Police stop-and-frisk jumped more than 22 percent last year — the first increase under Mayor Bill de Blasio and the highest number of stops since 2015, a new report says. The new data, released Friday by the NYPD, shows the controversial stops jumped in 2019 to 13,459 — up from 11,008 the year prior. The...
The career criminal accused of shooting two Bronx cops in less than 12 hours harbored a grudge against the NYPD because he was zapped with a Taser during a 2018 arrest, according to police sources. “They Tasered me!” yelled Robert Williams while cops piled on top of him moments after he allegedly shot up the...
It is still unclear if Weinstein will testify in his defense.
Late last week, Joe Judge put the finishing touches on his 20-man coaching staff. The rookie head coach may have to make an alteration, as one of his defensive assistants could be headed back to college. Bret Bielema, hired by Judge as the Giants outside linebackers coach and senior defensive assistant, has a long history...
Mayor Bill de Blasio’s newest pick for the MTA board would be its first disabled member. Victor Calise, who currently serves as commissioner of the Mayor’s Office for People with Disabilities, has been tapped by Hizzoner for one of the city’s two open slots on the transit agency’s board, City Hall announced Monday. “Victor believes...
Many Major League Baseball players have repeatedly expressed their outrage with how the Astros fostered one of the biggest cheating scandals in baseball history, but one former pitcher is taking it a step further. Former Blue Jay Mike Bolsinger filed a civil lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, accusing the Astros of unfair...
A state commission has sanctioned a small-town judge for in 2018 drunkenly crashing his vehicle into an abandoned Kmart while armed with a loaded pistol. Michael Petucci, a town justice for the Town of Herkimer, got sauced after 6:30 p.m. on Dec. 12, 2018 at a local bar called Stoney’s Tavern, according to a ruling...
The perfect daytime date — according to new research — is a walk in a park or botanical garden, a visit to the zoo or a river cruise. A study of 2,000 Americans has revealed the ideal combination of activities involved in the perfect date and how to behave on that all-important rendezvous, with outdoor...
Alleged Bronx cop-shooter Robert Williams still wants to draw more blue blood, threatening from his hospital bed to shoot more police upon his release, prosecutors revealed Monday at his arraignment. “I’m going to shoot one of you when I get out,” Williams snarled to cops while laid up in Lincoln Hospital on Sunday, according to prosecutors....
We are officially one week into the new-look XFL’s inaugural season, and there is some buzz about this quirky new brand of football. Vince McMahon’s league has eight teams, new kickoff rules, three-point conversions and a truckload of sideline interviews. There were so many sideline interviews this weekend that they picked up an accidental F-bomb...
The dance moves may be written in the lyrics, but for Jennifer Parker, learning the “Electric Slide” was a long time coming. The 48-year-old from El Paso, Texas, suffered a brain aneurysm in 2018, which led to short-term amnesia and a rare spinal cord injury that would leave her paralyzed from the neck down. Doctors...
On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, Sen. Bernie Sanders pulled ahead of Joe Biden in a new Quinnipiac national poll — which also showed Mike Bloomberg leapfrog into third and score the largest lead of any Democrat in a head-to-head matchup with President Trump. Sanders got 25 percent of the vote among Democratic...
Now tat’s grit. The tough-as-nails NYPD lieutenant shot in the arm inside his Bronx station-house early Sunday coolly asked Mayor Bill de Blasio about the fate of his tattoos, police sources said. “Who’s going to fix my ink?” Lt. Jose Gautreaux cracked to Hizzoner during a visit at Lincoln Hospital, according to department sources. “He was...
My-day the 13th! This is the moment a dad in the UK granted his son’s birthday wish – to be picked up from school by Jason from “Friday the 13th.” Sam Murphy wanted to surprise his son Carter, who has ADHD, with a special treat for his big day. He asked Carter what he wanted...
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Could wedding bells soon be ringing for Aaron Rodgers and Danica Patrick?
A California man whose wife was killed by a hit-and-run driver put his grief aside long enough to track down the careless driver who left her dying on the pavement, according to news reports. Rob Richardson, a former cop, set out to find the driver of a Lexus sedan after the car struck his wife’s...
The Wilpons are turning the page on the Steve Cohen saga. Mets COO Jeff Wilpon cited confidentiality and non-disclosure agreements as the reason why he will not be commenting on the sale of the team to the hedge fund billionaire falling through. “As spring training begins, on behalf of ownership, we would like to share...
Dramatic video captured how Storm Ciara turned airliners into bucking broncos as the pilots fought to take off and land at Birmingham’s airport in the UK and in Zurich, Switzerland. Britain’s biggest storm in seven years – with maximum wind speeds of 93 mph — forced the cancellation of hundreds of flights, but some pilots...
Cases of coronavirus spreading outside of China could be the "spark" that ignites an out-of-control pandemic, health officials said Monday.
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — A gust of 209 mph was recorded atop a California peak on Sunday, a potential record that wowed forecasters monitoring a cold storm that moved south through the state dumping snow, rain and hail. The blast of wind was captured around 7:45 am by an instrument at 9,186 feet (2,800...
The NYPD lieutenant wounded when a gunman shot up a Bronx station-house was released from the hospital on Monday to cheers from throngs of his fellow Finest. Lt. Jose Gautreaux walked out of Lincoln Hospital shortly after noon, his left arm in a sling, but his right arm raised high to flash a triumphant thumbs-up...
Michael Avenatti said Monday he won’t take the stand in his Nike extortion trial after a Manhattan judge rejected his attempt to have his testimony limited. Avenatti was considering taking the stand in his Manhattan federal court trial for allegedly attempting to blackmail Nike out of more than $20 million. His lawyers filed a motion...
Ajla Zekan, 21, was taken into custody Saturday for the late-Tuesday attack on a cab driver whom she stabbed “without notice” about 11 times with a knife roughly 4-6 inches long.
SALT LAKE CITY — Ann Lovell had never owned a passport before last year. Now, the 62-year-old teacher is a frequent flier, traveling every few months to Tijuana, Mexico, to buy medication for rheumatoid arthritis — with tickets paid for by the state of Utah’s public insurer. Lovell is one of about 10 state workers...
