The state?s top cop is out after just seven days on the job, the fourth victim to succumb to the scandals swirling around Gov. Paterson.

The wealthy mom accused of killing her autistic son at the The Peninsula hotel asked a judge for permission to attend his funeral for her own “well-being.”

An Emmy-winning CBS News producer pleaded guilty Tuesday to shaking down David Letterman for $2 million as payback for the host’s torrid affair with his live-in girlfriend.

If anyone should be wary when something sounds too good to be true, it’s Bernie Madoff’s victims. Yet an Internet scam is targeting the Ponzi king’s former investors.

Cops in Brooklyn shot dead a man who pointed what may have been a toy gun at them Monday afternoon. The wounded man was rushed to Coney Island Hospital, where he died.

Team executives want to know what role Tony Galea played in A-Rod’s rehabilitation from the hip surgery that sidelined their star third baseman for the first five weeks of the 2009 season, a Yankee source said Monday.

Rep. Eric Massa is hammering his party leaders as he heads out door under allegations he sexually harassed a male staffer.

“The Hurt Locker” emerged victorious from a tough battle with “Avatar,” the biggest movie of all time, to win Best Picture at Sunday night’s Academy Awards.

Oscar tears aren’t flowing just from the podium this year. Desperate Cablevision customers scrambled to salvage living room viewing parties Sunday afternoon after ABC pulled its signal over a fee dispute.

If LeBron James is watching, if James catches a glimpse of a highlight from the Knicks 113-93 embarrassing loss to the Nets last night at the Garden, he might never come here, even if the Knicks are a vastly different team next year.