Rocco Parascandola
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WHITNEY STALKER RECAPTURED IN BX.
January 28, 2001 | 5:00amA psycho who has threatened to kill pop diva Whitney Houston's daughter escaped from a Bronx hospital, sparking an 11-hour manhunt that ended when the woman's sister turned her in,...
GOOD SAMS HUDDLE TO HELP PALSY KID
January 27, 2001 | 5:00amWhen a group of Rockland County men capped their Super Bowl Sunday football game last year with a dip in the Hudson River, their families thought insanity had set in....
NYPD CLEARS WHISTLEBLOWER QUEENS COP
January 25, 2001 | 5:00amPolice Commissioner Bernard Kerik has decided not to discipline a Queens sergeant who tipped her bosses to corruption - only to be accused of failing to supervise the rogue cops,...
SLASH VICTIM BATTLES BACK ; NEVER LET SUBWAY ATTACK IN '96 KEEP HER DOWN
January 23, 2001 | 5:00amMAY MAY LIU has never blamed anyone for the slashing attack on a crowded subway platform that left her face in shreds. She's never criticized the Transit Authority or blasted...
POPULAR GUARD CRITICAL AFTER BEING STRUCK BY SCHOOL VAN
January 20, 2001 | 5:00amA beloved 62-year-old crossing guard was critically injured yesterday when she was knocked down by a school van in Queens and struck her head on the pavement, police said. Betty...
1ST LOWER EAST SIDE SLAY SINCE '99
January 14, 2001 | 5:00amA 43-year-old man was beaten to death in front of his Lower East Side home - a murder that police said yesterday was the first in the 7th Precinct in...
BOY FALLS 3 FLOORS AFTER SLEEPWALK
January 13, 2001 | 5:00amA 9-year-old Washington Heights boy with a history of sleepwalking got out of bed in the middle of a nightmare, opened a window and fell three stories, fracturing his hip...
CABBY KILLS WIFE IN MURDER-SUICIDE
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amA crazed Queens cabby, angry that his estranged wife was seeing another man, shot her to death at her factory job before turning the gun on himself yesterday, police said....
RUDY GAL PAL KEEPING TWO BODYGUARDS ON CITY'S TAB
January 12, 2001 | 5:00amMayor Giuliani's complicated love life could end up costing city taxpayers at least $200,000 a year. The NYPD has two detectives guarding the mayor's "very good friend" Judith Nathan 12...
THREE SCHOOLGIRL 'VICTIMS' ADMIT SEX-ATTACK HOAX
January 10, 2001 | 5:00amThree Brooklyn girls who were late to school told officials they had been sexually assaulted yesterday - but it turned out to be a hoax, police said. Still, rumors of...
COPS: DNA PINS MART KILLINGS ON EX-WORKER
January 7, 2001 | 5:00amPolice yesterday used DNA evidence to nab a Brooklyn man in the fatal stabbing of two employees in an Queens supermarket where he once worked, authorities said. A bloody bandage...
COPS: NO SIGN OF PLANE CRASH
January 7, 2001 | 5:00amPolice late yesterday still had not discovered any evidence that a plane had crashed into the Hudson River, as two people told them Friday. Cops from the Harbor Unit spent...
COPS-AND-ROBBER FINALE IN THEFT OF 116 'MOVIE' GUNS
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amNormally, the guns from Center Firearms wind up on the big screen, in films like "The Godfather" or "A Few Good Men." But in the past six months, police said...
METS STAR FACES NEW 'BATTER' ACCUSATION
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amMets pitcher Armando Benitez, accused of assaulting his girlfriend in Baltimore, has now been accused of beating her inside their Queens home three days before the Subway Series, police said...
HOTEL HORROR FIRST QUEENS SLAY IN '01
January 5, 2001 | 5:00amQueens has registered its first murder victim of the year, a 37-year-old woman bludgeoned in a hotel room by her boyfriend early yesterday, police said. The suspect, Miguel Vendrell, 44,...
SLAIN 'TRASH' BABY'S TEEN MOM CHARGED
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amA teenage girl was charged with murder yesterday after the medical examiner determined her newborn girl, whose body was found at a city sanitation garage earlier this week, had been...
BIZARRE CULT-SUICIDE THREAT CHILLS CITY HALL
January 4, 2001 | 5:00amCity Hall looked like an armed camp for five hours yesterday after two mysterious Pennsylvania men told authorities they were members of a cult planning a mass suicide on the...
COPS EYE MOM IN DEATH OF TRASH BABY
January 3, 2001 | 5:00amA Harlem teen who gave birth on New Year's Day dumped her hours-old child in a 14th Street trash can, police said. Cops were weighing charges against Sylvia Hernandez, 18,...
DRUNK DRIVER KILLS WIDOW IN B'KLYN: POLICE
December 31, 2000 | 5:00amA beloved 62-year-old grandmother who worked six days a week as a waitress was killed in a tragic alcohol-related car crash near her Brooklyn home, police said yesterday. Amanda Russo,...
APPLE SLAY STATS RISE AS TOP COP DEMOTES 3
December 31, 2000 | 5:00amAs the city's murder tally rose for the second year in a row, Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik shook up The Bronx yesterday, transferring three precinct bosses for failing to fight...