Ex-‘Bachelor’ producer sues for sexual harassment
Becky Steenhoek filed a complaint against Warner Brothers and five of the show's producers on Monday at the Los Angeles Superior Court.
Becky Steenhoek filed a complaint against Warner Brothers and five of the show's producers on Monday at the Los Angeles Superior Court.
A public feud that Stephen A. Smith engineered blew up in his face. The Smith-on-Smith drama — Stephen A. vs. J.R. — got personal Monday, when the Cavaliers guard called the ESPN personality an “Uncle Tom” over a bitter debate about J.R. wearing a hoodie on the Cleveland bench. Several days of back-and-forths, slowly stoked...
Being in poor health can cost you big. People who are unhealthy earn lower incomes, put away fewer dollars in savings, and accumulate less wealth over the years compared to those who are healthy, a new study published by the National Bureau of Economic Research found. The research, conducted by researchers at the University of...
You can dance if you want to. A 91-year-old law that prevents dancing in most city establishments without a hard-to-get permit is being repealed by the City Council on Tuesday. The infamous “cabaret law” — which for years drew negative comparisons between the city that never sleeps and the conservative town in the movie “Footloose”...
“He would call me his puppet and [say] I had no say in what he did to me,” the girl said.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — A defense attorney doesn’t dispute that a middle-school football coach abducted a 10-year-old Missouri girl in broad daylight in front of witnesses, then raped and killed her. At issue is whether teacher’s aide Craig Wood deliberated before snatching Hailey Owens, as prosecutors argued Monday during opening statements, or whether it was impulsive,...
About this time last year, Rosie Butera was breezing through a 3-mile jog on her last training run, just four days before the New York City Marathon. “I was having dreams of crossing the finish line,” the 47-year-old Massapequa, LI, resident tells The Post. “I got emotional just thinking about the crowd cheering for me...
He suite-end the deal! Felonious Bill de Blasio donor Jona Rechnitz once bought a Caribbean hotel stay for the mayor’s top fundraising aide, he testified Monday. “When he was away on vacation in the Dominican Republic, I paid for his hotel stay,” Rechnitz said when asked if he’d ever done anything for the mayor’s chief...
Police have located the truck that struck and dragged an NYPD recruit on her way to the police academy Monday morning and are questioning its driver, who claimed he was unaware he had hit someone. The tractor trailer was found Monday afternoon, hours after the 6 a.m. accident near the corner of 28th Ave. and...
The group of 14 dined "discreetly in a private space," according to a spy.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Police say a Tennessee man will not be charged in the shooting death of his 18-year-old son. News outlets report Kobe Hoyle was fatally shot outside his home on Sunday. Metro Nashville police said in a news release that 55-year-old Brentnol James will not be charged in the shooting death, at present,...
A “highly intoxicated” man dressed as Santa Claus shot four people, one fatally, at a Halloween party he was hosting in Texas after he was told to call it a night, police said. Randall Gaston Jones, 32, was arrested at a neighbor’s home after the violence erupted inside his Avenue F home in Austin —...
The iPhone X is killing it. Just three days after Apple started taking pre-orders for its most high-tech smartphone, demand is off the charts — with as many as 50 million units being sold, according to one estimate. The jaw-dropping prediction from one Wall Street tech analyst seemed to take investors by surprise — and...
A convicted sex offender in Muldrow, Oklahoma, was fatally shot after lunging at an arresting officer. The suspect, 30-year-old Phillip Joel Trammel, was hiding in a pile of laundry before jumping out and stabbing Deputy Christian Goode in the shoulder and the chest. The suspect was wanted for forgery, failure to pay child support, and...
The top of the table already looks depressingly familiar
Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl on Monday unexpectedly took the stand at his sentencing hearing to apologize to service members who got wounded searching for him. Bergdahl was the first witness whom the defense presented as they began putting on their evidence in the sentencing hearing. They hadn’t previously made it known that Bergdahl would address...
It wasn’t the time or place to clown around. A creepy clown in Vermont was arrested around 3 a.m. Saturday after a teen reportedly found the stranger asleep in his home. Sean J. Barber, 43, was sporting a clown costume and appeared to be drunk when police responded to the Marlboro residence, the Boston Globe...
Die-hard “Friends” fans know their stuff — they went on a break, pivoted and always saved room for jello. But these little-known facts about the popular series will surprise even the most dedicated followers of Friends. “Friends” was supposed to have just four main characters That’s right! As crazy as it sounds, “Friends” was originally...
"They don’t make them any better than Justin, and I could not be more thrilled to officially be Mrs. Hartley," the bride said.
Taking acetaminophen during pregnancy might increase the risk of your child developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, according to a controversial new study. “Long-term” use of the drug — which is the active ingredient in Tylenol — more than doubled the risk of ADHD. The study was published Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Researchers...
DETROIT — A couple is struggling to understand how their daughter was found dead years ago in Detroit and buried in an unmarked grave without their knowledge. The parents of 28-year-old Crissita Cage-Toaster reported her missing in October 2009. Her mother, Rosita Cage-Toaster, says Detroit police called her late last month, telling her they’d found...
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio — An Ohio university has apparently set a world record for the number of people dressed in penguin costumes. The Vindicator reports 972 Youngstown State University students, alumni and community members gathered on the school’s campus Saturday in their best penguin finery to celebrate the school’s 50th anniversary as a university. Youngstown State’s...
From the right: The Myth of Steve Bannon Steve Bannon may have made Donald Trump “a better candidate,” says The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes, but “he wasn’t responsible for pulling off an amazing come-from-far-behind win.” That’s just “the Bannon myth, created by the mythmaker himself.” Yet the news media treat him as if he’d been...
Humans were creating astonishing cave paintings in the Caribbean thousands of years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus, reveals new research. The study sheds new light on etchings found on the walls of dozens of cave systems on Mona Island, off modern-day Puerto Rico. It’s the Caribbean region’s largest concentration of indigenous pre-Columbian rock art....
As with Harvey Weinstein, it seems plenty in Hollywood knew all about Kevin Spacey. And even though they kept their mouths shut — insuring nothing but more entitlement, more boldness, and likely more victims — some of those speaking up are oddly self-righteous. “We all knew about u,” Rosie O’Donnell