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Melody Sanchez tries to comfort her daughter Kayla, 11, at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell. Kayla lost her best friend, Leandra Rosado, also 11, in upper West Side crash

As her little angel lay upstairs in a blue hospital gown, battered, bruised and bloodied from the same drunken driving accident that took another girl’s life, Melody Sanchez seethed.

“I’m just shocked at what she did,” Sanchez said of the drunken Bronx mom who cops said got behind the wheel with seven girls in her car.

“How dare you!” she raged into the cold, windless night.

“This is my daughter’s life!”

The daughter, Kayla Fernandez, 11, recalls how utterly reckless Carmen Huertas was as she took off from a party in Chelsea with the girls in tow, headed for a slumber party at her house in The Bronx. Read more..

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 This past Saturday afternoon, a group of Bronx bikers, mostly young people, worked the Grand Concourse for Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson like it was their own personal campaign trail.

Yorman Nunez, a former City Council candidate in the 14th District who is now working on the Thompson campaign team, organized the outreach, calling it “Bikers for Billy.”

The Thompson campaigners wore t-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “Eight is Enough,” a dig at Mayor Bloomberg, who pushed an unpopular term-limits extension bill through the City Council last fall so he would be eligible for re-election Read more..

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