For adults seeking a high-school equivalency diploma through the city Department of Education, your odds are slim to none. Despite a $52 million budget last fiscal year, the DOE’s Office of Adult and Continuing Education, OACE, says it awarded only 150 diplomas — less than half as many as the year before. The lame results...
Wedgeworth became best known for her role as divorcee Lana Shields in “Three’s Company.”
DETROIT — A priest who wasn’t allowed to preach instead turned his ears and heart to the needy. Now, decades after his death, Solanus Casey is on a path to sainthood, celebrated as an incredibly humble man who brought people to God. Father Solanus, as he was known, will be beatified Saturday at a Mass...
“RUN DND” seeks to capture Dinkins’ accomplishments, failures and flashpoints, as seen through the eyes of key political players during his time in office, from 1990 to 1993.
WASHINGTON — The top U.S. nuclear commander was quoted as saying on Saturday that he would resist President Donald Trump if he ordered an “illegal” launch of nuclear weapons. CBS News said Air Force General John Hyten, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), told an audience at the Halifax International Security Forum in Nova...
Leaders of Zimbabwe’s ruling political party are moving to oust longtime president Robert Mugabe, news reports said Saturday. At a meeting planned for Sunday, the central committee of the ZANU-PF party will also dismiss Grace Mugabe, who has been her husband’s preferred successor, the reports said. “We are just going to properly send the old...
The single mom of four is estimated to have earned $21 million in the year starting June 2016.
The People Vs. Alex Cross by James Patterson (fiction, St. Martin’s) The prolific Patterson is back with book 23 in the hugely popular Alex Cross series. This time, Cross is in trouble with the law, charged with gunning down followers of his nemesis, Gary Soneji. It was self-defense — but will others see it the...
A Central Park South dentist was obsessed with a patient’s fake boobs and pressured a worker into giving him oral sex, a lawsuit alleges. Joseph Levy would make his all-female staff cringe with commentary on their bodies, and openly fixated on “one patient in particular, who was the ex-wife of a movie star,” two employees...
Buck Showalter coached Hensley Meulens from the time Meulens was in the instructional league as a young minor leaguer until 1993, when the two were in The Bronx, but it’s what Meulens has done since then that makes Showalter optimistic Meulens would succeed as Yankees’ manager. “He loves the game,” said Showalter, who managed the...
"He is conscious now surrounded by family," a rep for the 67-year-old confirmed to Page Six.
Knicks forward Doug McDermott takes a shot at some Q&A with Post columnist Steve Serby. Q: Have you been doubted all your life? A: A little bit. I was a kid that wasn’t very highly recruited in high school just ’cause my dad was a coach, and they assumed I was gonna play for him...
This is the sleepy-eyed straphanger who police say smashed his booze bottle over another passenger’s head during a scuffle on a Brooklyn train. The attacker and his 33-year-old victim were on a southbound 2 train on Nov. 8 at 11:10 p.m. when they began squabbling, cops said. As the victim got off the train at...
This is the sleepy-eyed straphanger who police say smashed his booze bottle over another passenger’s head during a scuffle on a Brooklyn train. The attacker and his 33-year-old victim were on a southbound 2 train on Nov. 8 at 11:10 p.m. when they began squabbling, cops said. As the victim got off the train at...
Search Party Sunday, 10 p.m., TBS The road to city hall would have been a rocky one for Brandon Micheal Hall, who plays Courtney Rose, an accidental politician on ABC’s “The Mayor,” if he weren’t already a recurring cast member on the quirky TBS sitcom “Search Party.” “The show put me with great actors who...
If the starry list of past clientele led Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein to expect four-star accommodations in the all-male sex-addict facility, Gentle Path at The Meadows, they must have been sorely disappointed. The dorm-style, two-person rooms are reminiscent of those found in a midlevel hotel, and electronics get surrendered at the door. Books and...
If the starry list of past clientele led Kevin Spacey and Harvey Weinstein to expect four-star accommodations in the all-male sex-addict facility, Gentle Path at The Meadows, they must have been sorely disappointed. The dorm-style, two-person rooms are reminiscent of those found in a midlevel hotel, and electronics get surrendered at the door. Books and...
Five years ago, the idea of an NBA full of 7-footers who protect the rim on one end and regularly take and make 3-pointers on the other would have seemed crazy. Except here are Kristaps Porzingis and Joel Embid, DeMarcus Cousins and Karl-Antony Towns, and pretty soon even veterans such as Marc Gasol and Brook...
Five years ago, the idea of an NBA full of 7-footers who protect the rim on one end and regularly take and make 3-pointers on the other would have seemed crazy. Except here are Kristaps Porzingis and Joel Embid, DeMarcus Cousins and Karl-Antony Towns, and pretty soon even veterans such as Marc Gasol and Brook...
It’s a thought that strikes fear into arachnophobes everywhere – swallowing spiders in your sleep. The idea that we eat eight spiders a year has been doing the rounds for decades but there’s good news for all of us who find that thought stomach-churning. It’s an urban myth. It turns out that, we actually don’t...
Glen Dale, W. Va. — Bad news travels fast. Good news, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to travel at all. Last weekend in Beijing, as part of his 12-day trip to Asia, President Trump announced that the US and China had signed an $83.7 billion deal to create a number of petrochemical projects in West Virginia over...
The only place you’d expect to encounter the “unmistakable smell of rotting flesh” these days would be at a slaughterhouse. In Victorian London, you’d find it in an operating room. A “surgeon, wearing a blood-encrusted apron, rarely washed his hands or his instruments and carried with him … the unmistakable smell of rotting flesh . . ....
Lonzo Ball has had a rough start to his NBA career, and it probably isn’t going to get any easier after Friday night. Ball’s teammates ended up in a skirmish along the sideline near midcourt in a game against the Suns. It was the third time a minor donnybrook broke out in a game between...
When Ira Antelis graduated from the Manhattan School of Music in 1980 as an aspiring composer, his parents helped him financially as he found his way into the industry. “The support they gave me was invaluable, and it allowed me to do the things I needed to do to nurture my career until it happened,”...
Madison Missina knew from a very young age she wanted to be a sex worker. And after 18 years in the industry, the now 35-year-old veteran has done everything from massage parlors to brothels, and appeared in countless porn films and magazine spreads. But since debuting in adult films five years ago, Missina says working...
