For two decades, Sheldon Silver was one of the most powerful men in New York politics, his control and demands as speaker of the State Assembly virtually unchallenged. And throughout that reign, prosecutors said on Tuesday, Mr. Silver capitulated to greed, taking illicit payments and “selling his office.” “Year after ...
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Michael E. McMahon, a former congressman and New York City councilman, was chosen as the new district attorney of Staten Island on Tuesday, winning a contentious special election in the city’s most conservative borough. In defeating Joan Illuzzi, a Republican, Mr. McMahon, a Democrat, takes over a position that drew ...
The finish line for the New York City Marathon, so orderly and secure throughout the morning and afternoon, resembled a carcass by Sunday evening as workers began to strip away its decorative features. A red truck slowly backed over the line, and employees hopped out to disassemble signs. At 7:30 ...
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — For months, Joseph P. Ganim asked residents of Connecticut’s largest city to give him a second chance as mayor. On Tuesday, they answered with a resounding yes, electing Mr. Ganim, a Democrat, once again to lead the city he was convicted of betraying a dozen years ago. ...
On an Election Day in which three of the five State Legislature seats in New York being contested were left vacant by Albany lawmakers who ran afoul of corruption laws, it would seem reasonable to expect their misdeeds — and the ethical state of the capital they worked in — ...
Amid widespread overcrowding in New York City’s public school system, it might seem counterintuitive that there would be resistance — of the very angry and full-throated sort — to the opening of a new school. But that has been the case in the Bayside neighborhood of Queens. The city proposed ...
BRIDGEPORT, Conn. — The eldest son of a Connecticut couple who planned to cut him out of their will was in court on two murder counts on Tuesday, several days after the remains of his parents were discovered. Jeanette and Jeffrey Navin of Easton disappeared in August. Their bodies were ...
In the midst of the devastating Californian drought, one woman is proposing that we reintroduce beavers to L.A. County to mitigate our water problem. A couple of weeks ago, Britt Sheflin, a 37-year-old private chef for software startup company Oblong Industries, submitted her beaver campaign to GOOD Maker—a platform for ...
Двенадцать скульпторов строят замок в Вирджинии Ки-Бич, Флорида, и цель побить текущий рекорд 41ft 3.67in Это до сих пор принято их больше, чем на две недели, и, как ожидается, будет завершена в понедельник впечатляющие строительство, по заказу авиакомпании Turkish Airlines, имеет ориентиры по всему миру, в том числе Статуя Свободы ...
The Masai calf stands at 6 ft tall and is just 13 days old, but he's already made a big impression Los Angeles zoo announced Wednesday that a male Masai giraffe was born Oct. 9. The unnamed 130-pound (59-kilogram) baby stands just under 6 feet tall (1.8 metres) and is ...
The new self-driving robot, Starship, promises to shake up the local delivery market You've heard of Amazon's plan to deliver packages using drones; now a new company called Starship is promising to disrupt local delivery with the launch of a self-driving robot that can deliver groceries to customers' doors in ...
Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson is first Republican to overhaul Donald Trump in a national poll in five months Ben Carson has shot into the lead of the Republican presidential race, ousting Donald Trump, the eccentric and egocentric billionaire from the top spot. The retired neurosurgeon now has a 29 per ...