A New York City financier convicted of drugging and raping a teenage girl, creating child sex abuse material and a litany of other offenses committed against minors — including after his arrest — was sentenced to 16 years in prison for his depravity on Tuesday. Michael Olson, 56, who pleaded guilty to a 10-count indictment … Read more
The Trump administration has opened a federal civil rights probe into reports of antisemitism at Columbia University and several other colleges in the wake of last year’s Gaza protests, the Education Department said. The investigation announced late Monday cited an executive order by President Trump to combat antisemitism — which included, among other measures, steps … Read more
A man’s decomposing body was found hog-tied off a Queens expressway Tuesday morning, police sources said. The grisly discovery was made just before 9 a.m. in the weeds off a section of the Clearview Expressway near Union Turnpike that cuts through Cunningham Park. It’s suspected that the victim had been shot, according to a police … Read more
Three suspects in a recent Queens attempted murder had been hanging out right before the incident in a community anti-violence center just one block away from where they shot and wounded a teen, according to police. Police investigating the attempted murder of a teenager searched the offices of a Jamaica-based anti-violence group for evidence on … Read more
A brazen thief stole an elderly woman’s shopping cart that contained $40,000 in cashier’s checks on Wednesday in the Bronx, police said. The 85-year-old woman was approached by an unidentified man around noon on Marion Ave. and E. 195th St. in Fordham, where the thief snatched her shopping cart, which contained an Apple iPhone and … Read more
The mid-air collision between an American Airlines jet and a U.S. Army helicopter near Washington, D.C. killed all 67 people aboard both aircraft, according to a preliminary report by the Federal Aviation Administration. A total of 60 passengers and four crewmembers were onboard American Eagle Flight 5342, while three soldiers from Fort Belvoir were onboard … Read more
To win transportation funding under the new Donald Trump administration, the MTA will have to cooperate with Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, can’t enforce mask or vaccine requirements — and had better hope New Yorkers start tying the knot and making babies. The unusual guidelines for federal transportation funding are part of an order signed earlier … Read more
By HILLEL ITALIE NEW YORK (AP) — Marianne Faithfull, the British pop star, muse, libertine and old soul who inspired and helped write some of the Rolling Stones’ greatest songs and endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied, has died. She was 78. Faithfull passed away Thursday in London, … Read more
The Trump Department of Transportation is actively considering its options to kill New York’s congestion pricing plan, just three weeks after it started, two sources told the New York Times. The newspaper reported Thursday that the Trump Administration is weighing whether it can pull the plug on “a key federal authorization” granted by the Biden … Read more
Audio and video from the collision of American Airlines Flight 5342 and an Army helicopter over the Potomac revealed some clues about the aircrafts’ last moments. The crash itself was caught on camera as one air traffic controller said, “I just saw a fireball,” confirming that the two aircraft had indeed collided and plummeted into … Read more