It’s the playbook on city corruption. Mayor de Blasio donor-turned-felon Jona Rechnitz took the witness stand in Manhattan federal court Thursday and explained how easy it was for him and his friends to allegedly buy off City Hall and One Police Plaza. Rechnitz — appearing in the bribery trial of former city corrections-union chief Norman...
There’s enough sex discrimination and harassment in Albany to merit a separate hotline for government workers, according to the National Organization for Women. NOW’s New York chapter announced Thursday that it has created a hotline (518-362-7857) for state employees who are subjected to unwanted advances and discrimination in the workplace. Stories can also be reported...
Donald Trump Jr. fired off a nasty tweet on Thursday, mocking Hillary Clinton on her 70th birthday for describing herself in her own year-old Twitter post as a “future president.” “A year later the arrogance and entitlement in this tweet is [sic] exactly why it was never going to happen,”
An Idaho woman was arrested Friday after she allegedly stole a disabled girl’s backpack — which contained custom leg braces. Sky Lynn Larsen, 19, of Pocatello, was accused of going into the garage of a home and taking a backpack, which contained custom-made leg braces, from a disabled girl’s wheelchair, the Pocatello Police Department stated....
A real-life Grinch at the US Air Force said Santa Claus has never come to town. During an ill-advised attempt to break up a social media quarrel between two dueling Air Force bases, the military branch tweeted that Santa wasn’t real. Whiteman Air Force Base in Missouri and Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota...
RAHWAY, N.J. — Teenagers who are getting a jump on Halloween by dressing up as bushes and surprising people in a New Jersey park could face arrest. The Union County Police Department fears the self-proclaimed “Rahway Bushmen” could cause someone to fall and sue the county. Two of the high school students cover camouflage suits...
A budding artist is creating masterpieces on the muddy surfaces of white vans up and down England. Ricky Minns, 42, who goes by the name of Ruddy Muddy, spruces up vans in need of a wash by drawing works of art with his fingers. His most recognizable designs are those of Prince Harry, Leonardo Di...
ONTARIO, Calif. — A teen wearing a “Scream” Halloween costume is accused of pointing a gun at a middle school teacher who was in class with students. The Press-Enterprise reports the 13-year-old boy, after fleeing from De Anza Middle School, was found by police Wednesday walking with the handgun and costume inside his backpack. He...
Jeter said he "would never push baseball or softball" on his daughter.
A Florida police officer was caught on dash-cam video ramming his patrol SUV into his ex-wife’s house. Timothy Taylor, the hot-headed cop from the Escambia County Sheriff’s Department in the Florida panhandle, can be seen in the video backing up his car while a woman hovers in the doorway briefly before shutting the door. The...
The 12-year-old Bronx girl who made an incredible recovery after being doused in boiling water during a social media stunt, became a true New York Bravest on Thursday. Jamoneisha Merritt was sworn in as an honorary firefighter by Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro at FDNY headquarters in Brooklyn, followed by lunch at a firehouse in Harlem...
Weinstein was trying to put together a deal buy the legendary Rolling Stone magazine, Page Six has exclusively learned.
German candymaker Haribo will launch an audit of its associated companies following allegations of using slave labor and sourcing its ingredients from producers with cruel animal conditions. The company, mostly known for its gummy candy products sold worldwide, has come under fire after a documentary aired in Germany accusing the candymaker of using products made...
Odell Beckham Sr., the father of the Giants star wide receiver, reportedly was arrested Wednesday in Texas. Beckham was charged with illegally carrying a gun and being in possession of less than two ounces of marijuana. He was booked at a local police station and released on $5,000 bail, according to TMZ. The elder Beckham...
After 10 seasons as Yankees’ manager, Joe Girardi was let go on Thursday, his contract not renewed by the team. Here’s a look at Girardi’s five best and worst moments at the helm. Best 2009 World Series After missing the postseason in his first year as Yankees’ manager, Girardi guided them to their first World...
A sickening underground pet trade has been forged after videos of slow lorises went viral — and it’s driving them to extinction. They may look like cute real-life Furbys or Ewoks from “Star Wars,” but slow lorises are not meant to be kept as pets, says Oxford Brookes University’s Professor Anna Nekaris. Millions have watched...
A teacher faces charges after she reportedly flipped a desk occupied by a special needs student who refused to get up from the seat. Donna Dixon, 56, was arrested Monday on charges of child cruelty after the alleged incident at Escambia Westgate school in Pensacola, Florida, the Pensacola News Journal reported. Police said the female...
It looks like city cops dodged a bullet on this one. Mayor de Blasio donor-turned-felon Jona Rechnitz tried to get a police union to invest in the doomed hedge fund now at the center of the Norman Seabrook bribery trial, it emerged Friday in Manhattan federal court. Rechnitz, who was key to getting the city...
Michael Rapaport is an actor and director who is also known for his pop-culture commentary. The 47-year-old native New Yorker — currently starring in Netflix’s “Atypical,” appearing on Showtime’s “White Famous” and hosting a podcast for Barstool Sports — can now add author to his résumé. His new book “This Book Has Balls: Sports Rants...
"The enormity of this, the totality of the loss so soon, is still a struggle," he said.
Like so many wannabe country singers, Margo Price moved to Nashville, Tenn., to pound the pavement, do the hustle and hopefully catch a break. Soon after arriving from her home in rural Illinois in 2003 at the age of 20, she thought she found one when a prospective manager and producer invited her to a...
Together, they helped deliver four World Series titles to New York. Now both Derek Jeter, who retired in 2014, and manager Joe Girardi are gone from the Yankees clubhouse. Speaking at the Fast Company Innovation Festival in Manhattan on Thursday afternoon, Jeter shared his thoughts on the Yankees opting not to bring back his teammate...
Doe! The Iowa Department of Transportation was forced to explain that “deer can’t read” — after Hawkeye Staters kept asking why it doesn’t put “deer crossing” signs in places that are safer for the mammals to trot over the road. “We actually get this question on a pretty regular basis,” the agency wrote on Facebook...
The Vatican approved an English-language translation of the exorcism rituals, reports said. The rituals were first officially promulgated in 1999 in the De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam, which codified centuries-old unofficial practices by the clergy, the Daily Mail reported. The translation is being published by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Although distribution of the...
