownie on mend after arrow pierces his head
- Divers rescue bell and 500-pound bit of Coney Island history
- 9/11 health honcho Dr. John Howard back on job, thanks to President Obama
- Drug kingpin flown to city for ‘justice’
- Reality Bites: Hasselhoff belts out Nina Simone on ‘America’s Got Talent’
- Former NYPD Commissioner Bratton – who got boot by Rudy – says Giuliani would be good gov