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• Unrepentant Koran burning pastor to go ahead despite Petraeus' warnings
  The pastor of a small Florida church said Tuesday he will go ahead with his plans to hold a Koran burning this week, despite warnings by the U.S. commander of the Afghan war of violent reactions in the Islamic world. Terry Jones, who heads the Dove World Outreach Center...
  
  
• Alleged Riverdale bomb plotters caught on tape casing air base
  Two alleged homegrown terrorists turned a surveillance mission into a wildlife safari while casing an upstate military base last year, according to a secretly recorded video played in court this morning. Defendant David Williams spotted a wild turkey while being driven around Stewart Air National Guard Base by a government...
  
  
• John Lennon's killer denied parole for sixth time
  John Lennon’s convicted killer, Mark David Chapman, was denied parole Tuesday by a three-member panel of New York state's Parole Board Commission. It was Chapman’s sixth time before the parole board and his sixth denial. He will appear before them again in about two years, in August...
  
  
• Killer was on the lam
  Why was he even on the street?That’s the question friends of slain Midwood man Yusef Robinson are asking after learning that the man arrested for the murder was not only an ex-con who was on parole — but also had a warrant out for his arrest since June.Eion...
  
  
• Two US soldiers killed in northern Iraq, says Army
  Two American soldiers were killed in northern Iraq Tuesday, a U.S. Army spokesman said. According to reports, the gunman was wearing an Iraqi army uniform. THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS STORY. PLEASE REFRESH FOR UPDATES...
  
  
• Tropical Storm Hermine crosses into Texas
  RAYMONDVILLE, Texas — Hermine weakened Tuesday but continued dumping heavy rains on a northern crawl through Texas, barely holding on to tropical storm strength but leaving behind a path of widespread power outages and landslides in Mexico. Hermine continued dissolving just south of San Antonio and was expected to be downgraded...
  
  
• Diane von Furstenberg designs new hospital gowns
  CLEVELAND — Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg has helped the Cleveland Clinic create a more stylish hospital gown without the peek-a-boo back. The gown features elements associated with von Furstenberg designs — a wrap dress with a bold, graphic print. The clinic’s logo is printed on the fabric. The gown has...
  
  
• Bay Ridge's 'Dust Bowl' park — insensitive to America's great national tragedy?
  So what if it harkens to an environmental catastrophe in American history — if Bay Ridge wants its Dust Bowl, it will get it, according to organizers of a contest to rename a once-gritty section of a popular area park.“If our neighborhood chooses to [make official] a long-standing nickname, we...
  
  
• Brooklyn gunman gets life without parole for 2007 double murder
  The man who mercilessly shot and killed two unarmed people execution-style in a Brooklyn tire shop was sentenced this afternoon to life without parole. Wayne Martin, 40, was sentenced in Brooklyn Supreme Court to what Judge Alan Marrus called "a draconian sentence -- but this was a particularly horrendous murder...
  
  
• Open house klepto gets felony dismissed
  A brazen blonde bandit got a sweet deal today for filching tens of thousands of dollars worth of cash, fancy furs, jewelry and designer purses from open-house showings at luxury Manhattan apartments. Prosecutors agreed to the dismissal of felony larceny charges against Jessica Joyner, 41, explaining that she's doing...
  
  
• Recovery ordeal for cab victim
  The elderly man who was mowed down by an out-of-control cab outside of an East Village coffee shop is facing a lengthy recovery, doctors said. Preston Krupin, 71, was recuperating at Bellevue Hospital yesterday after surgery on his neck, which was fractured when a taxi plowed into The Bean coffee...
  
  
• First look at Metro-North's high-tech switch
  That’s not a scene out of Star Trek. It’s the first look that 135,000 daily Metro-North riders are getting of the multi-million dollar system that controls their trains and gets them to work on time. Dubbed the Operations Control Center, the system oversees 400 miles and well...
  
  
• Obama to commemorate 9/11 attacks with memorial service at Pentagon
  President Obama will commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks by attending a memorial service at the Pentagon, the White House said Tuesday. Obama delivered a speech at the Pentagon on the 2009 anniversary of the attacks. Vice President Joe Biden will travel to New York on Sept. 11...
  
  
• Low levels of oxygen detected in deadly Westchester manhole
  A fire department official says oxygen levels were dangerously low in a manhole where a sewer worker and a firefighter died. No cause of death has been established in Monday’s deaths of sewer worker Anthony Ruggiero and Tarrytown firefighter John Kelly. Kelly had tried to save Ruggiero. Assistant Fire...
  
  
• Actress Kirsten Dunst's purse-snatcher gets four years behind bars
  Convicted Brooklyn shoplifter, gun toter and car thief James Jimenez was sentenced to four years behind bars today for swiping a $2,000 Balenciaga purse from actress Kirsten Dunst after sneaking into a 2007 movie shoot at the Soho Grand hotel. The Manhattan DA's office had argued for the...