December 26, 2010
Utah restaurateur and wife dead in apparent murder-suicide: report
A Utah restaurateur and his wife were killed Christmas night in an apparent murder-suicide, the Salt Lake Tribune reported Sunday. The bodies of Steven Runolfson, who co-founded the Salt Lake...
L.A. woman shot and killed in possible gang-related incident: report
A woman in her thirties was fatally shot Christmas night in Los Angeles in a possible gang-related incident, the Los Angeles Times reported Sunday. The woman, whose name was not...
Bill Clinton to campaign for Emanuel in Chicago
CHICAGO — Former President Bill Clinton will campaign in support of former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel's bid for Chicago mayor. Emanuel campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt said Sunday...
Three shot, 1 killed at Ga. sports bar: report
Three people were shot, one fatally, Sunday morning at a sports bar in Georgia, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. The shooting occurred at the Central Station Sports Cafe in East Point,...
Patriots' Tom Brady sets new NFL record in 34-3 win over Bills
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady set an NFL record Sunday by throwing his 309th consecutive pass attempt without an interception in a 34-3 win against the Buffalo Bills. The...
Jaguars lose to Redskins in OT to put Jets in
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- If there's one thing the Washington Redskins have done right this season, it's overtime. Kevin Barnes intercepted David Garrard's second pass in overtime, setting up Graham Gano's 31-yard...
'Little Fockers' tops holiday weekend box office
On a weekend when Hollywood competed with Christmas gatherings and fierce snow storms in the Northeast and Southeast, "Little Fockers" was no. 1 at the box office. The third installment...
Texas woman fatally stabbed in her home: report
A Texas woman was fatally stabbed early Sunday morning by a man with whom she lived, the Houston Chronicle reported. The woman, whose name was not released, was attacked shortly...
Jets lose to Bears but make playoffs
CHICAGO -- Angry silence engulfed the Jets locker room as the players milled around in different states of undress, ticked off and dejected at their 38-34 loss to the Bears...
Into the spotlight
FORT MYERS, Fla. – Just outside of Orlando, in the town of Winter Park, they know his name. And since his sensational performance as a sophomore at the prestigious City...
Obama pays Christmas visit to Hawaii Marine base
President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle took time from their Hawaii vacation to drop by a Marine Corps base on Saturday, where they greeted service men and women during...
NFL moves Vikings-Eagles game to Tuesday
Are you ready for some Tuesday Night Football? The NFL moved the Vikings at Eagles game from Sunday night to Tuesday because of an expected blizzard that could dump more...
Olympic filmmaker Bud Greenspan dies at 84 in NYC
Bud Greenspan, the filmmaker whose documentaries often soared as triumphantly as the Olympic athletes he chronicled for more than six decades, died at his home in New York City. He...
New York socked by blizzard
It’s the Great White Way — from one end of the city to the other. Winter’s first blizzard blew into town with gale-force winds and an expected two feet of...
Hugh Hefner to make 24-year-old Playboy playmate his third wife
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner announced Sunday that he will marry for the third time after proposing to his 24-year-old girlfriend over the holiday season. The 84-year-old tweeted Sunday to confirm...
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Teen shot dead on train platform
A 17-year-old boy was fatally shot early Sunday morning at a subway station in The Bronx, N.Y. The teen, whose name was not released, was shot in the chest on...
Eight US tourists killed in Egypt bus crash
A tour bus slammed into a truck in southern Egypt on Sunday, killing eight Americans and injuring 21 others in the latest fatal crash involving tourists, the state news agency...
Giants will shake off hangover
TODAY Giants (+3) over PACKERS: Game of the week, given dire consequences for the high-profile loser. Lack of postgame handshakes following the Eagles debacle was as low-rent as Isiah Thomas...
This week's winners and losers
WINNERS DAVID PECKER AMI head sails through with a speedy one month bankruptcy reorg. RICK BRADDOCK Fresh Direct chief eyes organic growth by raising $200M. JAMIE DIMON JPMorgan’s head banker...
Champs of every kind shared stage this year
While Tiger Woods and Roger Federer, the two dominant athletes of the past decades, finally suffered taxing years in 2010, most of the inevitability in sports was turned over to...
The Rumble
Art of the matter N’Awlins painter puts Amar’e on canvas — during game The only known professional painting of Amar’e Stoudemire — an action portrait by the New Orleans artist...
Even without title, Yankees rule New York
And now, a look at the New York Power Index, one man’s highly subjective and perfectly unscientific ranking of our nine teams taking into account, in no particular order or...
Knicks' Stoudemire gives mom greatest present ever
It was an Amar’e Christmas yesterday for the Knicks and Garden fans, including an inconspicious individual seated courtside front row, opposite the Bulls’ bench. She goes by Carrie, wears her...
Home feels festive as Knicks bop Bulls
Someone must have hung some mistletoe, because the Knicks are kissing a decade of ineptitude goodbye. Christmas cheer returned to Madison Square Garden yesterday in thrilling fashion, as the resurgent...
Knicks' defense seals win over Bulls
The green-and-orange uniforms were not the only things different about the Knicks’ look in their Christmas Day triumph over the Bulls. The team that entered the day third-worst in the...
Jets look to kick down playoff door today vs. Bears
CHICAGO — The Jets, who have been historically bad bedmates with prosperity over the years, have a chance to make life quite a bit easier for themselves when they play...
Hangover helpers
Chances are, come Saturday you’re going to have one hell of a hangover. Yes, you can take some aspirin or go back to bed, but this New Year’s Day, we...
Quick at the draw
Two world-class GMs, Vadim Zvyagintsev and Alexander Grischuk, met this week in the Russian Championship and created a new way not to play chess. It goes 1 e5 c5 2...
Bridge
Kids can get their Bible stories confused. In Sunday school, one 7-year-old had to draw a biblical event and produced a picture of four people in an airplane. "What's that?"...
Best of 2010
And now, the moment all New York ers have been wait ing for. Cine File's favorite movies of 2010, in order of merit. Note they include films from the entire...
Smart Alec
Roaming ’round the radio dial, you may have come across the sexy, breathy baritone of Alec Baldwin. But why is he — the man who plays Jack Donaghy on TV’s...
On to new ‘Heights’
The success of the Tony-winning musical “In the Heights” has brought good times galore to creator and original star Lin-Manuel Miranda. But as he prepares to return to the show...
Give our (dis)regards to Broadway
Is there a doctor in the house? Last week, “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark” suffered yet another setback when Spidey stunt double Christopher Tierney became detached from his safety harness...
Craving private Ryan
Ryan Gosling does tortured and conflicted like nobody else in the business. Where did the 30-year-old Canadian actor hone his dark side? What compels him toward roles of the agonized...
Berry picking
He may be The Boss, but back in 1973, Bruce Springsteen was taking direction from Chuck Berry as his pickup guitarist. “I was standing right there at the University of...
Bette Midler vamps it up in Vegas
Once upon a time, Bette Midler’s audience went clubbing until dawn and caught her show at the famed and bygone Continental Baths. These days, they’re more likely to go to...
Auld lang syne, yo!
If you find yourself stuck at home watching TV on New Year’s Eve, you’re most likely wishing that you were somewhere else. This year, broadcast and cable networks will try...
Don't miss
Brenda's holiday The squad’s holiday plans were jeopardized when a feud within a refugee family from Kosovo led to a Christmas Eve stabbing. Brenda’s (Kyra Sedgwick, above) parents announced that...
Reel good
GOODFELLAS (1990) Tuesday, 9 p.m., Spike Martin Scorsese’s film about a young punk, Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), who got rich and reckless while rising in a crime organization during the...
Year in review
These are the shows and stars we broke up with our fell in love with in 2010. SEE YA The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills We thought the housewives of...
Pet peeves
New York City is home to millions of pets. But just as many New Yorkers don’t own one — and have something to say to those who do. With a...
'Sack' dance by grid groupies
She slips an expensive Rolex around her wrist and slings a stylish $3,000 Gucci bag over her shoulder. A football star lavished her with these little luxuries, but now --...
Pot stash found on Rikers
This inmate confused hard time with high times. Correction officers discovered a 270-gram bag of pot hidden behind a radiator inside Oman Gutierrez's cell at Rikers Island on Dec. 17,...
Prince finds a ballet muse
Misty Copeland usually dances the role of a princess as part of her job as a soloist with the American Ballet Theatre. But last week, she danced for a Prince....
Out of comptrol
It's good to be the comptroller. As the pen sion time bomb ticks, city Comptroller John Liu took in the Yankees' home opener, a whiskey tast ing with the British...
'Lawsuit magnet' detective
Police brass don't have a clue about this detective. Andrew Liakos, a Queens narcotics cop was promoted to detective despite being sued six times -- with the city forking over...
NYPD Daily Blotter
Manhattan The would-be bandit who was laughed out of a downtown bank by a teller was busted Wednesday after he returned to the scene, cops said yesterday. William Woodruff, 20,...
Dutch 'terror' roundup
AMSTERDAM -- Dutch police have arrested 12 Somali men on suspicion of preparing a terrorist attack in Rotterdam, prosecutors said yesterday. The men, ages 19 to 48, were detained Friday...
Rubber room's 'dirty' old man
He just won't leave. At age 75, Roland Pierre is the granddaddy of the rubber room -- 13 years in the purgatory of teachers yanked from the classroom for alleged...
O's foes still in birth daze
The state of Hawaii says "birthers," who believe that President Obama was born outside the United States, are stepping up their requests for proof that Obama was born in Honolulu....
Busch gal 40-min. mystery
The 27-year-old girlfriend of the playboy heir to the Budweiser beer fortune was dead for more than 40 minutes before anyone called 911, according to a news report. The body...
Pro-Israel lobbyist sues over pol ads
A pro-Israel lobbying group is accusing an ex-employee of using its mailing list and logo to target voters for California gubernatorial candidate Meg Whitman. The Whitman campaign used the American...
Holy 'rolled'
Sounds like this priest needs to go to confession -- or a good accountant. The Rev. John Kamas, 62, a Catholic cleric involved in half a dozen nonprofits, has been...
Blessed are the homeless: Dolan
Archbishop Timothy Dolan brightened up Christmas yesterday for hundreds of homeless people at a Bronx soup kitchen. The leader of New York's Catholics shared a festive lunch with more than...
Ma fury at gov over slay release
The mother of the 17-year-old killed by Long Island homeowner John White was furious with Gov. Paterson's decision to free the man from prison, he said yesterday. Paterson "heard the...
Looking at 2011 thru crystal ball
It wouldn't be the holiday season without a few predictions for the year ahead. While it's always a tricky proposition, it's a fair bet that what happened last year is...
Crazed B'klyn dad takes baby hostage
A deranged, 300-pound man took his 2-month-old son hostage and torched the family Christmas tree during a wild standoff with cops, police said yesterday. Tredon Mann suffered a broken arm...
Transit workers' bus 'blockade'
Transit workers angry at the chance they'll lose their upcoming 3 percent wage increases plan to gum up bus service in the coming days, sources told The Post. TWU Local...
Nonprofit stiffs staff on checks
Employees of this social-services agency are Scrooged. Troubled nonprofit Alianza Dominicana owes its 300 workers two weeks' pay, and the checks didn't come before Christmas. The nonprofit also failed to...
World can take $100 oil: Kuwait
CAIRO -- The global economy can stand an oil price of $100 a barrel, Kuwait's oil minister said in Egypt yesterday -- despite the price of gas hovering at $3...
Jelly-budget jam
This is one tasteless budget cut. To save some taxpayer bread, city jails are cutting back on jelly. Inmates can now only put one ounce on sandwiches, not two. The...
Backseat thug puts bullet in livery driver's back
A gunman blasted a livery cabby in Brooklyn early yesterday, sending two slugs through the driver's seat then stealing the victim's car, sources said. Despite a gunshot wound, driver Celso...
Gal mangles leg in hosp elevator
A woman was seriously injured last night after she got her leg caught between an elevator car and the shaft wall at a Brooklyn hospital, authorities said. Firefighters and workers...
Toy joy for the season
Mission accomplished! Post readers joined forces with the Marines to deliver Toys for Tots. The city's elves donated 180,000 gifts, which the Brooklyn-based soldiers handed out to 130,000 of the...
App allows you to point, shoot & translate
Traveling in a foreign country over the holidays where you don't know the language used to mean pulling out a pocket translator every time you saw an unfamiliar word. These...
'Coke' smugglers blow it at Kennedy
It was the wrong kind of white Christmas. Two men on a Delta Airlines flight from Puerto Rico were busted at JFK Airport yesterday after their suitcases were found stuffed...
Helping readers fill prescription 'doughnut hole'
Dear John: I am disabled, on a defibulator and have diabetes. I'm over 71 years old and am now paying out of pocket for medications. So I have had to...
On, Blizzard! Up to 16 inches following Santa to town
Break out the shovels and driveway salt -- a blizzard that could dump as much as 16 inches of snow is expected to slam the city starting this afternoon. Forecasters...
A speedy 'Spidey' recovery
The "Spider-Man" actor injured in a terrifying fall last week is on his feet and walking. Christopher Tierney's father says his son doesn't care what the doctors say -- and...
It's Christmas - Afghan style
While many New Yorkers celebrated Christmas morning by tearing open presents, American soldiers stationed in one of the most dangerous combat zones in Afghanistan awoke to a hail of gunfire...
Ex-subprime lender leading HAMP efforts
As many as 13 million homes will be lost to foreclosure by 2012, but troubled borrowers seeking help from Uncle Sam are sent straight to the very same mortgage industry...
62G 'perv' pension
A Queens teacher who knocked up a 16-year-old student and allegedly molested a string of other girls has finally retired after seven years in a "rubber room" -- and now...
NY dentist sinks teeth into profit
Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake and Barry Diller are all fans of Dr. Irwin Smigel, the New York dentist who started tooth bonding way back, but whose is also cleaning up...
Raj's $30M war chest
Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam is going on trial next year on charges of insider trading -- and Wall Street watchers can expect a darn good fight. The billionaire hedge-fund...
Boxer now on his feet
Iran Barkley is off the canvas, and just in time for Christmas. The former middleweight champion, whose heartbreaking descent into homelessness was chronicled by The Post last month, has a...
Butterfly: We're 'royalty' $crewed
In the Garden of Eden, they'd pay royalties just like they should. California-based Iron Butterfly, the band behind the 1960s psychedelic rock anthem, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" -- a title derived from the...
Job stimulus plan
Ali Brown knows what the many unemployed and underemployed New Yorkers are going through. The one-time office manager -- whose worst nightmare is being too broke to dine with friends...
Real Ace Ventura: Detective tails dog walkers
The mystified Manhattan dog owner noticed something was terribly wrong when her white border terrier began preferring the apartment's bathroom to a fire hydrant. And she knew there was only...
Web sales jump 25%
US online sales jumped 15 percent this holiday season, spurred by "aggressive" marketing by Web-based retailers, a research firm said. Online sales were $36.4 billion from Oct. 31 through Dec....
'8' rates great on condo doors
Don't stand in the way of Chinese buyer and apartment No. 8. At Novo64, a new luxury condominium in Forest Hills, apartments with an eight in the address have been...
'Care'less charity
State Sen. Eric Adams funneled $30,000 in taxpayer money to a nonprofit he founded, 100 Blacks Who Care, but doesn't know how, or if, the money was spent. The Brooklyn...
She's got ways to skin a cat
She's PETA's worst nightmare. Clair Watson, 56, a blueblood British fashionista, is the city's Cruella de Vil of couture, the top dealer of garments made from tiger, leopard, ocelot, cheetah...
How to balance the budget (without raising taxes)
A value-added tax, a soda tax, a gas tax, banning earmarks, freezing a portion of federal spending at “pre-stimulus” levels — there’s no shortage of ideas being thrown out to...
The Da Vinci codes
Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” is one of the art world’s greatest masterworks. Depicting the moment after Jesus Christ informs his apostles that one of them will betray him,...
City, slicker
The Encyclopedia of New York City Second Edition edited by Kenneth T. Jackson Yale University Press When terrorists flew two jets into the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001,...
Fight fiercely, Harvard!
If we can allow gays to serve openly in the military, can we imagine the idea of a fighting force that is welcoming to members of an even more reviled...
Fisch’s big boots
Gov.-elect Andrew Cuomo is set to tap one of his key aides, Ellen Biben, as the state’s next inspector general — a post meant to fight the rampant corruption Cuomo...
Go ahead, move back in with the folks
This year, the lyrics “I’ll be Home for Christmas” will take on new meaning for many young adults. They’re not only coming home, they’re staying there. A recent Pew Research...
In my library: George Wendt
No one knows Christmas better than George Wendt, who has played Santa Claus for a half-a-dozen films and TV specials. He’s currently playing St. Nick — a modern one, complete...
Mike's latest grab
Mayor Bloomberg doesn’t need to control everything — especially when he’d arguably make things worse. His latest idea? That the city is better suited than the state to deal with...
Patton killed? Bull!
The suggestion by Robert Wilcox that Gen. William Donovan may have been responsible for the death of Gen. George Patton is patently absurd (“Was Patton Killed?” PostScript, Dec. 19). This...
Required Reading
Alan Lomax The Man Who Recorded the World by John Szwed (Viking) Alan Lomax started his career as a musicologist by joining his father John in collecting and recording songs...
Rich pensions? Ha!
Josh Barro and E.J. McMahon make a good case for private-sector workers having inadequate pensions compared with government employees (“A Tale of Two Workers,” PostScript, Dec. 19). However, their methodology...
Deep in the heart of taxes
New York, I love you — but I can’t make the math work. Like lots of media professionals (and fashion mavens, artists, musicians, et al.), I’ve penciled out the numbers...
'It can't get any worse than this'
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand Random House It was their 27th day in a rotting life raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean when the starving, sunburned and delirious Army...
Graded Entries
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Tomorrow's Calder Entries
Post Time: 12:25 p.m. All horses appear in post position orderFIRST5 ½ fur; $12,000; cl($16,0); 2YOPNHorse Wt.JockeyOdds2Rock God(L),118R Fuentes 5-23County Gun(L),118R Maragh 6-11a-Walkmilemyshoes,111RCuratolo 3-14Mow's Reward(L),118E Nunez 15-11a-Onesteptogo,113J Alvarez 3-15Ontherailwithdad(L),113L Garcia...
Time to clean up Devils mess
Oh, the excuses have been there for the Dev ils, all right, from general manager Lou Lamoriello's inexplicable failure to clean up the salary-cap mess before the start of the...
Contenders target Devils captain for trade
As the Devils threaten to break the record for worst point falloff in NHL history, the lesson is this: The Flyers, who fell from 101 points to 56 in 2006-07,...
Giants defense still searching for score
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Earlier this season members of the Giants defense put some money in a pot, with the cash reserved for whoever scored the first touchdown. It would...
Jets don't plan to punt to Hester
CHICAGO -- Call this a message delivered to the Jets from a higher power. The Jets needed to only watch a couple games on TV last week to know what...
Giants kicker eager for another game-winner
GREEN BAY, Wis. -- Back in 2007, Giants kicker Lawrence Tynes heard throughout the season how he had never been put in a position to attempt a true game-winning field goal...
The Post Line
NFLTodayFavoriteOpening Current(O/U) UnderdogPACKERS 3 3 (43) GiantsBEARS 1½ 1 (36) JetsDOLPHINS 4 3½(41½)LionsEAGLES14 14½(42) VikingsJAGUARS 6½ 7 (46) RedskinsRAMS 2 2½(39½)49ersBUCCANEERS 6 6½(44) SeahawksPatriots 8 7½(44½)BILLSRavens 3 3½(39½)BROWNSCHIEFS 4½ 5...
Vic C.'s Philadelphia Grade
Post Time: 12:25 p.m.FIRST-5 ½ fur; $22,000; clm; 2YO5-TrainDeralmnt 1201-Yodelmeister 1207-FiveShadwell 1202-InstantDelvry 1208-HowBtMybe 1203-Flea Hop 1209-NormanConqr 1204-Elite Player 12010-La Dominican 11511-Rule Me 1206-Rounder 115SECOND-6 fur; $22,000; clm; 3up2-BigRedRanger 1228-Michl'sTrfcta 1223-Vigors...
Knicks benchwarmer Mason spreading Christmas jeer
It was not another ChristMase. Roger Mason's best Christmas ever also coincided with his best season -- two years ago with San Antonio. He came off the bench after sitting...
Vick a pet owner? Inhumane!
Usually outdoors columnists, hunters and anglers are the ones who go after Wayne Pacelle, the president and CEO of the Humane Society of the United States, but this time the...
Fordham's Skelton leads Cardinals comeback over Cowboys
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Arizona once soared on the arm of Kurt Warner. Dallas rests its hopes on Tony Romo. Now, Warner is retired, Romo is hurt and the teams are...
Orlando ends Boston's 14-game win streak
The remolded Magic are the NBA's new streak-busters. Brandon Bass scored 21 points, Hedo Turkoglu had 15 and the Magic ended the Celtics' winning streak at 14 games with an...
Sports shorts
COLLEGE HOOPS: Miss. St. comes up short In Honolulu, Zane Johnson had 19 points and eight rebounds to lead Hawaii over short-handed Mississippi State 68-57 in the fifth-place game of...
Heat defeat Lakers
LOS ANGELES -- The Lakers finally got their first look at the revamped Heat, and the champs might be a little bit disturbed by what they saw. LeBron James had...
Coaching & D, not punter, lost for Giants
* Tom Coughlin's berating of the Giants' rookie punter, Matt Dodge, on the field after the loss to the Eagles on Sunday was completely wrong. The blame should have been...
Today's Sports on Air
BasketballNoonRichmond at Seton HallWABC (770 AM)Football1 p.m.Jets at BearsCBS, ESPN (1050 AM)1 p.m.Redskins at JaguarsFOX4:15 p.m.Giants at PackersFOX, WFAN (660 AM)8:15 p.m.Vikings at EaglesNBC, WFAN (660 AM)8:30 p.m.Little Caesars Bowl:Florida...
Pedal pushed when Jets driven to distraction
CHICAGO — This is nothing new, right? This is what the Jets have been about from the moment we saw them in the summer, from the moment they became must-see...
Giants' win over Packers would push into playoffs
GREEN BAY, Wis. — If this is true, the Giants are headed for the playoffs: “We don’t care where we play, who we play and when we play,” Justin Tuck...
Packers QB feeling need to succeed
The obstacles just never seem to stop coming for Aaron Rodgers. There was the 2005 NFL Draft, when he dropped all the way to the Packers with the 25th pick...
Home Team Lineups
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Manning must deliver Giants into playoffs
GREEN BAY, Wis. — It has been three years since Eli Manning won a Super Bowl and changed his life and the conversation around New York. In the biggest game...
Serby's Holiday Q & A with ... Vince Lombardi
Actor Dan Lauria has brought a legend back to life as the lead in “Lombardi,” running on Broadway at Circle in the Square Theater. The 90-minute drama produced by Tony...
Fitting for a princess
Wednesday’s International Debutante Ball is just one of many thrown in New York City. On the night before Thanksgiving, the Junior League threw its annual ball at which 25 girls,...
Glove affair
In 1922, Emily Post advised young girls being introduced to “polite society” at a debutante ball to say to their friends: “What a pretty frock you have on.” But never,...
Weird but true
High tech meets wacky low tech. iPhone nuts have come up with a baseball cap with an absurdly long bill and curtains that hold the device and allows glare- and...
Ask Ashley: why I won’t see ‘Client 9’
Have you seen “Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer”? If so, what did you think of it?— Jim, Greenwich, Conn. No, and it’s not on my Sunday...
Meet market:
Nicole, a 24-year-old accountant, loves the New York City Public Library, but she’s ready to start checking out more than just books. Cheap date Don’t worry about shelling out the...
Top 5 worst ways to get a date for new year’s eve
According to flirters at Fresh Start Organic Market in Astoria “Craigslist.” — Kim “Say, ‘It’s been a rough year, want to have a rough night?’ “ — David “Use the...
This week’s couple
When Russell, a 30-year-old attorney, met up with Jenn, a 24-year-old brand manager, he was in awe of her model good looks. The pair chatted about the fashion industry and...
FIU draws Toledo in Pizza Bowl
Three years ago, one victory was cause for celebration at Florida International. Now, the Golden Panthers are enjoying something much more impressive -- a trip to a bowl game. It's...
Scholars standing out in second season
To this day, Janet Kleiner gets emotional talking about it. The Scholars Academy girls basketball coach has been guiding teams in the PSAL for almost three decades, but last year’s...
Motor skills: Faulk excelling as Nazareth's 'engine'
With the shot clock turned off and her team comfortably ahead of Archbishop Molloy, Darius Faulk was still directing traffic. Even before the ball was inbounded the Nazareth junior point...
LeBron James' triple-double leads Heat over Lakers in Christmas mega clash
LeBron James had a triple-double as the Miami Heat easily accounted for the Los Angeles Lakers 96-80 in a highly anticipated Christmas Day clash widely billed as the game of...
'Zombie' jamboree! Patton Oswalt at Warsaw on Jan. 8
Patton Oswalt may be the least likely Renaissance man.The celebrated comedian, TV writer, voice actor and TV and film actor can now add memoirist to his cache.In “Zombie Spaceship Wasteland,”...