Linda Massarella
The Archive
Thousands protest near pope's Mass amid church sex abuse scandal
Thousands of people protesting abuses by the Catholic Church gathered in Dublin on Sunday a few miles where Pope Francis was scheduled to celebrate Mass. The rally, dubbed for the...
Family holds funeral for baby found dead in East River
The family of the 7-month-old baby found dead in the East River two weeks ago wept openly at his funeral at a Bronx church Monday. The body of Mason Saldana...
Schumer demands feds release info about weed-killing chemical in cereals
The Food & Drug Administration has test results from a probable cancer-causing chemical that’s been popping up in everyday foods like breakfast cereals and granola bars – but is withholding...
Wild video shows cars floating down river after dealership flood
At least a dozen vehicles from a New Jersey car dealership were sent floating down a river during a weekend flash flood. Videos posted to social media show the vans,...
Shirtless man hops on police cars like a trampoline
A bare-chested man tried to get the goat of Newark, NJ, cops by jumping up and down on the roof of three separate patrol cars, but the officers kept their...
Flesh-eating bacteria may force man to have all limbs amputated
A New Jersey father who contracted a flesh-eating bacteria while crabbing on the July 4 weekend might need to have his limbs amputated, but he hasn’t lost the will to...
Elon Musk tweets video parody of Hitler 'shorting Tesla stock'
Elon Musk sent out an early-morning tweet Sunday linking to a clip of “Downfall” – a movie about Adolf Hitler’s last days – with doctored subtitles portraying the German madman...
Liza Minnelli's false eyelashes up for auction
Fifteen pairs of false eyelashes belonging to Liza Minnelli are up for auction Wednesday along with some of the “Cabaret” singer’s other personal items. Minnelli, 72, had been renting about...
Furious Elon Musk calls Thailand cave rescue diver a 'pedo'
Elon Musk launched a vicious Twitter attack Sunday against one of the divers who helped rescue a group of boys from a Thai cave last week, calling him a "pedo''...
Schumer calls on feds to protect buyers from hurricane cars
New Yorkers looking to score a used car should beware that thousands of vehicles damaged in last year’s Hurricane Harvey are hitting the market, said Sen. Chuck Schumer. A “hurricane...
Cops ID wrong-way driver of truck that killed New Jersey family
Authorities on Sunday identified the wrong-way driver of the pickup truck that crashed head-on into a minivan on a Delaware highway, killing a New Jersey dad and his four daughters....
British couple sickened by same poison used on Russian spy
The British couple who mysteriously fell ill over the weekend tested positive for Novichok -- the same poison that almost killed a Russian spy and his daughter who lived just...
NYC sizzles as the first heat wave of the summer arrives
Temperatures were hovering at a blistering 100-degrees Sunday -- and New Yorkers will have even more sticky sweat to deal with as the first heat wave of the summer is...
Longtime waiter deported by ICE: 'I didn’t know what hit me'
An Albanian immigrant who worked as a waiter at a Long Island diner for 24 years -- and always filed his taxes -- said immigration agents shackled him two months...
Schumer announces his daughter is marrying another woman
Sen. Chuck Schumer used the occasion of Sunday’s NYC Pride March to announce that his daughter, Alison, will be marrying her fiancée, Elizabeth Weiland. The women plan to walk down...
Corey Johnson endorses Cuomo for third term
Openly gay Council Speaker Corey Johnson says he is endorsing Gov. Andrew Cuomo for a third term. In a statement sent as New York’s annual Gay Pride Parade was being...
Gay rights group blasts congressional candidate's fake dating profile
As flags of rainbows covered the city for the 49th annual Pride Parade, a gay rights group blasted congressional candidate Suraj Patel for creating a fake profile on a gay...
Beloved former Post graphic designer dies at 42
Theo Caviness, who worked as a graphic designer for the New York Post for eight years, died Friday at age 42 after suffering a heart attack. Caviness, who began working...
Brave girl who fell onto the subway tracks rescued herself
A girl on a Brooklyn station platform got her arm caught in a subway-car door as the train pulled out of the station — then fell onto the tracks as...
Children of fallen servicemen write Father's Day notes to late dads
Some children of US servicemen killed in combat are giving their late dads a special gift this Father’s Day: a letter telling them how much they still mean to them....