An elderly woman died and two firefighters were injured Wednesday night in a blaze inside a 35-story apartment building in Harlem, FDNY officials said. Some 78 firefighters and EMS personnel rushed to the building on East 122nd St. and 2nd Ave. at 6:59 p.m., where a fire had erupted on the 19th floor — and… Read More »
A young teen was killed Tuesday when a deer ricocheted off another car and into the passenger-side windshield as the boy was being driven to school. Kevin Donohue was riding in a vehicle going west on State Route 322 around 7:15 a.m. when a deer sprang in front of a car traveling east in the… Read More »
President Trump this week said he hadn’t heard the rumors about his death over Labor Day weekend until a reporter brought it up in the Oval Office on Tuesday. But his eldest son, who was aware of the claims going viral on social media, said even he called his dad on Saturday to make sure… Read More »
More than three years after the shelving of Aziz Ansari’s would-be feature directorial debut, the actor and comedian is speaking out about the misconduct allegations against star Bill Murray, which ultimately tanked the film. Addressing the claims made by a crewmember on the set of “Being Mortal,” Ansari told The Hollywood Reporter that Murray was “devastated” by… Read More »
Conservative media outlet Newsmax is suing Fox News over the much larger network’s efforts to corner the right-wing cable news market. The antitrust suit filed on Wednesday in the Southern District Court of Florida charged that “Fox Corporation has long engaged in an exclusionary scheme to increase and maintain its dominance in the market for… Read More »
An off-duty NYPD detective pulled a gun on three 16-year-olds in a Westchester County road-rage incident after the teens’ car stopped short in front of him, prosecutors allege. John O’Connell, 36, was was driving east on Route 6 in the Town of Somers at 8:30 p.m. Thursday when the teens came to an abrupt stop… Read More »
It was more of the same from the Mets‘ pitching staff Wednesday afternoon in Detroit. Clay Holmes couldn’t make it through five innings, Ryan Helsley imploded in the seventh inning, and a one-run lead by the Detroit Tigers ballooned into a four-run lead. The Tigers prevented the Mets from completing a three-game sweep, handing the… Read More »
Experts across the board were still stymied Wednesday after a deafening boom echoed through the northern New Jersey town of Hopatcong, jolting people awake in the dead of night. The blast echoed across the approximately 14,000-population lakeside Sussex County borough, about 40 miles west of New York City, at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday, NJ Advance Media… Read More »
Streameast, the largest sports piracy platform, has been shut down following an investigation. The Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), a U.S.-based coalition of media and entertainment organizations, said it collaborated with Egyptian police to bring down the network, which recorded 1.6 billion visits on its 80 associated domains over the last year. The bulk… Read More »
By Tim Henderson, Stateline.org Virginia and New Jersey may be among the states most affected by the hiring slowdown that enraged President Donald Trump when it appeared in an Aug. 1 jobs report showing the United States had 258,000 fewer jobs than initially reported in May and June. Such revisions to earlier reports are based… Read More »