Smoking pot within three hours of driving doubles your chance of a major crash, Canadian researchers have found. Their study, published Thursday in the British Medical Journal, the first to tackle the link between crashes and cannabis use, examined data from more than 49,411 vehicular crash victims and excluded any incidents involving alcohol.

An experiment that appeared to show matter could travel faster than the speed of light - flying in the face of Einstein's theory of relativity - may have been flawed, the journal Science reported. In the original experiments, subatomic particles called neutrinos blasted from CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Geneva, traveled 450 miles to Italy 60 nanoseconds faster than a beam of light.

My mom loves to tell this story: I was 3 and wearing cat ears, a tail and a bow tie when I brought down the house at the Palisadium in Cliffside Park, N.J. I was putting on the Ritz with other tots from Miss Alice’s Dance School when I had my moment in the spotlight: I twirled my tail and did my shuffle over and over as the crowd roared and Miss Alice had to come scoop me off the stage.

Clad in Spandex and sequins, they are trying to become the new queens of Kings County. Nearly 350 women packed the gym at Long Island University’s Brooklyn campus Saturday, vying to become the first set of dancers for the Brooklyn Nets. The women, who wore multicolored sports bras and tights, battled their nerves as they pranced and danced under the judges’ watchful eyes.

Three weeks after the superstorm struck, signs of her menacing legacy can already be seen in thousands of homes across the flood zone. You’ll see it in the form of dime-sized, fuzzy, green spores clinging to chairs, black streaks of toxic mold lining the corners of dressers and two-inch-thick blankets of fungi covering garbage dumped along the road.

The kind-hearted cop photographed giving a pair of boots to a barefoot homeless man returned to his Long Island home Friday — after a string of appearances on national TV. Police Officer Larry DePrimo strolled into his parents’ Holbrook home soon after reuniting with the Arizona tourist who snapped the shot that launched the 25-year-old cop into an online sensation.

The final curtain has fallen on the once star-studded Stage Deli. The midtown eatery, where the overstuffed sandwiches were named for celebrities like Mel Brooks, Larry David and Howard Stern, closed its doors for good after 75 years in business. “It’s a piece of history, and it’s sad to see it go,” said Michael Fezzey, a Detroit tourist who planned a Friday dinner at the Stage with his family.

A Hasidic activist who has crusaded against perverts in the ultra-orthodox Jewish community said he was splashed with bleach by an enemy in a violent act of street retribution Tuesday. Nathan (Nuchem) Rosenberg, 62, said the vicious attack was linked the the bombshell sex abuse conviction Monday of prominent Satmar sect counselor Nechemya Weberman.

The city Health Department has shuttered famous pizza parlor John's of Bleecker Street, apparently for violations including "filth flies," West Village patrons were shocked to learn Wednesday. "I hope it's not permanent," said longtime pie lover Duncan Hannah, 60. A notice slapped on the window of the 83-year-old standby Tuesday didn't cite a reason for the closure.