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Paul Lucia, 60, of Islip, pleaded guilty to multiple arson charges on Tuesday for torching a Long Island pub where staff had ejected him hours earlier. The guilty plea in Suffolk County covers the November 20, fire at Riley Fibbers…
Carrot Top is returning to his Las Vegas stage next month following a suicide attempt and hospitalization. The prop comedian, born Scott Christopher Thompson, 61, has daily shows scheduled to resume Oct. 19 at the Luxor Hotel and Casino, according…
A Yonkers woman who abandoned her dog with a gruesome throat wound at a cemetery has pleaded guilty to animal cruelty and will be permanently barred from owning pets. Anita Martin, 60, entered her plea Wednesday in Westchester County Court…
An Egyptian farmer accidentally uncovered a 28-foot statue of Ramses II while tilling his land, officials announced. The discovery unfolded in Behbeit El Hagar, a village in Egypt’s Gharbia province, after the unnamed villager hit a carved stone block while…
Tia Chandler says she will not return to ConvenientMD after staff locked her inside the Keene, New Hampshire, clinic while she waited for asthma treatment. Chandler, a regular patient at the urgent care center, arrived on Thursday, Sept. 24, seeking…
Sukhjit Bains has stopped responding to Birmingham City Council after initially agreeing to return a primary school he accidentally acquired through a decade-old paperwork blunder. Bains, a care home operator, purchased a three-bedroom house at auction in 2013 for £395,000…
Charles Duke, 91, has declared that UFOs are demonic aircraft dispatched by Satan, framing decades of speculation about extraterrestrial visitors as a spiritual deception rather than science fact. The former NASA astronaut, who became the youngest moonwalker in history at…
Adam Rubin, co-owner of Brooklyn curiosity shop Art of Play, has raised the price of a mechanical singing bird from $15,000 to $15 million following a viral dispute with Kelly Clarkson. Rubin, 44, told The Post on Tuesday that the…
Baba Vanga’s alleged November 2026 alien prophecy has resurfaced online, stoking fresh waves of doomsday speculation decades after the blind Bulgarian mystic’s death. The late clairvoyant, 85 when she died in 1996, has long been dubbed the “Nostradamus of the…
A Spectrum technician escaped injury after a sinkhole opened on a Los Angeles street and swallowed the company van whole. The driver, a Spectrum employee working in the Los Feliz neighborhood Wednesday afternoon, was out of the vehicle when the…
An Alabama man accused of decapitating his grandmother and aunt with a chainsaw grinned broadly in his booking photo after police arrested him at the bloody scene. Thomas Steele, 47, faces two counts of murder in the deaths of Dora…
Etiquette expert Laura Windsor has spoken out against a texting habit millions use to excuse late replies. Windsor, who is widely known as the Queen of Etiquette, told Mail Online that sending “sorry, just seen this” reads as rude and…
Kashim Chowdhury, 55, appeared at Southwark Crown Court facing nine fraud counts over what prosecutors describe as an audacious multi-job scheme that at one point had him contracted to work nearly every hour in a week. The Whitechapel resident allegedly…
A 48-year-old patient now faces attempted murder charges after allegedly setting a fellow patient on fire inside a Sydney hospital ward. Radovan Banic, 54, told Nine News from his hospital bed that he smelled gasoline just moments before flames engulfed…
About 7,600 dogs remain trapped at meat farms across South Korea as the clock runs down on a national ban that will criminalize the industry outright. Animal-rights groups are scrambling to pull the animals from the 198 facilities still operating…
A 44-year-old woman was pulled alive from the Ionian Sea after spending a reported 20 hours in the water following a fall from a Royal Caribbean cruise ship. The El Salvadoran national, who has not been publicly identified, was traveling…