Peter Holley
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FACING AN ILL CHILL
January 15, 2009 | 7:52amHow low can we go? It will be so brutally frigid the next few days that anyone not wearing layered clothing and a hat will be at risk. "This cold...
GOV GETS TESTY OVER 'SEN. CAROLINE' GRILL
December 25, 2008 | 8:35amGov. Paterson yesterday tamped down suggestions that Caroline Kennedy is at the top of the list to replace Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, asking, "How is she a front-runner?" The comment...
LUBAVITCH MOURNING IN BROOKLYN
November 30, 2008 | 8:36amBrooklyn's Lubavitch Jewish population was in mourning yesterday after the Mumbai terror attacks took the lives of at least four people linked to their community - including a young rabbi...
GIFT WOE IN CARDS: CHUCK
November 29, 2008 | 6:49amGift-card buyers, beware - these popular presents can be the gift that keeps on taking. Early expiration dates and monthly fees unfairly drain many cards' value, Sen. Chuck Schumer warned...
HEAT'S ON 'SODOMY' COPS
November 4, 2008 | 8:55amThe NYPD yesterday moved to strip four cops of their guns and badges for allegedly sodomizing a fleeing pot smoker, a law-enforcement source said. The officers were ordered to report...
B'KLYN GRANNY KILLED IN HIT-RUN
October 25, 2008 | 8:28amA hit-run driver mowed down an Alzheimer's-afflicted Brooklyn grandma as she wandered through her neighborhood yesterday. Bridget Morrissey, 74, was crossing 75th Street at 14th Avenue in Bay Ridge at...
PALIN PROVES SHE'S E-QUIPPED FOR 'SNL'
October 19, 2008 | 8:00amWas she funny? You betcha! Sarah Palin raised the roof last night on her "Saturday Night Live" debut, yukking it up with Alec Baldwin and executive producer Lorne Michaels as...
LAID OFF & LINING UP FOR WORK
October 16, 2008 | 8:42amThey had business suits on their backs, briefcases in their hands and desperation on their faces. Thousands of job seekers formed a virtual bread line around two Chelsea blocks yesterday...
FUNERAL FOR HERO BX. GI
December 6, 2007 | 10:00amThe Bronx soldier who was killed in Iraq last week was laid to rest yesterday in an emotional funeral where he was hailed as a young man who wanted to...
QNS. BABY PLUNGES TO HIS DEATH
November 21, 2007 | 10:00amA 2-year-old Queens baby fell six stories from a fire escape and died after crawling out a window while his mother was in the shower, police said. Neighbors shrieked when...
MERCHANT 'STICKS' IT TO GUNMAN
November 18, 2007 | 10:00amA fed-up Brooklyn bodega owner fought off a teen gunman bent on robbery yesterday afternoon - and sent him to the hospital, police sources said. "I hit him with a...
HOMELESS CRISIS OF N.Y. VETS
November 13, 2007 | 10:00amThe number of homeless veterans in New York state has nearly doubled in a year - and the federal program designed to help the massive wave of those returning from...
FAKE DENTIST'S PATIENT DIES
November 10, 2007 | 10:00amA woman allegedly dumped by a phony dentist on the street in front of his Brooklyn office died Thursday without regaining consciousness. Colette Villemin, 71, had been on life support...
PROFILE OF DOC KILLER
November 9, 2007 | 10:00amCops searching for the killer of a Queens orthodontist released a sketch of the suspect yesterday as the victim's former mother-in-law was accused of threatening to kill him just days...
VID TWIST IN DENTIST-SLAY CUSTODY WAR
November 8, 2007 | 10:00amThe parents of slain orthodontist Daniel Malakov today will offer new video in court of their granddaughter dancing and singing in their home, in a bid to regain custody of...
BLOODY DOOM OF 'PERFECT MATCH'
November 7, 2007 | 10:00amWhen Mazoltuv Borukhova's sister introduced her to an up-and-coming orthodontist in 2000, it seemed like the perfect match. Their families lived blocks apart in Forest Hills, Queens, tied together by...
DENTIST IN-LAW PUZZLE
November 6, 2007 | 10:00amJust days before a Queens orthodontist was shot to death after winning a bitter child custody case, his estranged wife's relatives asked a public official what would happen to the...
SLAIN DOC'S FINAL PHOTOS
October 31, 2007 | 9:00amWhen the adoring dad asked to have a photo taken with his beloved little girl Sunday morning, he had no way of knowing it would be his last. Esteemed orthodontist...
'NO HOPE' FOR OP-BOTCH VICTIM
October 27, 2007 | 9:00amThe elderly Brooklyn woman tossed to the sidewalk by her unlicensed dentist following a botched surgery has gone into a permanent vegetative state, her outraged family said yesterday. "My stepmom...
BATTLE OF THE 'BATH' HEATS UP
October 9, 2007 | 9:00amMore than 200 neighborhood activists joined local politicians at a Lower East Side rally yesterday to demand the city renovate and reopen the abandoned La Guardia Bathhouse. "I call on...