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Brendan Scott is an awarding-winning investigative journalist with more than a decade of experience in New York and Hong Kong.

Today, Brendan works as a subeditor at the South China Morning Post, rewriting and editing stories about the world's most populous nation and second-largest economy. He previously covered crisis and chaos in Albany, N.Y., as state government correspondent for the New York Post. [more]

 

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"Gov. Paterson's top aide has paid more than $200,000 in back taxes after failing to file his income taxes for five years - claiming he was suffering from severe mental illness, The Post has learned.

Charles O'Byrne (above, with Paterson), the governor's $178,500-a-year chief of staff, says he recently settled a debt that soared to at least $206,000.

The sum included $151,000 owed to the IRS and another $56,000 in state taxes, including various penalties and interest..." [more]

 

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"Like those falling leaves and chilly mornings about which he wrote so eloquently, each September brought us a reminder of the man who, with his relentless pursuit of humanity, made this paper great.

It's a column, an essay, a confession, really, about the glory and the pride of the first day of school; a prayer for worried mothers and fathers to recite silently as they learn to let go of soft, scared hands and let little faces face a big cold world.

Today is proud, today is helpless, today is tomorrow." [more]

 

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"Last November, as the outside world prepared to celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday, a killer was unleashed behind the gray block walls of Orange County Jail.

This wasn't your usual jailhouse predator, not some gangster, thug or sodomite, but simple, street-lethal heroin.

An inmate from out of town had smuggled more than 80 nickel-sized bags of the deadly drug into the jail's female housing unit the night of Friday, Nov. 21..." [more]