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  PHOTOS: 2 Firefighters survive building collapse while battling huge Bronx blaze

  Two New York City firefighters have survived a partial building collapse of a burning building in the Bronx.An FDNY spokesman said Saturday that the firefighters were inside a multi-family home in the Parkchester section at the time of the collapse...   5:05 PM
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  Two teens killed after driver, on prescription Rx, falls asleep behind wheel on LI

  A Long Island driver on prescription drugs fell asleep at the wheel early this morning, slamming his car into a tree and killing two teenage passengers who were flung from the vehicle.Thomas Smith, 20, of Ridge, was being held pending arraignment...   4:06 PM
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  Hail pelting Nebraska as Midwest braces for 'life-threatening' storms

  OMAHA, Neb. — Baseball-sized hail is breaking windows and tearing the siding off homes in northeast Nebraska, and forecasters are warning residents across the nation's midsection to brace for "life threatening" storms.The National Weather Service...   4:01 PM

• UN Security Council votes unanimously to authorize observer mission to monitor Syrian cease-fire

  The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously Saturday to authorize an observer mission to monitor the cease-fire in Syria.The vote came after...   1:45 PM

• Key figure in GSA conference scandal will not testify, lawyers say

  WASHINGTON -- The Government Services Administration (GSA) official who is emerging as a key figure in the inquires into a lavish, 2010 agency...   10:20 AM

• Lockerbie bomber critical in Libyan hospital: source

  TRIPOLI, Libya -- The convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al Megrahi has been hospitalized in Tripoli, where he remained in critical condition...   11:42 AM

• North Korea has second long-range missile program: report

  SEOUL -- North Korea has been developing a new long-range ballistic missile in a separate program from the one that led to a failed Friday rocket...   8:20 AM
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  Bee Gees star Robin Gibb in coma

  LONDON -- Bee Gees pop legend Robin Gibb was in a coma Saturday amid fears he has only days to live, with the 62-year-old star's family keeping a bedside vigil.Gibb has been battling colon and liver cancer and now has pneumonia. Family and fans of...   8:13 AM
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  Subway worker: I nearly fried to death

  A veteran subway operator miraculously survived after accidentally dropping a 200-pound piece of metal equipment onto an electrified third rail, sparking an explosion that set him ablaze, officials said. Michael Lee — a married father working an...   4:29 AM

• Girl stabbed in Bronx

  A 5-year-old Bronx girl was in critical condition after she was stabbed in the chest in her home, police sources said.The girl was stabbed about 10:16...   2:58 AM
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  Pedro’s family took $15G trip to Puerto Rico using Bx. nonprofit's money: prosecutors

  He was living the “suite” life.Pedro Espada Jr. used $15,000 of his Bronx nonprofit’s money so he and his family could live it up at a luxurious beachside Puerto Rico resort, prosecutors revealed yesterday.That cash covered the Espada clan’s stay in...   4:29 AM
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  Weinsteins’ slap-happy ending on divorce

  Movie mogul Bob Weinstein and his wife have officially agreed to a temporary truce in their bitter divorce.Weinstein and his wife, Annie, issued a joint statement through their lawyers yesterday saying that they’ve reached “a temporary arrangement,”...   4:29 AM
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  Romney campaign promotes Ann's motherhood in bid for women voters

  WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney milked the controversy over working moms yesterday, peddling pro-mom bumper stickers on his campaign Web site and bringing his wife, Ann, to a campaign speech where she could appeal to mothers everywhere.“I happen to believe...   6:37 AM
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  Pharmacy slaying brings flashback to last year's LI massacre

  As he was held at gunpoint and forced to lay face down on the floor of an East Harlem drugstore, grisly scenes from last year’s Long Island pharmacy massacre flashed through his mind. Quick-thinking Alex Cary, the manager of the RX Center Pharmacy...   6:26 AM
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  TSA baggage inspector accused of stealing iPads from luggage in Dallas

  DALLAS -- A Transportation Security Administration official has been charged after being accused of stealing eight iPads from luggage at Dallas/Fort Worth International airport, KXAS-TV reported.Clayton Keith Dovel, a baggage inspector, has been...   8:13 AM
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  Texas sex offender asks jury for 99 years in jail, is sentenced to 50

  FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Fort Worth jury sentenced a convicted sex offender to 50 years in prison for failing to register -- but that was quite a bit better than the penalty he was hoping for.Daniel Ostrander, 45, was released from prison in 2010...   8:13 AM