FOUR hundred years is not enough. My only hope is that something awful happens in prison to Robert Williams - the unspeakable creature who tortured a Columbia grad student for kicks and giggles -...

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WASHINGTON - Scientists will have to take "enormous intellectual leaps" to develop an AIDS vaccine, say researchers clearly frustrated by the failure of a once-promising shot. The researchers, in...

The music company that owns the rights to the Rolling Stones' "Play With Fire" is suing the rapper Lil Wayne for allegedly ripping off the '60s classic - and turning it "sexist." Abkco Music Inc...

HARLINGEN, Texas - Residents across south Texas slogged through knee-deep muddy waters, tiptoed around downed power lines and dug through debris yesterday, but were thankful that Hurricane Dolly d...

ATLANTA - More than 1,000 people died nationally over two years from an illegal version of the painkiller fentanyl, says a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The spike o...

WASHINGTON - Sixteen years after Barbie dolls declared, "Math class is tough!" girls are proving that, at math, they are just as tough as boys. In the largest study of its kind, girls measured u...

BERLIN - Barack Obama enthralled a crowd of more than 200,000 people here yesterday as he appealed for a unified world to combat terrorism - which he likened to the communism that died in the rub...

Toy giant Hasbro is going for a double word score -- filing a federal lawsuit charging that the wildly popular online game Scrabulous is a blatant rip off of their 75-year-old Scrabble and warning...

MANHATTAN * Police are searching for the missing teen pictured above. Pedro Hernandez left his home at Broadway and West 104th Street on Monday and has not returned. He has black hair and brown e...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- The panel that charged former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's aides with breaking the law in a political scandal may investigate if Spitzer was behind a pattern of obstacles that delayed the ...

Two gun-toting gals were arrested last night for a classic stick-up of a Long Island gas station after two months on the lam. Tiffani Hyatt, 21, and Stephanie DeRosa, 21, both of Mastic, held up...

The body of a 16-year-old girl who disappeared in the stormy surf off Rockaway Beach last week was identified yesterday after washing up Wednesday near where she went missing. "I am relieved that...

A Long Island judge did what he could yesterday to stop a former math teacher from sleeping with her 16-year-old student lover - by keeping her in jail. Nassau County Judge Joseph Calabrese refus...

The city scored a double dose of post-9/11 assistance from the feds yesterday - indemnity for future judgments won by Ground Zero responders and a $30 million payment for health services related to...

Former G-man Lindley DeVecchio claimed victory again yesterday after a federal judge tossed out a lawsuit against him. "I've been vindicated in both venues, civilly and criminally," said DeVecchi...

The wife of a crazed ex-cop shot dead this week in a gun battle with police spoke out in anger yesterday, saying her husband had been wrongly linked to the murder of a jeweler whom he occasionall...

Songbirds - and former jailbirds - Lil' Kim and Foxy Brown are heading back to court. The divas were sued by Simon & Schuster in Manhattan Supreme Court yesterday for failing to deliver manuscrip...

ALBANY - Bombshell papers released by a state ethics panel yesterday suggest former gubernatorial mouthpiece Darren Dopp all but wrote the Albany newspaper story that was part of the Dirty Tricks S...

The Brooklyn-born student beaten into a coma nearly three months ago by a towering Serbian thug is finally showing some improvement, his parents said yesterday. "He's slowly emerging from the co...

I'm no Osama. Just ask my mama. That's the argument Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj made yesterday in an effort to prove that neither he nor the controversial Islamic subway-ad campaign he's promotin...

A Broadway actor who said he was wrongfully canned from the musical "Hairspray" because of a knee injury doesn't have a legal leg to stand on, a Manhattan judge has found. State Supreme Court Jus...

A day after he filed a lawsuit claiming the Duke University golf coach booted him from the team over a personal vendetta, former teammates of Andrew Giuliani said they were glad to see him go and...

Her monster is going away forever. The deranged fiend who kidnapped, raped, brutally tortured and nearly murdered a Columbia University graduate journalism student last year was sentenced in Man...

A crazed gunman opened fire on an Alphabet City street yesterday morning, shooting a neighbor and a teen who worked at a local deli - before calmly turning himself in at the police station, cops sa...

Tim Donaghy's betting buddies will be taking a timeout. The rogue NBA ref's gambling partners, James Battista and Thomas Martino, were sentenced to more than a year behind bars yesterday by Brook...

A beloved Brooklyn firefighter drowned in frigid Lake Tahoe during a desperate attempt to save his 10-year-old son, who was fighting to stay afloat in the choppy waters after suffering a leg cram...

A Manhattan federal judge issued a blistering and highly unusual order yesterday, vacating a $28.5 million settlement divvied up among four families of 9/11 victims - and blasting their lawyers fo...

NEW ORLEANS - Mayor Bloomberg blew smoke in the MTA's face over its fare-hike plans. Hizzoner said yesterday uncollected taxes on cigarettes sold on Indian reservations could spare straphangers a...

A veteran New Jersey assemblyman is being investigated after child pornography was found on his computer, officials said yesterday. Staffers discovered the porn on a computer belonging to Democra...

The town of East Hampton, playground of the rich and pampered, is broke. How broke? Well, the town is likely to end the year with a $12 million deficit - and in recent weeks, it had only $900 in...

A luxury apartment building plagued by break-ins was hit twice more this week - taking the toll to at least 18 units. Residents said yesterday building managers have brought in private security g...

Pro wrestler Jim "Sandman" Fullington was ordered yesterday to turn over his passport and cough up $10,000 bail to get out of the slammer after a glass-throwing melee at a Yonkers restaurant. "Is...

ALBANY - Four top officials in former Gov. Eliot Spitzer's administration, including the onetime head of the State Police, were charged yesterday with breaking the law during the Dirty Tricks plo...

The New Jersey asphalt prince who's been stepping out with the hot-bodied hooker who brought down Gov. Eliot Spitzer told his beautiful bride he was "set up" by the notorious prostitute - and his...

There must be something in the air. Three men in the last week have been arrested for smuggling illegal songbirds, hidden within their luggage, into the country, authorities said. Two of the me...

I'm not crazy, doctor. There really is a cat in my wall. A Brooklyn man found himself locked up in a loony bin for four days after he smashed down walls in three apartments trying to rescue a fu...

Call him (or her) a vague petty panty perv. Someone who keeps leaving pairs of pantyhose next to a school-bus stop in Milford, Mass., has cops puzzled. While parents are up in arms, police say ...

JERUSALEM -- A written prayer that Barack Obama left this week in the cracks of the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest site, asks God to guide him and guard his family, an Israeli newspaper reported ...

MANILA, Philippines -- A Qantas jumbo jet carrying 345 passengers made an emergency landing Friday with a gaping hole in its fuselage after a mysterious "explosive decompression," officials said....

PARIS - It sounds like a scene from "Fight Club." French police say camouflaged paparazzi who managed to get onto the grounds of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's chateau in southern France on Thurs...

Take that, Batman! The mother and sister of "The Dark Knight" star Christian Bale pressed charges against him following a hotel-room dust-up the night before the blockbuster's European premiere ...

BELGRADE, Serbia - The real Dragan Dabic has emerged - and the 66-year construction worker was shocked yesterday to discover his identity had apparently been stolen by one of the world's most noto...

It appears Elvis was always the King of Rock. A 1,800-year old Roman bust that looks strikingly like Elvis Presley is set to go on the auction block in London. The hunka hunka chiseled stone i...