A chamber of commerce in Maine is apologizing for a holiday promotion that asked participants to “Hunt for the Indian,” an event blasted by some critics as “absolutely horrific” and totally tone deaf. The planned event by the Skowhegan Area Chamber of Commerce featured a Native American figurine, which was to be hidden in a...
If you couldn’t bring yourself to wait in line for the iPhone X this weekend, your next best bet may be to buy a plane ticket. Several unlocked versions of Apple’s new, $999 smartphone were getting sold on eBay Monday for north of $1,500 after big crowds queued up at stores across the US over...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida State University has indefinitely suspended its fraternities and sororities after the alcohol-related death of a freshman pledge and cocaine charges for a member of another fraternity. University President John Thrasher made the announcement on Monday. Thrasher didn’t say how long the suspensions will last. Andrew Coffey, a pledge at Pi Kappa...
The death toll from a truck crash in Northern California on Thursday night was un-bee-lievable. That’s because the semi-truck that slammed into an embankment along Interstate 80 was carrying about 1 million bees – and they had to be destroyed to prevent them from swarming, Fox 40 reported. The accident happened in Auburn, north of...
A top state Senate Democrat is publicly blaming Gov. Cuomo for allowing Republicans to control of the Senate. The charge was made by Queens’ Mike Gianaris, chair of the Senate Democratic Campaign Committee, in a speech to state’s Progressive Action Network on Oct. 15. Gianaris said Cuomo’s acquiesced when a small group of rogue Democrats...
It doesn't look like anyone can outscore Pep Guardiola's side.
Who doesn’t want to follow in Shalane Flanagan’s footsteps? The four-time Olympian became the first American woman to win the New York City Marathon in 40 years on Sunday, finishing in a blistering 2:26:53 and beating three-time NYC winner Mary Keitany. And this victory came after a long road of frustrations and disappointments over the...
The lawyer for the Kentucky man charged with assaulting Rand Paul outside his home in an attack that left the Republican senator with broken ribs said the altercation had nothing to do with “politics” and was a “trivial” dispute between neighbors. “The unfortunate occurrence of November 3rd has absolutely nothing to do with either’s politics...
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa mother accused of leaving her four children home alone while she traveled to Europe has pleaded not guilty. Court records say Erin Macke filed a written plea last week to four counts of child endangerment and one of transferring a firearm to a person under 21. Police said the...
PHILADELPHIA — Police in Philadelphia have identified the body of a woman found strangled in a creek as a 21-year-old art student. Police tell WPVI-TV a passerby found Kierra Johnson’s body face down Friday morning in Cobbs Creek. Johnson was a student at the Hussian School of Art. She was last seen Thursday, and her...
MANDEVILLE, La. — Authorities say a Louisiana homeowner who’s accused of arming himself and chasing down high school students who were toilet-papering homes has been arrested. Mandeville Police Chief Gerald Sticker told news outlets that Craig Scott was arrested Thursday and charged with aggravated assault with a firearm and obstruction of a roadway. It’s unclear...
The music mogul changed his name to Brother Love on his 48th birthday Saturday.
Ten of the worshipers wounded in the Texas church massacre Sunday remain in critical condition, officials said Monday. “We ask that everyone keep them in their thoughts and prayers,” said Freeman Martin, the Regional Director for the Texas Department of Public Safety. Devin Patrick Kelley, 26, killed 26 people and wounded 20 others when he...
Mastermind Stephen Hawking has warned that the human race will perish on Earth after we turn it into a sizzling fireball in less than 600 years. He declared that humans must “boldly go where no one has gone before” if we fancy continuing our species for another million years. If we don’t, the world will...
A University of Florida student faces stalking charges after allegedly showing up unannounced in an ex’s apartment and sending her threatening texts. Calvin Ming Leung Yeung, 20, of Gainseville, allegedly sent her a series of messages Friday saying he was going to rape her so he could “own” her again, according to student newspaper The...
BUFFALO — Was Donald Trump the secret force behind the seemingly grassroots 2014 campaign to block Jon Bon Jovi from buying the NFL’s Buffalo Bills? That’s what those involved are saying now, three years after the billionaire and the rocker were competing to buy the Bills. At the heart of the effort was the creation...
The NFL made it official on Monday, suspending Jets wide receiver Jeremy Kerley for four games for violating the league’s performance-enhancing drug policy. Kerley’s suspension was reported last week, but the NFL did not announce it until Monday. The suspension begins with this week’s game against the Buccaneers. He is eligible to return to the...
The tiny town of Colma in California has the nickname “The City of the Silent” and not because its population sits at just 1,800. It’s because the town, located in San Mateo County near the northern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, has a population of dead people that outnumbers the living by nearly a...
Unlike last November, when their focus was clearly on one player, the Mets enter free agency with surveillance in several directions. Given his team’s holes in the infield, outfield, starting rotation and bullpen, general manager Sandy Alderson will need to be prudent in dividing his available dollars as the Mets attempt to rebuild a team...
A 16-year-old girl who aspired to an NICU nurse was among those killed when a crazed shooter opened fire on a Texas church congregation on Sunday, according to a report. Teen Haley Krueger was fatally shot when gunman Devin Kelley opened fire inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, CNN reports. “She was...
A German man thought he had discovered an unexploded World War II bomb in his garden, but it turned out to be a harmless — though humongous — zucchini, according to a report. Police rushed to the scene in the town of Bretten, near the southwestern city of Karlsruhe — where the 81-year-old man discovered...
A 1-year-old girl and an 8-months-pregnant mom of five were among eight members of the same family slaughtered in Sunday’s church massacre in Texas, according to reports. Bryan Holcombe, an associate pastor of the the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs was approaching the pulpit when gunman Devin Kelley opened fire — killing the preacher,...
MIAMI — A Florida woman whose 4-year-old daughter’s body was found in a dumpster is charged with first-degree murder. A Miami-Dade Police statement says a man throwing out garbage Sunday found the body of Tania Paige inside the trash bin at his apartment complex southwest of Miami. The girl’s mother, 31-year-old Tina Farrington, was held...
Texas mass shooter Devin Patrick Kelley killed his wife’s grandmother, according to reports. Lula White, 71, the grandmother of Kelley’s wife Danielle, was among the 26 dead after Kelley opened fire inside the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday, CNN reported. “I have no doubt where she is right now. She is...
"The minute my friend left, he asked me if I would get naked in a movie," Pompeo recalled.
