An Illinois man, who was charged Monday with the two-decades old murder of a 71-year-old woman, allegedly disguised himself as the elderly victim on multiple occasions and forged her signature to cash checks, officials said. Thomas Spear, 43, was ordered held on $3 million bail on first-degree murder charges in the 1994 killing of Illa...
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — Authorities are searching for a Mississippi man accused of abandoning his 5-year-old son in the woods. Wayne County Sheriff Jody Ashley said they’re searching for 32-year-old Richard Dearman. The sheriff says Dearman told his son they had to hide last Wednesday because “the law was behind him,” and told him to stand...
Natassia Malthe said Wednesday the disgraced movie mogul forced her to have sex without a condom and demanded that she have a threesome in 2010.
The "Game of Thrones" actor clarifies that men "can get objectified."
JuJu Smith-Schuster is quickly emerging as a popular player for the Steelers as the No. 2 wide receiver behind superstar Antonio Brown. Smith-Schuster’s amazing touchdown celebration and stolen bicycle earned him a lot of attention in the past few days. Well, he got his bike back Wednesday. “The fact that this is “breaking news” is...
“I went down to my car and I cried for about 20 minutes,” Caitlin O'Heaney said.
LOS ANGELES — Don Mattingly watched Game 1 of the World Series and felt pride. Not regret about another chance at finally being part of the Fall Classic. Pride. Mattingly joined the Dodgers in 2008, when Joe Torre came as manager, serving first as a special assignment coach and then hitting coach before succeeding Torre...
Barry Diller is not giving into pier pressure after all! The billionaire announced Wednesday that he’s reviving his fantastical $100 million plan to transform a rotting Hudson River pier into a massive park. “I’m going to make one last attempt to revive the plans to build the Park, so that the intended beneficiaries of our...
The girlfriend of a Brooklyn man shot dead by an off-duty cop sobbed on the stand Wednesday as she recounted the final moments of his life. “He was face down, his chin on the ground,” an emotional Zaquanna Albert told jurors of Delrawn Small, after she found him dying between two parked cars. “He was...
AUGUSTA, Maine — Court testimony revealed on Wednesday that a teenager charged with killing his parents told a police dispatcher he “snapped” on the night of the stabbings. Andrew Balcer was in court in Augusta, where officials will decide whether to try him as an adult. He’s charged with double murder for stabbing Alice and...
A hair-raising collector’s item can fetch as much as $300,000 from crazed superfans across the globe. Paul Fraser, a British celebrity hair supplier from Bristol, sells bunches as well as single strands of celebrity hair. His headliners include stars like Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Justin Bieber. Fraser also boasts hair from historical figures such...
The 80-year-old is trying to take the $30 million hard money loan on his 12,000 square foot mansion as he hires a new legal team to represent him.
A prominent Manhattan publisher has been accused of very Harvey Weinstein-like behavior in a new lawsuit by a former employer who says she was punished professionally for reporting his perverted ways a year ago. The Manhattan Supreme Court suit was filed against Knight Landesman, 67, the powerful publisher of Artforum magazine, and it also names...
A New Jersey teacher who sparked protests after telling students to “speak American” has returned to the classroom and delivered an apology, according to a report. English teacher Laura Amico, whose comments were captured in a video that went viral, returned to Cliffside Park High School on Tuesday morning, Superintendent Michael Romagnino said. He said...
Something is fishy at New York’s most expensive sushi restaurant. Manhattan’s three Michelin-starred Masa — where a meal costs a minimum of $595 per person — has been serving unsanitary tuna and trevally, according to the US Food and Drug Administration. “Your fresh trevally and fresh Katsuwonus pelamis (Katsuo), also known as skipjack tuna or...
WELCH, W.Va. — A man who pleaded guilty to shooting his wife and dismembering her body last year has been sentenced to up to 40 years in prison. The Bluefield Daily Telegraph reports 36-year-old Woody Alfred Wood Jr. pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Rebecca Wood in August, and was sentenced on...
Kellogg’s was served up several spoonfuls of shame Wednesday for a cereal box cartoon that featured a bunch of light colored Corn Pops hanging out in a mall — while a darker-skinned Pop scrubs the floor and acts as janitor. Pictures showing the offensive packaging surfaced on social media and prompted the company to respond....
Britain’s most prolific cat-killer may have gotten his paws yet another helpless feline. The “Croydon cat killer” — a sadist who has slaughtered more than 250 felines — is believed to have mutilated a domestic shorthair named Taz in a London suburb, according to the Hertfordshire Mercury. The carved-up cat carcass was returned to his...
CLEVELAND — The mother of a man charged with killing a teenage girl he’d recruited to rob a bank contacted police after learning he had bragged about the slaying, a prosecutor said during opening statements at the man’s murder trial. Assistant Prosecutor Brian Kraft told jurors on Tuesday that 20-year-old Kiechaun Newell was afraid that...
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Authorities say a pregnant woman found dead in South Carolina was killed by her boyfriend in North Carolina before being left on the side of a road. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said 28-year-old Mahmood Bhatti has been charged with murder and murder of an unborn child in the killing of 23-year-old Natalie Merrick. York...
The messy reality of military post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is at the heart of “Thank You for Your Service,” a thoughtful drama which sags when it tries to shoehorn its characters into by-the-numbers plot points. Directed by Jason Hall, writer of Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper,” it’s adapted from journalist David Finkel’s nonfiction account of soldiers...
Lady Gaga takes her short shorts back out, Paris Jackson brings her brother as her date and more...
When Kirsty Lane noticed her nipples were leaking and she was suffering headaches, mood swings and irregular periods, she put it down to stress. But a general practitioner told the nurse her contraceptive pill could be to blame. Yet, the 26-year-old’s true diagnosis was much more concerning — she was living with a brain tumor....
Halloween is no longer for Westerners only. It’s now a billion-dollar industry in Japan, where Tokyo’s enthusiastic revelers turn their subway system into a rolling pagan party. As the Daily Mail reports, the blowout usually begins with millennials dressing up as sexy nurses in fishnets, blood-dripping zombies, Hello Kitty spinoffs, silver-faced aliens and the like....
Our existence is one giant, unexplainable head scratch. The universe shouldn’t technically exist, according to top scientists who have spent their careers trying to figure out how the beginning of everything didn’t immediately destroy itself. The current model for the birth of the universe predicts that equal parts of matter and antimatter were produced by...
