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GAITHERSBURG, Md. - Government investigators have issued a report refuting conspiracy theories that a skyscraper next to the twin towers was brought down by explosives. The report says that fires destroyed World Trade Center 7 on Sept. 11...

ALBANY - Gov. Paterson warned state lawmakers yesterday that their just-approved $430 million in spending cuts will be small potatoes compared to the massive reductions needed to balance next year's budget. Paterson, continuing the tough talk...

Police in Englewood, NJ, say a gas-station worker called 911 and reported a robbery after the station wouldn't give him a refund for an unopened box of condoms. Officers responded and found an employee who fit the description of the robber given...

Former Olympic swimming champ Mark Spitz may have gone off the deep end when he said yesterday that a race between him and Michael Phelps would end in a tie. "I know everything there is to know about how to beat Michael, and he would know how to...

The Brooklyn district attorney opened an investigation yesterday into the freak death of a 5-year-old boy who toppled from a chronically malfunctioning elevator in a city-run building. DA Charles Hynes' rackets division began poring over the...

At a press conference, Bloomberg explained that the City Council has the legal power to pass a bill that would change term limits, which was enacted and reaffirmed by public referendum. "I don't know what the City Council is going to do," he said...

An ex-con was busted yesterday and charged with the horrific 1997 murder of a Harlem woman set afire in her apartment. Daniel Santana, 30, was one of three men who killed Carmen Maria and tortured her roommate by "burning him with an iron and...

A woman who filed a $24 million lawsuit charging that her boss sexually harassed her admitted she stole $45,000 from his business. Fatima Monahan, 36, pleaded guilty to grand larceny, admitting she abused her position as assistant to Caxton-Iseman...

"It's something we should absolutely be looking at," the never short-winded Trump told The Post of Bloomberg's call for more wind power, including putting turbines on skyscrapers, bridges and offshore. "I like that he's looking at it and that...

A crowd of seething correction officers glared at a Long Island man charged with choking their colleague to death at a Southampton bar last week, as he was arraigned on murder charges yesterday. More than 150 officers showed up in uniform as...

Two weeks after city officials hailed a drop in violent crimes at public schools, the state echoed that message - labeling nine fewer city schools as "persistently dangerous" compared to last year. Sixteen city schools - of 19 statewide - earned...

A 2-year-old Queens boy who once was removed from his abusive mom died as a result of homicide by "battered child syndrome," authorities said yesterday. Jashya Brown had internal and external injuries all over his little body, which his mom...

Even at age 86, Roscoe Brown, an original World War II-era Tuskegee Airman, simply won't slow down. "We had our convention last month in Philadelphia," said Brown, who was the New York Post's Liberty Medal winner for Lifetime Achievement last year...

The coward who put an 85-year-old Brooklyn grandmother in a chokehold until she collapsed in an elevator - then ripped off her cash and her cane - was under arrest late last night after allegedly confessing to the callous attack, a source told The...

A former college basketball standout went on trial yesterday for allegedly groping a woman inside trendy nightclub Lotus, but the cowardly cager didn't show up to face the music. Assistant Manhattan DA John Temple said Marcelo Da Barrosa, 26, fled...

The Department of Education will run as many as 500 fewer buses serving special-education kids in the upcoming school year, the transit companies told The Post yesterday. Education officials confirmed that fewer youngsters have been assigned to...

The Naked Cowboy's about to get even more overexposed - the busker who wears nothing more than a cowboy hat, briefs and boots is set to star in his own reality-TV show. The Times Square strummer, real name Robert Burck, said he's in discussions...

ALBANY - A married upstate assemblyman got caught with his virtual pants down - busted by XXX-rated e-mails he dashed off to a 19-year-old intern in which the besotted lawmaker admired the teen's "little cheerleader move" and longed to be her "human...

The Health Department has temporarily shut down four day-care centers because lax employees have allowed kids to escape, The Post has learned. The four include the Finest Care Child-Care Center at Police Headquarters, where 4-year-old Kayln Colson...