The only thing worse than the Mets’ offense on Wednesday was Rafael Montero — although even that might be generous to the lineup in a desultory, 5-1 loss to Texas. Montero, who figures to be running out of chances, was a mess again, and the Mets have lost five of six and eight of their...
A man tried to smuggle real severed human arms through customs at a Chinese bus station before being stopped by stunned security guards – who were then left speechless by his excuse. CCTV footage shows the 50-year-old entering the bus station and calmly placing his bag through a scanner before collecting it and strolling off....
It’s official: McKinsey & Co. is sexier than Goldman Sachs. The most sought-after jobs for MBAs are no longer on Wall Street, as more business students than ever before are instead looking to go into consulting, according to a survey released Wednesday. For the first time in eight years, consulting firms like McKinsey, Bain &...
Imagine this — Yoko Ono’s former West Village penthouse is an $8.3 million wreck, with warped beams, toxic mold and a rotted roof deck. Ono sold the fourth-floor pad at 49-51 Downing St. to developer David Blumenfeld in 2014. She’d purchased the penthouse — part of a converted 19th century horse stable — in 1995...
A pair of Manhattan sisters turned their Lower East Side apartment building’s roof into their own personal fiefdom, a landlord claims. Real estate agent Hana McGrath and her sibling Rachel allegedly used the roof at 169 East Broadway to grow crops, host for-profit dinners, and as a bathroom for their dog-sitting business. The sisters each...
LONDON, Ky. — Two Kentucky teens have landed felony charges after stealing an ice-cream cake for a prank broadcast on social media. News outlets report a news release from Laurel County Sheriff John Root says 18-year-old Seth Messer and 19-year-old Ajayci Cotton stole the cake from a Dunkin’ Donuts last Friday and were arrested Tuesday...
Colin Kaepernick gets the attention. Jay Cutler gets the job. And Robert Griffin III gets to work out furiously, apparently, preparing for a job that hasn’t begun to formulate. The curiously quiet market for Griffin perked up recently — he had a workout with the Chargers in late July and was among the names the...
According to reports, the number of migrants attempting to travel through Germany by hiding under freight trains is drastically rising. The trip is actually quite treacherous, with the trains traveling at speeds reaching 90 mph, and the stowaways facing freezing temperatures.
CINCINNATI — Prosecutors are accusing a woman of child abuse and other crimes, saying her preschool-age son was treated by a hospital with opioids and received unnecessary medical care after she pretended to be a doctor and falsely claimed he had cancer. A Hamilton County prosecutor told jurors Tuesday at the trial of Monika Burgett...
He was in court for compliance hearings after he admitted to punching a Port Authority cop during a tantrum at JFK.
Flags in Maryland are flying at half-staff for a sailor who died in June when the U.S. Navy destroyer he was on collided with a container ship off the coast of Japan. Flags are being flown at half-staff on Wednesday from sunrise to sunset in memory of Xavier Alec Martin. The 24-year-old sailor was from...
A Long Island woman repeatedly stabbed her sister’s Siberian husky — because the pooch bit her toddler, police said Wednesday. Stephanie Penado, 26, drove a knife into the dog face and back around 9:30 a.m. Monday in Hempstead, Nassau County cops. Lex had bitten her 1-year-old son earlier the same day leaving a small cut...
"I believe in hard work and learning your craft before going out there and doing it."
A GOP senator from Wisconsin said his colleague John McCain’s brain cancer may explain his vote against repealing ObamaCare — drawing an angry rebuke from McCain’s camp, which called the claim “bizarre.” “We did get a call from [House Speaker] Paul [Ryan] and he assured us that skinny repeal was not going to pass the...
Berry remembers calling her mom: “She said, ‘If you want to be there, then you work it out.’ Giving up was never an option.”
" ‘Quick! Grab me a famous person!’ F--kin' cringe, man. Bradley f--kin' Cooper and s--t like that? F--kin' sit down, mate,” the former Oasis singer said of his brother.
The NBA finally made the Nets’ long-rumored trip to Mexico official, announcing they will play Oklahoma City on Dec. 7 and face Miami two days later. Both games will be at the Arena Ciudad de Mexico, as part of the NBA Mexico City Games 2017. “We’re honored to play in these games,’’ Nets coach Kenny...
A woman driving a van for people with special needs was killed in a hit-and-run crash Wednesday while unloading a passenger in the Bronx, police said. The Ford van owned by the Institutes of Applied Human Dynamics rolled over the 37-year-old woman in front of 629 E. 229th St. in Wakefield around 11 a.m. when...
The former "Bizaardvark" actor hits back at his critics with a music video.
US stock indexes opened lower on Wednesday as investors turned risk averse following rising tensions between North Korea and the United States. North Korea said it was considering plans to fire missiles at Guam, a US-held Pacific island, after President Donald Trump on Tuesday warned the nuclear-armed nation that it would face “fire and fury”...
This sicko’s depravity even left a judge speechless. Stephen Matthew Taylor, 31, was convicted of two counts of animal cruelty in Henrico County, Virginia, on Tuesday after admitting to police he performed oral sex on one of his eight Rottweilers, the Richmond-Times Dispatch reported. “I just don’t have words,” Judge James Stephen Yoffy said. “This...
Walt Disney paid $177 million, in addition to insurance recoveries, to settle the closely watched “pink slime” defamation case against its ABC network by Beef Products Inc., a quarterly financial report shows. Privately-held BPI sued American Broadcasting Company in 2012 for $5.7 billion, saying it and reporter Jim Avila had defamed the company by using...
President Trump will return to his Manhattan high-rise for the first time since he entered the White House in January for three days next week, according to a report on Wednesday. Trump, who has been on a working vacation at his golf resort in Bedminster, N.J., is expected to travel to Trump Tower on Sunday...
"It was something that I felt was important and that I needed to say," the star shared.
