Next time you text a friend to complain that your four-star dinner was only worthy of two stars, think of Joel Metz. Three years ago, while repairing a cellphone tower in Kentucky, the 28-year-old was hit by an errant cable. It decapitated Metz and left his headless body swinging some 240 feet in the air,...
The Night She Won Miss America by Michael Callahan (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) Inspired by the true story of a woman who won the title of Miss America in 1937 and disappeared that same night. The novel tells the story of Betty Jane Welch, winner of the Miss Delaware contest, who falls in love with her...
OKEMOS, Mich. — Police have asked for help from the public in locating former Michigan State defensive end Auston Robertson, who is charged with third-degree criminal sexual conduct. Prosecutors announced the charge against the 19-year-old Robertson on Friday, and the Meridian Township Police Department posted a message on its website seeking information about Robertson’s whereabouts....
He started a new charity and benched his wife.
A Manhattan oncologist who charged a dying patient $50,000 for an experimental cancer treatment he never performed hasn’t returned the dough, according to a lawsuit. Cheryl Stoebenau, 69, was being treated for ovarian cancer in 2015 when her doctor, William Grace, told her about a treatment that wasn’t FDA-approved, but “that potentially could save her...
Todd McShay spends months trying to figure out what teams are going to do in the NFL draft. As one of the two draft gurus at ESPN, McShay studies film, talks to people around the league then tries to marry the information with picks. He is having a tough time figuring out the Jets’ plan...
On March 8, Sara Porter, a TV producer from Carroll Gardens, gave birth to her third son at Mount Sinai St Luke’s on the Upper West Side. Five days later, the seemingly healthy 39-year-old mom died from presumed sepsis, having developed an infection and undergone an emergency hysterectomy. While it’s hard to fathom, women still...
Whenever Terry Collins broaches the subject of Jose Reyes, he always — always — mentions Reyes’ smile. Hit a homer, go 0-for-4, there was the smile. Win, lose, day, night, home, away, Reyes smiled. But recently, when Collins discussed Reyes he didn’t talk about the smile. He spoke of frustration. Start a season 6-for-62 with...
When Amanda Serrano graduated from Bushwick High School ten years ago, she wasn’t busy filling out college applications or chasing boys in her Brooklyn neighborhood. The Puerto Rican born Serrano had seen her older sister Cindy become an accomplished boxer and decided to follow in her footsteps. Without telling family members, she signed up for...
A Manhattan high-school guidance counselor under investigation for an alleged sexual relationship with a student was fired after the girl was seen wearing a gold ring he had bought. Jeremiah Mimms, 31, who counseled kids at Global Learning Collaborative on the Upper West Side, denied the girl’s account that they kissed and touched each other...
‘As we continue to fight the battle against police brutality and systemic racism in America, [this is] a much-needed literary ramrod.” That’s the first blurb on the back of Angie Thomas’ “The Hate U Give,” a young-adult novel that has topped the New York Times best-seller list for the third week in a row. Although...
This was the type of play that can stay with a player for a long time and could begin to define his legacy — if he let it. But it took Rangers defenseman Nick Holden less than a day to get over what transpired at the end of regulation in Game 2 of his team’s...
ADEL, Iowa— A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to life in prison for hacking to death his girlfriend, her teenage daughter and their landlord with a machete in central Iowa. The Des Moines Register reports that Carlos Hernandez-Ventura was sentenced Friday, a month after being found guilty on three counts of first-degree murder. Prosecutors say...
The International Tennis Federation has launched an investigation into Romanian Fed Cup captain Ilie Nastase after allegations the former world No. 1 had made a derogatory comment about Serena Williams’ unborn child. At the Fed Cup draw in Constanta, Romania, on Friday before a tie between Romania and Britain, Nastase was heard speaking in Romanian to...
They’re taking cell phone owners for a ride. Two bike-riding thieves have been snatching cell phones from unsuspecting pedestrians in Midtown for the past month, cops said. The thieves have struck nine times, in the lower 40s around Times Square. In the most recent incident, a 45-year-old woman lost her phone to the pair at...
American Airlines has suspended an employee after a video showed an altercation on one of its planes involving crew, several passengers and a crying woman carrying a young child. An American Airlines employee violently took a stroller from the woman, hitting her with it and just missing her child, Facebook user Surain Adyanthaya said in a...
Last fall, just weeks before Election Day, I traveled the old Lincoln Highway, from the Appalachian Mountains to the Rockies, to learn the attitudes of voters who lived miles from the off-ramps of the main interstates and coastal America. Known as US 30, the mostly two-lane highway connects 13 states and 700 counties between Times...
Since losing the most winnable presidential election in modern American history, Hillary Clinton has, among other things: given a series of high-profile speeches, joined Gov. Cuomo at his public unveiling of tuition-free college, refused to rule out a run for mayor of New York and issued an online video message exhorting fellow Democrats to fight...
BUCHAREST, Romania — Romanian border police say they have stopped 111 asylum seekers hidden in the back of a large truck who trying to illegally leave Romania and head toward Western Europe. Border police said Saturday statement they discovered the group late Friday crammed into the vehicle at the Romanian-Hungarian border. The migrants, aged 2...
Cops busted a Bronx man on charges of trying to rape a teenager at the Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle on Friday morning. The 18-year-old was using the second floor bathroom at the Shops at Columbus Circle around 10 a.m when Ibrahima Barry, 24, allegedly snuck into the restroom and climbed underneath the door...
MOSCOW — Russia’s National Anti-Terrorism Committee says the leader of an Islamic State “sleeper cell” and one of the cell’s members have been killed in a shootout with police. The committee said in a statement Saturday that the shootout took place late the previous night in the Stavropol region, about 750 miles south of Moscow....
Caitlyn Jenner told Diane Sawyer that she had undergone "the final surgery" in her sex reassignment procedures on Friday night's "20/20" special.
Denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula can still be achieved peacefully because of Washington’s new engagement with China, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Saturday, despite growing fears North Korea could soon conduct a new nuclear test. South Korea is on heightened alert ahead of another important anniversary in the reclusive North that could be...
ANCONA, Italy — Michele Scarponi, who won the Giro d’Italia in 2011, died after being hit by a van while training on Saturday. He was 37. Scarponi was training near his home of Filottrano, near Ancona, when he was hit by a van at a crossroad. He leaves behind a wife and twin sons. According...
BERLIN — Thousands of people are expected to attend March for Science events around the world to promote the understanding of science and defend it from various attacks, including U.S. government budget cuts. The March for Science was dreamed up at the Women’s March on Washington, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration in...
