Some people give their WiFi network wacky ironic names to discourage neighbors from using it, like “Free Viruses” and “We_Can_Hear_You_Having_Sex.” Over in Teaneck, N.J., they push the envelope a little bit, at least at the local recreation center, where someone gave the WiFi network at the Richard Rodda Community Center a very offensive name. “When I first saw it, I said, ‘Did that say what I thought it said?,” a local woman tells the Daily News . “I was shocked, hurt. I felt harassed.” Which is understandable, because the WiFi in question was named “F— All Jews And N—-.” [ more › ]

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WiFi Signal With Bigoted, Anti-Semitic Name Prompts Investigation

The baby whose emergence from the womb aboard a PATH train yesterday made the train miraculously run express already has a nickname: “Jhatpat,” the Hindi word for “Fast.” The boy’s blissed-out parents, Rabita Sarkar and her husband Aditya Saurabh, have not settled on a formal name yet, but Sarker tells the Daily News , “He decided to come and that was it. Nothing could stop him. Nothing could keep him inside for longer.” She says they decided to take the PATH to their Manhattan doctor because they were worried about getting stuck in rush hour traffic in the Lincoln tunnel. (A distinct possibility !) They also thought this was just a practice run! [ more › ]

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Baby Born On PATH Train Already Has Nickname: Fast

Italian authorities say that five more bodies have been recovered from the Costa Concordia cruise ship, which r an aground near the Island of Giglio last Friday night. The bodies were of four men and one woman, bringing the total toll to 11 . Authorities, which had been saying that the number of missing was 16, now say 28 are missing . [ more › ]

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Five More Bodies Found In Wrecked Cruise Ship, 28 Still Missing

The perks of being a waiter are few and “family meal” is definitely one of them. But so we are clear, not included in that free feeding are bottles of pricey wine—as one waiter at the tony Italian restaurant SD26 recently found out, after he allegedly walked away with a Christmas bounty of eight bottles from the restaurant’s private “Wine Connoisseurs Room.” [ more › ]

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Wine Crime: SD26 Says Server Stole $6,400 In Sauce

Clearly, Maksim Gelman wants our attention. The Brooklyn man, currently in jail for killing four people last year and stabbing a man on a subway train in a violent spree, gave an interview to the Daily News, claiming to have killed six other people . Now he’s talking to the Post, revealing how he wanted to kill another notorious murder suspect, Levi Aron , who allegedly dismembered and slaughtered a little boy in Brooklyn. [ more › ]

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Confessed Killer Draws The Line At Dismembering Little Kids

Maksim Gelman , the 24-year-old Brooklyn man who plead guilty to killing four people and injuring four others during a 28-hour stabbing rampage across Brooklyn and Manhattan last February, is due to be sentenced this week. He discussed the murderous rampage in a long jailhouse interview with the Daily News , and claimed he was responsible for six more murders before this year: “All my friends, they all tell me I’m crazy,” he said in a phone interview from Rikers Island. “I believe I’m schizophrenic and bi-polar…I know what’s going on but I tend to overreact.” [ more › ]

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Subway Stabber Maksim Gelman Claims To Have Killed 6 Others

A Brooklyn father was fatally shot by police yesterday while investigating a possible break-in at his home. Dwayne Browne, 27, was shot once in the chest by police around 10:40 p.m. in East New York last night. “The officers told me they had to shoot him,” his girlfriend Juanita told the Daily News. “They kept calling him the shooter. The officer said, ‘I’m sorry. It was one of us. But he wouldn’t put the gun down.’” [ more › ]

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A Queens woman is in critical condition after getting run over by a school bus that careened off the road after colliding with another vehicle yesterday afternoon in Jamaica. NBC New York reports that the unidentified woman was walking on the sidewalk when the bus driver “lost control and crashed into a sedan,” and swerved up onto the curb, smashed through a small brick fence , and slammed into a house. The pedestrian was pinned under the bus, and officials say she suffered severe leg trauma with a partial amputation of her limbs. [ more › ]

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Pedestrian Partially Amputated After School Bus Pins Her Against Queens House

Restaurateurs aren’t exactly big fans of the Department of Health (see: the guy who got big fines, he says, for photographing an inspector working ) but the Daily News today notices an interesting way that some are getting out of the standard inspections entirely: Just claim to be a supermarket or a warehouse! [ more › ]

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Avoiding Letter Grades, Restaurants Pretend To Be Markets

For your daily dose of bizarre and unfortunate stories, we present the case of Nas the no-show and the angry Angolans . Say what? Here’s what happened: Patrick Allocco is a Morris Township-based concert promoter who worked with Angolan promoter named Henrique “Riquhino” Miguel to bring rapper Nas to the country for a heavily promoted New Year’s Eve show. Miguel fronted $300,000 for the show, but Nas ended up bailing, citing a “miscommunication” and going to a fancy party in Miami instead. That’s when things went sour. [ more › ]

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New Jersey Concert Promoters Kidnapped In Africa Over Nas No-Show