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Disney has pushed its top-tier single-day ticket past $300 for the first time, sparking backlash from longtime visitors who say the parks are pricing out ordinary families. The Burbank, California-based entertainment giant rolled out the increases quietly this week across…
Three people were wounded in a daylight shooting near Koreatown on Sunday. The Los Angeles Fire Department received the call at 12:49 p.m. And rushed to the corner of Venice Boulevard and Catalina Street, an intersection that sits in the…
Toby Carvery has denied rolling out weighed meat portions across its restaurants after a customer’s video triggered boycott threats from roast dinner fans. The British chain, which calls itself the “home of the Sunday roast,” found itself at the center…
Shane Seiber, 40, died in a West Philadelphia ambush that left his partner fighting for life after being shot a dozen times. The 10-year veteran Philadelphia police officer was gunned down early Saturday while responding to reports of an armed…
Kymberli Bowden, 45, now faces first-degree murder in the starvation death of her 13-year-old daughter. The North Carolina mother was hit with the upgraded charge Thursday after an autopsy determined the girl, identified only as ZT, died from acute necrotizing…
Another month of commuting hell began Sunday for NJ Transit rail riders as construction on the $2.3 billion Portal North Bridge replacement entered its most disruptive phase. The work, which will stretch until Nov. 15, requires crews to move the…
Arielle Curry returned to Washington Elementary on Friday after admitting she overturned two student election results. Curry, the principal of the Santa Barbara gifted-and-talented magnet school, had been on administrative leave since Sept. 28 when district officials learned she had…
Tar & Roses, the celebrated Santa Monica Boulevard restaurant, announced it will serve its last meal on Oct. 24 after a 15-year run that turned first dates into marriages and ordinary dinners into decade-long inside jokes. Chef Andrew Kirschner’s acclaimed…
Yorkshire Wildlife Park confirmed the tiger involved in Saturday’s fatal attack will not be euthanized. Altai, the tiger who killed a man after the individual entered the enclosure, “is safe and well and will not be euthanised as a result…
Danny Valdez has confirmed his 2023 Cuba delegation trip and his advisory role to Mayor Zohran Mamdani after a since-deleted travel diary surfaced online. Valdez, who hosted a fundraiser for Mamdani’s mayoral campaign in 2025, traveled to Cuba with a…
Carole Baskin has defended the tiger that killed a man who entered its enclosure at a British zoo. Baskin, 63, who became a household name through Netflix’s 2020 docuseries “Tiger King,” said that the animal bore no blame for the…
California’s public pension system paid out $34.6 billion to retirees last fiscal year, with more than 63,000 former government workers collecting six-figure annual benefits and three dozen top recipients each receiving over $300,000. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the…
More than 200 students stormed out of Piner Junior Senior High School on Friday to demand accountability after the football captain posted a message supporting men accused in a Cornell University gang rape case. The Santa Rosa campus exploded into…
Chilling bodycam footage shows Justine May, 31, greeting deputies with a calm “How can I help you?” just weeks before her two toddlers were found starved to death in their Ladson home. The Aug. 30 welfare check, captured on a…
Umar Matthew Ingalls, the expelled Cornell fraternity brother at the center of a gang-rape lawsuit, has fled to Dubai and previously expressed embarrassment about his American citizenship while attending an elite private school there. Ingalls, 21, grew up between the…
Det. Jose Mercedes says he is recovering well after being stabbed seven times in a Bronx robbery. Mercedes, 33, told The Post by phone on Saturday, “I’m feeling much better, thank you.” The off-duty NYPD detective, a 10-year veteran assigned…