A Texas kindergarten teacher previously charged with allegedly harming children was arrested again Monday, accused of slapping a 5-year-old student. The El Paso Police Department said Olga S. Najera, 52, was taken into custody and booked into the county jail under a $15,000 bond. The latest incident allegedly took place at Helen Ball Elementary School...
The Las Vegas shooter who killed 59 people at a country music festival once worked as an IRS agent and a mailman for the US Postal Service, a federal spokeswoman said. Stephen Paddock was a mail carrier from 1976 to 1978, according to a spokeswoman for the Office of Personnel Management. He then went on...
Vegas killer Stephen Paddock repeatedly berated his gal pal in public, according to baristas at a coffee shop in a casino he frequented near his Nevada home. “It happened a lot,” Esperanza Mendoza, who supervises the Starbucks inside the Virgin River Casino in Mesquite, Nev., told the Los Angeles Times. Workers described Paddock, 64, as...
PERRIS, Calif. — Officials say a man killed in a recreational skydiving accident in Southern California was a decorated Navy SEAL. The Federal Aviation Administration says Cmdr. Seth Stone’s parachute failed to open properly after he jumped from a hot air balloon Saturday in Perris. The FAA is investigating. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday...
Does anyone cook from memory anymore? Alex Guarnaschelli, executive chef at Midtown’s acclaimed American restaurant Butter, hopes that more of us will start to soon. The Food Network star’s new book, “The Home Cook: Recipes To Know by Heart” (Clarkson Potter, out now) calls for the comeback of grandmotherly kitchen wisdom. “When something excites the...
Nearly 40,000 pounds of ground turkey were recalled on Monday after officials discovered metal shavings in one of the packages. Prestage Foods, Inc. recalled the meat packages sold at supermarkets in nine states — including Connecticut, Florida, and New York — that were produced between Sept. 25 and 26, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced...
E train riders, get ready to stand for that long commute home. The MTA has removed some seats from some of its E train cars to make more room for standing passengers. The cars are making their debut during Tuesday’s rush hour. The 100 pilot subway cars no longer have seats on the ends of...
Carlos Arnaiz doesn’t usually carry cash. But to fund his delicious habit, he sure needs it. Every Saturday morning, the 41-year-old architect ventures to She Wolf Bakery stand at the Fort Greene Park Greenmarket for a weekly fix of artisanal bread. After making his selections, he counts out a fat stack of singles pilfered from...
Vergara purchased the 468-square-foot studio in 2007 for $165,000 after living in it for a number of years.
The girlfriend of Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock is still a person of interest, police said Tuesday. Marilou Danley is currently in the Philippines and has been talking to US authorities, Las Vegas Sheriff Joe Lombardo said. “Currently, she’s a person of interest,” he added. Paddock killed 59 people Sunday evening, when he opened fire...
An upstate New York mom took her daughter to the Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas for her 21st birthday — but ended up shielding her child from bullets when a madman opened fire on the show. Webster woman Jennifer Bryan and her daughter were near the stage at the festival Sunday when the...
The Jets waived tight end Will Tye on Tuesday, one month after claiming him off waivers from the Giants. Tye caught four passes for 38 yards in three games with the Jets. He was inactive for Sunday’s win over the Jaguars. Tye spent the first two years of his career with the Giants, who cut...
The 2013 Yahoo data breach affected all 3 billion of its customers, not 1 billion like had been previously announced. The revelation was disclosed by Yahoo’s new parent company, Verizon Communications, in an update to its security page. In the update, it said that it had determined that all accounts that existed at the time...
Sandy Alderson announced that he expects Kevin Long to return in 2018. Probably as hitting coach, but perhaps with a shot at being the manager. That might give an indication of a strong pitching coach candidate, as well. Long, as the hitting coach, worked with Dave Eiland for the Yankees, including on the 2009 championship...