Day: August 18, 2018

After overcoming heroin addiction, he became a drug abuse counselor and founded an organization to help long-forgotten black basketball players.

Knicks guard Tim Hardaway Jr. wasn’t in a pleasant mood the day former head coach Jeff Hornacek got canned after the season finale in mid-April, saying he couldn’t “wrap my thoughts around what management thinks.’’ Of course, Hardaway had no idea at the time that Hornacek’s successor would be an old familiar face from Miami:…

One candidate for New York governor, Cynthia Nixon, wants to abolish solitary confinement in our prisons. To New Yorkers like me who have survived this torture, that means she has done her homework.

My first experience with solitary confinement was a 60-day sentence in what’s known as “Keeplock”…

Never mind the Cassandras. When the city Taxi & Limousine Commission stopped taking new for-hire vehicle (FHV) license applications at 5 p.m. last Tuesday, the wheels did not come off the booming businesses of Uber, Lyft, Juno and Via.

The existing 80,000 FHV cars of these app services continue…

A Florida judge who exploded at the South Florida Sun Sentinel for publishing material about failures leading up to the Parkland massacre is in contempt of one of America’s core principles.

That being, as articulated in the First Amendment and established in case law over generations: Government…

After claiming Trump job creation output exceeds Obama’s, the White House now admits it fudged the numbers. Before the truth serum wears off, maybe they’ll also cop that last year’s tax cuts have so far been a bust for ordinary workers.

The President promised that the $1.5 trillion tax cut — heavily…

Aretha was pure music heaven

New Windsor, N.Y.: How eerie is this? Two musical icons pass away on the same date 41 years apart: Elvis Aaron Presley and now Aretha Louise Franklin, the King of Rock and Roll and the Queen of Soul. Both now in rock ’n’ roll heaven, where you know they’ve got a hell…

DETROIT — Davis Webb hadn’t started a game since Nov. 26, 2016, when he led his Cal Bears to a 36-10 win over UCLA at Memorial Stadium in Berkley, Calif.

But on Friday night, with Eli Manning resting, Webb was ready: to own being the Giants’ starting quarterback in a 30-17 preseason win over the…

DETROIT — Pat Shurmur’s players will do something to mark and honor his first win of any kind as the Giants’ new head coach Friday night. But special teams captain Zak DeOssie is keeping the exact nature of their plans a secret.

“Preseason or regular season, it’s the first one on the list,” DeOssie…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 18, 2018

Words flow freely today as congenial Mercury creates a cooperative sextile with charming Venus. Interpersonal relationships are blessed by ease of communication. However, there are subtler energies at play now; something exciting and unusual…

Aaron Judge felt soreness in his right wrist after throwing on Friday and was still not able to take dry swings, which he has not done since suffering the chip fracture.

Yankee manager Aaron Boone had said earlier on Friday that things were going so well with Judge that there was a “chance” he…

An NYPD sergeant under investigation for shooting a man in a personal dispute and then trying to cover it up was fired Friday, police sources said.

Sgt. Ritchard Blake, 40, is accused of firing twice at Thavone Santana, 21, on July 26 in Brownsville, Brooklyn.

Soon after the shooting, Blake was…

This burglar turned an upscale restaurant off Union Square into a strip joint.

The man, 28 to 35 years old with a trim build, got butt-naked when he knocked over the Adalya Mediterranean restaurant on Irving Place near E. 17th St. at 7 a.m. July 5.

After forcing his way in through the side door,…

Stan Lee’s former business manager has been banished from the 95-year-old Marvel mogul’s universe for the next three years, a Los Angeles judge ruled Friday.

Keya Morgan, 42, must stay at least 100 yards away from Lee, his daughter Joan (J.C.) Lee, 68, and his brother Larry Lieber, 86, the order…

The Yankees are preaching patience with Greg Bird. The first baseman is clearly trying hard to be patient with himself. But the rest of the Bronx seems ready to give up on the Yankees’ one-time first baseman of the future. That was particularly obvious after his reaction Thursday to popping out…

DETROIT — The Giants can’t win without Eli playing his best this season.

Eli Apple, that is.

For while Eli Manning’s offense surely needs to operate more efficiently and put points on the board, on defense the Big Blue secondary is shaping up once again to be a huge liability, and not just because…

A lawyer convicted of helping pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli defraud investors and his former company was sentenced Friday to 18 months in prison, and ordered to pay $10.5 million in restitution.

Evan Greebel, 44, was convicted in December of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and conspiracy…

Lordy, there’s video.

Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman has an extensive collection of video, emails, texts and other records to corroborate her explosive book about the Trump administration, according to a report Friday.

A source with direct knowledge of the matter told the Associated…

Another firefighter has died from his time spent inhaling toxic fumes at Ground Zero.

Retired Firefighter Michael McDonald, 64, died of a 9/11-related illness earlier this week, the Uniformed Firefighters Association announced Friday.

A viewing and a funeral are planned for Aug. 29 at Maloney Funeral…

The son of a cab driver bitten on the arm by a female thief said the incident has hurt his dad’s wallet.

Nayeem Khan, 20, said his father Kamal Khan, 53, had to recuperate for days after the enraged fare attacked him near Kissena Blvd. and 71st Ave. in Kew Gardens Hills, Queens, on Aug. 5.

“He…

Longtime peace activist, writer and photographer David McReynolds died Friday after a fall in his New York home. He was 88.

McReynolds, who was also the first openly gay candidate for president, moved to New York in the mid-1950s. A few years later, he began working with the War Resisters League….

Aretha Franklin’s many fans will have the opportunity to pay their respects later this month at a visitation in her hometown of Detroit.

A two-day public viewing will be held on Aug. 28 and Aug. 29 from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History, where the late…

This is sure to hit a high note with Prince fans.

Twenty-three of the late pop icon’s albums were made available on prominent streaming services for the first time ever Friday, Sony Music Entertainment announced.

Each of albums added to the streaming services were released between 1995 and 2010….

Is Bill de Blasio a stopped clock or ahead of his time? Maybe both.

He’s held the superstitious belief in his own vision all successful politicians do — and especially one who stubbornly held his lane and effectively shot up from afterthought to Hizzoner with an incredible burst from the back of…

MTV has always tried to keep its Video Music Awards relevant, but producers are struggling with whether to tackle one important and timely topic.

Those behind this year’s show — happening this Monday at Radio City Music Hall in Midtown Manhattan — are going “back and forth” on addressing Demi Lovato’s…

A Kansas City man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend nearly a year ago won’t face any charges in her death despite the fact that a judge approved an order of protection that explicitly banned him from possessing weapons.

David Love admitted to gunning down Jessika Peppers inside his Missouri…

Conspiracy theory-mongering InfoWars founder Alex Jones has intentionally destroyed evidence relevant to a defamation lawsuit filed against him by families of Sandy Hook shooting victims, according to a motion submitted Friday.

Jones directed his staffers earlier this week to strip content from…