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A woman was busted for roughing up a traffic agent who was giving her a summons in Ozone Park, authorities said yesterday.

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The NYPD was seeking the public's help in catching a Queens rape suspect. The man approached a 20-year-old woman from behind Friday, forcibly took her to an isolated area and sexually assaulted her, police said.

It's a littleA more than just one too many at Queens's packed-to-the-gills public schools.

A 72-year-old woman was arrested for attacking her neighbor with a metal pot in an Upper East Side senior-citizen home, police sources said yesterday.

Making do is the new philosophy in decorating. The big no-expense-spared project is out, and reusing, patching and piecing together are in.

The much anticipated bill on mayoral control of the public schools emerged from the State Assembly this week.

Reza Delghavi, an Iranian artist living in Jamaica, has taken the week off from work, sick to his stomach over the news coming from his home country.

Three candidates, including two incumbents, are vying for two trustee seats on the Southampton Village Board this year.

A fake radioactive weapon of mass destruction will keep scores of cops and federal agents busy until Thursday as part of a mock counterterrorism exercise, police said.

"A mighty lion." Principal Joseph Gates, of IS 238, used those words Wednesday to describe his colleague Mitchell Wiener, 55, who died of complications from the H1N1 virus - the first swine flu fatality in New York State.

BRT was established in New York for the first time last year as a pilot program on the BX12 line along Fordham Road in the Bronx .

Proponents of the Non-Profit Homeland Security Preparedness Study Act got a second advocacy wind in May, after the attempted terror attack on Riverdale Jewish Center and Riverdale Synagogue in the Bronx.

Learn NY, an advocacy group among many contending for a chance to influence the Legislature's decision on mayoral control of the public school system, is not alone.

The races to fill vacant City Council spots in Queens have gotten considerably hotter since the last Campaign Finance Board filing in March, and the numbers show that certain parts of Queens are in for a battle royale come time for this September's primary.

The world's swine flu death toll reached 100 as two more New Yorkers died while infected with a virus that has sickened more than 12,000 people.

A Queens school once again bustled with activity Tuesday, about a week after its assistant principal became the city's first death linked to swine flu.

As New York City officials prepared to reopen 20 public schools shut down because of the swine flu, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg warned on Monday that further closings would not slow the march of the virus.

Public health experts admitted they were hopeful the new swine flu was fizzling out - but they're not surprised it hasn't. Flu is predictably unpredictable, or as Nassau Health Commissioner Dr.

A second New Yorker has died of the new swine flu strain, health officials said Sunday night.