Mayor Bloomberg backed off signing a bill to crack down on cabbies for sex trafficking — saying he feared his daughters could be mistaken for prostitutes after a late night out.
Rodney King video man got beat, too
Rodney King would have lived and died a complete unknown, were it not for the most famous home video ever made. Shot on a dark Los Angeles street the morning of March 2, 1991, it instantly turned King into a worldwide symbol of police abuse and racial conflict.
Can’t stop checking email? You may be depressed
People who are depressed tend to check their mail compulsively, watch a lot of videos and switch between multiple internet applications more frequently than their peers.
1950s locker room prank sparked 2012 shootingÂ
From the moment 73-year-old Carl Ericsson rang his old high school classmate’s doorbell in January, verified the man’s identity and then shot him dead, the question had been what prompted him to confront a man he hadn’t even spoken to in years.
Taxi app a share delightÂ
SPLIT A TAXI? Hail yeah! Taxi riders may soon be able to find a cab to share using a tech firm’s smartphone app. A would-be passenger can punch in the nearest intersection and neighborhood they’re traveling to, and GetTaxi will help find someone else headed in the same direction with its Ride Share feature, the company said.
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‘Grey’ writer may whip up some rewritesÂ
E L James may tie up S&M-loving readers yet again by revisiting the characters from her “Fifty Shades of Grey†novels in a second trilogy.
From ‘Napalm Girl’ to a crying Paris Hilton: Nick Ut captures iconic photos
Nick Ut will commemorate a pair of anniversaries today — both stemming from iconic photographs he snapped of two tearful girls in the throes of terror.
Yellow card policy for racially-motived walk-offs
Players were warned they would be yellow carded if they walked off the pitch after being racially abused at the European Championships.
Cannibal porn star who killed student, mailed body parts is on lam in Paris: cops Luka Magnotta has been tracked to hotels in the City of Light and cops fear he may kill againÂ
The torture-happy Canadian porn actor who killed a Chinese student and mailed the body parts he didn’t eat to politicians is on the lam in Paris, cops said Sunday.
Facebook interns learn and earn (big-time)
Even the interns at Facebook are making big bucks — with some raking in almost $75,000.
Software engineering interns at the social networking site are paid a whopping $74,700 a year, according to salary information compiled by the website Business Insider.
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