Pitcher Dock Ellis dropped acid — then threw a no-hitter

In 1970, Scipio Spinks and Dock Ellis were young Major League pitchers — Spinks for the Astros, Ellis for the Pirates — who had taken the era's free-love-and-free-drugs ethos to heart. "We were the two guys everybody said wouldn't live to see 30," says...

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Drug abuse & sex rampant at Rikers: retired officer

Robin Kay Miller spent 20 years working as a city correction officer, locked away in a seedy world of rampant sex, drug abuse and back-stabbing. And that was just the guards. Miller, 53, who retired in 2005, says she's not surprised by the latest stories...

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Joe Jackson is ‘no longer a part of the family': insider

He's the patriarch of the most famous family in music history — the architect of the Jackson Five, Janet Jackson and, of course, the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. His progeny include nine living children, 30 grandchildren and countless great-grandchildren....

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Times Square bar Connolly’s catches fire

It was a hell of a halftime show. Some two dozen fans of Notre Dame football were watching the Fighting Irish game on TV at Connolly's in Times Square when the three-story watering hole filled with smoke from a kitchen blaze. "We ran for it,'' said...

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Washington Heights block party turns violent

An annual Washington Heights block party took a violent turn Saturday night, when residents threw bottles out of windows at cops who arrived and shut the event down. Three police officers suffered non-life-threatening injuries from the flying bottles...

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What happens in Vegas: Backman receives top manager honors

Wally Backman's stock could be on the rise, after he led the Mets' Triple-A team in Las Vegas to the Pacific Coast League playoffs for the second straight year. On Friday, the 54-year-old Backman was named PCL Manager of the Year. "Well-deserved,"...

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Baby declared dead after being brought home from day care

A baby girl was pronounced dead Friday after her father retrieved her from a Queens daycare center — and the girl's mother later charged that she was dead when he picked her up. Daniella Okoye, 1, was rushed from her Springfield Gardens home to Franklin...

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Christie’s legal tab for Bridgegate cost taxpayers $7.3M

Christie's legal tab for Bridgegate cost taxpayers $7.3M | New York Post Sign in / Register See something newsworthy?Tell us about it!or email tips@nypost.com(all tips will be submitted anonymously) August 30, 2014...

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Rookie IndyCar drive hospitalized after huge crash

FONTANA, Calif. — Rookie IndyCar driver Mikhail Aleshin was hospitalized in serious but stable condition Friday night after a frightening crash in the final practice session for the series season finale. Aleshin was taken away from the Fontana track...

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Boston bombers’ sister made ‘bomb’ threats before: neighbors

Ailina Tsarnaev leaves her New Jersey home on Friday.Photo: Robert Kalfus New Jersey neighbors of the Boston Marathon terrorists' sisters told The Post they heard the women threaten to "bomb" someone well before one of them was busted by the NYPD...

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Kline is simply dashing in ‘The Last of Robin Hood’

Dashing, handsome and self-deprecating, Kevin Kline was born to play Errol Flynn. Here, Kline tackles the legendary actor and womanizer — in the final two years of his life, before he was felled by a heart attack at age 50 in Vancouver. At the time of...

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Police used excessive force to quell Ferguson unrest: suit

ST. LOUIS — A federal lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that police in Ferguson and St. Louis County used excessive force and falsely arrested innocent bystanders amid attempts to quell widespread unrest after the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown....

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Obama admits ‘we don’t have a strategy’ on ISIS in Syria

WASHINGTON — President Obama admitted Thursday that "we don't have a strategy yet" for dealing with Islamic State, the terrorists who have rampaged across Iraq and Syria and seized Iraq's second-largest city nearly three months ago. Obama made the admission...

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Tech vets, pro athletes eyeing each other’s games

What is it with pro athletes and tech billionaires eyeing the other's game? It's a bit understandable that jocks, with a relatively limited playing career and lots of disposable cash, would look to put some of that money to work in a growing and popular...

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Volcano in Papua New Guinea erupts prompting evacuations

CANBERRA, Australia — Several communities were evacuated and some international flights were diverted Friday after a volcanic eruption on Papua New Guinea. Authorities in the South Pacific nation had evacuated communities close to Mount Tavurvur which...

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On-again? Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez cozy up for a selfie

Are Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez back on? The pair, 20 and 22 respectively, who have a rocky and ambiguous relationship jetted off to Canada on Wednesday, reports Us Weekly. And soon after, the Bieber posted a black and white selfie...

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6-year-old survives being buried alive by neighbors

A 6-year-old girl in India miraculously survived being buried alive when her neighbors allegedly strangled her and left her in a pit to die. The hunt is on for a married couple accused of kidnapping the child from her home village of Sidhauli and attacking...

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Ebola outbreak could exceed 20,000 cases

GENEVA — The Ebola outbreak in West Africa eventually could exceed 20,000 cases, more than six times as many as are now known, the World Health Organization said Thursday. A new plan by the U.N. health agency to stop Ebola also assumes that the actual...

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Someone donated a human skull to a thrift store

AUSTIN, Texas — Police have asked for the public's help to locate whoever donated a human skull to an Austin thrift store. Homicide Detective Derek Israel said Wednesday that foul play was not suspected in the person's death. He says he just wants to...

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Nick Cannon ditches wedding ring after Mariah split

Nick Cannon has removed his wedding ring for the first time since confirming he's splitting from songstress Mariah Carey. The "America's Got Talent" host appeared on the show Monday with his ring then on Tuesday, he emerged without it and again on Wednesday...

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Skadden Arps relocation site is all rumors, no lease

Despite what you may have read elsewhere and heard repeated ad nauseam, pioneering law firm Skadden Arps has not signed a letter of intent or even fist bumped an agreement to move from Times Square to the first of Brookfield's Manhattan West office buildings....

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SEC charges Lucarelli with scamming $1M via press releases

Now he's really on the inside. Michael Dupre Lucarelli, a former executive at Manhattan investor relations firm Lippert/Heilshorn, was charged with making almost $1 million in fraudulent profits by trading on his early access to companies' press releases....

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A big stink over a CBS hippo

Is Bert the Farting Hippo — the flatulent puppet and "NCIS" mascot — intellectual property? The whole idea may smell funny to you, but not to Folkmanis, the Emeryville, Calif., puppet company that has been manufacturing the stuffed animal since 2002....

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Al Sharpton is now a fat shamer

He lost more than half his body weight — and now the Rev. Al Sharpton is a fat shamer! The civil-rights leader and host of MSNBC's "Politics Nation" regularly pokes fun at his fat followers and friends, The Smoking Gun reports after examining comments...

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Time Warner Cable suffers massive nationwide outage

NEW YORK  — Time Warner Cable says a problem that occurred during routine maintenance caused a nationwide outage of its Internet service for hours on Wednesday morning. The company says it is still investigating the cause of the problem, which...

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SEC charges Lucarelli with scamming $1M via press releases

Now he's really on the inside. Michael Dupre Lucarelli, a former executive at Manhattan investor relations firm Lippert/Heilshorn, was charged with making almost $1 million in fraudulent profits by trading on his early access to companies' press releases....

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Apple to expand iPad screens to 12.9 inches

Apple's new "bigger is better" mantra may soon apply to the iPad. The gadget maker is working on a new iPad with a 12.9-inch screen that is expected to begin production next year, Bloomberg News reported, citing Apple suppliers. That's three inches...

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A big stink over a CBS hippo

Is Bert the Farting Hippo — the flatulent puppet and "NCIS" mascot — intellectual property? The whole idea may smell funny to you, but not to Folkmanis, the Emeryville, Calif., puppet company that has been manufacturing the stuffed animal since 2002....

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Formerly sizable Sharpton now pokes fun at fat friends

He lost more than half his body weight — and now the Rev. Al Sharpton is a fat shamer! The civil-rights leader and host of MSNBC's "Politics Nation" regularly pokes fun at his fat followers and friends, The Smoking Gun reports after examining comments...

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Skadden Arps relocation site is all rumors, no lease

Despite what you may have read elsewhere and heard repeated ad nauseam, pioneering law firm Skadden Arps has not signed a letter of intent or even fist bumped an agreement to move from Times Square to the first of Brookfield's Manhattan West office buildings....

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Batman spotted in Japan

Modal Trigger The day in photos 20 Photos A gorilla gets measured, Ferguson gets electrified, soldiers fire rockets... So fierce: Jember Fashion Carnival's crazy colorful costumes 35 Photos Models strut their stuff...

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Kerry Washington photobombs ‘Modern Family’ cast

Kerry Washington photobombed the "Modern Family" cast Monday night at the 2014 Emmy Awards. With a wide smile and sporting an orange dress, the 37-year-old "Scandal" star snuck up behind the crew to steal their spotlight. Sofia Vergara posted the group...

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Alec Baldwin snags stray ball at U.S. Open

Alec Baldwin took on a new role at the U.S. Open — the actor played a star athlete, snagging a stray ball that flew into the stands. Baldwin was sitting in the front row behind the baseline Monday night when an out-of-bounds shot from Maria Kirilenko...

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Russia confirms its soldiers have been captured in Ukraine

Ukraine released a video of captured Russian soldiers on Tuesday, sharply escalating a dispute over Moscow's alleged backing for separatist rebels in the east of the former Soviet republic. The footage was released only hours before the two countries'...

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School safety cops making fewer arrests

Fewer city students are getting booked. School safety officers arrested 393 city students in the 2013-14 school year — a 32.1 percent drop from the previous year, when they busted 579, The Post has learned Three of the students arrested last school...

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Cops find fugitive via Ice Bucket Challenge video

The Ice Bucket Challenge has landed a Nebraska fugitive in hot water. Jesean Morris Jesean Morris — a 20-year-old wanted for allegedly absconding from parole — had the bright idea of joining in on the viral fund-raiser, taking a video of himself...

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Republicans attack ‘Cowardly Cuomo’ in press release

ALBANY — After trying just about everything else to goad Gov. Cuomo into a debate, Republicans adopted a new tactic Monday — they depicted him as the Cowardly Lion from "The Wizard of Oz." In a clear attempt to get under the governor's skin, the state...

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