An innocent bystander was shot in the leg Sunday as a domestic dispute played out in the hallway of her Staten Island building, police said. The 17-year-old girl heard people arguing in the hallway of the Coursen Pl. building in Stapleton and left her apartment to see what was happening around 2:30 a.m., cops said....
Six firefighters were injured in a massive four-alarm blaze that destroyed a row of stores in upper Manhattan Sunday, officials said. The fire started in a business on Nagle Ave. near Thayer St. in Inwood and quickly spread to several neighboring stores around 10 a.m. It took around 100 firefighters to beat back the flames,...
Six firefighters were injured in a massive four-alarm blaze that destroyed a row of stores in upper Manhattan Sunday, officials said. The fire started in a business on Nagle Ave. near Thayer St. in Inwood and quickly spread to several neighboring stores around 10 a.m. It took around 100 firefighters to beat back the flames,...
KIRKUK, Iraq — Iraqi security forces have found mass graves in an area recently retaken from the Islamic State group that could contain up to 400 bodies, an Iraqi official said Sunday. The bodies of civilians and security forces were found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken in early October, Kirkuk...
Cincinnati linebacker Vontaze Burfict has been ejected for contact with an official. [instagram url=” Burfict initially was flagged for a late hit on DeMarco Murray and apparently made contact with an official pleading his case. The flag for his ejection came two plays after the Murray hit. The linebacker didn’t immediately leave the sideline. Murray...
Top Democrats on Sunday refused to say whether Sen. Bob Menendez should step down if he’s convicted of federal bribery charges. “I’m not going to get into the hypotheticals on either of these situations, as I said, several steps removed,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) the Senate minority whip, said on CNN’s “State of the Union,”...
Surveillance video shot inside a Brooklyn shipping store may help cops nab the crook who swiped a pair of pricey photographs from a museum wall. The NYPD on Sunday released photos and a 20-second video clip of a young woman carrying a large FedEx box containing the stolen artwork into a business-services center in Williamsburg....
Mayor de Blasio honored the victims of American Airlines Flight 587 on Sunday in a memorial for families to mark the 16th anniversary of the tragic crash in Rockaway Park. De Blasio, whose late arrival to the memorial sparked outrage from victim’s families three years ago, showed up early this year, giving himself a 15...
Is it appropriate to use a personal day to go on a job interview, or should I limit my job search to before and after work? I just wonder if I won’t seem eager enough if I limit my availability. Well, I give you credit for being thoughtful and professional. I can’t say the same...
When Mike Pereira, rules analyst at Fox Sports, drove from his house in Sacramento, Calif., three summers ago to visit a friend in Bend, Ore., , he had an epiphany. The former vice president of officiating in the National Football League has a ritual during this journey. “Once I get past Sacramento airport, I turn...
The mother of two was honored with Baby2Baby's Giving Tree Award for her dedication to children’s causes.
Mindaugas Kuzminskas became the odd man out for the Knicks, who, as expected, waived the Lithuanian forward Sunday to make room for the return of Joakim Noah. “The respect this franchise has for Mindaugas cannot be overstated,” Knicks general manager Scott Perry said in a statement about the 6-9, second-season forward. “His professionalism and work ethic...
Brooklyn’s injury woes are so bad that D’Angelo Russell being diagnosed with a left knee contusion qualifies as a mild relief. It’s not good. It’s sure as heck not great. But the Nets have gotten use to catastrophic, especially at the point guard position. Russell was forced out of Saturday night’s loss in Utah with...
No NFL players protested during the national anthem before early games as the league celebrated Veterans Day weekend by honoring the military. The NFL Players Association had asked all players to observe a two-minute moment of silence before games to honor veterans. Even players who have been protesting most of the season stood for the...
WASHINGTON — Patrick Ewing was greeted by the Capital One Arena crowd with a rousing ovation and left the floor to more positive vibes. His head-coaching debut went as planned, a 73-57 rout of overwhelmed Jacksonville in front of Georgetown luminaries such as Otto Porter, Dikembe Mutombo, Alonzo Mourning and John Thompson, his former coach....
Haddish pumped big energy into the show – and the season – that’d been short on it.
The Roger Goodell contract details are leaking as fast as Ezekiel Elliott runs. Dual reports centering on the most contentious commissioner in American sports were released Sunday, one far less kind to Goodell than the other. ESPN cited sources with the figures for the contract extension Goodell has proposed to the NFL’s Competition Committee. According...
WASHINGTON – White House officials Sunday joined a growing number of Republicans to distance themselves from Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore over accusations of sexual misconduct. “I said very early in this process that the conduct as described should disqualify anyone from serving in public office and I’ll stand by that,” White House counselor Kellyanne...
A Florida man was arrested after police caught him drunk driving his lawn mower down a major highway, Fox 13 reported. Police in Port St. Lucie noticed a man driving unsteadily down U.S. Highway 1 on Nov. 3, according to the report. The man, Kenneth Burton Alleshouse, 56, was riding his red Snapper lawn mower...
She showed video and images of the front of the house and interior decorated with blooming cherry blossoms and white flowers.
SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas — Hundreds of people will gather in the tiny town of Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday to worship with surviving members of a local church where a shooting rampage left more than two dozen people dead. Members of the First Baptist Church will hold a church service for the first time since...
In a statement Sunday on Twitter, Underwood thanked her fans for messages of support following her fall Friday night.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Kansas City Chiefs defensive tackle Roy Miller was arrested early Saturday in Florida on a domestic battery charge, according to Duval County jail records. The details of the charges, as obtained by ESPN, are gruesome. According to the police report, Miller’s wife accuses him of dragging her by the hair, tearing a...
WASHINGTON – Two top former US intelligence chiefs blasted President Trump’s failure to condemn Russia for meddling in the 2016 election and said Vladimir Putin is “playing” the president. After meeting with Putin in Vietnam , Trump signaled he accepts the Russian leader’s longstanding denials that Moscow orchestrated cyber attacks on the 2016 US elections...
Police closed a Manhattan subway station after finding a suspicious package that included pressure cooker, officials said Sunday. A straphanger alerted police after finding the bag on the southbound 6 train platform the 33rd St. station near Park Ave. around 6 p.m. Saturday. Police closed the station while investigating the package, which was eventually determined...
