J.K. Rowling has published a new essay vowing to continue her advocacy on sex and gender issues despite what she describes as an onslaught of violent threats. Rowling, 61, released the lengthy update on her personal website last week, six…
A 56-year-old man has been charged after allegedly threatening a female Australian lawmaker’s staff with nunchucks, police said Thursday. The suspect entered Western Australian state government minister Hannah Beazley’s electorate office in suburban Perth on Wednesday, brandishing the martial-arts weapon…
Jorge “George” Ortiz, 57, was arrested Monday after a brief foot chase, ending a week-long manhunt for the suspect in a Bridgeport road rage killing. Bridgeport police charged Ortiz with murder, criminal possession of a pistol and carrying a pistol…
Brick Township has silenced its roosters. The Ocean County shore town unanimously outlawed male chickens on October 13, amending its animal-housing code to bar residents from “owning, harboring, raising, breeding or possessing a rooster inside the township.” All seven council…
Dorothy Creighton has revealed the breakfast habit she believes carried her past the century mark. Creighton, 107, told staff at her English care home that bacon and eggs every morning for more than 100 years helped keep her going. She…
Neil Dutta, a managing director at jeweler Angelic Diamonds with over two decades of design experience, estimated the New York Knicks’ 2026 championship rings could be worth up to $250,000 each in an interview with The Post last week. Dutta…
John Goodman has opened up about the compulsive eating that pushed him toward 400 pounds after he got sober. The 74-year-old actor, now down 200 pounds, told The New Yorker in an interview published Sunday that his weight spiraled when…
Mia Perry Bowick is breaking her silence on her brother Matthew Perry’s funeral in a new Netflix documentary. Mary Robertson, the Emmy-winning director of “The One About Matthew Perry,” said that Bowick’s account ranks among the most powerful moments in…
Edward Villa, 45, was found dead at a coastal Oregon motel Wednesday, one day after three people were discovered shot to death in a suburban Portland home. The North Clackamas School District employee had become the prime suspect in a…
John Patterson says his son had been eager for a chance that finally came too late. The father of TSgt Ian “Patty” Patterson, 33, told WDRB+WAVE that the Air Force sergeant had wanted to perform the Alamodome rappelling stunt last…
Irish Councillor Gavin Pepper has demanded “a bit of common sense” from the government after a state-backed PSA urged grandparents to seek consent before hugging grandchildren. The 25-second ad, released by We-Consent — a project of the Dublin Rape Crisis…
Christa Pike is speaking in full sentences more than a month after Tennessee’s first attempt to execute a woman in two centuries went catastrophically wrong. Pike, 50, has shown marked physical gains since Sept. 30, when she became the first…
John Patterson has spoken publicly for the first time since his son, Tech. Sgt. Ian Patterson, fell to his death during a military demonstration at a college football game in San Antonio. The elder Patterson, an Air Force veteran himself,…
Andrew Jimenez, the Glendale firefighter accused of murdering his wife with a pick ax, has been ordered to stand trial after detectives described a blood-soaked bedroom scene where Mayra Jimenez was found decapitated. Detective Jason Haggis testified Wednesday that the…
The parents of a 13-year-old boy killed in an Orange County e-bike crash are now facing criminal charges for allegedly letting him ride the powerful vehicle illegally. Vu Thanh Nguyen, 56, and Hong Cuc Thi Nguyen, 49, both of Santa…
Repair crews are preparing to lift the sagging floors of a dangerously buckled Midtown Manhattan high-rise by fractions of an inch, using a method one engineer compared to the thickness of a guitar pick. The work at 235 E. 42nd…