Shocking new details were revealed during the sentencing of a former teacher and mother of five who pleaded guilty to having sex with a male high school student in Illinois. Sarah L. Myers, 41, of Garden Prairie, Ill., who was a special education teacher at a high school in Poplar Grove, Ill., was sentenced last...
Whether you’ve won your fantasy championship or not, you likely encountered a number of speed bumps throughout the season. Injuries happen. That’s just a fact, and we all get bitten at some point. But what happens when you draft a player early, he stays healthy and yet still falls short of his expected production? You’ve...
The numbers do not lie. In addition to losing more game (13) this season than any other in franchise history, several other statistical lowlights make this one of the worst Giants team of all time. They finished 1-7 on the road, their worst road record (in a non-strike year) since 1978, when they were also...
SAN ANTONIO – Allen Crabbe is the highest-paid Net, and he’s paid to shoot. So far he hasn’t. And the rest of Brooklyn’s season may hinge on when he finally starts. Or if he ever starts. “Listen, he’s struggling a little bit,” coach Kenny Atkinson admitted of Crabbe as the Nets prepared for Tuesday’s game...
A Rockland County family with the Christmas spirit was sifting through charity donations – and was stunned to find an engraved wedding band amid a trove of canned goods. Now, the Cirlins of New City are trying to find whoever lost the band. Gary Cirlin and his brother-in-law were sorting donations at the Nyack College...
RESTON, Va. — A teenager has been charged with fatally shooting a couple in their northern Virginia home. Police say the 17-year-old shot himself after shooting the couple and is hospitalized in life-threatening condition. Police in Fairfax County, a Washington suburb, announced Saturday they filed charges against the teen. His name wasn’t released because of...
This was no Merry Kristaps for the Knicks. In fact, Monday’s holiday could foreshadow something grim — as it did a year ago. Knicks center Enes Kanter was sensational with a 31-point, 22-rebound explosion, but Kristaps Porzingis didn’t have one of his stronger games. That allowed the 76ers’ Joel Embiid and his flock of hot-shooting...
This was hardly the Merry Kristaps the Knicks imagined. Knicks center Enes Kanter was sensational with a 31-point, 22-rebound explosion, but Kristaps Porzingis didn’t have one of his monster games as the 76ers’ Joel Embiid and his flock of hot-shooting guards survived in a 105-98 Christmas upset in the nationally televised Garden matinee. Porzingis racked...
This was hardly the Merry Kristaps the Knicks imagined. Knicks center Enes Kanter was sensational with a 31-point, 22-rebound explosion, but Kristaps Porzingis didn’t have one of his monster games as the 76ers’ Joel Embiid and his flock of hot-shooting guards survived in a 105-98 Christmas upset in the nationally televised Garden matinee. Porzingis racked...
An inferno erupted near the top of a Manhattan high-rise Christmas morning, killing a longtime New York City designer, officials said. Flames could be seen shooting from the 35th floor of the Carnegie Mews Apartments on West 56th St., blocks from Columbus Circle Monday around 7:30 a.m. The 76-year-old resident of the unit where the...
Erica Garner — whose father Eric Garner became a national symbol of excessive police force when he died after being placed in a chokehold – remained in a coma Monday after suffering a heart attack, family members said. “So my sister had another heart attack last night and she’s in critical condition,” Erica’s sister Emerald...
With regard to the mysterious two years of Christian Hackenberg, who’s one game shy of going through his first two NFL seasons without playing a single play in a real game … … What must be going on in the mind of Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan, who by all accounts became so smitten with...
The Palestinian foreign ministry on Monday slammed Guatemala’s decision to move its embassy to Jerusalem after the US recognized the divided city as the capital of Israel. “It’s a shameful and illegal act that goes totally against the wishes of church leaders in Jerusalem” and violates a non-binding UN General Assembly resolution condemning the US...
A Grinch swiped a tiny dog from a New Jersey animal shelter on Christmas Eve, right before he was going to be adopted, officials said. Tub Tub, a nine-year-old male Pomeranian, was carried off from the Monmouth County SPCA shelter in Eatontown at around 12:30 p.m., according to a post on their Facebook page. “His...
WASHINGTON — ISIS has claimed responsibility for a deadly suicide bombing in Afghanistan that killed at least 10 people. The suicide bomber walked up to the entrance of Afghanistan’s national intelligence agency and blew himself up as employees were heading to work Monday. The deaths appear to be civilians and passersby. Another five people were...
President Trump enthusiastically embraced the red carpets, military parades and fancy dinners that were lavished upon him during state visits on his recent tour of Asia. ‘‘Magnificent!’’ he declared at one point on the trip. But Trump has yet to reciprocate, making him the first president in almost a century to close his first year...
A photo of Annie Verret rocking a stunning sparkler circulated on social media over the holiday weekend.
A woman was killed and her husband seriously injured after a vicious mauling by two pit bulls on Christmas Eve in a Kentucky coal town. Two Bell County deputies responded to the scene Sunday morning in Arjay and discovered the woman and her husband “had been savagely attacked” by two pit bulls, the sheriff’s department...
It was supposed to be a celebration of a playoff team, a love affair between the town and the team, ringing in the new year with a Super Bowl resolution. It is forecast to be 21 degrees come 4 p.m. on New Year’s Eve, the merciful end of a season that cannot end soon enough...
TELESKOF, Iraq — Inside the newly renovated Church of Saint George in the Northern Iraqi town of Teleskof, Hayat Chamoun Daoud led children dressed as Santa Claus singing “Jingle Bells” in Aramaic. Like every other resident of Teleskof, this was Daoud’s first Christmas back home in three years, since Islamic State militants overran her town...
Julian Assange’s Twitter account has returned after mysteriously vanishing early Christmas morning. It wasn’t clear whether Twitter suspended the WikiLeak founder’s account or whether the serial leaker deleted it himself. Twitter hasn’t commented on the outage. A posting later Monday morning showed an image of Santa Claus sitting in front of a laptop opened to...
To give is to receive. The only thing worse than not getting a gift at all is getting stuck with one you don’t want. A recent survey conducted by Pureprofile looked at 2,000 American adults and found that the average person received at least one unwanted gift during the holiday season — with each gift...
Three months ago, Christopher Johnson sat in a board room at the Jets’ headquarters with a group of reporters and discussed how he would evaluate Todd Bowles at the end of the season. The end of the season is now here. The Jets finish the season against the Patriots on Sunday. It is worth looking...
First lady Melania Trump posted a playful selfie on Twitter Monday morning showing her posing beneath a Santa hat filter, golden reindeer and with a coquettish smile and the caption “#MerryChristmas.” The first family is spending the week between Christmas and New Year’s at their luxe Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida, where the president...
