Three Brooklyn yeshivas found in violation of state educational standards will be spared of any real consequences for now, a state judge has ruled in a lawsuit sparked by New York lawmakers’ recent changes to government oversight of religious schools. Under a temporary restraining order issued last week, an Albany-based trial court judge, Justice Denise … Read more
A man stabbed with his own knife in a West Village subway station died in a clash with two brothers he attacked for giving him a “dirty look”, police sources told the Daily News on Monday. The brothers, ages 20 and 24, had just exited a No. 1 train at the 14th-St.-Seventh Ave. subway station … Read more
A 1-year-old girl was thrown down a garbage chute by her uncle, sending her tumbling three floors to the basement incinerator inside a Staten Island apartment building Monday afternoon, cops said. The baby suffered only minor abrasions to her torso after being tossed down the chute inside the seven-story building near Steuben St. and Weser Ave. … Read more
Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor most famous for playing Theo Huxtable on “The Cosby Show,” died Sunday. He was 54. Warner died by drowning off the coast of Costa Rica on a family trip, Costa Rican police told ABC News. Cops said he was caught by an unexpectedly high and strong current. Though he compiled a … Read more
“Gangster Granny,” the 65-year-old leader of a U.K. crime family, and seven of her associates were sentenced to a combined 106 years in prison for dealing more than $100 million worth of cocaine across the country, officials announced Friday. Deborah Mason, who’s also known as “Queen Bee” and “Gangsta Deb,” recruited her sister, her four … Read more
A Harlem man who was shot and killed in a housing complex courtyard had a bright mind and a loving home that were not enough to keep him away from the streets, his one-time foster mother told the News. Hamid Thomas, 32, was raised by a loving Bronx family, but no matter how hard they … Read more
Some six years after his death, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is again in the spotlight, this one cast by President Trump’s unrelenting MAGA base. Epstein was arrested in 2019 and found dead in his cell at a jail in New York City just five weeks later. Investigators concluded that he killed himself while awaiting trial … Read more
Astronomer CEO Andy Byron has resigned from the DataOps company after the kiss cam at a Coldplay concert captured his presumed affair with a woman believed to be his head of HR. The company confirmed in a statement shared with the Daily News on Saturday that Byron had stepped down. “As stated previously, Astronomer is … Read more
Emma Watson has been banned from driving for six months after the “Harry Potter” star was caught speeding in her native England. The 35-year-old British actress already had nine points on her license when she was clocked driving 38 mph in a 30 mph zone in Oxford on July 31 of last year, according to … Read more
Andrew Cuomo is shifting gears and taking personal responsibility for running what he admits was a lackluster campaign in the Democratic mayoral primary, acknowledging that any strategic mistakes ultimately fall on him. “It was my campaign, I take the responsibility — period,” Cuomo told the Daily News in a series of interviews from the campaign … Read more