WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he is naming Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, a former county prosecutor and elected judge, to be the top federal prosecutor for the nation’s capital after abandoning his first pick for the job.Pirro, who joined Fox News in 2006, cohosts the network’s show “The Five” on…
Authorities dismantled a walk in basement vault at the former home of accused Gilgo Beach serial killer Rex Heuermann as his family prepares to sell the Massapequa Park property. The vault’s large door, marked with Heuermann’s initials was removed by movers and taken away. An attorney for the family says they are clearing out the…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Catholic cardinals broke with tradition Thursday and elected the first U.S. pope, making Chicago-born missionary Robert Prevost the 267th pontiff to lead the Catholic Church in a moment of global turmoil and conflict.Prevost, a 69-year-old member of the Augustinian religious order who spent his career ministering in Peru, took the name…
BOSTON (AP) — For the second straight game, the New York Knicks found themselves in a hole the Boston Celtics have rarely let teams out of this season.The Knicks again found a way — almost the same way, in fact — to pull off the improbable. And now they are two wins away from knocking…
The expected guilty plea of a Thomas Mascia the New York state trooper accused of faking his own shooting last year was postponed due to questions about his mental health.The Judge halted the proceeding after several closed-door meetings with the defense attorneys and prosecutors and rescheduled the hearing for May 21.Mascia was expected to take…
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Black smoke poured out of the Sistine Chapel chimney on Wednesday, signalling that no pope had been elected as 133 cardinals opened the secretive, centuries-old ritual to choose a new leader of the Catholic Church.The cardinals participating in the most geographically diverse conclave in the faith’s 2,000-year history took just one…
Breeze Airways announced Wednesday they will be offering direct flights from Long Island MacArthur Airport to North Carolina beginning on October 2nd. Breeze plans to fly direct from Islip to Wilmington International Airport two days each week, Thursday and Sunday. Flights can be booked online at Breeze’s website.
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney faced off in the Oval Office on Tuesday and showed no signs of retreating from their gaping differences in an ongoing trade war that has shattered decades of trust between the two countries.The two kept it civil, but as for Trump’s calls…
The Suffolk police officer who was slashed and stabbed while apprehending an alleged car thief has been released from the hospital. Police responded to a call around 12:26 a.m. Tuesday regarding two men wearing hoodies and breaking into cars in Amity Harbor. One of the men slashed the office who was rushed to the hospital…
By TOM MURPHY AP Health WriterRite Aid customers can expect their local store to close or change ownership in the next few months, as the struggling drugstore chain goes through another bankruptcy filing.The company plans to sell customer prescription files, inventory and other assets as it closes distribution centers and unloads store locations. Stores will…