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Indians on warpath at cig tax

Gov. Paterson is a wanted man. Dozens of Native Americans -- including one brandishing a sign showing Paterson, a handgun and the words "I'm Hunting Indians. You See Any?" -- rallied on the side of the Thruway yesterday to protest the...  Read Full Story

Manhattan

  • Heiress' shady visitor

    Heiress' shady visitor

    An accountant being investigated for his handling of 104-year-old Huguette Clark's vast fortune has visited the hospitalized heiress in the past several days trying to get her to sign legal documents, The Post has learned. Sources said they...  

  • Dodge Charger owner upset vehicle crushed by suicidal fall

    Dodge Charger owner upset vehicle crushed by suicidal fall

    Her car was crushed -- and so is she. A New Jersey woman is devastated that her precious sports car -- just repaired and fully gassed up -- was wrecked by a suicidal man's 40-story attempted death leap on the Upper West Side. "I miss it...  

Brooklyn

  • Asthma anguish

    Asthma anguish

    The Brooklyn girl whose life was tragically cut short when a cop allegedly ignored her frantic mom's pleas for help was laid to rest yesterday at a funeral attended by hundreds of mourners -- all dressed in white. Briana Ojeda, 11, had...  

  • Mattress maker's 'bad' tag

    Mattress maker's 'bad' tag

    The mattress police really will come after you if you don't have those tags on your bedding. Just ask Brooklyn Sleep Products of South Williamsburg. Federal authorities yesterday requested that a judge shut down the company for...  

Queens

  • Collapse in heat shocks US Open

    Collapse in heat shocks US Open

    This is not the kind of hot tennis action US Open fans were looking for. A top-ranked women's player collapsed in triple-digit heat on the court of Arthur Ashe Stadium after suffering a concussion during a warmup yesterday, sources said....  

  • Transit kook arraigned on charges he stole not one -- but two buses

    Transit kook arraigned on charges he stole not one -- but two buses

    The mass-transit madman who yanked a bus from a Hoboken depot yesterday appears to have stolen yet another bus 21 days ago from the same spot and driven it to Washington D.C., police sources said. Darius McCollum, 45, told officers after his...  

Bronx

  • Bx. 'bomber's hatred for Jews

    Bx. 'bomber's hatred for Jews

    Jurors yesterday listened to chilling audiotapes and watched video in which the alleged ringleader of a plot to blow up two Riverdale synagogues ranted about how he wanted to kill Jews, calling them "responsible [for] all the evils in the world...  

  • Hit-run boy 'much better'

    Hit-run boy 'much better'

    Doctors put a 5-year-old hit-and-run victim into a medically induced coma, but remained hopeful the boy would pull through despite his injuries, family members said yesterday. Joshua Saunders suffered fractured ribs, a broken arm, punctured...  

Staten Island

  • Sex-ed slang teacher settles vulgar suit for 45G

    Sex-ed slang teacher settles vulgar suit for 45G

    A Staten Island sex-education teacher who sued the city after being suspended for allowing students to use vulgar slang in class has settled her claim for $45,000, officials said yesterday. Faith Kramer, 48, had sued the Department of...  

  • Two party pals killed in SI car crash

    Two party pals killed in SI car crash

    Six young men who had spent Saturday night drinking at a Staten Island bar sped off in a car -- and wrapped it around a light pole in a grisly crashed that killed two of them, police and witnesses said. The Nissan Altima crashed with such...  

Sports

  • The Post's high-school football previews

    Here’s a list of the high-school football previews done to date, listed by league: CHSFL Holy Cross Mount St. Michael St. Joseph by the Sea...   12:20 AM

  • Young Terriers relish underdog role

    Young Terriers relish underdog role

    Brendan Stackpole split time at quarterback last year, but he was under center when St. Francis Prep turned its season around a year ago, when the Terriers shook off a miserable start to advance to the CHSFL Class AA semifinals before losing a...  

  • Recovered Koutsounadis ready to lead refocused Lewis

    Recovered Koutsounadis ready to lead refocused Lewis

    Gena Koutsounadis waited nearly seven months for the last two weeks. The Francis Lewis star midfielder tore her left ACL in January playing for her FCNY United club soccer team and had surgery to repair it in February. She was able to get back on...  

  • PSAL Queens A-IV girls soccer preview

    PSAL Queens A-IV girls soccer preview

    Is it or isn’t it? We will find out soon enough. Bayside girls soccer coach Magdalini Kassimis has called this season a rebuilding one. The Commodores lost nearly their entire starting lineup. She will have a roster filled with sophomores, juniors...  

  • Top recruit Harkless picks St. John's

    Top recruit Harkless picks St. John's

    St. John’s is back in the city’s tangled recruiting game, and the Red Storm are there with a cool and confident kid who lives just minutes from the school’s Queens campus. Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-8 wing who starred at Forest Hills High School...  

  • Jack to the RAC: Former Rice star picks Rutgers

    Jack to the RAC: Former Rice star picks Rutgers

    Rutgers’ future got brighter 6 p.m. Tuesday night – by six feet, nine inches. That’s when Kadeem Jack, the former Rice standout, chose the Scarlet Knights over West Virginia, Arkansas, and Miami, becoming the second New York City player in five...  

  • Talented Tottenville looking for leadership

    Talented Tottenville looking for leadership

    Tottenville lost to Curtis in last year’s PSAL city championship game, 16-10. And Pirates coach Jim Munson is bent on not letting his players forget that margin. The goal for this season is to make up those six points. “Throughout the year after...  

  • Getting defensive: Fordham Prep expects vast improvement

    Getting defensive: Fordham Prep expects vast improvement

    Looking for an evaluation of the Fordham Prep football team from its head coach? Pete Gorynski’s answer varies depending on when you ask the question. “My assessment of this team has been schizophrenic,” he said. “From minute to minute it changes....  

  • Pistons in gear for first season in Bowl division

    Pistons in gear for first season in Bowl division

    Automotive’s first varsity season could have easily been its last. Four years ago, the Pistons went 0-10 in their debut and scored a total of one touchdown the entire season. Coach Haseeb Khawaja, the program’s architect, had more than a few doubts....  

  • Strong defense, varied attack leads St. Peter's

    As he was preparing to take on the defending CHSAA champions a year ago in the Class A intersectional quarterfinals, John Liantonio didn’t know what to...  

  • Rebuilt Lincoln has division title aspirations

    Rebuilt Lincoln has division title aspirations

    When Chris Vega took over as the Lincoln boys soccer coach three years ago, he had to start recruiting – within the Coney Island school. “There were a lot of players in the school, but not a lot came out for the team,” he said. Aided by his...  

  • Queens A East boys soccer preview

    Talk to Rich Parascos about his Cardozo boys soccer team at your own peril. Once he starts, he may not stop – that’s how much he likes this group of...  

  • Explosive offense to power Dozo's division repeat charge

    Explosive offense to power Dozo's division repeat charge

    Stephanie Santoro’s quote for the season may again be, “Get the ball to Creshana.” Heck, it worked last year. “She is definitely the go-to girl,” the Cardozo girls soccer coach said. “I trust her more than anyone on the team.” The athletic senior...  

  • PSAL Manhattan A girls soccer preview

    PSAL Manhattan A girls soccer preview

    LaGuardia made a name for itself last season by being one of the most carefree yet focused teams in the city and also one of its most successful. The Athletics finished in second place in the PSAL’s Manhattan A-II division behind eventual city...  

  • Follow the leader: MLK taking notes from Sangary

    Follow the leader: MLK taking notes from Sangary

    With every touch, a booming voice exploded. Each drill, the voice grew louder, more intense, with new instruction. Martin Luther King Jr. was going through a light summer workout under the hot August sun, but the voice wouldn’t stop. No, this wasn...  

  • Veteran Beacon plans to rely on balanced attack

    Veteran Beacon plans to rely on balanced attack

    Two years ago, it was Baimba Freeman. Last year, Pascal Louis held the honor. Who will be Beacon’s dynamic striker this fall? There isn’t an easy answer, and the Blue Demons are fine with that. “When you start relying on one or two players, it’s...  

  • Manhattan A boys soccer preview

    Julia Richman has its top goal scorers, fullbacks, and midfielders back. Seventy percent of its starting XI, in fact, is identical. Luis Flores is...  

  • Showtime: New faces looking for same results at Cardinal Hayes

    Showtime: New faces looking for same results at Cardinal Hayes

    Ryan Camilo got to play the role of understudy last season. The junior was moved up from the junior varsity in late October and even started a game in place of the now graduated Kwamayne Davis. The 5-foot-9, 220-pound quarterback completed 11-of-18...  

  • Grand expectations: New coach, Wolves ready to roar

    Grand expectations: New coach, Wolves ready to roar

    Mike Lightfoot was excited to start his seventh season as an assistant coach at Grand Street Campus a few months ago when something completely unexpected happened. Head coach Ed Gazzillo, who started the program in 1999, had to step down after...  

  • New coach has Holy Cross brimming with confidence

    Joe Perugini didn’t crack a smile, didn’t pause to say he was just kidding. With a straight face, the senior goalkeeper on the Holy Cross soccer team...  

  • Schiano has Rutgers on right track

    Schiano has Rutgers on right track

    Greg Schiano has heard the chatter. How could he not? He never should have left Miami. He should have taken the Michigan job. What the heck was he thinking announcing the day he got hired at Rutgers nine years ago that the goal was to win a...   7:47 AM

  • Utah has Pitt's number

    Utah has Pitt's number

    This game should have come with a warning: Do not pick if under the influence of preseason hype. Yes, Pitt has had some strong recruiting classes under coach Dave Wannstedt and the Panthers have as many as six guys who could be playing on Sundays...   8:51 AM

  • St. John's keeps star Harkless in city

    St. John's keeps star Harkless in city

    St. John's is back in the city's tangled recruiting game, and the Red Storm is there with a cool and confident player who lives minutes from the school's Queens campus. Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-8 wing who starred at Forest Hills HS and will...   5:42 AM

  • Top recruit Harkless picks St. John's

    Top recruit Harkless picks St. John's

    St. John’s is back in the city’s tangled recruiting game, and the Red Storm are there with a cool and confident kid who lives just minutes from the school’s Queens campus. Maurice Harkless, a 6-foot-8 wing who starred at Forest Hills High School...  

  • After sanctions, tough war for Trojans

    After sanctions, tough war for Trojans

    In the days after taking the job as the athletic director at Southern Cal, a posting that Gen. David Petraeus might have turned down, Pat Haden received a lot of support in the form of e-mails, texts and phone calls. One voice buoyed Haden,...  

  • Passion for SEC rivalries unmatched

    Passion for SEC rivalries unmatched

    Long before there was "Desperate Housewives" or "The Jersey Shore," which gave us real life accounts of seemingly average, red-blooded Americans going berserk and ripping out their friend's hair or getting sucker punched in bars, there was...  

  • The Post’s All-Underpublicized team

    Forget the Heisman. The honor of all honors is The Post’s 8th Annual All-Underpublicized Team. Frankly, we have no idea how long we’ve been choosing...  

  • Boise State is Post’s pick for national champion

    Boise State is Post’s pick for national champion

    It’s only fitting the best-kept secret in college football began with a best-kept secret. Boise State athletic director Gene Bleymaier was heading home from the 1985 NCAA convention, his thoughts consumed by a huge, looming expenditure. Bleymaier...  

  • Northwestern is ‘Wild’ card in Big Ten

    The Big Ten, what with four bowl victories last season, finally started to turn the corner, didn’t it? All of a sudden, gone were the days of being...  

  • The Post's College Football Top 25

    1. BOISE STATE 14-0, beat TCU 17-10 in Fiesta Bowl Coach: Chris Petersen, 49-4 in four seasons Stud: DT Billy Winn Showdown: Sept. 6 vs. Virginia...  

  • 5 questions for ... Gary Danielson

    Gary Danielson has been calling SEC games with Verne Lundqvist since 2006 as part of CBS's No. 1 college football broadcast team. He spoke with The...  

  • Big East basketball keeps double bye

    The Big East Conference decided not to change the format of its postseason tournament, The Post has learned, despite some criticism from coaches who...  

  • Bowden: Take title from USC

    Bobby Bowden is a man of faith, a man of forgiveness, a man who took the head coach job at Florida State 35 years ago when almost everyone said he was...  

  • Rutgers basketball adds New Mexico grad student

    Rutgers coach Mike Rice says former New Mexico State forward Robert Lumpkins is enrolling as a graduate student and will play his final collegiate...  

  • Good Tide-ings: 'Bama at No. 1

    Alabama will start this season where it ended last season -- on top. Coach Nick Saban has the Crimson Tide rolling the way Bear Bryant did in his...  

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