*Education officials announced $52 million in funding to soundproof a Queens school building located on the flight path to Kennedy Airport. (1010 WINS)

*The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has been awarded more than $45 million – by the US Department of Homeland Security. That’s the largest amount given out to any single entity in the country.

*Prosecutors have charged 41 people, including several members of the Crips street gang, with selling crack and other crimes at a Queens housing project.

*The FDNY says they have rescued three people trapped by rough, rising waters on rocks off Coney Island. Apparently, three firefighters waded and swam 60 to 75 feet from shore Saturday evening to get to the three, all about 16 to 20 years old.

*A small plane with four people onboard crashed in a heavily wooded areas near a small airport in southern Ocean County late Saturday afternoon, killing two people and seriously injuring two others [Eagles Nest Airport in Eagleswood Township].

*An 83-year-old woman who hurt herself stepping into a pothole has won $3.8 million in damages from NYC. A Bronx jury awarded her the money for the injury she suffered five years ago when she stepped off a bus and tripped.