One person was killed, another was injured and six firefighters sustained minor injuries and were treated for smoke inhalation, Assistant Chief of EMS Paul Miano said. ... Read full Story
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Joel Bassoff, a local resident and attorney, was ordered to be removed from the Edison Township Council meeting after he pulled out the star spangled banner while addressing council members on Nov. 25. ... Read full Story
His Broadway career spanned nearly two decades, earning him three Tony Award-nominations, one resulting in a win for his role in “Hello, Dolly!” ... Read full Story
Ex-Governor Andrew Cuomo committed "medical malpractice" and publicly undercounted the total number of COVID-related nursing home resident deaths during the worst period of the killer pandemic, a damning final investigative report released by a key House panel found. ... Read full Story
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Bronx Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres has called for an investigation into claims Gov. Hochul's office rigged a bid to oversee New York's allegedly fraud-ridden $9 billion home care Medicaid program. ... Read full Story
The final determination on the recommendation -- the most severe that can be issued by the Civilian Complaint Review Board -- could ultimately be the call of newly appointed police Commissioner Jessica Tisch. ... Read full Story
The 41-year-old victim was sleeping in his apartment on Second Avenue near East 106th Street around 2:25 a.m. when the trio climbed up to his third-floor window, using the fire escape, authorities and sources said. ... Read full Story
Disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein is back in a New York City hospital for “emergency treatment” following an “alarming blood test,” his lawyer said Monday. Weinstein, 72, will remain hospitalized “until his condition stabilizes,” his attorney, Imran Ansari, said in a statement. Ansari added that Weinstein is “suffering from a lack of adequate medical care and enduring deplorable and... ... Read full Story
New York state police pull off dramatic rescue of heart transplant patient stranded by massive blizzard that engulfed much of upstate over the weekend. ... Read full Story
“Scheduled work shifts [at Burning Man] were delayed and continually rearranged, causing confusion among campers as to how and when to contribute.... While some of us found ways to help, others took it as an opportunity to eschew their responsibilities. However, those of us who showed up united, and handled business, did so with aplomb...” — Morena Duwe, The Los Angeles Times, 9 Sept. 2024
Did you know?
Something to chew on: there’s no etymological relationship between the verbs chew and eschew. While the former comes from the Old English word cēowan, eschew comes instead from the Anglo-French verb eschiver and shares roots with the Old High German verb sciuhen, meaning “to frighten off.” In his famous dictionary of 1755, Samuel Johnson characterized eschew as “almost obsolete.” History has proven that the great lexicographer was wrong on that call, however. Today, following a boom in the word’s usage during the 19th and 20th centuries, English speakers and writers use eschew when something is avoided less for temperamental reasons than for moral or practical ones, even if misguidedly so, as when Barry Lopez wrote in his 2019 book Horizon of ill-fated Antarctic explorer Robert Falcon Scott, “with an attitude of cultural superiority, eschewing sled dogs for Manchurian ponies....”