BY Lisa Eadicicco DAILY NEWS WRITER Tuesday, Mar 1st 2011, 4:00 AM Richard Daines, an ex-state health commissioner who aggressively pushed former Gov. David Paterson‘s unsuccessful soda tax, died of what is believed to be a remarkable heart conflict over a weekend. Daines, 60, was operative on his family plantation in Dutchess County...

BY Katie Nelson DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Tuesday, Mar 1st 2011, 4:00 AM Fresh from their Oscar triumph, a Public School 22 choir kids were star-struck all over again Monday while singing alongside Katy Perry on “The Oprah Winfrey Show.” The fifth-grade singing sensations belted out “Firework” accompanied by a live...

BY Helen Kennedy DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Sunday, Apr 3rd 2011, 10:06 PM A much-awaited book due out Monday will move new inspection to a New Jersey male it fingers as one of a killers of Malcolm X. William Bradley, now famous as Mustafa Shabazz, is 72 and married to a politically-connected owners of a boxer’s gym in Newark, N.J. Bradley...

BY Irving Dejohn and John Lauinger DAILY NEWS WRITERS Sunday, Mar 20th 2011, 2:53 PM Three teens wanted in a deadly Queens stickup of a immature mother were nabbed after they struck again on St. Patrick’s Day, military pronounced Sunday. Two of a indicted robbers, Corey Brown and Ian Green, both 17, were charged with a murder final...

By Alison Gendar DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Wednesday, Mar 2nd 2011, 4:00 AM A 13-year-old Queens lady – destitute when she was 12 for offered bone-head to an clandestine patrolman – was condemned Tuesday to a year of supervised probation. The girl, whose name is being funded by a Daily News since of her age, faced a limit of 18...