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A New York City judge has dismissed over 100 felony convictions tied to the testimony of former NYPD detective Joseph Franco, who in 2019 was charged with perjury. NBC News reports Bronx Supreme Court Justice David Lewis on Thursday granted prosecution requests to dismiss convictions against 133 dependents who were indicted between 2011 and 2015. “It […]
An NYPD officer was fatally shot Friday night while responding to a domestic disturbance call in Harlem. According to WLNY, the shooting took place around 6:30 p.m. at an apartment complex on West 135th Street and Lenox Avenue. Authorities arrived at the scene after someone reported a dispute between a man and his mother, who was reportedly a […]
An Irish man is facing decades behind bars over an alleged meltdown that occurred on a Delta Air Lines flight. According to newly unsealed legal documents, the incident took place Jan. 7 during an eight-hour flight from Dublin to New York City. Prosecutors say the defendant, 29-year-old Shane McInerney, “repeatedly refused to wear a facemask despite […]
Like alcohol, cannabis can impair drivers and it’s therefore illegal for them to use before getting behind the wheel. Don’t toke and drive. Should be easy enough to remember. But since weed’s legalization in our nation in 2018, more and more folks are getting high, deciding it’s a good idea to drive, and then winding up hurt. […]
Millie, a Jack Russell-Whippet mix, was rescued last week after being ushered to safety by a drone with a sausage attached to it, The Guardian reports. The incident in the town of Havant, Hampshire in England started when Millie slipped her lead and was later seen on the mudflats with a rapidly rising tide. When a coordinated effort […]
A woman whose tongue was partially replaced by a piece of her thigh due to cancer is opening up about her journey, including via a number of increasingly popular TikTok clips. 42-year-old Cameron Weeks Newsom—as mentioned in a Newsflare-citing report from the New York Post this week—suffered from severe pain following a 2013 diagnosis of squamous […]
Have you noticed your grocery bill being higher than usual? You are not alone. According to Statistics Canada, the country’s annual pace of inflation rose in December to its highest rate since 1991. The consumer price index was up 4.8 percent in December from a year earlier, says the agency. Average wages were up 2.6 percent […]
Criminal charges have been filed against three Pennsylvania cops in connection with the shooting death of eight-year-old Fanta Bility. A grand jury recommended the charges—which the Associated Press reported on Wednesday as including manslaughter and reckless endangerment—against Sharon Hill Police Department officers Brian Devaney, Sean Dolan, and Devon Smith (pictured below). Additionally, as revealed in a […]
Sotheby’s on Tuesday unveiled a diamond that’s possibly from outer space. The 555.55-carat black diamond, known as “The Enigma,” was the largest cut diamond in the world in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records. It was unveiled today as part of a tour in Dubai and Los Angeles, and will be auctioned off in London in February. Experts […]
Saturnino de la Fuente García, who was named the world’s oldest man by Guinness World Records in September of 2021, has died at the age of 112, according to Guinness. De la Fuente García reportedly died at his home in León, a city in northwest Spain. He was born Feb. 11, 1909, and lived to be 112 years and 341 […]
