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Now she’s sorry — five months ­after freeing the career drug dealer who is charged with murdering ­Police Officer Randolph Holder. The hero cop’s death this week, by a bullet to the forehead during a shootout in East Harlem, “breaks my heart,” Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Patricia Nuñez said Friday. “I know. I am truly sorry,” Nuñez said sadly when a Post reporter reminded her about the 33-year-old cop’s devastated family. “And I will speak on the record” at sentencing, she added, referring to suspect Tyrone Howard’s Nov. 12 court date in a 2014 drug-sale case — the very one she...

SACRAMENTO -- Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez, who drew heavy criticism last fall for using campaign funds for world travel and luxury purchases, continued to spend thousands of dollars on airfare and gifts in the last six months, according to financial reports made public Thursday. The reports show the Los Angeles Democrat spent $20,916 on Delta Airlines, $2,701 at Falconhead boot company, $579 for a "meeting" at a wine bar, and $4,074 at Nordstrom, Macy's and Williams-Sonoma stores between July 1 and the end of December. In an Oct. 5 article, The Times reported that Nuñez had spent tens of thousands...

MEXICO CITY – Assembly Speaker Fabian Nuñez launched a goodwill mission here yesterday, but his first order of business was to explain to President Vicente Fox and the Mexican media why he had sought a state-of-emergency declaration for the border area. By the end of the day, the Los Angeles Democrat said he had made progress in improving relations between California and Mexico, which have become strained under Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. But the border-emergency controversy dominated the beginning of Núñez's three-day visit. After the Democratic governors of Arizona and New Mexico declared border emergencies because of illegal immigration and drug...