Day: August 23, 2018

A gay man took legal guardianship of 5-year-old twins early in his career, then built winning college programs and has made his mark in the W.N.B.A.

The federal Department of Education is thinking of exploiting a legal loophole that would allow taxpayer money to pay for guns for teachers, reversing a longstanding policy, according to a New York Times report.

Though the DOE has a traditionally opposed using federal funding to purchase weapons…

Nine alleged drug dealers were busted for peddling selling heroin, fentanyl and cocaine in a crime-ridden park just feet from the Staten Island street where Eric Garner died during an arrest just over four years ago, prosecutors announced Wednesday.

The alleged dealers — four of whom are convicted…

The stock market broke the record for the longest rally in United States history, marking a near decade-long boom on Wall Street that remains on its upward trajectory.

The current bull run started after the market bottomed out in March 2009, at the low point of the Great Recession. It’s risen more…

A city councilman from Queens on Wednesday sought detailed records of police use of chokeholds from the board that investigates civilian complaints against police.

Councilman Rory Lancman sent a letter to the Civilian Complaint Review Board demanding to know the number of police chokehold cases…

Four borough presidents have signed off on a letter to the mayor’s Charter Revision Commission to “express serious concerns” about a proposal to require term limits for members of community boards.

The borough presidents — Gale Brewer of Manhattan, Ruben Diaz Jr. of the Bronx, Melinda Katz of Queens,…

Each May for 30 years, my wife had had mammograms, and the reports were always good. Kathy would go for the test, then within days, the phone would ring and a voice would tell her that all was well.

Then last spring the phone brought different news. They wanted to do a recheck. Then an ultrasound….

City politicians may be hoping that the sweltering heat during these dog days of summer will somehow melt away our crisis at NYCHA. If only.

We have failed the 400,000-plus public housing residents who have been subjected to miserable conditions. Many live in mold-infested apartments with crumbling…

You’d better bet the scandal-plagued New York City Housing Authority needed to put someone in charge of ensuring its nearly 2,500 aging buildings met federal health and safety standards when Mayor de Blasio brought in veteran city manager Edna Wells Handy as acting chief compliance officer — its…

The fossil-fuel-powered shredder in the Trump White House has masticated the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan, replacing a sound framework to get states to slash carbon emissions with new rules that let plants pump more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

The President, shilling in West…

Scooters, fly far away from here

Brooklyn: To City Councilmen Ydanis Rodriguez and Rafael Espinal (“City pols push for e-scooters,” Op-Ed, Aug. 22): New York has enough traffic trouble without adding scooters into the mix.

Delivery scooters drive down streets the wrong way, and don’t stop for stop…

MARIETTA, Ga. — A 15-year-old girl called 911 for help in Georgia, leading to the arrest of four people who police say were at the center of a sex-trafficking operation.

Marietta police Officer Chuck McPhilamy tells news outlets the teen called police Monday, saying was held captive and forced…

PHOENIX — Immigration authorities coerced dozens of parents separated from their children at the border to sign documents they didn’t understand, according to a complaint expected to be filed Thursday.

In some of those cases, parents gave away rights to be reunited with their children when the…

Grainy surveillance video shows the moment a shooter opens fire at an Upper East Side luxury high-rise from across the water at Roosevelt Island.

Police on Wednesday released a 50-second black-and-white video showing a silhouetted figure shooting across the water, the gun’s muzzle flashing several…

NEW YORK — Advocates of ordaining women as Roman Catholic priests are citing the church’s unfolding sex abuse scandals as powerful arguments for their cause, while acknowledging the high unlikelihood of achieving their goal anytime soon.

Even with extensive grassroots support for letting women…

An off-duty FDNY lieutenant punched a woman in the face and threw her into the bushes off a Bronx street in a domestic-violence incident Wednesday night, cops said.

Daniel Jackson, 39, attacked the 37-year-old woman at the corner of the Mosholu Parkway and Van Cortlandt Ave. in Jerome Park at about…

Via Tarot Astrologers

General Horoscope for August 23, 2018

Authentic living includes being honest in all interactions. The Sun’s shift into exacting Virgo encourages us to fine tune reality to see how small actions can produce significant consequences. The Moon’s shift into intellectual Aquarius…

Pardon?

President Trump is considering exonerating Paul Manafort, a day after the ex-campaign manager and international fixer was convicted on eight counts of tax and bank fraud, Fox News reported.

“He mentioned pardoning Manafort,” Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley Earhardt told political pundit Sean…

Two men with suspended licenses collided on a Kips Bay street, sending a garbage can rocketing toward a pedestrian in a bizarre Wednesday afternoon crash, police said.

A Kia sedan and a Mercury Mountaineer SUV were headed north on Third Avenue, near E. 31st St at about 5:20 p.m., when the Kia’s…

David Villa canceled out Bradley Wright-Phillips first-half goal with a second-half equalizer as the New York Red Bulls and New York City FC played to a spirited 1-1 draw in the third and final regular season chapter of the Hudson River Derby in front of an announced crowd of 30,139 Wednesday night…

The anguished expression on 12-year-old pitcher Chris Bedford’s face was an omen of things to come.

The scrappy Staten Island Mid-Island Little Leaguers, who swept the city by storm with their disciplined play on the diamond, lost 10-0 to Hawaii. It now plays a Georgia, with the winner facing Hawaii…

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Urban Meyer was suspended by Ohio State on Wednesday for the first three games of the season for mishandling domestic violence accusations, punishing one of the sport’s most prominent leaders for keeping an assistant on staff for several years after that coach’s wife accused him…

Lamar Odom has revealed harrowing new details about his near-death coma crisis three years ago.

“All my doctors that see me say I’m a walking miracle,” the retired NBA star and ex-husband of Khloé Kardashian told Kevin Hart for the comedian’s “Cold as Balls” web series on LaughOutLoud.com.

“I had…

A Roman Catholic high school will shed the name of Washington’s archbishop, who was cited in a sweeping grand jury report as having allowed priests accused of sexually abusing children to be reassigned or reinstated while he was Pittsburgh’s bishop.

The Diocese of Pittsburgh said Wednesday that…

Michael Cohen was in the room when President Trump and his eldest son discussed a meeting with a Kremlin-connected lawyer who had promised dirt on Hillary Clinton, Cohen’s attorney said Wednesday, casting doubt over the President’s statements on the matter.

Pressed on what evidence Cohen has that…

An Oregon mother of a severely disabled 7-year-old son fatally shot him before attempting suicide with an overdose of pills, said authorities.

Tashina Jordan, 28, was found unconscious in the Bend, Ore., home she shared with her mother, reported TV station KTVZ.

Police answering an emergency call…