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On Monday, a jury awarded $59+ million in damages to an ex-Manhattan high school student, Alonzo Yanes, who was suffered severe burns after a chemistry class experiment went wrong back in January 2014. Yanes is now 21-years-old, and he is set to have that judgment paid out by the city of New York. His attorney, Ben […]
You never know what you’ll see in New York… literally. According to the New York Post, there have been close to 35 reported coyote sightings around the city. This is already four-times the number of reports recorded in all of 2018 and six-times the amount of sightings reported in 2017. Most of these encounters have […]
A guy broke into Wendy’s, promptly hit the grill to craft himself a quick meal, then snagged a safe before ultimately being arrested. Shockingly, this all went down in Florida. The Martin County sheriff’s office, per WSET-TV, says Patrick Benson utilized either a “brick or large rock” to smash said Wendy’s window after operating hours. Once […]
At least 10 people are dead after a small passenger plane crashed into an empty airplane hangar in Addison, Texas on the morning of June 30. CBS reports that a twin-engine Beechcraft BE-350 King Air lost an engine soon after take-off. The plane veered hard to its left and crashed into the hangar, bursting into […]
Ticketmaster will be forced to pay $4.5 million CAD ($3.4 million USD) for misleading consumers over the price of their tickets. The Canadian Competition Bureau took issue with Ticketmaster’s practice of tacking on fees late in the purchasing process, effectively advertising and charging two different costs to consumers. The Bureau said that the mandatory fees added […]
Luis Alvarez, a retired NYPD detective and a first responder during the Sept. 11 attacks, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 53. Alvarez’s colorectal cancer was specifically linked to his actions on September 11 and the toxins released from the rubble. Alvarez spent weeks after 9/11 searching for victims at Ground Zero […]
Lizzo said she is “out for blood.” Following her Thursday night performance at Milwaukee’s Summerfest, the 31-year-old singer took to Twitter claiming members of her team were assaulted by a “bigoted” security guard at the event. Lizzo said she intended to file a complaint, and hoped the festival organizers would cooperate in the investigation. DID ANYBODY GET […]
New York City officials are accusing an Astoria family of allegedly operating a ring of illegal Airbnb rentals—a very lucrative ring. As pointed out by Wired, the Mayor’s Office of Special Enforcement filed a lawsuit last week against 13 individuals and entities that allegedly ran a five-year housing scheme that earned over $5 million in revenue. Officials say […]
Even Axon, i.e. the company formerly known as TASER, is questioning the ethics behind the implementation of facial recognition technology in the policing industry. In a statement Thursday detailing the findings of a report from the Axon AI and Policing Technology Ethics Board, formed in April 2018, CEO Rick Smith pointed to a need for additional research […]
The Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration’s attempts to include a question on the 2020 census form asking U.S. residents whether or not they are citizens. The court didn’t rule on whether or not including the citizenship question is unlawful but rather cited concerns over why the president’s administration wanted to include it in the first place. In […]
