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Massapequa’s Dylan Milio broke Garden City’s 68-game winning streak with a last-second touchdown catch Monday night. The senior wideout hauled in a 29-yard scoring pass with 30 seconds remaining to seal a 21-14 victory at Hofstra University, ending the longest…
Three hikers were airlifted from the Big Sur wilderness overnight after a five-hour rescue operation that required a Navy helicopter and crews hacking through dense vegetation with machetes and chainsaws. The incident began around 7:30 p.m. Sunday when Big Sur…
The UK government has outlined who would receive first priority for fuel if emergency rationing is activated amid plunging diesel reserves and surging prices. The Department for Energy Security & Net Zero’s National Emergency Plan for Fuel, published as contingency…
Wladimir Klitschko has filed an urgent court petition to become guardian of his daughter Kaya’s inheritance from Hayden Panettiere. The former heavyweight boxing champion, 50, submitted paperwork in Los Angeles on Thursday seeking temporary guardianship of the 11-year-old’s estate, according…
Robert Davi has pinpointed the 2021 murder of Jacqueline Avant as the decisive moment that drove him to abandon California for Florida. The “Die Hard” actor, 75, had spent more than four decades in Los Angeles after arriving in 1977…
Police have identified a family conflict as the central thread in their hunt for a motive after an elderly couple allegedly gunned down their son-in-law in a suburban Dublin, California parking lot. Shouyong Zhang, 77, and Shili Chen, 77, both…
Jonathan Robles, 36, turned himself in to police late Sunday after allegedly bludgeoning a homeless artist to death with a stick inside a Central Park gazebo. The victim was Lee Rogers, 63, a fixture in the Manhattan green space who…
Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber are grappling with funeral arrangements for their son as the family reels from his sudden death. The supermodel, 60, and her husband, 64, are “still figuring out” details for an intimate memorial for Presley Gerber,…
All five suspects arrested near a US-used British air base have been released on bail after testing showed the material in their vans was not viable explosives. The men, British nationals ages 23 to 25 who live in London, were…
A Brazilian family has spoken out after a mother and daughter battling cancer died just ten hours apart, each unaware the other had passed. Cibele Marchis, 28, died at 4 p.m. On September 24 in Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, while…
Teresa Giudice told police her daughter Milania had fentanyl in her system during their explosive confrontation at Tampa International Airport last Wednesday. The “Real Housewives of New Jersey” star, 52, made the claim while riding an elevator with Milania, 19,…
A Queens father of two died Sunday, four days after a bicyclist struck him during his morning commute through Central Park. Richie O’Brien, 41, of Middle Village, had been walking through the park around 6:35 a.m. Last Tuesday on his…
Peyton Blomquist has identified herself as the Florida student who went viral after a broadcast camera lingered on her during Saturday’s college football game. The University of Florida freshman, who is studying nutritional sciences, took to Instagram on September 27…
Susan Eppard is speaking out again about kratom after two University of Mississippi students were found dead with the herbal extract at their separate scenes. Eppard, whose son Matthew Eller died in 2021 at age 22, told The US Sun…
Brooke Covington’s assault and kidnapping retrial is scheduled to begin Monday in Buncombe County, North Carolina, more than nine years after her first trial collapsed. Covington, a leader of the secretive Word of Faith Fellowship church based in Spindale, was…
Tichina Marshall, 29, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a brutal stabbing attack on her Wendy’s co-worker in Danville, Illinois. Marshall pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder last Friday and received her sentence Thursday, a penalty that…