Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — The leader of a drug delivery service who was convicted earlier this year of distributing the fentanyl-laced cocaine that killed three young New York City professionals on the same day was sentenced on Wednesday to 30 years in prison. Billy Ortega, 37, was convicted […]
Sheila Paras/Getty Images (HOLYOKE, Mass.) — A shooting at a Massachusetts intersection on Wednesday critically injured a pregnant bystander on a bus, whose infant subsequently died, officials said. The shooting was reported shortly before 1 p.m. in Holyoke, just outside of Springfield, according to Holyoke police. Three male suspects were […]
John Lamparski/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — New York City is seeing signs of the influx of migrant arrivals that communities along the southern border have grappled with in recent weeks. The surge in the city comes amid a record number of asylum-seekers entering the shelter system since Spring 2022. At […]
iStock (NEW YORK) — Here are the scores from Wednesday’s sports events: MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AMERICAN LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Texas 7, Tampa Bay 1 Minnesota 2, Toronto 0 NATIONAL LEAGUE PLAYOFFS Arizona 5, Milwaukee 2 Philadelphia 7, Miami 1 NATIONAL HOCKEY LEAGUE PRESEASON Seattle 2, Vancouver 1 New Jersey 5, NY […]
Google Maps Street View (READING, Pa.) — More than 128 years after he died in a Reading, Pennsylvania, jail, a man who was accidentally mummified and left at a funeral home without any identification will finally get his long-awaited burial. Officials at Auman’s Funeral Home, the Reading funeral home that has […]
NYPD (NEW YORK) — Police said they are searching for an 18-year-old male suspect in the apparently random fatal stabbing of a New York City social justice advocate. Ryan Carson, 31, died after being stabbed in the chest multiple times during an assault early Monday morning in Brooklyn, police said. The […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are […]
Douglas Sacha/Getty Images (BALTIMORE) — Four students were among five people shot during Homecoming week at Morgan State University in Baltimore, police said. The victims — four men and one woman, between 18 and 22 years old — all suffered non-life-threatening injuries, authorities said. The gunfire broke out Tuesday night “on […]
ftwitty/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Former President Donald Trump is on trial in New York in a $250 million lawsuit that could alter the personal fortune and real estate empire that helped propel Trump to the White House. Trump, his sons Eric and Don Jr., and Trump Organization executives are […]
MANDEL NGAN/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Costco, the wholesale retailer that offers everything from PlayStations to pizza slices, is now selling gold bars. Even more, the precious metal is flying off the shelves, a company executive says. The company’s website says the price of the one-ounce bars of 24-karat gold […]
