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BALTIMORE - The Smoke & Mirrors Tour that has produced baseball's biggest surprise sailed into the Inner Harbor last night and met its match.With the score tied in extra innings and already having used relievers Boone Logan, Shawn Kelley, Preston Claiborne and David Robertson, manager Joe Girardi turned to lefty...

BALTIMORE - Joe Girardi said he doesn't know when he will get Mark Teixeira or Kevin Youkilis back from the disabled list, but the Yankees manager reported Tuesday the first baseman and corner infielder are making progress."He had four more [at-bats],'' Girardi said of Teixeira's participation in a...

BALTIMORE - Phil Hughes said his disastrous previous start wasn't on his mind when he took the mound last night against the Orioles."Not really," Hughes said. "I was always just trying to get that next guy." Sure, but even Hughes had to admit his last outing, when he gave...

BALTIMORE - Curtis Granderson has adapted pretty well to the corner outfield positions after being shifted from center.Comfort at the plate, however, has been more elusive."The swing is getting there," Granderson said before going hitless in four at-bats Tuesday night in the Yankees' 3-2, 10-inning loss to the Orioles...

A man turned himself in for bashing a gay man in the East Village, cops said today.Gornell Roman, 39, allegedly pummeled victim Dan Contarino and called him anti-gay slurs on Monday while they were walking to a homeless shelter the two were both staying at, authorities said.He was...

An FBI agent was involved in a fatal shooting overnight in Orlando, Florida with a suspect connected to Boston Marathon bombers, according to a new report.Ibragim Todashev, who was being interviewed about his connections to Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, attacked the agent and was shot, NBC News reported...

On the same day that he took the plunge into the mayor's race, voters told Anthony Weiner he's not cutting the mustard with them.The timing was coincidental, but a Quinnipiac University poll was released this morning just hours after Weiner ended months of speculation by declaring his...

Anthony Weiner announced his campaign for mayor early this morning with - what else? - a leak.Shortly after midnight, the disgraced ex-congressman's campaign accidentally posted online a 2-minute, 16-second video in which he throws his hat into the ring, lays out his platform - and even acknowledges the scandal that ended...

City workers swooped in Monday night and yanked out part of a bike-share rack blocking the front of a West Village co-op - just hours after The Post called the Department of Transportation over complaints that an ambulance crew had trouble getting to a 92-year-old resident in distress.A good 15...

City workers swooped in Monday night and yanked out part of a bike-share rack blocking the front of a West Village co-op - just hours after The Post called the Department of Transportation over complaints that an ambulance crew had trouble getting to a 92-year-old resident in distress.A good 15...

Spare my life so I can sell my T-shirts and recycle trash! That was Jodi Arias's surreal plea to jurors yesterday in a pathetic bid to escape the death penalty for murdering her boyfriend.The convicted killer said she considered suicide - and even "wrote a lot of goodbye letters...

Kerry Kennedy must stand trial for drugged driving, a Westchester judge said yesterday in rejecting a bid by the former wife of Gov. Cuomo to dismiss the misdemeanor charge.North Castle Town Court Judge Elyse Lazansky set Oct. 8 for the next court date in the case of Kennedy, 53...

A crooked Rikers guard offered to break into jail computers and advance the release dates of no fewer than five inmates - demanding to be paid in cocaine or cash, according to shocking testimony in a Manhattan bribery trial."The officer said he preferred drugs because he could make more money...

A crooked Rikers guard offered to break into jail computers and advance the release dates of no fewer than five inmates - demanding to be paid in cocaine or cash, according to shocking testimony in a Manhattan bribery trial."The officer said he preferred drugs because he could make more money...

A Queens woman beset by mental-health problems was sentenced yesterday to five years' probation for sending threatening videos to Oscar-winning French actress Marion Cotillard.Teresa Yuan, 33, apologized for sending the rambling and incoherent videotaped threats to the film star, who won a Best Actress Academy Award in 2008 for...

Spare my life so I can sell my T-shirts and recycle trash! That was Jodi Arias's surreal plea to jurors yesterday in a pathetic bid to escape the death penalty for murdering her boyfriend.The convicted killer said she considered suicide - and even "wrote a lot of goodbye letters...

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service boss in charge of the office that targeted conservative groups will take the Fifth today when she faces a House panel, her lawyer warned.Lois Lerner, who runs the IRS tax-exempt division at the heart of the scandal, plans to invoke her Fifth Amendment right....

MOORE, Okla. - A mother and her 3-month-old son were among the dead yesterday as rescue workers sifted through the rubble in Moore, Okla., hoping to find survivors.The desperate search took place one day after a devastating twister flattened the suburb just south of Oklahoma City.The body of Megan...

Gay men were brutally attacked in two separate incidents in Manhattan just hours after demonstrators protested a hate-crime murder by a homophobic gunman, cops said yesterdaySteven Dixon, 42, and Michael Coleman, 41 were walking along Broadway near Houston Street at around 5 a.m. yesterday, when two men yelled...

As the deadly winds sheared off their school's roof and cinder-block walls caved in around them, some terrified little students at Plaza Towers Elementary ran straight to the safest place they knew - their teachers' arms."One of my little boys just kept saying, 'I love you, I love you...