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One woman’s holiday — and then some — was turned upside down this week when a scammer posing as a holiday toy drive donor attacked and kidnapped her. Erin Quinn, a volunteer for the local holiday toy drive in her southern California community, didn’t think much of it when she received a text message from … Read more

Talk about a stocking stuffer! With no winner in Friday’s drawing, one lucky winner on Christmas Eve could score a Mega Millions jackpot nearing $1 billion. That would mark the seventh-largest prize in Mega Millions history – and the largest ever won in the month of December. Friday’s winning numbers were 2, 20, 51, 56 … Read more

An active search is underway for a 66-year-old Michigan woman who disappeared from a popular tourist hot spot during a trip to the Grand Canyon more than a week ago, officials said. Martha Overholser was last seen Dec. 10 at Mather Point on the Grand Canyon National Park’s South Rim in Arizona when she failed … Read more

The NYPD’s top cop who suddenly resigned late Friday night following damning allegations he greenlit a subordinate’s jaw-dropping overtime pay has a checkered past. Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, who held the highest uniformed rank on the force, stepped down abruptly after The Post uncovered explosive allegations that he regularly preyed upon Lt. Quathisha Epps, … Read more

A car was crushed after it was struck by a westbound Long Island Rail Road train barreling through Central Islip early Saturday. The accident occurred just before 4:30 a.m. near Lowell and East Suffolk avenues, according to the MTA. Terrifying images captured by ABC 7 show that the mangled car was nearly flattened from the … Read more

The Manhattan District Attorney’s Office is investigating sex for overtime allegations made against the NYPD’s top uniformed cop, an spokesman said Saturday. The probe into now former Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey was launched after The Post revealed explosive allegations from a subordinate who claimed Maddrey had sex with her in exchange for massive amounts … Read more

A trailblazing once-Catholic nun who then became one of the first women sworn in as an FBI special agent died last week at the age of 83. Joanne Pierce Misko — who earned the iconic nickname “Nun with a Gun” — died at a hospital in Wheatfield, New York, from a lung infection, her brother … Read more

President Biden signed the stopgap funding bill that will keep the government open until March, punting the thornier issues surrounding the nation’s finances to the incoming administration of President-elect Donald Trump. A bloated 1,500-page funding measure was exploded by Trump and his top ally Elon Musk earlier this week as they demanded a pared-down version. … Read more

Who is she — and why hasn’t someone been looking for her? More than two weeks after the body of an unidentified white woman was found dead on the grounds of the historic Vanderbilt Mansion in Hyde Park, New York State Police released a photo to help solve the mystery of what they described as … Read more

Much like its iconic palm trees, California’s bison were brought out west 100 years ago by Hollywood producers filming westerns — but now on Catalina Island they’re dying off. What began as a herd of 14 bison, shipped in for 1925’s “The Vanishing American,” their numbers soon exploded. At one time, thousands of them roamed … Read more