Hubby, pregnant wife die in crash

An Orthodox Jewish couple was killed in a car crash early today as they were headed to the hospital to deliver their first child, authorities said.Husband and wife Nathan and Raizy Glauber, both 21 years old, were headed to Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, said Vos Iz Neias, a news blog that covers the Orthodox community.Their car slammed into a tractor-trailer,...

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Rikers jail ‘imposter’ gets thrown in the clink

A Yonkers man who snuck onto Rikers Island by allegedly impersonating a Department of Correction employee — and even moved inmates between cells — was busted yesterday, sources said.Matthew Matagrano, 36, was arrested at a Bronx courthouse last night when he showed up claiming to be a “correction investigator” and was recognized by correction officers,...

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WikiLeak soldier enters guilty plea

FORT MEADE, Md. — Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “blood lust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.Military prosecutors said they plan...

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WH denies alien plan

WASHINGTON — The White House said yesterday it had nothing to do with the idea of releasing hundreds of detained illegal immigrants because of looming budget cuts — after lawmakers ridiculed the belt-tightening tactic.“This was a decision made by career officials at ICE without any input from the White House, as a result of fiscal uncertainty over the continuing...

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Now it’s her turn to serve him up on a platter

Andrea Peyser Some husbands run around with random women, drink to excess, gamble away the kid’s college savings, or manhandle their wives to a bloody pulp. Police Officer Gilberto Valle was home most every night planning elaborate meals. Unfortunately, Valle’s notion of ways to better serve his trusting spouse featured an unconventional...

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Reeva on the road to ruin

Newly released security footage shows a beaming Reeva Steenkamp driving into Oscar Pistorius’ apartment complex hours before she was shot and killed by the legless Olympian on Valentine’s Day. In the last known picture of Steenkamp alive, the South African model is seen smiling as she rolls her Mini Cooper toward the home of the world-famous “Blade Runner”...

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Oscar Pistorius's brother Carl faces homicide charges in 2010 car crash: report

Getty ImagesCarl Pistorius, older brother of tarnished athlete Oscar, faces homicide charges in a 2010 car crash, according to reports.Oscar Pistorius’s older brother Carl also faces homicide charges in South Africa over a 2010 car crash, it was reported today.Carl Pistorius allegedly struck and killed a female biker in the daytime crash, his lawyer told...

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Confessions of an Oscar voter

A prominent Hollywood director unleashed a colorful, blistering assessment of tomorrow’s Oscar contenders — dismissing actress Jennifer Lawrence as “mean-spirited,” deeming “Silver Linings Playbook” as “blah” and pronouncing “Zero Dark Thirty” “amazing.”The veteran member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences anonymously roasted and toasted...

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Kim’s baby rump

Behold Kim Kardashian’s ample, uhhh, evidence of pregnancy.Kardashian’s “baby bump from behind” drew stares from shoppers in Beverly Hills yesterday as she hit Barneys New York.It was only two months ago that the 32-year-old revealed she was pregnant with her first baby, with rapper Kanye West.The mom-to-be looked a lot different than in a recent photo...

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5 dead after small jet crashes in Georgia

APAmbulances gather in Thomson, Ga., near the scene of a Wednesday plane crash that killed five people.THOMSON, Ga. — Five people were killed and two injured when a small jet crashed off the end of a runway in eastern Georgia, an official confirmed early Thursday.Thomson-McDuffie County Sheriff Logan Marshall said the jet crashed after 8 p.m. Wednesday....

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$24M conflict of ‘interest’

A former Manhattan resident has slapped his ex-landlord with a $24 million suit over the interest on the security deposit he put down for a plush, rent-stabilized pad on the Upper East Side nearly 40 years ago.John Sacchi, 63, claims Elyachar Properties refused to hand over the interest after he moved out of 1100 Madison Ave. and relocated to New Jersey...

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NYPD sarge cuffed in child-porn case

An NYPD sergeant was arrested yesterday for watching child pornography online, cops said. Alberto Randazzo, 36, of Queens, was charged with use of a child in a sexual performance, promoting sexual performance by a child and possessing a sexual performance by a child.Cops wouldn’t say if the arrest came after an ongoing probe. ...

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Country darling shot dead

Troubled country-music star Mindy McCready was found dead on her porch yesterday from an apparent suicide, just one month after the death of her boyfriend, cops said.The blond singer, who claimed to have bedded married pitcher Roger Clemens when she was just a teen, apparently shot herself around 3:30 p.m., according to the Cleburne County Sheriff’s Office....

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Little gratitude, just a big lawsuit

A Manhattan man whose mother helped launch “World Gratitude Day” claims his siblings have cut him out of the family business.Michael Lemle claims his sisters and brother failed to re-elect him as an officer of 132 West 31st Street Realty Corp., costing him the $50,000 annual salary he has collected since the 1980s, according to a Manhattan Supreme Court...

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It came from outer space!

A meteor exploded into a blinding fireball above Russia yesterday with the force of 20 atomic bombs — striking fear into the hearts of residents convinced the world was ending.The 7,700-ton space rock, about the size of a city bus, whizzed by the Ural Mountains at 33,000 mph — beyond hypersonic speed.The shock wave injured at least 1,200 people, shuttered...

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Meteorite falls in Russia

MOSCOW — Russian officials say a meteorite has fallen in the Chelyabinsk region some 930 miles east of Moscow.A spokesman for the Russian Interior Ministry, Vadim Kolesnikov, said the Friday morning fall caused a blast that broke windows.There were no immediate confirmed reports of injuries, but Russian news agencies cited unnamed sources as saying several...

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South African track star Oscar Pistorius questioned in girlfriend's shooting death: reports

REUTERSSouth Africa's Oscar Pistorius was one of the most inspirational athletes in the 2012 London Olympics.South African track star Oscar Pistorius — who became an Olympic legend by becoming the first person to race on prosthetic legs — was being questioned today by South African police for allegedly shooting his girlfriend dead at his home in Pretoria,...

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State pulls a fa$t one

ALBANY — The state is diverting $8.5 million a year in speeding-ticket fees meant to fund spinal-cord research and using the money to balance the budget, The Post has learned.The money comes from a surcharge on speeding tickets that was imposed in 1998 to create and finance the Spinal Cord Injury Research Trust Fund. But since 2010, the money has gone into...

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Cops pop gun-toting teen after rooftop firefight

Cops shot an armed teenager and apprehended another man after a gunfight erupted on a Brooklyn rooftop last night, sources said.Police said a 16-year-old male opened fire on a Brownsville rooftop at 10:13 last night. When the officers returned fire they shot him three times. The teenager was shot once in each arm and once in the leg.“They were just shooting...

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‘Psycho’ fear at Grammys

Tense LA cops swarmed last night’s Grammy Awards, fearful that fugitive former officer and accused triple-murderer Christopher Jordan Dorner might strike there. Dorner hasn’t been spotted since he allegedly executed a cop in cold blood on Thursday morning, just days after killing the daughter of a retired LAPD captain and her fiancé.In a rambling manifesto he left behind before embarking on his rampage,...

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