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Wranglers shirt-faced

A Bangladesh factory where Wal-Mart Stores and Spain-based Inditex SA inspectors spotted cracks in the wall this month is still making Wrangler shirts for VF Corp., the world’s largest apparel maker.Greensboro, NC-based VF confirmed it was still using Liz Apparels to make its clothing following an inspection ordered...

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Deadly twisters tear through Midwest

A half-mile-wide tornado struck near Oklahoma City yesterday, part of a massive storm front that hammered the Midwest and killed at least one person. The wild weather, which included 19 tornados that touched down in parts of Iowa, Oklahoma and Kansas, according to the National Weather Service and local news...

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NYPD Daily Blotter

The Bronx *** When cops smelled pot coming from a Williamsburg party bus, they transferred its 39 occupants to an empty MTA bus and then drove each of them in for questioning, police said. Uniformed cops in an unmarked car first noticed the bus, parked on East 219th Street and White...

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Mets’ workhorse Rice thrilled at big league shot

CHICAGO — After spending 14 seasons in the minor leagues, Scott Rice certainly isn’t going to complain about receiving too much work with the Mets. “I love it,” Rice said yesterday after pitching two perfect innings in the Mets’ 4-3 victory over the Cubs at Wrigley Field. “I’m here...

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NJ teacher says Angelina Jolie's decision isn't realistic for working women

A New Jersey kindergarten teacher with a strong family history of breast cancer blasted Angelina Jolie for giving everyday working women false hope that they, too, can prevent cancer by removing their breasts. “It upset me,” Debbie Gentile-Abbood said of her reaction to the movie star’s announcement that she...

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Accident kills FBI 2

Two FBI special agents were killed during a training exercise in Virginia, officials said.Agents Christopher Lorek, 41, and Stephen Shaw, 40, both from the elite Hostage Rescue Team, were killed off the coast of Virginia Beach on Friday, according to the FBI.The agency did not release additional details...

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Tornadoes level homes in Okla., 1 dead

KFOR-TV/Handout via Reuters An aerial view of an active tornado over the skies of Harrah, Okla. Sunday. SHAWNEE, Okla. — Tornadoes ravaged portions of central Oklahoma on Sunday, reducing portions of a mobile home park to rubble and killing a 79-year-old man whose body was found out in the open...

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Brushing off Sandy

Not even mass destruction from Hurricane Sandy can stop local beaches from sizzling this summer. City workers are frantically putting the final touches on a $270 million makeover aimed at getting the Big Apple’s eight public beaches ready for their annual Memorial Day opening weekend. From the Rockaways to...

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Brooklyn, shmooklyn! Upper E. Side center woos Jews

A banking billionaire is funding a $50 million, all-inclusive community center on the Upper East Side to lure Sephardic Jewish singles and young couples from their home base in Brooklyn. “It’s an Equinox with culture,” said Rimma Rose, 30, who plans to move from Brooklyn to Manhattan to be...

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Kid slain being a good pal

The tragic 14-year-old girl who was fatally shot on a Queens bus after a Sweet 16 party had left the bash early to help out her best friend, pals said yesterday. “She was supposed to go to another Sweet 16 party with us, but she left because her best friend...