Bill Hoffmann
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HOOP-STAR HORROR - KILLED KIDS, SELF IN FRENZY OVER CUSTODY
September 22, 2003 | 4:00amTwo weeks ago, the mention of Bryan Randall brought happy memories of one of Buffalo's most memorable young sports stars, an outgoing basketball player who went on to excel on...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amDedicated Post reader Mickey Metcalfe offered the following tidbit from his local paper: An upstate cop blasted an 81-year-old woman with pepper spray after she assaulted him and his partner,...
STUDENT RAGE IN HS GRID SCANDAL
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amFurious students stormed out of their classes in protest yesterday after Mepham HS on Long Island canceled its football season in the wake of a lurid sex-assault hazing scandal surrounding...
STUDENT STORM IN GRID SCANDAL
September 19, 2003 | 4:00amFurious students stormed out of their classes in protest yesterday after Mepham HS on Long Island cancelled its football season in the wake of a lurid sexual assault scandal surrounding...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 18, 2003 | 4:00amA dumber-than-dumb crook was nabbed after he returned to the bank he robbed to deposit the stolen cash into his account. Jesse Leonard Youngblood, 36, will now be cooling his...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 17, 2003 | 4:00amA Florida wife winged a knife at her hubby, stabbing him in the right leg, when he refused to prepare for Hurricane Isabel, cops say. Joan Harris, 70, allegedly went...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 16, 2003 | 4:00amEric Culbertson saved for more than a year to buy a $10,000 engagement ring for his girlfriend, then lost it in a taxi. The 28-year-old Chicago man was about to...
'KILLER NANNY' FINDS LOVE AND LONGS FOR A BABY
September 16, 2003 | 4:00amLOUISE WOODWARD gained worldwide infamy six years ago as the cold-hearted "Killer Nanny" who shook an 8-month-old boy to death. Now she has her heart set on a new life...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 15, 2003 | 4:00amA squad of South Carolina's toughest, burliest deputies are getting dolled up in sexy outfits from Victoria's Secret and Frederick's of Hollywood. But the 13 lawmen from the Beaufort County...
JILTED JENNIFER DITCHES RING BEFORE BIG J. BLOWOUT
September 15, 2003 | 4:00amHer wedding plans shattered, Jennifer Lopez took off her engagement ring and made like a party animal during a booze-fueled night out in Miami yesterday. The luscious Latina - who...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 12, 2003 | 4:00amCambodians are being urged to eat more dogs as part of a crackdown on stray mutts. "Come on, dog meat is so delicious," Phnom Penh Gov. Kep Chuktema said. "Poor...
S.I.'S GETTING COYOTE UGLY
September 12, 2003 | 4:00amNew York City can be a wild place to live, but not so wild that packs of ravenous, howling coyotes are roaming the streets of Staten Island. Rumors to that...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 11, 2003 | 4:00amSchool officials in San Francisco have been barging into kindergarten classes and searching kids' lunchboxes - in a hunt for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. That's because the Valle Verde...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 10, 2003 | 4:00amA winning lottery ticket worth $50 million was never claimed - and now it's worthless. Officials in Florida say the person who bought a quick-pick ticket at a Miami-area food...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 9, 2003 | 4:00amTwo teenage girls in search of marijuana mistakenly phoned a sheriff's office twice to place an order, authorities said. A deputy in Austin, Minn., identified himself as "Dupe," arranged a...
HORROR STORIES - SYRACUSE SEX SLAVES TELL RAPIST'S SECRETS
September 9, 2003 | 4:00amThree women who were kidnapped and kept as sex slaves in an underground dungeon in upstate New York have bared new details about their horrifying ordeal at the hands of...
HORROR STORIES: SYRACUSE SEX SLAVES TELL RAPIST'S SECRETS
September 9, 2003 | 4:00amThree women who were kidnapped and kept as sex slaves in an underground dungeon in upstate New York have bared new details about their horrifying ordeal at the hands of...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 8, 2003 | 4:00amEdward Cheney was cruising a Pennsylvania highway when an airplane landed on the road and barreled head-on toward his pickup truck. The 79-year-old retiree was able to crash his vehicle...
FLAG DAY FOR LADY LIBERTY
September 8, 2003 | 4:00amThe Statue of Liberty stood proudly yesterday as hundreds of specially designed flags were draped around Liberty Island in an emotional tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 terror...
WEIRD BUT TRUE
September 5, 2003 | 4:00amA musician wannabe fondled at least seven women in Mississippi and bragged about his crimes in the lyrics of songs he was writing, police say. The twisted tunes were found...