Titanic honored with prayers, silence
With prayers, a hymn and a moment of silence broken by a ship’s deep whistle, passengers and crew on a memorial trip marked 100 years to the moment since the Titanic sent more than 1,500 people to a...
View ArticleVirginia Tech honors those killed in 2007 in campus massacre
Each anniversary since the April 2007, massacre on the Virginia Tech campus, classes have been suspended for the day in memory of the 32 students and faculty killed in the rampage by a lone gunman who...
View ArticleWATCH: Dog braves traffic to stick by fatally struck pal
Los Angeles county animal control officials are heralding the loyalty of a black Labrador retriever that braved traffic to stay by another dog that was fatally struck by a car.
View ArticleFilm director Darren Aronofsky finds rebound romance
Darren Aronofsky has found a bond of his own. The ''Black Swan'' director has discovered love on the rebound.
View ArticleTornado warnings helped save lives in Midwest
When a tornado shrouded in darkness and wrapped in rain dropped quickly from the sky above this northwest Oklahoma town, many residents relied on television weathermen to warn them of impending...
View ArticleKelsey Grammer, 57, gets hip tattoo with wife Kayte Walsh’s name
Kayte Walsh isn’t just another notch on Kelsey Grammer’s belt - she’s now a permanent tattoo on his right hip. Grammer, 57, kept it low-key as he and his blushing bride wandered into a tattoo parlor...
View ArticleByrd praises the late Gil Noble as first-rate newsman
Gil Noble was best known for his long tenure hosting “Like It Is” on Ch. 7, but the admiration for his work stretched into black radio as well, and he had a long-time kindred spirit there in Imhotep...
View ArticleQueens trio in court for bomb plot
When Al Qaeda-affiliated Adis Medunjanin arrives Monday in Brooklyn Federal Court, he will stand accused of a plot to blow up the city’s subway system on the eighth anniversary of 9/11.
View ArticleNow with her own company, Vieira's ready to produce
After decades of working for other producers, TV veteran Meredith Vieira is now on the other end of the checkbook, learning firsthand what it’s like to produce film, stage and television projects.
View ArticleABC finds canceling soaps is no way to clean up
When Lady Grantham slipped on a bar of soap in Season One of “Downton Abbey,” she fell and lost her baby, which would have been a boy, which would have resolved the inheritance issue that has entangled...
View ArticleDeaf jam: Unique hip-hop concert will rock NYU
The daughter of football royalty is bringing to New York what’s billed as the first hip-hop concert for the deaf. Jesse Warner, daughter of former Giants quarterback Kurt Warner, spent the last year...
View ArticleNorway killer of 77 defiant as trial begins
The right-wing fanatic who confessed to killing 77 people in a bomb-and-shooting massacre went on trial in Norway's capital Monday, defiantly rejecting the authority of the court.
View ArticleNYPD worker charged with drunk-driving in fatal Harlem crash
An off-duty NYPD maintenance worker was charged with drunk driving after he struck and killed a man in Harlem Sunday night, police said.
View ArticleIllinois man drowns in pond after freak encounter with swans
An Illinois man drowned in a pond at an apartment complex early Saturday after he was apparently attacked by some swans he cared for, authorities said.
View Article2-year-old discovers bodies of parents after murder-suicide
A 2-year-old boy found his parents dead in their home, victims of a murder-suicide in Queens, police sources and neighbors said.
View Article‘Celebrity Apprentice’ week 9: Lisa Lampanelli gets animated
Nothing says fun like arts and crafts and live-action puppets on “The Celebrity Apprentice.” The only question that hung, like an unspoken cloud of billowy smoke, over this week’s challenge, however,...
View ArticleBrooklyn poet Tracy K. Smith wins Pulitzer on her birthday
Monday was a really big day for Brooklyn poet Tracy K. Smith — she turned 40 and won a Pulitzer Prize. Smith was honored for the collection “Life on Mars,” which she wrote in her Boerum Hill home.
View ArticleCouncil says mechanic standards ‘need lift’
The City Council Monday introduced a measure that would require the city’s 7,000 elevator mechanics to meet national standards and be licensed by the city.
View ArticlePHOTO: After the suicide bombing
GRAPHIC PHOTO WARNING: A 12-year-old girl is the unforgettable focal point of a photograph that secured this year's Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography.
View ArticleEli: SNL gig was no snap decision
WHEN Peyton Manning hosted “Saturday Night Live” five years ago he wasn’t completely out of his element. He had acted in school plays and starred in several popular commercials.
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