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12018By JULIA MARSH, JENNIFER BAIN and LEONARD GREENE
Local
Now LIPA’s chief has something in common with thousands of Long Island residents — they’re out of power.
Interim CEO Mike Hervey — who still has 45,000 total customers without electricity after Hurricane Sandy — will step down at the end of this year.
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C4gg1rfltmJz9qOutyWbmKBy JENNIFER FERMINO, Transit Reporter
Brooklyn
Brooklyn bus riders on an extremely busy - but super pokey - route will soon be getting dedicated transit lanes and faster service courtesy of Uncle Sam.
The city today announced it received a $28 million grant to bring select bus service to the B44 route, which travels Williamsburg to...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:54:51 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/klyn_bus_getting_federal_boost_ucJlfbpN1pD2XbkxBRx5OJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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ucJlfbpN1pD2XbkxBRx5OJBy LAURA ITALIANOManhattanA grand jury has voted a throw-away-the-key indictment -- charging first degree murder -- against Yoselyn Ortega, the nanny accused in the bathtub slashing deaths of two young Upper West Side children under her care.
The rare charge -- brought only 27 times in all of New York in 2011...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 20:19:35 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nanny_accused_of_bathtub_slashing_2Afik9oQeqcYel8yCJ0jOJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattanhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/nanny_accused_of_bathtub_slashing_2Afik9oQeqcYel8yCJ0jOJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattan
2Afik9oQeqcYel8yCJ0jOJBy SALLY GOLDENBERG
Local
Forcing utilities to bury overhead lines is one of the more eye-catching – and expensive – suggestions City Council Speaker Christine Quinn put forth in a half policy, half campaign speech this morning.
Quinn, a likely candidate for mayor next year, delivered a lengthy speech on the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy when...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:06:35 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/quinn_run_overhead_power_lines_underground_KCTK2fFU7qPSOJetnKFLXO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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KCTK2fFU7qPSOJetnKFLXOBY CHRISTINA CARREGA
Queens
A Queens thug's charges were upgraded by a grand jury today for allegedly killing a man who testified against him in an earlier robbery case.
Shytique Kelly, 21 of Arverne, was indicted on first-degree murder charges when he approached Tysheen Coakley and his two buddies near 110th Avenue and...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:35:46 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_thug_indicted_shooting_first_sd2bHZP4eepLhTL5EHv4JO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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SYRACUSE, NY — Two brothers from central New York who claimed a $5 million lottery ticket sold at their family's store have been accused of scamming the winning ticket from a customer.
Onondaga County District Attorney William Fitzpatrick says 34-year-old Andy Ashkar and 36-year-old Nayel Ashkar are charged with attempted...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:10:28 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ticket_scam_two_brothers_tricked_gXKpPuIhR9CaD7pNhUs6OO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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gXKpPuIhR9CaD7pNhUs6OOBy KAJA WHITEHOUSE
Business
Former hedge-fund hotshots Anthony Chiasson and Todd Newman “crossed a criminal line” by knowingly swapping confidential stock tips in order to pocket millions in illegal profits, prosecutors charged.
“They had something honest investors did not have, something honest investors could not get,” Richard Tarlowe, a prosecutor with the Manhattan US...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:48:31 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/feds_hedgies_knew_stock_tips_were_sxsbCoDbesJDtJLf8DbY2N?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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sxsbCoDbesJDtJLf8DbY2NBy JAMIE SCHRAM and DAN MANGAN
Manhattan
The young woman seen in this recently released surveillance video swiped a beloved pooch from a Manhattan real estate investor on Sept. 11.
Detectives are asking anyone with information on the sticky-fingered thief to immediately call CrimeStoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS. All calls will be kept confidential.
In the footage from an...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:32:12 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/cops_hunt_for_dog_thief_2SWReSfLQBAJb4ktQp7gkL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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2SWReSfLQBAJb4ktQp7gkLBy JENNIFER FERMINO
Brooklyn
The Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel -- which was flooded with millions of gallons of water during superstorm Sandy — will be reopened soon, according to a government source.
Gov. Cuomo, MTA chairman Joseph Lhota and US Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood are expected to make the announcement later today.
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CO5J82H1fKvdCHwOoZE9IKBy LAURA ITALIANO
Manhattan
She just got out of jail for pocketing $2 million in donations from her bogus "Hope for Disabled Kids" car-donation charity -- and now scammer Tirnawati Shoba Bakhsh is back behind bars, accused of collecting Medicaid and food stamps while running the scam.
The slippery Bakhsh, 46, gallingly claimed she...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:23:45 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/fraud_charity_scammer_back_stamp_ewvbCKLsGr6dZ6dmqGoaUI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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Superstorm Sandy has caused damage to thousands of cars in the Port of New York and New Jersey that were heading to vehicle sales lots around the region.
Port Authority spokesman Steve Coleman says 16,000 cars were damaged in the storm.
The New York Shipping Association says Toyota and...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:55:20 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/more_than_fender_bender_sandy_damaged_uy87gXFdBHWvkZQdrWy1vI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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uy87gXFdBHWvkZQdrWy1vIBy MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN
International
Wanted for murder and on the run from the police in Belize, tech pioneer John McAfee says that he didn’t kill his neighbor and that whoever did might have been gunning for him.
“I thought maybe they were coming for me,” McAfee told Wired. “They mistook him for me...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:20:21 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/wanted_for_murder_antivirus_software_WorgPrRewd0t4eB4n853xN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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WorgPrRewd0t4eB4n853xNBy LAURA ITALIANO
Manhattan
She's at the top of the charts -- and now she's cleaning up her rap sheet, too.
Songbird actress Taryn Manning, who played Eminem's dysfunctional girlfriend in the 2002 movie "8 Mile," agreed in a Manhattan courtroom this morning to serve a day of community service to...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:23:28 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/singer_actress_agrees_to_community_GSS5Q9eTIhHhno2hHeQA4N?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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GSS5Q9eTIhHhno2hHeQA4NBy DAREH GREGORIAN
Manhattan




Steven Hirsch
Raul Barrera in court today. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.




A fashion publicist who butchered his ex-girlfriend in her Lower East Side apartment for trying to move on without him was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison this morning - and...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:05:48 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/butcher_girlfriend_boyfriend_sentenced_YtzT3LEiQNLfZKNsEEXOOK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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A New York attorney has filed a lawsuit claiming negligence by two Long Island power companies after Superstorm Sandy and the nor'easter.
Kenneth Mollins said the lawsuit filed Tuesday in state Supreme Court seeks unspecified damages.
The Long Island Power Authority has restored power to more than 1.1...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:26:04 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/ny_attorney_files_lawsuit_over_lipa_kZ8G1yTvYJP3mLAYYxFndL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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A utility worker from Lakeland, Fla., was punched in the face while walking outside a restaurant on New York's Long Island.
The Lakeland Ledger reports that John Applewhite suffered a broken jaw and several face fractures.
A Nassau County police press release said a man was punched in the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:41:38 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/fla_utility_worker_attacked_on_long_q6v2uVNVYUfRT3KqDDIkSN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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q6v2uVNVYUfRT3KqDDIkSNBy MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN
National
On last night's episode of "The Daily Show," host Jon Stewart mocked his own lack of journalistic instinct when it came to the interview he did with David Petraeus' mistress Paula Broadwell earlier this year.
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mI1zpJ6Qils04m144HmSGIBy GEOFF EARLE and DAN MANGANNationalBoth Gen. David Petraeus and Gen. John Allen intervened in the same nasty child custody battle involving Natalie Khawam, the “psychologically unstable” twin sister of Jill Kelley, whose bombshell claims of being threatened by Petraeus' lover led to the top spy’s resignation last week, the Post has learned.
Allen...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:55:55 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/battle_john_allen_also_helped_jill_YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/battle_john_allen_also_helped_jill_YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
YjkEYUNY2INC4smBMEYqUIBy MICHAEL BLAUSTEIN
National
Even though disgraced former CIA director David Petraeus' real career is over, his virtual career continues apace seeing as he is the Secretary of Defense in the new 'Call of Duty' video game which is expected to be the highest grossing game of all time.
Released today, the new game...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:56:05 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/david_patraeus_gets_big_promotion_kp2VKLDYcp7ZWU1xQND1bO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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kp2VKLDYcp7ZWU1xQND1bOBy MICHAEL SHAIN, KATE SHEEHY and DAVID K. LILocalThe man who accused Elmo’s real-life persona, Kevin Clash of an underaged hookup has recanted his story, his legal representatives said today in an email, calling the relationship 'consensual.'
This office represented the 23-year-old man who was the subject of many media reports regarding Kevin Clash,” according to the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 18:08:00 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/elmo_voice_sorry_for_sex_talk_report_KKzUUtI0gpWh5dRfX2NmlK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/elmo_voice_sorry_for_sex_talk_report_KKzUUtI0gpWh5dRfX2NmlK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
KKzUUtI0gpWh5dRfX2NmlKBy DOUG AUER
Staten Island
The husband of a city schoolteacher mysteriously found dead inside their Staten Island home this summer was arrested this morning for murder, The Post has learned.
Jonathan Crupi was collared at his mother’s home where he had been staying since the July 5 slaying of Simeonette Mapes-Crupi, law enforcement...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 13:05:48 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/hubby_busted_in_si_teacher_wife_QNdHj5TsooUdfwoMoJ3byO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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New York City says it's launching "one-stop restoration centers" that will provide recovery services and disaster relief.
The offices will be located in Far Rockaway and Breezy Point, Queens; Coney Island, Red Hook and Gravesend, Brooklyn; and on Staten Island.
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MOUNT OLIVE, NJ — The Christmas tree that will dominate New York's Rockefeller Center survived the winds of Superstorm Sandy that left a path of destruction in a New Jersey town and even its donor without electricity for weeks.
Joe Balku, 76, learned that the 80-foot Norway spruce had been...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:29:41 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/rockefeller_center_christmas_tree_wX0kNadkF0hY3BlPx1KZHM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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A 4-year-old girl from Kansas City has been delivering toys to New York City children affected by Superstorm Sandy.
Katherine Schell tells WCBS-TV that she was worried about other kids who "lost their animals."
Her mom, Katie Schell, says it was Katherine's idea to bring the toys to New...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:28:37 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/missouri_girl_brings_toys_to_ny_UZYqtyYNArKTgMY2xgev7N?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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UZYqtyYNArKTgMY2xgev7NNationalCLEVELAND — In a highly public sentence, a woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to avoid a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots.
A Cleveland Municipal Court judge ordered 32-year-old Shena Hardin to serve...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:22:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/judge_shames_woman_public_drove_yCxEVHQNzaPBOwjSwG5I0H?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/judge_shames_woman_public_drove_yCxEVHQNzaPBOwjSwG5I0H?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
yCxEVHQNzaPBOwjSwG5I0HBy ERIK KRISS and JOSH MARGOLINLocalGov. Cuomo has launched investigations into every state-licensed power utility in the region to determine how they performed after Hurricane Sandy.
“I’m going to do a thorough review/investigation, and they will be held accountable for past performance, and we have to make sure we are prepared for when...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:25:51 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gov_we_ll_probe_lipa_and_others_GwPqryDNzdEhQyCbKtz6JP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gov_we_ll_probe_lipa_and_others_GwPqryDNzdEhQyCbKtz6JP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
GwPqryDNzdEhQyCbKtz6JPBy ANDY SOLTISInternational









Take them down and box them up, Lance.
Disgraced cyclist Lance Armstrong tweeted a brazen photo of himself on Saturday lying next to his seven ill-gained Tour de France victory jerseys — tokens of titles that were ultimately stripped from him due to doping allegations.
“Back in Austin and just layin...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:21:09 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/lance_is_livingwrong_UFQJSLBg7LTJz00PURwHDK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Internationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/lance_is_livingwrong_UFQJSLBg7LTJz00PURwHDK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=International
UFQJSLBg7LTJz00PURwHDKBy LORENA MONGELLI and JESSICA SIMEONE
Brooklyn
An elderly churchgoing woman was killed yesterday by a fire that swept through her Brooklyn apartment building, authorities said.Olga Bates, 91, a widow who relatives said was “very religious,” was found unconscious on the second floor of the Prospect Heights building and later died, cops said.“She was super...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:24:04 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/brooklyn/apt_fire_kills_woman_MPr5HITDOrfa70gCuynMqN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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MPr5HITDOrfa70gCuynMqNBy JENNIFER FERMINO, KENNETH GARGER and LEONARD GREENELocal



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GIVING IT A WHIRL: The Marine chopper scheduled to shuttle President Obama around the city Thursday takes off during a test run yesterday in Miller Field on Staten Island, where he'll meet Mayor Bloomberg.




Count your monthly MetroCard as a casualty of Hurricane Sandy...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:00:30 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mta_bigs_dirty_card_trick_8Z2yJTgvJw4cllnhSgr5sO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mta_bigs_dirty_card_trick_8Z2yJTgvJw4cllnhSgr5sO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
8Z2yJTgvJw4cllnhSgr5sOBy GEOFF EARLE, JEANE MACINTOSH and DAN MANGANNationalGen. David Petraeus sure loved helping his lady friends.
While he was director of the CIA, Petraeus wrote a letter supporting the child-custody fight of the “psychologically unstable” twin sister of his close friend Jill Kelley — whose bombshell claims of being threatened by his lover led to the top spy...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:41:56 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/twisted_sister_wPCTY0kcH9xu9DPh8RN7yL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/twisted_sister_wPCTY0kcH9xu9DPh8RN7yL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
wPCTY0kcH9xu9DPh8RN7yLBy AMY STRETTENLocal



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One Direction member Louis Tomlinson, left, performs on NBC's "Today" show.




The boys of One Direction are banking that their remarkable journey to fame has at least one more year of glory.
Moviegoers will get a 3D eyeful of the the wildly popular UK boy...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 11:37:35 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/teenage_waitland_0jtMM2zHcxbMcRg1eoN0jO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/teenage_waitland_0jtMM2zHcxbMcRg1eoN0jO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
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Now all they have to do is kiss.
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson looked as if they had made up last night for the premiere of “Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part II.”
It was the former — and possibly current — couple’s first red-carpet appearance together since they split...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:22:42 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/you_cheat_heart_yUwHbs2aMTVFIR6fON1usI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/you_cheat_heart_yUwHbs2aMTVFIR6fON1usI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
yUwHbs2aMTVFIR6fON1usIBy DAVID SEIFMANLocalIt’s victims helping victims.
Families that lost loved ones when Flight 587 crashed in the Rockaways in 2001 are taking up a collection for residents of the battered shorefront community still struggling to recover from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy.
The poignant gesture will raise thousands, not millions. Most...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:44:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/friends_in_grief_mQNtNL8c4I8DviPiTjNVZP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/friends_in_grief_mQNtNL8c4I8DviPiTjNVZP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
mQNtNL8c4I8DviPiTjNVZPBy YOAV GONEN and LIZ SADLERQueens



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Debris from damaged homes lies piled up across the street from the shuttered PS 114 in Belle Harbor.





Hurricane Sandy scattered hundreds of students from one Queens school — to locales as far away as Nashville.
At least 230 students from Belle Harbor’s PS 114 have enrolled in public...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 08:34:45 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_school_student_exodus_aSJ7CNcOEKjtHNuMK34jdN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Queenshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/queens_school_student_exodus_aSJ7CNcOEKjtHNuMK34jdN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Queens
aSJ7CNcOEKjtHNuMK34jdNBy TIM PERONE
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In a shocking twist, the top US military commander in Afghanistan been caught up in the Petraeus sex scandal.
Marine Gen. John Allen is being investigated for “inappropriate communications” with Jill Kelley — the woman harassed by e-mails allegedly sent by David Petraeus’ mistress.
Allen, 58, who succeeded Petraeus as top...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:12:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/scandal_scorches_gen_allen_AZHta5ka2gdzNJoiTRBonL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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AZHta5ka2gdzNJoiTRBonLBy GERRY SHIELDS in DC and ERIK KRISS in AlbanyNational



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BIG HIT: Gov. Chris Christie’s political aspirations are taking a hit over his warm embrace of President Obama after Hurricane Sandy ravaged New Jersey.





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IjetvGo3QU89DQzrJ4JIKJBy KIERAN CROWLEY
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NICK OF TIME: Rescuers aid Evelyn Ross yesterday after she was saved from her burning Long Island home by John Curley.





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amTN98lpBniq27eyuKSBvJBy DAREH GREGORIANLocal



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DON'T TICKLE ME! Kevin Clash, with Muppet, Elmo, insists that his young accuser was of legal age when their “relationship” began.




Say it ain’t so, Elmo!
Kevin Clash — the puppeteer who transformed a furry red Muppet named Elmo into an international sensation — has...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 05:12:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/red_devil_A7am2HfVcojV0taES8KkoL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/red_devil_A7am2HfVcojV0taES8KkoL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
A7am2HfVcojV0taES8KkoLBy BETSY McCAUGHEYOped ColumnistsPresident Obama’s re-election and Democratic gains in the US Senate end any possibility of repealing the Obama health law. It will roll out as written, imposing major changes soon on you and your family. If you are uninsured because you can’t afford it, help may be on the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:44:05 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beware_obamacare_now_reality_YT42eCrsbtZC3KbDONGm4O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/beware_obamacare_now_reality_YT42eCrsbtZC3KbDONGm4O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
YT42eCrsbtZC3KbDONGm4OBy MITCHEL MADDUX
Staten Island
They say he’s too dumb to die for his heinous crimes.
A federal judge has scheduled a series of hearings later this month for testimony about whether a man convicted of the execution-style murder of two undercover NYPD officers is mentally competent to face the death penalty — again.
Ronell...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:43:37 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/staten_island/si_cops_killer_eyed_as_too_dumb_WSogpvSy1UnYg77JlpaXfK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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WSogpvSy1UnYg77JlpaXfKBy ANDY SOLTISLocalIt’s official: The Rolling Stones are coming to Brooklyn.
The band added a show on Dec. 8, a Saturday, at Barclays Center, to their new tour.
Tickets will go on sale Monday at 10 a.m.
The show will be the first US date of their “The Stones — 50...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:42:18 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/stones_start_up_in_yn_4dhEExM5GcJR2YdALH6iIP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/stones_start_up_in_yn_4dhEExM5GcJR2YdALH6iIP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
4dhEExM5GcJR2YdALH6iIPBy ANDY SOLTISLocalThe perfect single New York City woman is a brown-eyed, nonsmoking, social-drinking brunette — with a master’s degree.And Gotham guys would be willing to spend $266.25 on a first date with their dream girl, according to a new survey by a sugar-daddy dating Web site.Some 5,000...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:42:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_the_perfect_nyc_gal_S6fL2vGSXseb87CkvlC5ZK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/meet_the_perfect_nyc_gal_S6fL2vGSXseb87CkvlC5ZK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
S6fL2vGSXseb87CkvlC5ZKBy GERRY SHIELDS and JOSH MARGOLIN
National
Whatever you do, don’t tell the boss.
White House aides appear to have gone out of their way to avoid informing President Obama about the Petraeus affair, and people in Washington want to know why.
“It’s way too convenient,” said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), a member of the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:14:13 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/critics_rankled_by_dicey_timing_maChd2L4XxBsZpsdfMZCnK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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maChd2L4XxBsZpsdfMZCnKBy JOSH MARGOLINNationalPresident Obama is holding on to Eric Holder as the nation’s top law-enforcement official, The Post has learned.
The newly re-elected president asked his controversial attorney general to stay for the second term, and Holder has agreed despite enduring a firestorm of criticism from Republican lawmakers.
“I don’t...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:04:09 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/keeps_holder_as_ag_KiFdPvjU8lAh00dkcJNTZN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/keeps_holder_as_ag_KiFdPvjU8lAh00dkcJNTZN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
KiFdPvjU8lAh00dkcJNTZNBy JOSEF FEDERMANInternationalJERUSALEM — An Israeli tank scored “direct hits” yesterday on a Syrian army vehicle after a mortar shell landed on Israeli-held territory, the military said, in the first direct confrontation between the countries since the Syrian uprising broke out.
Israel has tried to avoid getting sucked into the bloody Syrian conflict...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:03:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/in_syria_crossfire_YruhvtNFOtjXmjEQ834W6O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Internationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/in_syria_crossfire_YruhvtNFOtjXmjEQ834W6O?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=International
YruhvtNFOtjXmjEQ834W6OBy RITA DELFINER
International
John McAfee, founder of the anti-virus software company, that bears his name, is being sought for questioning in the murder of a neighbor in Belize, local police said yesterday.
Cops want to talk to McAfee, 67 — who sold the company to Intel in 2010 for $7.7 billion — in connection...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 03:03:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/tech_mogul_slay_suspect_iAGbIjPQXeABPtkuRKVEMP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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iAGbIjPQXeABPtkuRKVEMPBy SALLY GOLDENBERG
Local
When it comes to new development projects, the Bloomberg administration is closed for business.
That’s because the mayor’s people — with an eye toward his legacy — have carefully crafted a special list of high-profile priority projects to fast-track before Bloomberg’s third term ends in 14 months, putting all...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:53:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/mike_legacy_list_is_priority_for_AXU2H9VADBBMOVQMOV7MtJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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AXU2H9VADBBMOVQMOV7MtJBy BRUCE GOLDINGManhattanSeptember 11 changed everything for this hardhat — including his sex life.
A construction worker who breathed “toxic smoke and fumes” while working five weeks at Ground Zero said he was left with a litany of ailments, including erectile dysfunction.
Steven O’Hara of upstate Wingdale clocked 12-hour days monitoring the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:53:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hardhat_downer_Gm4Du1U2iB5HZka7RYcVmO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattanhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/hardhat_downer_Gm4Du1U2iB5HZka7RYcVmO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Manhattan
Gm4Du1U2iB5HZka7RYcVmOBy GERRY SHIELDS, Post CorrespondentNationalWASHINGTON — President Obama will have to give to get.
Opponents of Obama’s signature health-care law are pushing for costs of the plan to be part of the negotiations over preventing the so-called fiscal cliff, while supporters are trying to keep cuts off the table.
Obama will begin a series...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:53:50 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/surgical_trike_Mnxmnw34jnZXTlJTOKSUnL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/surgical_trike_Mnxmnw34jnZXTlJTOKSUnL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
Mnxmnw34jnZXTlJTOKSUnLBy DOUG AUER, KIRSTAN CONLEY, JESSICA SIMONENYPD BlotterManhattan

A serial bank robber was done in when a detective recognized his mug from a prior arrest, law-enforcement sources said.
Robert Connolly, 54, allegedly scored $3,495 from the Valley National Bank on Fourth Avenue near East 12th Street on Oct. 10 by handing a teller a demand note...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:10:54 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_Qd7KReLrQOOYBsktG8wwyN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=NYPD Blotterhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nypd_blotter/nypd_daily_blotter_Qd7KReLrQOOYBsktG8wwyN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=NYPD Blotter
Qd7KReLrQOOYBsktG8wwyNBy SALLY GOLDENBERG
Local
This parking rule must be from the age of horse and buggy.
A city councilman is looking to revamp a law that allows cars to park 15 feet from hydrants in a no-standing zone while dropping off or picking up a passenger, as long as the driver is in the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:05:29 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hydrant_rule_is_all_wet_pol_yqzV0eB6scl7xZ8aRayl7N?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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ALDEN, NY — Mourners overflowed a church in western New York on Veterans Day to pay tribute to a US Army reservist killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan.The funeral for Sgt. Brett Gornewicz, 27, of Alden, 20 miles east of Buffalo, was standing room only at St. John’s...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 02:05:29 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/sad_last_salute_for_upstate_gi_CivnYogagaWX1drAnFdpaP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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WEST HARTFORD, Conn. — A man stole a car used to deliver Chinese food — then continued dropping off orders so he could keep the customers’ money, police said.Keith Hinds, 45, was charged Friday with larceny and other charges.West Hartford police received a call from a Chinese-food delivery driver reporting...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:58:37 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wanton_thief_wonton_thief_MLLQG0w6ZKfABUZ2r1DLEI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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MLLQG0w6ZKfABUZ2r1DLEIBy LEONARD GREENELocalFill ’er up!New Jersey will end its gas-rationing policy today now that pressure at the pump has been eased. Gov. Chris Christie says that gas supplies are plentiful throughout the Garden State and that there are no more lines of cars waiting for fuel.Christie imposed the odd-even restrictions...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:54:36 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nj_has_had_fill_of_rationing_4vOcrLiDuB4zPGPTdp7ArM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/nj_has_had_fill_of_rationing_4vOcrLiDuB4zPGPTdp7ArM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
4vOcrLiDuB4zPGPTdp7ArMBy ANTHONY MCCARTNEYNationalLOS ANGELES — A judge has cut by more than half the $40 million jury verdict that casino mogul Steve Wynn was recently awarded against “Girls Gone Wild” founder Joe Francis.
The ruling by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Joanne O’Donnell on Friday eliminates $20 million in punitive damages the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:53:55 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wy_er_is_now_lo_er_4pZLlwFHlm3dJSa8ZHO5qN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/wy_er_is_now_lo_er_4pZLlwFHlm3dJSa8ZHO5qN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
4pZLlwFHlm3dJSa8ZHO5qNBy JOSH SAULLocalThis “long shot” fell way short.
Embattled city Comptroller John Liu suffered another setback yesterday when two of his key fund-raisers charged with fraud saw their motions to suppress certain evidence and dismiss the case slapped down by a federal judge.
Liu campaign treasurer Jia “Jenny” Hou moved to suppress...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:53:46 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/comptroller_cronies_liu_sers_in_ADg5pOQydLF6q7lmBuihuM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/comptroller_cronies_liu_sers_in_ADg5pOQydLF6q7lmBuihuM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
ADg5pOQydLF6q7lmBuihuMBy DAVID SEIFMANLocalFormer Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrión (pictured) is planning to enter the 2013 mayoral race — but as a Republican, not a Democrat, according to political sources.
Carrión, 51, who served briefly in the Obama administration, has quietly changed his voter registration from Democrat to independent and hopes to run on...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:53:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/carrion_to_run_for_mayor_as_goper_m2sLp5ZAhE6OUPfZ9slrbN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Localhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/carrion_to_run_for_mayor_as_goper_m2sLp5ZAhE6OUPfZ9slrbN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Local
m2sLp5ZAhE6OUPfZ9slrbNEditorialsDavid Petraeus served the United States of America with honor and distinction for nearly four decades.
Then he stumbled. That much is clear.
But everything else about L’affaire Petraeus is a jumbled mess, and the best advice for anyone trying to make sense of it is really quite simple...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:20:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/time_to_tell_the_truth_4ZXE6ZPjLyGSwZTudiwPON?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorialshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/time_to_tell_the_truth_4ZXE6ZPjLyGSwZTudiwPON?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorials
4ZXE6ZPjLyGSwZTudiwPONEditorials“The power restoration and fuel-delivery efforts of the past two weeks have allowed lines to subside, lessening the need for this type of rationing system. Now is an appropriate time to end it.” — Kevin Roberts, spokesman forGov. Chris Christie, announcing that post-Sandy
gas rationing would end in New Jersey at...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:20:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/good_gas_news_in_jersey_igaBAYc0cD2rE2eC1VtUgJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorialshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/good_gas_news_in_jersey_igaBAYc0cD2rE2eC1VtUgJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorials
igaBAYc0cD2rE2eC1VtUgJEditorialsFormer state Comptroller Alan Hevesi comes up for his initial parole hearing this week, perhaps today, having served 18 months of a one-to-four-year sentence for a “pay-to-play” scheme involving state pension-fund investments.
Hevesi’s corruption conviction ended his three-decade service on the public payroll, including membership in the state Assembly...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:20:44 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/keep_alan_on_ice_0zvvJjrxh8bgkYC8EtuEpL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorialshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/keep_alan_on_ice_0zvvJjrxh8bgkYC8EtuEpL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Editorials
0zvvJjrxh8bgkYC8EtuEpLBy LAURA ITALIANO
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The man charged with fatally stabbing his mother and slashing and trying to incinerate his brother in their East Harlem apartment was held without bail at his arraignment yesterday. David Elias, 31, was led from Manhattan Criminal Court to jail yesterday, staggering and swaying in his handcuffs and leg chains...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:18:25 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/no_bail_for_son_in_mom_slay_horror_CG5djb2vLZivpXDfriPyaN?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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CG5djb2vLZivpXDfriPyaNBy JOSH MARGOLIN
Local
The most touchdowns at the first Super Bowl hosted at the Meadowlands will be scored by rich fans flying in via private jet.An $11 million private air terminal is quietly being constructed at Newark Airport to lure the jet set that is sure to converge for the 2014 Super...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:16:40 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/super_bowl_vip_air_game_SAahfvJHkTT6AQScwrXzgL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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SAahfvJHkTT6AQScwrXzgLBy DAREH GREGORIANNationalBeyoncé might be summoned to a command performance — singing under oath.A state appeals court has given a $100 million lawsuit against the “Single Ladies” singer the green light, paving the way for the superstar to testify at a deposition.In a unanimous decision, the Appellate Division denied a bid...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:16:04 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/suit_vs_beyonce_ok_sLXAJWL9NJGcBAUlSFRD2K?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Nationalhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/suit_vs_beyonce_ok_sLXAJWL9NJGcBAUlSFRD2K?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=National
sLXAJWL9NJGcBAUlSFRD2KBy KAJA WHITEHOUSEBusinessThe Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday suffered yet another defeat in its efforts to hold Wall Street accountable for losses stemming from the financial meltdown after a Manhattan jury cleared a father-son team of misleading investors to avoid a run on the bank in 2008.
After more than two days...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mary_fails_again_KgoxA14IEAPz1lLE2HDHMK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mary_fails_again_KgoxA14IEAPz1lLE2HDHMK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
KgoxA14IEAPz1lLE2HDHMKBy MARK DECAMBREBusinessWall Street’s damsels are turning to white knights.
In the latest move, Jefferies Group yesterday agreed to be scooped up by investing conglomerate Leucadia National Corp. for nearly $4 billion.
The acquisition will place Jefferies CEO Rich Handler, 51, in the unique position at the helm of his firm...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mon_re_cue_me_6wM9WMvVTepefDY8lJwRYJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mon_re_cue_me_6wM9WMvVTepefDY8lJwRYJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
6wM9WMvVTepefDY8lJwRYJBy JOSH KOSMANBusinessThe Philadelphia Hostess plant that supplies New York City is running again after a strike by the bakers’ union temporarily halted production.
Hostess pulled in management from other areas to restart the plant, which came to a halt when workers refused to cross a picket line, according to a source...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hostess_reprieve_in_philly_kFwx3WiDEDiisTHM4BoXqI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/hostess_reprieve_in_philly_kFwx3WiDEDiisTHM4BoXqI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
kFwx3WiDEDiisTHM4BoXqIBusinessMicrosoft said that Steven Sinofsky, president of its Windows and Windows Live operations, is leaving the company.
Company veteran Julie Larson-Green has been promoted to lead all Windows software and hardware engineering.
The company did not say why Sinofsky is leaving...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/windows_boss_exits_maSZXz375PEVYZgwS6Ew7M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/windows_boss_exits_maSZXz375PEVYZgwS6Ew7M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
maSZXz375PEVYZgwS6Ew7MBusiness Nyse Euronext yesterday suspended trading in more than 200 stocks on the New York Stock Exchange due to a technical problem with a server, though the stocks in question were still trading actively on other markets. There will be no closing auctions in the affected stocks, and a list of...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/glitch_kos_nyse_stox_OC2YgVD59Vn5NWlwPETvWM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/glitch_kos_nyse_stox_OC2YgVD59Vn5NWlwPETvWM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
OC2YgVD59Vn5NWlwPETvWMBy JAMES COVERTBusinessThere’s a sale at JCPenney — on its stock, that is.Shares of the struggling department-store chain plunged 13 percent to their lowest levels since 2009, as Wall Street grew increasingly anxious about CEO Ron Johnson’s controversial turnaround strategy.Analysts cut their ratings on Penney shares and slashed profit...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jcpenney_shares_pummeled_O2WHoiBpD42vaH714T88IJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/jcpenney_shares_pummeled_O2WHoiBpD42vaH714T88IJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
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A US House of Representatives panel will release a long-awaited report that will dissect the collapse of failed commodities brokerage MF Global. The House Financial Services Committee said its Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations will post the report online Thursday...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/mf_report_coming_ANHcEBtjU2dT4U78XqNbZI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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ANHcEBtjU2dT4U78XqNbZIBy CLAIRE ATKINSONBusinessWarner Music Group has joined the bidders for a Sony/ATV music publishing catalog with the rights to some 30,000 songs, The Post has learned. The Rosetta catalog, which is heavy on ’80s hits from artists like Bryan Ferry, Devo and Tears for Fears, has already attracted attention from...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:14:19 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/warner_makes_sony_atv_move_eofTPxpJrrddMlsREtTjCI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/warner_makes_sony_atv_move_eofTPxpJrrddMlsREtTjCI?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
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When people say it’s a pain to figure out a budget or decide how big a tip to leave in a restaurant, they may be telling the truth.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have found that doing math can cause physical pain.
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oDgGnfQJmvjJjiZzJv1D2IBy KEITH J. KELLYBusinessThere was no warm welcome for New York Times CEO Mark Thompson.
The former BBC director general and editor-in-chief spent his first day on the job dealing with the fallout from a deepening crisis at his former employer and turmoil within the Times.
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AtDov5VVAuHq8qOxO6gynOLettersThe Issue: Gov. Cuomo’s responsibility for LIPA’s efficiency after Hurricanes Irene and Sandy.
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The Post documents Gov. Cuomo’s failure to fix the Long Island Power Authority after Hurricane Irene very well (“Cuomo’s LIPA Fail,” Editorial, Nov. 10).
The governor has been publicly critical of LIPA, which...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:09:16 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/long_island_short_temper_and_cuomo_6Qumsn1RZx92gkezY0Ti0I?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Lettershttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/letters/long_island_short_temper_and_cuomo_6Qumsn1RZx92gkezY0Ti0I?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Letters
6Qumsn1RZx92gkezY0Ti0IBy RICH LOWRYOped ColumnistsNo sooner had the electoral thundercloud arrived last Tuesday than some Republicans began searching it for a silver lining. It is an understandable impulse after a defeat to want to minimize its magnitude and rationalize away its causes.
But there are no comforting augurs for Republicans in President Obama’s...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:08:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gop_self_delusion_eq6wROHRDLJz1TITCnPnsM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/gop_self_delusion_eq6wROHRDLJz1TITCnPnsM?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
eq6wROHRDLJz1TITCnPnsMBy JOHN PODHORETZOped ColumnistsDavid Petraeus, who might have been the most respected man in America, has resigned due to a personal scandal that threatens to turn into a national-security scandal.
Kevin Clash, who took a piece of red cloth and with mysterious alchemy turned it into the most popular character for small children...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:08:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/when_our_role_models_let_us_down_Kq1rDnpcercJIfoUNZxsVL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/when_our_role_models_let_us_down_Kq1rDnpcercJIfoUNZxsVL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
Kq1rDnpcercJIfoUNZxsVLBy ARTHUR HERMANOped ColumnistsEven Brad Thor couldn’t come up with a juicier storyline.FBI agents discover secret e-mails proving that the CIA director, a revered war hero and possible future presidential candidate, is having an affair with his biographer-turned- femme fatale. He then resigns just days before he’s supposed to give...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:08:43 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/king_david_big_fall_wPoodkvEhZ2FezjP0sJwhK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnistshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/king_david_big_fall_wPoodkvEhZ2FezjP0sJwhK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Oped Columnists
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The United States yesterday joined Germany and Ireland in winning re-election to the UN Human Rights Council.There were three seats available to represent the council’s Western Group. The other two contestants, Greece and Sweden, failed to garner sufficient votes from the General Assembly’s 193 members.US Ambassador...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:57:47 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/us_holds_on_to_un_panel_seat_07BsIBdLr4c6kpmbl0ShVO?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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07BsIBdLr4c6kpmbl0ShVOBy LARRY CELONA and NATASHA VELEZ
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A deranged man yesterday attacked a Manhattan psychiatrist with a sledgehammer and knife in his home office, police said.Michael Weiss, 38, was meeting with Jacob Nolan in his 12th-floor office on West 57th Street at about 10.25 a.m. when Nolan apparently snapped and bashed him with the...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:54:01 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/hammer_attack_on_shrink_gXQKMf5fqqCz3pM9GUsSPK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=
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gXQKMf5fqqCz3pM9GUsSPKBusinessBUENOS AIRES — Argentina will ask a UN court to order the release of a navy sailing ship seized in Ghana unless the African country releases today, officials announced.The ARA Libertad training ship was seized on Oct. 2 in the port of Tema as collateral for unpaid bonds dating from...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:57 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/un_asked_to_free_bond_boat_iQcg18IyPj1GXHDp0vBUPL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/un_asked_to_free_bond_boat_iQcg18IyPj1GXHDp0vBUPL?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
iQcg18IyPj1GXHDp0vBUPLBusiness Greece’s lenders agreed to give the debt-ridden country two more years to make the cuts demanded of it, but the euro zone and IMF clashed over a longer-term target date to shrink debt. Euro zone finance ministers did not disburse more aid and by granting a request for more...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:55 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/greece_gets_reprieve_WSgm4SzzLWMAvhwc0qRMxJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/greece_gets_reprieve_WSgm4SzzLWMAvhwc0qRMxJ?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
WSgm4SzzLWMAvhwc0qRMxJBusiness Google is being pressed by Federal Trade Commission Chairman Jonathan Leibowitz to offer to resolve the agency’s antitrust investigation in the next few days or face a lawsuit, two people familiar with the matter said.
Google has been in discussions with the agency for about two weeks and hasn...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:53 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/google_facing_ftc_ultimatum_6yZRnNFKmKWTvokbzVwxRK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/google_facing_ftc_ultimatum_6yZRnNFKmKWTvokbzVwxRK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
6yZRnNFKmKWTvokbzVwxRKBy CLAIRE ATKINSONBusinessComcast’s NBCUniversal is laying off hundreds of staff in another round of belt-tightening.
The pink slips will take place across the board and will affect about 450 employees, or 1.5 percent of the total staff, according to insiders.
Earlier this year, NBC cut about two dozen staffers on...Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:27:05 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/nbcu_lays_off_shakes_up_today_wxJULsc78DowCQReG59MfK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/nbcu_lays_off_shakes_up_today_wxJULsc78DowCQReG59MfK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
wxJULsc78DowCQReG59MfKBy STEVE CUOZZOCommercialSavanna is adding two loft-style Chelsea office buildings to its growing collection — 245 and 249 W. 17th St.
The aggressive real estate private-equity and asset management firm just bought the properties from the Pressman family for a price not yet disclosed. The buildings have a combined 284,000 square feet...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:54:12 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/savanna_th_st_sojourn_i08BYDET6bPnLtVduGlO4M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Commercialhttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/realestate/commercial/savanna_th_st_sojourn_i08BYDET6bPnLtVduGlO4M?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Commercial
i08BYDET6bPnLtVduGlO4MBy JOHN CRUDELEBusinessIn my column last Thursday I wrote you an upbeat, patriotic song to make you feel better. Today, I’m going to make you feel lousy again.And I’m going to bore you as well. (Hey, no need to thank me.)This column is about the stock market and...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:32:53 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/traders_limber_up_for_their_race_ALiKcXCkrRkcqFvXsmJGbP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/traders_limber_up_for_their_race_ALiKcXCkrRkcqFvXsmJGbP?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
ALiKcXCkrRkcqFvXsmJGbPBusinessDown on oilHedge funds trimmed bullish bets on crude to the lowest in more than two years as demand fell in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, production increased to the highest since 1994 and President Barack Obama won re-election.BB10 dateResearch in Motion plans to introduce its new BlackBerry 10...Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:28:02 -0500http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/business_briefs_U7VcZrzblc0F7nAITqBuJK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Businesshttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/business_briefs_U7VcZrzblc0F7nAITqBuJK?utm_medium=rss&utm_content=Business
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Think local, former U.N. leader Kofi Annan tells Miami forum

In the Ritz-Carlton ballroom in Coconut Grove on Monday, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, addressed a crowd of well-dressed world savers to open the Continuity Forum of the Americas Business Council (abc*). In a speech that touched on the environment, the Arab awakening, democracy in Latin America, the spiraling conflict in Syria, nuclear war and resource scarcity, Annan encouraged attendees to address these and other problems by thinking local.

“People ask me all the time, ‘what should one do to become a global citizen?’ I tell them, get involved with your community, your city, your town, your village,” Annan said.

For abc*, a think tank dedicated to “people, planet and philanthropy” in the Americas, Miami is the center of that community. Smack dab in the middle of the hemisphere, for two years Miami has hosted the annual Continuity Forum that attracts more than 300 people from all over North and South America. Rebecca Mandelman, senior director of the abc* based in Miami Beach, said she has recently seen more and more of these would-be world changers coming to Miami to stay.

“There’s this intellectual thirst in Miami that brings a lot of these forces together,” Mandelman said. Referring to the co-sponsoring organizations — many of them local, like the Knight Foundation, Univision, PODER magazine and technology company Ico Group — she said, “Miami is like the fulcrum, the center for people in our community.”

The three-day conference, which sold tickets in advance, features a full roster of impressive speakers, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes. But the main focus is the competition between 32 “social entrepreneurs” who will present their projects to be judged by the five chairman of abc* and the foundation’s 23 fellows. The best three projects will receive $100,000 grants, media support and business connections for two years.

“We evaluate them by their potential to make the greatest impact,” said Mario Scarpetta, director of Colombian cement and energy company Inversiones Argos and co-chairman of abc*. To evaluate their effectiveness, he said abc* would review each project’s “strategic business plans and economic models of their impact.”

The projects range from a museum of sacred Peruvian plants and an indigenous tourism agency in Mexico to a Nicaraguan organization dedicated to fighting cancer and a “green roof” sustainable building company. The presentations, videos and question-and-answer sessions took place in English and Spanish, and Mandelman said she hoped the casual conversations between sessions would lead to future ideas and organizations.

Even entrepreneurs whose projects are not chosen for the abc* grant have the opportunity this week to interact with investors and leaders of the industries they seek to influence. Pati Ruiz of Grupo Ecológico Sierra Gorda in Mexico said her alliance of five conservation organizations is already active in central Mexico, but if awarded the grant she would use it to expand to the rest of the country and into South America.

“The strength of our project is that it’s already up and running,” Ruiz said in Spanish after her presentation. “We have the tools to expand and reproduce what we’re doing.”

Although most of the conference attendees were excited about the ideas, some expressed frustration with the lack of avenues for individuals to get involved.

“I think that’s the problem with a lot of these conferences: There are no action items, nothing you can really do if you’re not a big-time donor,” said one attendee who didn’t want to be named because he works for one of the co-sponsors of the conference. “We come, watch, applaud and leave.”

Still, abc* continues to connect some of the most creative innovators in a younger generation to current political and business leaders who have the resources to give their ideas wings, Mandelman said, and the rest of the Continuity Forum promises to help make this happen.

“We believe that collective engagement can advance the Americas,” she said.

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Broward recount for two city commission seats to resume Tuesday

With hundreds of uncounted ballots rousted up over the weekend from within the Broward Elections Department building, automatic recounts will resume Tuesday in razor-thin city commission races for Hallandale Beach and Dania Beach.

The Broward Supervisor of Elections’ canvassing board convened Monday afternoon, nearly a week after long voter lines and delays in counting votes in South Florida embarrassed the state, but did not finish the recount.

The recount came as extra batches of ballots were found between Saturday and Monday scattered within the Lauderhill elections department building, according to spokeswoman Mary Cooney.

Every one of the ballots cast in Broward County has been counted, she said Monday.

It is not unusual for some extra ballots, delivered in waves from precincts across Broward County, to be found within the building after any election, Cooney said. In all, “less than 1,000” ballots were found, she said.

“The ballots weren’t lost,’’ she said. “They were here physically in the building.”

Final certification will take place Nov. 18.

In all, 762,035 Broward County voters cast ballots. In the two city races being recounted, those extra ballots could matter.

In Hallandale Beach, where three commission seats were available, Michele Lazarow edged Anthony A. Sanders by just six votes, according to the latest tallies published Monday. While both will serve on the commission, the one with the higher vote total will serve a four-year term; the third place finisher will serve a two-year term.

Hallandale voters cast 16,228 votes overall for commission.

William Julian was the top vote getter with 4,057 votes, or 25 percent of the ballots cast.

In Dania Beach, where voters cast ballots to select three commission members, Chickie Brandimarte beat C.K. “Mac” McElyea by 16 votes for a third open seat.

The top two vote getters: Walter Duke and Albert C. Jones.

Overall, Dania residents cast 15,711 votes for commissioners.

By state law, the races must be recounted through the division’s optical-scanning machines because the margins were at less than a half percentage point. If the margin remains at a quarter-percentage point, a recount will be done by hand.

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STREAMING: Soundgarden Live on Letterman

Soundgarden is the latest band to headline the Live on Letterman concert series, streaming now!

RELATED: New Music Tuesday!

The Grammy Award-winning rockers are performing at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City preceding the release of King Animal, their first album in 16 years. Former acts to appear on the live concert series include Adele, Coldplay, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Carrie Underwood and more.

Late Show with David Letterman airs weeknights at 11:35/10:35c on CBS. King Animal drops tomorrow, November 13.

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Judge orders hearing to determine if cop killer competent enough for death penalty

They say he’s too dumb to die for his heinous crimes.

A federal judge has scheduled a series of special hearings later this month to hear testimony about whether a man convicted of the execution-style murder of two undercover NYPD officers is mentally competent to face the death penalty — again.

Ronell Wilson has already been convicted of the point-blank shooting death of detectives Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin during a 2003 undercover gun buy-and-bust operation on Staten Island.

And Wilson was condemned to death after his conviction, but in 2010 a federal appeals court overturned that sentence because of a procedural misstep.

But Wilson’s defense attorneys insist that he should not be eligible for the death penalty again because they say he has a low-functioning intellect.

They’re hoping that the convicted cop-killer may be spared under the terms of a landmark US Supreme Court ruling that bars execution of the mentally incompetent.

Brooklyn federal Judge Nicholas Garaufis will preside over the special hearings and listen as medical experts, specialists in mental retardation, and others weigh in on the issue.

The hearings - expected to span two weeks - are scheduled to begin later this month and stretch into December.

Brooklyn federal prosecutors do not believe that Wilson is mentally impaired and are expected to call witnesses that buttress their position.

If the court deems Wilson to be mentally fit, the judge will then schedule a new penalty-phase trial, where jurors will determine whether Willson should be executed by lethal injection or sentenced to life in prison.

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Noven&#x2019;s niche: The Miami company is key producer of transdermal patches

At the Noven Pharmaceuticals plant in southwest Miami, scientists and technicians use highly specialized machinery to blend prescription medications and adhesives to make layered transdermal patches that release precise quantities of drugs over time after being applied to a patient’s skin.

Noven, a subsidiary of Japan’s Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical, has about 700 employees nationwide and ranks as a relatively small player among pharma giants. Nonetheless, the company, a leading research and development center for medicinal patches, produces a line of specialty pharmaceuticals and is the U.S. market leader in sales of estrogen patches for women.

“By industry standards, Noven is a small company,” said Jeffrey F. Eisenberg, Noven’s Miami-based president and CEO. “But we have a line of specialized products that competes successfully in the U.S. and overseas. We are experts in developing transdermal patches and produce other pharmaceutical products.”

In one key market — estrogen patches for women — Noven holds about a 68 percent share, he added. And the company has a robust research and development department in Miami at work on a variety of new drugs.

Medications may be delivered to patients orally, via injection or through transdermal patches, which can administer drugs slowly over an extended period of time. While Noven makes products other than medicinal patches, it devotes an important share of resources to transdermal patch technology.

“We have a talented group of scientists who are at the forefront of this specialty,” Eisenberg said. “We have M.D.s, PhDs in biology and chemistry and chemical engineers who specialize in pressure-sensitive adhesives and polymer chemistry.”

Noven has won more than 30 U.S. and 100 international patents and is developing several new drugs. The company recently announced it is making progress on studies to evaluate a new, amphetamine-based transdermal patch for treating Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) in children and adolescents. Currently, there is no such patch approved for use with ADHD, the company said.

Noven also has applied to the U.S. Food & Drug Administration for approval of a new oral, non-hormonal medication to treat menopausal hot flashes.

Making patches is a complex process that requires the design and development of an ideal combination of drug, adhesive and backing, Eisenberg said. Patches must be formulated so that they will deliver a safe and effective dose of medication over a period of time and adhere to the skin as required.

At the Noven patch facility, which has the capacity for making 500 million patches per year, active drug compounds are mixed with custom adhesives in large, specialized kettles. The mix of drug and adhesive is then applied to sheets of release liner material under very precise tolerances. Noven removes a blending solvent from the compound and applies the backing material, making a three-layer patch. Laminate rolls subsequently are sent to punching, pouching and packing machines (Patches are punched into different sizes.). All of this occurs under strict quality control procedures and is not open to the public.

Noven was founded in 1987 by Steven Sablotsky, a chemical engineer, who had worked for another pharmaceutical firm and was an expert in transdermal patches. Noven went public in 1988 and operated as a publicly-traded company until it was taken over in 2009 by Hisamitsu, a Japanese pharmaceutical company that also manufactures and markets transdermal patches. (Salonpas, an over-the-counter analgesic patch widely advertised in South Florida, is made by Hisamitsu.)

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Two more Cuban dissidents allege abuses by former prisons official now living in Miami

Two more Cuban dissidents have alleged that they were abused personally or on the orders of a former Villa Clara provincial prison chief Crescencio Marino Rivero, who now lives in Miami.

Rivero, 71, and his wife Juana Ferrer, both former officers in Cuba’s Interior Ministry and members of the ruling Communist Party, appear to have obtained their U.S. visas and residency without revealing their activities on behalf of the Cuban government.

Wilfredo Allen, one of the two Miami lawyers who referred the allegations against Rivero to U.S. prosecutors two weeks ago, has asked for the start of deportation procedures against the couple. Rivero has denied committing any abuses.

Arturo Conde Zamora said he was 12 or 13 years old and was being held in a reformatory when Rivero hit him with a stick two or three times on his back and legs. Rivero was in charge of the lockup in the Villa Clara village of Maleza.

“He beat me with a stick and then threw me into a cell,” Conde, now 47, told El Nuevo Herald by telephone from his home in the Villa Clara town of Placetas. “He tied me up with a rope and left me in a tapiada” – a cell with a solid steel door instead of bars.

Rivero has been identified as provincial head of youth reformatories and reeducation programs in the 1980s before he was promoted to head Villa Clara’s overall prison system.

Conde said he was sent to a reformatory for chronic school skipping, and was beaten by Rivero and two or three reformatory “re-educators” in 1981 or 1982 because he had fought with one of the other 100 or so youths in the Maleza lockup.

A decade later, Conde added, he was serving a new prison term in the maximum security Alambrada de Manacas prison in Villa Clara when Rivero turned up there following a clash between prisoners and guards.

“Not even 30 minutes later, they brought in dogs to attack the prisoners.” Conde was bitten on the thigh, he said.

Another Placetas dissident, Jorge Luis García Pérez, known as Antunez, said he never saw Rivero personally abuse prisoners. “Officers of that rank don’t have to,” he said, because they can order guards to abuse the inmates.

Antunez alleged that on Feb. 19, 1991, while serving a 5 ½-year sentence for “enemy propaganda” at the La Pendiente prison in Villa Clara, he was taken to see Rivero for his refusal to wear prison uniforms — a type of protest used by many political prisoners.

“Look, you black counterrevolutionary, we’re not going to allow that here,” Antunez, who is black, quoted Rivero as telling him.

Rivero told the guards “take him to the cell and if he takes off his clothes, bust his head,” the dissident added in a phone interview with El Nuevo Herald. Antunez said he did try to take off his clothes and got such a beating that he remembers the exact date.

Antunez and Conde’s allegations, and similar previous accusations against Rivero by three other dissidents, could not be independently confirmed. Rivero did not return an El Nuevo Herald call to his phone last week, and his daughter said he would not speak to the newspaper because his previous comments to other journalists were “distorted.”

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Malaysian charged with Facebook insult of sultan; sister says he’ll file police complaint

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – The sister of a Malaysian man who has been charged with insulting a state sultan on Facebook says he is innocent and plans to lodge a complaint over his detention.

Anisa Abdul Jalil, sister of Ahmad Abdul Jalil, says her brother was charged Thursday with making offensive postings on Facebook last month.

She says the charges are ridiculous because there is no evidence linking Ahmad to the posts in question, which were made by someone using the name “Zul Yahaya.”

Ahmad was freed on bail Thursday after six days of detention. Anisa says he will file a complaint with police for unlawful detention and intimidation.

Nine Malaysian states have sultans and other royal figures. Though their roles are largely ceremonial, acts provoking hatred against them are considered seditious.

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2-year-old boy drowns in pond on Long Island

HUNTINGTON — A 2-year-old boy has drowned in a pond on Long Island.

Suffolk County police say the child fell into the pond in Hecksher Park at around 11:30 a.m. Sunday.

When police arrived at the scene, a good Samaritan was administering CPR. But the boy was later pronounced dead at Huntington Hospital.

The boy was at the park with his father. Their names were not immediately released.

Police said the death appeared to be accidental.

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Gov. Rick Scott may shift stance on health reform law

With the reelection of President Barack Obama, Florida’s Republican leaders are reconsidering their fervent opposition to federal healthcare reform, triggering a discussion that could have huge repercussions for South Florida.

At stake is more than $6 billion in federal funding for Miami-Dade and Broward over the next decade and the possibility of health insurance for a large percentage of the 1.4 million people in the two counties who now lack coverage.

After the defeat of Mitt Romney, who vowed to halt Obama’s healthcare overhaul, the Republican leaders of the Florida House and Senate quickly said the Legislature needed to reexamine the federal act. On Friday evening, Gov. Rick Scott said he agreed there needed to be a discussion.

“Just saying ‘no’ is not an answer,” Scott said in a statement that repeated exactly what Sen. Don Gaetz, R-Destin, the incoming Senate president, told The Miami Herald on Thursday.

“I don’t like this law,” Gaetz also said, “but this is the law, and I believe I have a constitutional obligation to carry it out.” He added that he thinks “there needs to be some adult debate between Republicans and Democrats” on finding ways to make the law work.

Still, Gaetz, Scott and others in the Republican leadership, which controls both the Florida House and Senate, have many criticisms of what both parties now call “Obamacare.” Some are searching for compromises on how it is carried out in the state. What this means for patients and the healthcare industry in Florida — particularly South Florida — remains an enormous question mark.

Time is running short for decisions as the once-distant consequences of the Affordable Care Act are scheduled to kick in during the next 14 months.

The first deadline is Friday. That’s when states must tell Washington whether they plan to set up exchanges — marketplaces where individuals can purchase insurance at discounted group rates and cannot be denied because of pre-existing conditions.

Florida’s political leaders acknowledge they won’t make the deadline. The exchanges are scheduled to start Jan. 1, 2014, and if a state doesn’t set up an exchange, its residents can participate in a federal exchange.

The next provision starts Jan. 1 with an increase in Medicaid fees for primary care physicians. Primary care physicians, who have long complained about low rates for Medicaid, which provides coverage for the poor, are scheduled to be paid at considerably higher Medicare rates — with the feds picking up all of the added cost. But such a pay hike can only happen with the approval of the governor and Legislature, and it’s unclear whether that will happen.

The following year, on Jan. 1, 2014, the biggest changes are slated to start, including a major expansion of people covered by Medicaid. An analysis from the Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida shows that if the state doesn’t expand coverage, Florida will lose $27.9 billion in federal funds over 10 years.

That breaks down to a $4.5 billion loss for Miami-Dade during that time, and a $2.3 billion loss for Broward, according to the alliance’s analysis.

Under the law, Washington will pay all Medicaid expansion costs for the first three years, but then the states would have to pay up to 10 percent of the costs in following years — an expense that the Safety Net Alliance calculates will come to $1.7 billion over 10 years in Florida. The expansion could provide coverage to an additional million-plus Floridians. Reform supporters say the expansion would provide cheaper basic care that would help prevent serious illnesses that lead to expensive hospital stays.

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