May they live long and prosper. Theatrical lighting designers and self-proclaimed mega geeks Courtney Kuhbach and Benjamin Weill tied the knot on Oct. 28 — with a celebration jam-packed with “Star Wars,” “Star Trek” and “Doctor Who” nods. “We just wanted to have fun and do something a little different,” Weill tells The Post. “It...
A simple honk from another driver made a St. Louis cop so blaring mad that he told the man behind the wheel he was getting a ticket for “excessive noise,” according to a report. Scott Smith told the Riverfront Times the wild ordeal unfolded after he and two co-workers were heading back to work after...
Jimmy Vesey understands this is all part of that overarching “process,” that sometimes a second-year player is going to be on a short leash and might end up stapled to the bench. And sometimes, good graces don’t last very long. The Rangers winger played what he called “maybe my best game of the season” in...
Major League Baseball and its Japanese counterparts have reached a tentative understanding to grandfather the now-expired posting system for one more year, clearing yet another hurdle to facilitate Shohei Otani coming to an MLB team this offseason. However, a person involved in the negotiations cautioned that nothing is finalized, and the agreement can still be...
Four NCAA Division I basketball coaches, including former NBA star Chuck “The Rifleman” Connors Person, have been indicted in one of the biggest corruption scandals ever to rock college sports. The indictments Tuesday largely mirror charges brought in Oct. alleging that the four NCAA Division coaches received kickbacks from the agents, money advisers and clothing-giant...
More than one in 10 New Jersey Transit train engineers who were screened for sleep apnea tested positive for the condition, which can make them spontaneously fall asleep while on the job, according to agency officials. Out of the 373 train engineers tested, 57 were taken off duty because an initial screening showed that they...
City Council member Elizabeth Crowley wouldn’t concede Wednesday after unofficial returns showed her losing to Republican Robert Holden by 133 votes out of more than 20,000 cast in Tuesday’s election. “I am confident once all of the numbers come in, we will have four more years …” Crowley said in a statement. But Holden predicted...
A carnival worker was found dead from an apparent suicide at a school fair in Florida, according to police. Police said that the worker’s body was found Wednesday morning when a volunteer went into a storage trailer at Blessed Trinity Catholic School campus in Virginia Gardens, WPLG reported. The identity of the worker was not...
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Roger Federer is a skirt-chaser. Not the kind you’re thinking. The 36-year-old tennis legend turned heads on Tuesday when he played a tennis match at a Glasgow, Scotland, charity event sporting a polo shirt and a kilt. Federer crowdsourced the fashion statement at the beginning of the match. The Swiss athlete announced, courtside, that he’d...
The US Department of Justice is pushing AT&T to sell its CNN cable network to satisfy antitrust concerns over its purchase of Time Warner, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday (paywall), citing sources it said had direct knowledge of the matter. AT&T is prepared to fight any divestitures required to win regulatory approval of the...
A package thief has been swiping boxes from a quiet Bronx neighborhood, making off with hundreds in merchandise including kids’ toys. Police on Monday released surveillance video showing the man stealing boxes from two homes in Morris Park last month, and said it’s possible he could be responsible for similar thefts. In the first incident,...
“Im looking for somebody to peel some spuds live on stage tnight at this gig in Bethnal Green must have own peeler as you were,” the rocker tweeted.
Barack Obama may no longer be the leader of the free world, but that didn’t stop the masses from waiting for him to show up Wednesday for jury duty in Chicago. He ultimately was dismissed. Obama left his home in the Kenwood neighborhood just before 9:30 a.m. for the Daley Center, where his vehicle was...
Barack Obama may no longer be the leader of the free world, but that didn’t stop the masses from waiting for him to show up Wednesday for jury duty in Chicago. He ultimately was dismissed. Obama left his home in the Kenwood neighborhood just before 9:30 a.m. for the Daley Center, where his vehicle was...
PARIS — A team of scientists who last week announced the discovery of a large void inside the Great Pyramid of Giza have created a virtual-reality tour that allows users to “teleport” themselves inside the structure and explore its architecture. Using 3D technology, the Scan Pyramids Project allows visitors wearing headsets to take a guided tour...
A Texas student enrolled in a Semester at Sea study abroad program died while on an excursion in Myanmar, officials said. Kassandra “Kassie” Braun — who hails from Fishers, Indiana — took a bad fall Tuesday evening trying to watch the sunset in the coastal city of Bagan, according to the Arab News. Program administrators...
A woman who wears a colostomy bag after she nearly died from an incurable bowel condition has become a world champion bodybuilder. Zoey Wright had her large intestine removed three years ago but that didn’t stop her being crowned number one at the Pure Elite World Championship. It marked an unlikely milestone for the 25-year-old,...
An “academically weak” teenager in India killed a seven-year-old schoolmate because he wanted to get exams and parent-teacher conferences postponed, police said. Indian police arrested the 16-year-old Wednesday for slitting his young schoolmate’s throat in September, AFP reported. “He admitted during questioning that he wanted to shut the school to defer the exams and [parent-teacher]...
An attorney in Florida is suing the Miami Dolphins, alleging she was unfairly booted from the team’s stadium after kneeling during the national anthem and referring to the president as “a—–e Trump” during a game last month. Cindy Niad Hannah, president and chief executive officer of ATD Mediation in Ft. Lauderdale, is seeking at least...
A man in Scotland is on trial for training a dog to give the Nazi salute. Mark Meechan and his girlfriend’s pug, Buddha, went viral in April 2016, after the 29-year-old posted a YouTube repeatedly saying “Gas the Jews” and “Sieg heil.” Meechan claims the stunt was to annoy his girlfriend.
Ryan Fitzpatrick went through incredible highs and lows as the Jets quarterback for the past two years. Now, he’s hoping to hand them another low. Fitzpatrick will start for the Buccaneers on Sunday against the Jets after Jameis Winston injured his shoulder last week. Fitzpatrick spoke to the New York media on a conference call...
Your dog may not have been born with a silver spoon in its mouth, but thanks to Tiffany, it can lap up food and water out of a silver bowl. The luxury jewelry company caused a stir online with the launch of its “everyday objects” collection — think home goods such as $9,000 spools of...
An image of two elephants fleeing a mob that set them on fire in eastern India highlights the ongoing human-elephant conflicts in the region. The photograph, named “Hell is Here,” was taken by Biplab Hazra and was named the winner of the Sanctuary Wildlife Photography Awards 2017. The image shows a calf on fire as...
Van Susteren says she has spent more than a year creating a service that allows users to apologize to each other.
