Man dies 3 years after fatal Brooklyn shooting: NYPD The death of a man who was killed in a car in Brooklyn three years ago has been deemed a homicide, authorities said Thursday. Romel Jules, then 21, was shot in the upper back while sitting in the ... 04/18/2024 - 3:29 am | View Link
Suspect nabbed for firing stray shot that killed bystander in Bronx deli mugging Shward Bee, 31, was arrested in the Bronx early Wednesday and charged with murder, robbery and weapons possession in the slaying of Stefon Barnes. 04/17/2024 - 7:53 am | View Link
On eve of Trump's New York hush money trial, Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg touts drop in violent crime Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg, on the eve of Donald Trump's New York hush money trial, touted the drop in the city's violent crime rate in an interview with ABC News. 04/14/2024 - 3:59 am | View Link
Man shot and killed in Fresno. A suspect fled from the scene, police say A man was shot and killed Monday afternoon in Fresno ... Detectives are canvassing for surveillance video to see what may have led up to the shooting. 04/7/2024 - 10:02 pm | View Link
Coroner releases identity of man shot and killed by Lexington police The Fayette County Coroner’s Office has released the identity of the man who was shot and killed by Lexington police officers Tuesday. Joseph Carrico, 47, of Lexington, was pronounced dead at 1: ... 04/3/2024 - 4:52 am | View Link
Who was the first tortured poet? Maybe the ancient Egyptian who wrote, sometime in the 15th century BCE, “My beloved stirs my heart with his voice. He causes illness to seize me…. My heart is smitten.” Maybe the poet Catullus, whose heartbreaks lit up ancient Rome: “I hate and love,” he explained in Latin, “and it’s excruciating,” or (depending on the translator) “it crucifies me.” Petrarch’s sonnets, in 14th century Italy, complained that love both scorched and chilled.
Breaking up is hard to do, but music may just make getting over your ex a little easier. The best breakup songs provide a source of comfort to those dealing with the many stages of heartbreak. But just as no breakup is exactly the same, the same can be said of breakup songs.
8212; College football is ready to put the signs away.
Following a sign-stealing scandal that rocked the sport and hung over Michigan’s championship run in 2023, the NCAA’s football oversight committee approved Friday the use of coach-to-player helmet communications in games for the 2024 season.
The football rules committee last month made a recommendation to allow — but not require — teams at the highest tier of Division I to use radio technology similar to what NFL teams use.
Only one player for each team will be permitted to be in communication with coaches while on the field.
A man set himself on fire on Friday afternoon outside the Lower Manhattan courthouse where former President Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial is taking place.
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Witnesses say the man doused himself with liquid in Collect Pond Park, a designated protest area across the street from the courthouse, before orange flames soon engulfed him.
WASHINGTON — With rare bipartisan momentum, the House pushed ahead Friday on a foreign aid package of $95 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan and humanitarian support as a robust coalition of lawmakers helped it clear a procedural hurdle to reach final votes this weekend. Friday’s vote produced a seldom-seen outcome in the typically hyper-partisan House, with Democrats helping Republican Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan advance overwhelmingly 316-94.
Coban Porter, the brother of Denver Nuggets star Michael Porter Jr., was sentenced to six years in prison Friday for killing a woman in a drunk-driving crash last year.
Porter, 22, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and vehicular assault in February on the condition that he would be sentenced to no more than eight years in prison.