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‘Kayak killer’ confesses to pulling plug on fiancé’s canoe
GOSHEN, N.Y. — A New York State Police investigator says a woman accused of fatally sabotaging her fiancé’s kayak on the Hudson River told an investigator she removed a plug on his kayak and manipulated his paddle. Authorities say Angelika Graswald removed a drain plug from Vincent Viafore’s kayak in April 2015 and pushed a…

School administrator busted forging parents’ signatures
A city Department of Education staffer forged parents’ signatures to avoid meeting with them about their kids — and was caught when she misspelled a mother’s name. Bronx preschool administrator Martha Vazquez was tasked with setting up individualized education programs, or IEPs, for special-education students, said the schools’ Special Commissioner of Investigation. As part of…

Bathroom ads show de Blasio out for himself — not transgenders
It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber” went the old bumper sticker often seen on Volvos. In Mayor de Blasio’s New York, it’s more like, “It will be a great day when our schools…

Woman found dead with gunshot wound to the head in Brooklyn
A 23-year-old woman was found murdered at Brooklyn Bridge Park on Monday night, cops said. She suffered a gunshot wound to the head near a luxury apartment building on Furman Street in Brooklyn Heights at 9:30 p.m. Her body was found against the chain-link fence that borders the park. “This is shocking, kind of alarming,”…

Audience member knocked unconscious during ‘Sleep No More’: suit
An immersion-theater production got a little too hands on — leaving a ticket-holder knocked unconscious, a new suit charges. Kerry Miller, 37, was in the audience of “Sleep No More” watching a fight scene when she was kicked in the head by an actor and KO’d, the lawsuit says. The avant-garde “Macbeth” adaptation, in which…

State pol: Man who killed wife’s would-be rapist should get keys to the city
A liberal female state legislator says Mamadou Diallo should get a medal for bludgeoning his wife’s would-be rapist to death with a tire iron. “This man should be released, all charges dropped, and the mayor should give him the keys to the City,” Sen. Diane Savino (D-SI/Brooklyn) wrote on Facebook, linking to a Post front…

Blood test reveals upstate couple’s toxicity is off the charts
ALBANY — At least two residents of a tiny upstate village with tainted water have 50 times the national average of a toxic chemical in their blood. The state Health Department tested about 2,000 people for PFOA, or perflurooctanoic acid, in rural Hoosick Falls, 40 miles northeast of Albany, and results began trickling in over…

Man arrested in woman’s alleged brutal attack
Cops on Monday arrested the man who allegedly beat a 30-year-old woman unconscious and may have sexually assaulted her in Gramercy Park. Frankie Simmons, 30, of Harlem sneaked up to the woman and dragged her to the ground at East 18th Street and First Avenue about 2:20 a.m. on May 29, police said. The victim…

Daily Blotter
Manhattan A quadriplegic in a wheelchair was slashed in the face while waiting to catch a bus in East Harlem, authorities said. The assailant exited the subway station at 125th Street and Lexington Avenue before walking up to the 42-year-old victim and slicing her Sunday at about 3:20 a.m., police said. The woman wheeled herself…

Ex-Bloomberg campaign aide on hunt for de Blasio challenger
Mike Bloomberg’s former campaign manager is so hellbent on dumping Mayor de Blasio that he launched a site Monday to recruit a challenger. “It’s an embarrassment that we have a mayor under massive federal investigation,” said Bradley Tusk, who helped orchestrate former Mayor Bloomberg’s 2009 third-term victory. “I’m going to put together an effort to…

Wrongfully arrested postal worker ‘curious’ what cop was drinking
The attorney for a Brooklyn postal worker who was wrongly arrested while innocently delivering mail on St. Patrick’s Day wants an investigation into the cops who harassed his client — saying he’s “curious” about the contents of a cup a lieutenant can be seen clutching in a video of the arrest. After filing a notice…