Day: July 20, 2018

The judge had confidence, but it appears the Queens man only had a con.

Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack Weinstein thought Tyran Trotter deserved a chance at life without the authorities watching his every move on supervised release.

Now it’s all going up in smoke after Trotter was arrested Wednesday…

A classic stage and screen score has been reworked as a Latin jazz opus – with part of the proceeds going to help Puerto Rico’s hurricane victims.

Veteran bandleader Bobby Sanabria has put his own stamp on “West Side Story,” the 1950s Broadway musical that was turned into a beloved Oscar-winning…

Last Thursday, as their S53 bus crossed the Verrazano Bridge from Brooklyn to Staten Island, one passenger turned to her neighbor and screamed “You f—ing speak English? ICE is here for you.” The reason: Her fellow passenger was Muslim, wearing the hijab, a head covering.

The tirade, which was…

The World Trade Center Health Program has seen a massive spike in new patients sickened by exposure to 9/11 toxins — forcing the organization to open up a new office in lower Manhattan that will see an estimated 750 patients a month, the Daily News has learned.

The new clinic, expected to open…

Having lost the battle and probably the war to City Council members captive to the hotel industry and its unions, Airbnb will soon be forced to turn over to the city details on thousands of apartment listings, many of which are surely in violation of state law banning whole-apartment rentals of…

Better shamefully late than never. Thursday, more than four years after a banned chokehold by Police Officer Daniel Pantaleo ended Eric Garner’s life, the NYPD announced that the gears of disciplinary action will finally start to turn.

Blame Washington for the fact that the surprise announcement…

It was a preposterous notion from the start: that the city of New York, which burns loads of oil and gas itself, would take the likes of Chevron and Exxon to court, demanding billions of dollars in damages for causing climate change and putting our coastal city through the ravages of Superstorm…

A duck boat packed with dozens of tourists in Missouri’s Ozarks capsized amid rough weather Thursday night, killing 11 people, according to local reports and authorities.

First responders with the Southern Stone County Fire Protection District rushed to Table Rock Lake around 7 p.m. local time…

Manhattan: As Cold War scholars know, Finland was a highly symbolic location for the Putin-Trump summit. Finlandization, meaning formal independence but political domination to the Soviets, was the fate of Finland. It was the only former-Tsarist country that Stalin invaded, but could not absorb…

BOSTON — For a few minutes, a Boston woman says she was a millionaire.

Ellen Fleming says she received a voicemail from a TD Ameritrade financial consultant Wednesday afternoon that a deposit had been made into her account.

The 26-year-old opened the company’s app on her cellphone and was surprised…

TOPEKA, Kansas — Two luminaries in the democratic socialist movement — one its national leader, the other its new star — are descending on solidly Republican Kansas on Friday, taking their emboldened liberal message to an unlikely testing ground before next month’s congressional primaries.

Vermont…

HOUSTON — Police say a 3-year-old boy has died after being left in a hot day care center van for 3½ hours parked outside the center in northwest Houston.

A statement from the Harris County Precinct 1 Constable’s Office says the child was found unresponsive when his father arrived at Discovering…

PITTSBURGH — Authorities say a Pennsylvania woman was driving drunk when she struck and seriously injured her 15-year-old sister, who had apparently jumped on the hood of the moving vehicle and was hit after falling off.

Pittsburgh police responded to the scene around 10 p.m. Wednesday.

The teen…

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Police in Memphis say a man stole his date’s car and drove it to a date with another woman.

Police say a woman reported her car stolen after Kelton Griffin went to her house to take her on a date. WMC-TV reports that Griffin stopped at a gas station and asked the woman to get him…

And baby makes three.

Reality star Jinger Duggar, 24, gave birth to daughter Felicity Nicole early Thursday morning, she and husband Mike Vuolo announced.

”God is so kind! Jinger gave birth to Felicity Nicole Vuolo this morning at 4:37 am. Felicity weighs 8lbs. and 3oz. and is 19.5 inches long,”…

A Brooklyn gangbanger who killed a romantic rival will spend another nine years behind bars for his role in a vicious slashing on a Rikers Island correction officer in 2015.

Darnell Green choked correction officer Ray Calderon from behind while another inmate sliced his face from cheek to ear and…

They were gunning for his older brother, but they settled on killing him instead.

A 24-year-old ex-con ganged up on and murdered a Brooklyn teen a day after his 16th birthday because they had a beef with his older brother, who was in the Crips street gang, prosecutors said Thursday.

Ralief Bradford…

Not again.

Clint Frazier was pulled from Thursday’s Triple-A Scranton game for precautionary reasons related to possible concussion symptoms, according to The Times-Tribune.

Frazier may have suffered the injury while diving for a ball in the first inning, which he couldn’t catch, according to the…

OREM, Utah — A 22-year-old Boy Scout leader drowned saving a struggling young boy during a practice exercise in a Utah pond on Wednesday.

Wesley Robert Kratzer pushed the boy to safety then dropped under the water and disappeared, said Salem police Chief Brad James.

“We don’t know if it was fatigue,…

He’s the kind of drug dealer you don’t want to piss off, the feds say.

A Queens meth kingpin ran his drug operation out of gambling dens, threatened his rivals with a high-voltage cattle prod and, in one bizarre incident, broke into a man’s house and urinated on his bed.

Federal authorities arrested…

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — A 71-year-old Sarasota man who ate a raw oyster at a Sarasota County restaurant died from a bacterial infection two days later, according to the Florida Department of Health.

The man and the restaurant were not identified, but health department spokesman Steve Huard said…

Former President Barack Obama was a “total patsy” for Russia, President Trump said in an interview Thursday, but he, on the other hand, would be “far tougher on Russia than any President in many, many years, maybe ever.”

On the defensive after his disastrous press conference with Russian President…

Long before he became a President who pushed for a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., and railed against Caribbean and African immigrants from “s–thole countries,” Donald Trump called for a return of the death penalty after a group of black and Hispanic teens were arrested and charged in a sexual…

The NFL is taking a knee when it comes to implementing the league’s new national anthem policy.

The NFL and NFL Players Association have come to a “standstill agreement” regarding the NFL’s revised anthem policy and the NFL’s grievance against the league, the two sides announced in a joint statement…

Amy Powell, the president of Paramount TV, was reportedly ousted Thursday for making inappropriate comments.

Paramount CEO Jim Gianopulos announced the firing in an internal memo, acquired by the Hollywood Reporter, that said “multiple individuals” had raised concerns about “which they believed…

A “very accomplished” NBA player could be plotting to join Kyrie Irving and Jimmy Butler in 2019.

The Thunder have traded Carmelo Anthony and a protected 2022 first-round pick to the Hawks.

It is apparent Knicks’ first-rounder F Kevin Knox wasn’t fazed by his first taste of NBA basketball. Just look at what he did in just a few games out west in the Summer League.

The former All-Star is headed to Atlanta — and is expected to be quickly released — in a trade that involves two teams and several players.

The Knicks’ decision to waive small forward Troy Williams on Monday has provided undrafted Arizona guard Allonzo Trier a puncher’s chance at making the 15-man roster following his solid — if overlooked — summer-league performance. Trier is on a two-way G-League contract, allowing him to be on the Knicks’ roster for a maximum of 45…

Knicks fans should be thrilled the organization’s higher-ups didn’t listen to them. On draft night, they were chanting for the Knicks to draft Michael Porter Jr., who was at one point considered the top prospect in his class before dealing with health concerns over his bad back. Instead, the Knicks took Kentucky wing Kevin Knox…

The Knicks’ decision to waive small forward Troy Williams on Monday has provided undrafted Arizona guard Allonzo Trier a puncher’s chance at making the 15-man roster following his solid — if overlooked — summer-league performance. Trier is on a two-way G-League contract, allowing him to be on the Knicks’ roster for a maximum of 45…

Knicks fans should be thrilled the organization’s higher-ups didn’t listen to them. On draft night, they were chanting for the Knicks to draft Michael Porter Jr., who was at one point considered the top prospect in his class before dealing with health concerns over his bad back. Instead, the Knicks took Kentucky wing Kevin Knox…