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Two Queens pizzeria owners with organized crime ties have pleaded guilty to bribing a top official in former Mayor Eric Adams’ administration. Joseph and Anthony Livreri, the brothers behind Aldo’s Pizzeria and Restaurant in Ozone Park, admitted in Manhattan Supreme…
Melania Trump’s team has publicly defended aide Natalie Harp against mounting media speculation about her relationship with the president. Marc Beckman, the First Lady’s representative, sat down with interviewer Stella Inger Escobedo to push back against what he framed as…
Savannah Guthrie broke her silence on her mother’s disappearance during Thursday’s “Today” show broadcast. The 54-year-old NBC co-host, seven months into the search for Nancy Guthrie, made a rare on-air reference to her mother’s heritage while announcing upcoming live episodes…
Rick Springfield has opened up about a wartime mortar strike he says killed a man during his band’s 1968 tour of Vietnam. The “Jessie’s Girl” singer, 77, detailed the experience during a recent appearance on the “Joe Rogan Experience” podcast.…
A male juror from the Lindsay Clancy mistrial has spoken out to defend Patrick Clancy against online conspiracy theorists who accuse him of murdering his own children. Nick Dargie, 25, who served as Juror number 10, said’s “GMA” in an…
Captain Rick Thornton, 60, has spoken out about the harrowing hours he spent evacuating thousands from Lower Manhattan after the World Trade Center attacks. Thornton was four hours into his NY Waterway shift aboard the Henry Hudson on Sept. 11…
William Rodriguez says he relives the September 11 attacks every single day. Rodriguez, who was 40 and single in 2001, had worked nearly two decades as a custodian at the North Tower of the World Trade Center without ever taking…
Lorne Lyles still keeps the voicemail his wife left him on the morning of September 11, 2001. CeeCee Lyles, 33, was working as a flight attendant aboard United Airlines Flight 93 when al-Qaeda terrorists seized control of the aircraft after…
Lindsay Clancy’s deadlocked murder trial has handed her unexpected leverage in a separate bid to squeeze a seven-figure settlement from the doctors she blames for her children’s deaths. Clancy, 36, the Duxbury, Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three young…
Scott Strauss still cannot bring himself to replace the watch he lost at Ground Zero. The former NYPD Emergency Service Unit detective, who spent September 11, 2001 crawling through rubble with bare hands to rescue two trapped Port Authority officers,…
Yaraisi Santiso Morejon filed the first lawsuit Wednesday over the deadly Amazon cargo plane crash that killed her husband. Morejon, the widow of van driver Yoel Rodriguez Naranjo, 53, is suing Amazon and aviation operator 21 Air in Miami-Dade County’s…
Michael Hingson has spoken out about how his guide dog’s calm demeanor saved dozens of lives during the September 11 attacks. Hingson, who was 51 at the time and working as Mid-Atlantic Region Sales Manager for Quantum Corporation, was seated…
Betty Ong’s final plea to “pray for us” is being shared again as the nation marks 25 years since her heroism aboard American Airlines Flight 11. Ong, a flight attendant on the Boston-to-Los Angeles route, made the first emergency call…
A San Francisco landlord accused of murdering his own tenant is now attempting to lease the crime-scene home for $6,300 a month. Philippe Chagniot, 68, listed the 1,200-square-foot property at 2518 46th Avenue after a judge barred his family trust…
Corie Walsh’s defense team pushed back against “copycat” labels as prosecutors detailed an alleged murder plot against her husband during her first court appearance on Tuesday. Walsh, 40, of Frankfort, Illinois, appeared before a judge for a bail hearing after…
A Delta Air Lines passenger frantically tried to connect to WiFi during a rapid emergency descent so they could send out final messages to loved ones. The traveler, who was aboard Delta Flight 2311 from Los Angeles to Salt Lake…