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Lusia Rosenzweig Milch has won a New York Emmy for an animated short about her childhood escape from the Nazis. The 95-year-old Holocaust survivor, who lives on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, took home the award for best teen long or…
A Manhattan woman who dodged a stranger’s punch on a downtown street last month says she then watched in disbelief as the same man attacked two more women within five minutes, walked free the next day, and assaulted an 85-year-old…
Adriana Aviles confronted Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels at a town hall over her son’s phony math grades. Aviles, 47, a Queens representative on the Citywide Council on High Schools and former NYPD officer, sat down with her 14-year-old son two…
A Spirit Halloween shopper is recovering at home after fleeing a deadly shooting inside a California mall store that left one person dead and six wounded. David Bernal’s wife was inside the pop-up seasonal shop at Solano Town Mall in…
Several US towns have introduced age caps and mask bans that will limit who can participate in Halloween festivities this weekend. The restrictions, which vary sharply by municipality, could catch families off guard as they plan Saturday night outings. Some…
Dr. Mark Fowler has spoken publicly for the first time about Christa Pike’s botched execution. Fowler, 69, was the physician assigned to oversee Pike’s scheduled lethal injection in Tennessee on September 30. His formal role was limited to pronouncing the…
Lauren Bennett’s death has been ruled a suicide following an inquest hearing. Bennett, 36, was found dead on May 29 near her home in Kent, England, after her husband Kenny Wormald and her father used the Find My iPhone feature…
Keona Hampton, 23, received a 30-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to murdering a woman who confronted her over bad manners at a Dallas-area store. Hampton admitted guilt on Sept. 23 and was sentenced the same day by Judge Tammy…
A newly surfaced marriage license shows Rep. Ilhan Omar crossed out her own surname twice while applying to wed a man she allegedly married to commit immigration fraud. The Hennepin County document from Feb. 12, 2009, reveals Omar’s name was…
Erin Patterson has lost her bid to overturn her convictions for three mushroom murders and will now die in prison. The 51-year-old Australian woman, already serving life with a 33-year non-parole term, saw that sentence scrapped entirely on Friday when…
Leah McSweeney has dropped her bombshell lawsuit against Bravo and Andy Cohen after the two sides reached a settlement, heading off what would have been the network’s first courtroom trial against a “Real Housewives” cast member. The “Real Housewives of…
Zarian Dyer smirked into the camera in his newly released booking photo after police accused him of plotting to have his own fiancée sexually assaulted. Dyer, 23, was arrested Thursday at his workplace by Buckeye Police Department detectives who say…
Norway’s tourism board fired back at Donald Trump with toilet humor after the US president branded the Scandinavian nation a “s***house country” during a weekend rally. Trump, 78, lashed out at the longtime NATO ally while complaining that the Oslo-based…
Bill Belichick and Jordon Hudson quietly ended their romance months before their final public appearances together, according to a new report. The 74-year-old North Carolina Tar Heels head coach and the 25-year-old former beauty pageant contestant secretly split “late last…
Eight people have been indicted in a sprawling federal benefits theft scheme that prosecutors say drained $7 million from SNAP and EBT accounts. Belal Hauter, 34, the alleged ringleader, was arraigned Thursday in a case that stretched across hotels and…
A Virginia mother was arrested Wednesday after a 30-year cold case investigation linked her to the drowning of her newborn son in a Long Island movie theater toilet. Michelle Chronick Tyson, 59, was indicted on two counts of second-degree murder…