SAN DIEGO — Former San Diego Mayor Roger Hedgecock is suing the city, claiming a sidewalk fall ruptured his wife’s breast implants. The San Diego Union-Tribune says Hedgecock and his wife contend the city was careless and negligent for failing to repair sidewalk damage caused by a tree. The October suit says Cynthia Hedgecock tripped over...
A man was killed early Thursday in the Bronx while riding in the passenger seat of a Taxi and Limousine Commission-registered car, police said. Police believe the 22-year-old driver may have been under the influence when he lost control on the Bronx River Parkway near Gun Hill Road and struck a concrete wall of an...
Pre-orders for Samsung’s flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone have exceeded those of its predecessor S7, the firm’s mobile chief said on Thursday, suggesting many consumers are unfazed by last year’s Galaxy Note 7 fires. Strong initial demand for the S8 will be encouraging for a firm recovering from one of the worst product safety failures in...
The lineup for has been announced for Cannes, which offers four chances to see Nicole Kidman onscreen.
This is the man wanted for beating and slashing a 51-year-old woman’s face during a robbery on a Brooklyn subway train. The straphanger was aboard the A train while looking at her phone near the Nostrand Ave. station in Bedford-Stuyvesant on Wednesday when the suspect walked up and started punching her around 5:45 p.m., police...
It’s the question at the heart of humanity itself, the key to everything we know about ourselves, about our world and even of our gods: Are we alone in the universe? And now the answer is closer than ever: There are up to 200 billion habitable planets in our galaxy and we may not even...
A Brooklyn Criminal Court judge has declined to dismiss the case against the prankstress who made national headlines for flinging a plague of crickets and mealworms across a crowded D train last August. “Motion to dismiss denied!” jurist Elizabeth Warren barked at self-proclaimed performance artist Zaida Pugh Thursday. The 21-year-old will now have to cop...
After more than 10 years together, the reality stars are expecting a new addition to the family.
The US has dropped “the mother of all bombs” on ISIS fighters and hideouts in Afghanistan — the largest non-nuclear explosive ever used in wartime, the Pentagon said Thursday. The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb, nicknamed MOAB, was dropped at 7 p.m. local time Thursday, military sources told CNN. A MOAB — nicknamed the...
Martina Big is a model from Germany who is no stranger to plastic surgery, but her new obsession is taking things to a new level. By getting tanning injections, she’s changed her skin to a dark shade that it never could have gained naturally.
Jay Bruce has a reputation as a streaky player, which might be a better explanation for his late-season problems last season after being obtained by the Mets than that he was intimidated by New York. So brace for the likelihood of a stretch coming in 2017 in which he is as cold as he is...
New research reveals the particular facts of life we are still a bit hazy on. It seems many women still have a thing or two to learn about sex and pregnancy, or how not to get pregnant, according to new research. Around half, 48%, of women don’t know how long sperm can survive in the...
All those years watching the first version of Daniel Murphy, I kept thinking he had similarities with Don Mattingly, beyond the same initials. Murphy I resembled Mattingly II – the latter phase of Mattingly’s career when back ailments robbed his ability to consistently torque for power, but did nothing to diminish his brilliant hand-eye coordination....
Fossils that lay unexamined at the Natural History Museum for around 60 years have helped identify a “missing link” that forces scientists to rethink the early evolution of dinosaurs. Fragments of a 245 million-year-old Teleocrater rhadinus studied by an expert at the London museum in the 1950s have shed new light on how the massive...
JPMorgan Chase boss Jamie Dimon said the rest of the year will likely be a “sausage-making” period for President Trump’s business-friendly agenda and that he didn’t expect the process to be easy. “You all should expect as a given that, when you have a new president and they get going, that the nine months after...
Ants have developed their own version of dialing 911 — calling friends to rescue them when they’re injured. African Matabele ants are termite hunters but often get hurt in battles with their powerful prey. Yet in an ingenious SOS signal previously unknown in insects, researchers found that they then excrete chemicals to alert pals to...
If you’re one of the very, very wealthy individuals considering dropping a big chunk of change on the chance to fly into space aboard Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin spacecraft you’ll be very interested to hear that there will be some pretty strict requirements when it comes to bodily function. As Space.com reports, pooping,...
The last of South Florida’s infamous “Cocaine Cowboys” was busted this week after spending 26 years on the lam, according to reports. Deputy marshals nabbed Gustavo “Taby” Falcon, 55, and his wife, Amelia, at an intersection in Kissimmee as the two were in the middle of a 40-mile bike ride on Wednesday. He was booked...
Sometimes a hiatus is as good as a holiday. Most of us have a love-hate relationship with online dating apps. Consider this scenario: When you first signed up, it was heralded as the greatest thing ever. No more fruitless nights out, just you swiping live from the couch, sans mascara. An inbox full of messages...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Mideast carriers are having fun at United Airlines’ expense. Dubai-based Emirates released an ad after video went viral of a United passenger being forcefully removed that toyed with the Chicago-based carrier’s longtime slogan. “Fly the friendly skies … this time for real,” it read. Royal Jordanian tweeted a no-smoking picture...
ANKARA, Turkey — A Turkish security official says the suicide bomber accused of the deadly attack on the subway in the Russian city of St. Petersburg was deported from Turkey in 2016. Akbarzhon Dzhalilov, a 22-year-old native of Kyrgyzstan, blew himself up on a busy subway line on April 3, killing himself and 13 other...
Let’s say this as plainly as we can: Phil Jackson has been a failure in three years running the Knicks. He has been an abject failure. He has taken a team one year removed from the Eastern Conference semifinals, a team that won 38 games and fell one game shy of the playoffs the same...
HONOLULU — Authorities removed human remains from a Honolulu apartment a day after they arrested a man who confessed to killing his mother, police said. Police discovered the remains Tuesday when they answered a 911 call from the sixth-story apartment in Waikiki, homicide Lt. Phillip Lavarias said. Police records show 26-year-old Yu Wei Gong was...
PHILADELPHIA — Michael Conforto is trying his best to guide the Mets to the correct decision. With every small window of opportunity he is given, he knocks down a door. Such was the case again Wednesday night when Conforto was given his second start of the season and crushed his second home run of the...
MONTREAL — This isn’t exactly what Alain Vigneault had in mind when the Rangers coach decided to play rugged winger Tanner Glass for Game 1 of the team’s first-round playoff series against the Canadiens on Wednesday night at Bell Centre. But certainly, Vigneault will take it. Glass scored his second career playoff goal in the...
