All Blog Posts from Crimesider

NEW YORK - They call him Friar Nip-and-Tuck.

And now a New York pastor has been ordered to serve five years probation for dipping into his church's coffers to pay for his for plastic surgery bills.

But boy does his face look great!

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PARIS - Daul Kim, a top model who graced Fashion Week runways from New York to Milan, has been found hanged in her Paris apartment, a police official said Friday.

The 20-year-old South Korean stunner was known for her thick mane of hair - sometimes dyed blond - and her quirky sensibility.

The 5-foot-10 model has strutted the runway for the likes of Louis Vuitton, Alexander McQueen, and Dolce & Gabbana.

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NEW YORK - Rodney Bradford, a 19-year-old New Yorker, has Facebook and a desire for pancakes to thank for his freedom.

Police had pegged Bradford as the man responsible for robbing two men at gunpoint Oct. 17 in the Brooklyn housing project where he lives. Bradford spent 12 days in jail on Riker's Island pleading his innocence, but it wasn't until his family produced a Facebook update message Bradford wrote on his father's computer in Harlem - eight miles from the holdup - that police were willing to listen.

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NEW YORK - Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani saw firsthand the destruction that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is accused of masterminding September 11, 2001 as jetliners smashed into the Twin Towers.

Eight years later, the former Republican candidate for president in not mincing words with the Obama administration, saying Sunday that in bringing those accused of the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial, the President has become too concerned with the "rights of terrorists" and is oblivious to, what Giuliani feels, are the real dangers of radical Islam.

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NEW YORK - It seems like a Mets fan with a strange sense of humor or history has helped the hard hit investors who collectively lost billions in Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme.

In an auction of Madoff and his wife's personal assets, Madoff's blue satin New York Mets baseball jacket with his surname stitched on the back was valued at only $720 but sold for $14,500.

Overall, the day's take was twice as much as New York auctioneers had hoped for.

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WASHINGTON - The last time self-proclaimed Sept. 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's alleged influence was felt in New York City, two jetliners smashed into the Twin Towers, nearly 3000 died, and a nation came to a standstill of mourning and shock.

Anger followed, as did two wars in far off lands.

Now Mohammed is coming back to the city he allegedly attacked to face a federal civilian jury. He will be tried in a courthouse just blocks from where the towers once stood.

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NEW YORK - Diane Schuler, the suburban New York mother who died in a wrong-way crash that killed three other adults and four children in July, was seen twice doubled over on the side of the road, "getting sick," witnesses told state police investigators in documents released to CBS affiliate WCBS.

Police told WCBS that this information supports a new theory of the fateful night -- that Schuler, who smoked marijuana regularly according to her sister-in-law, but did not drink often, was overcome by the 10 shots of vodka she drank during her deadly drive.

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NEW YORK - NFL great Lawrence Taylor looks like he needs a time out — to nap.

Taylor, a former New York Giants player, has been released on bond following his arrest in a Miami-area traffic accident.

Miami-Dade County jail records show that Taylor was charged Sunday with leaving the scene of an accident with property damage, a second-degree misdemeanor. He was released on $500 bond later that night. It was not immediately clear if Taylor has an attorney.

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NEW YORK - It looked like a scene straight out of a scary movie on Long Island as authorities uncovered a mass burial site for animals in a woman's backyard.

Now, the Selden, N.Y. mother is charged with animal cruelty, and that appears to be just the beginning.

Sharon McDonough, 43, started the day cuffed and collared following a nightmare discovery at her home.

"It gives me the shivers," one neighbor said. "That's all I can say."

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NEW YORK - Apparently there is one topic the Reverend Al Sharpton will not comment on - his ex-wife and daughter's arrests.

Lawyer Michael Hardy said Sharpton's ex, Kathy Jordan, 53, and daughter, Dominique Sharpton, 23, were arrested Friday in Manhattan after getting into a dispute with police over a traffic violation.

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