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A Long Island woman has been arrested and charged with a deadly hit-and-run crash that killed a grandfather in early November, police announced Tuesday. Heidy Zelaya Almendarez , a 24-year-old Wyandanch resident, was arraigned Monday for the wreck, Nassau County police said in an alert. Octavio Dejesus Espinal Sime , a 76-year-old West Babylon man, was killed in the Nov. 8 crash in Freeport, according to police. Espinal Sime was walking across the street when he was hit by a light-colored sedan, which fled the scene, cops said. Investigators said Zelaya Almendarez was captured on surveillance video hiding her car in her backyard after the crash, News 12 Long Island reported. Prosecutors did not provide more details about the car’s make and model. Zelaya Almendarez was charged with leaving the scene of an incident without reporting with a fatality and tampering with physical evidence. She posted $75,000 cash bail following her arraignment, according to News 12. Espinal Sime was ...

A young Long Island man has been arrested and accused of stabbing his roommate to death Sunday following a dispute at their home in Nassau County, police said. Desean Hamilton , a 23-year-old Elmont resident, was charged with second-degree murder in the case, Nassau County police said Monday in an alert. The victim was publicly identified only as a 33-year-old man. Investigators believe Hamilton and the victim had an argument over living conditions at their shared home , about 5 miles northeast of JFK Airport, News 12 Long Island reported. The debate ended with Hamilton stabbing the older man to death, cops said. Officers responded to the home around 1 p.m. Sunday after receiving reports of a stabbing , according to the Nassau County Police Department. Cops arrived to find the victim suffering from “numerous” stab wounds. He was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Witnesses identified Hamilton as the suspect, police said. He was arrested at the scene wi...

One person was killed and another critically injured after two helicopters collided in midair in the skies over South Jersey on Sunday morning, authorities said. The choppers were flying in Hammonton Township when they crashed into each other around 11:20 a.m., police said. Video showed one of the helicopters plummeting back to the ground, and one of the aircraft bursting into flames when it struck the earth , cops said. Firefighters arrived at the scene — about 30 miles southeast of Philadelphia — and quickly doused the blaze. The victims have not been publicly identified , but investigators said only the pilots were onboard the two aircraft. The surviving pilot was rushed to a hospital with life-threatening injuries, officials said. The crash involved an Enstrom F-28A helicopter and an Enstrom 280C helicopter, and both were operating near the small Hammonton Municipal Airport , the Federal Aviation Administration said. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will i...

A missing 13-year-old girl from Kentucky has been rescued outside Washington, D.C. from a kidnapper after going missing more than two months ago, authorities said Sunday. Wynter Wagoner disappeared from Orlando, Ky., on Oct. 14. She was found Friday at a home in Silver Spring, Md., police said. Christian Alexander Delgado, a 37-year-old Silver Spring resident, was arrested and accused of kidnapping Wagoner , Montgomery County police said in a press release. He was held in Maryland pending his extradition to Kentucky. “ She is safe and that’s about all the information we can give at this time,” Wagoner’s father, Dustin, told Lexington, Ky., NBC affiliate WLEX on Saturday. “I do also want to say thank you for all the efforts in trying to find my daughter and all the prayers for her safety.” Cops did not release any information about Wagoner’s condition , saying only that she had been “transported to an area hospital for evaluation.” Delgado surrendered without incident, authoritie...

Freezing rain and small accumulations of ice could hit northern parts of New Jersey and the southern Hudson Valley on Sunday night, meteorologists said. The new winter weather threat followed several inches of snow that fell from Friday night into Saturday morning. Though the snowstorm blanketed the five boroughs , temperatures in New York City are expected to remain high enough Sunday to avoid wintery conditions. “Temperatures along the immediate coast, including the NYC metro, are expected to inch just above freezing,” National Weather Service forecasters wrote Sunday. “When rain develops just after dark, [precipitation] here is expected to be mainly rain at onset.” But north and northwest of the city, temperatures will be cold enough to create freezing rain and small amounts of ice, according to the National Weather Service. The highest chance of ice was in Orange and Putnam counties in New York, Warren and Morris counties in New Jersey and Fairfield and New Haven counties in ...

Tyler Perry is being sued for $77 million for sexual assault by an actor who appeared in “Boo! A Madea Halloween,” marking the second lawsuit this year accusing the filmmaking mogul of leveraging his power in Hollywood to take advantage of young hopefuls. Model and actor Mario Rodriguez filed the lawsuit on Christmas Day in California, alleging the billionaire subjected him to years of unwanted advances, including sexual battery and assault at Perry’s Los Angeles home. The suit also names Lionsgate Films , which distributed “A Madea Halloween,” claiming the studio knew of Perry’s alleged misconduct and turned a blind eye. Perry, 56, has denied the accusations through his lawyer, Alex Spiro, who described the latest filing in a statement to the Daily News as a yet another “money grab” that will “fail.” Rodriguez was credited as Frat Guy #10 in Perry’s 2016 film, the year after he says he met the mega-producer. According to the lawsuit, Rodriguez claims he was first approached by a...

A 73-year-old woman was viciously beaten by a stranger in a Harlem subway station elevator after the victim complained that the attacker’s young daughter was touching her, police said Saturday. Cops have released an image of the menacing mother in the hopes that someone recognizes her. The victim told police she was taking the elevator at the 125th St. stop at Lexington Ave. at around 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 3, when the woman and her young daughter stepped in. During the ride, the victim said that the small girl was touching her, sparking an argument with the mother, cops were told. As the confrontation heated up, the mom began repeatedly punching the victim in the face before she and her daughter ran out of the elevator. The two were last seen jumping on a Lower Manhattan-bound train on the No. 4/5/6 line , cops said. The bruised victim called police, but refused medical attention. Cops recovered surveillance images of the woman at the MTA station and released the footage, asking the...

Feuding families. Tragic quests. Dead bodies. George Clooney and Sarah Snook. Broadway had plenty of variety on offer this past year. Here is our annual list — daringly ranked in order — of the top ten Broadway shows of 2025. 1. Purpose Nobody but Branden Jacobs-Jenkins could have written “ Purpose ,” a dynamic new drama about a Chicago family of civil rights leaders and a fine, fresh-eyed showcase for the famed actors of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company. Here was a play that took no prisoners as it explored the universal experience of trying to live up to the accomplishments of your parents while also avoiding falling into their blind spots and being unable to climb out. And in a rough year for Broadway investors all over the rialto, this one also found its audience. 2. Oedipus Mark Strong with Samuel Brewer in "Oedipus." (Photo by Julieta Cervantes) With Mark Strong and Lesley Manville playing the ill-fated leading pair of classical co-conspirators, this production o...

A raging fire tore through the iconic Silver Gull Beach Club in Queens, causing massive damage, officials said Thursday. The fire broke out about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday at the long-standing summertime haunt on Beach 193rd St. and Rockaway Point Blvd. in Breezy Point, FDNY officials said. It quickly escalated to three alarms amid concerns that the structure could collapse. The private club opened in 1963. It consists of 457 cabanas, which the New York Times described in 2016 as “like large walk-in closets that serve as miniature beach houses,” often decorated elaborately by members who pass them on to their children. Day passes are also available. A fire tears through the Silver Gull Beach Club on Beach 193rd St. and Rockaway Point Blvd. in Breezy Point, Queens, on Wednesday. (FDNY) “The first unit to arrive immediately transmitted a second alarm due to the heavy fire,” FDNY Deputy Assistant Chief David Simms said. “At the high point of the fire, we had five handlines operating due...

Drummer Chuck Redd said he canceled the Christmas Eve show he’s been performing for nearly 20 years at the Kennedy Center after President Trump added his own name to the building that serves as a living memorial to assassinated President John. F. Kennedy. “When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” the jazz percussionist said. Trump’s handpicked board voted to add the 47th President’s name to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday. The building’s facade was soon after altered to reflect the renaming, though the legality of that process remains in question. Redd began leading the holiday “Jazz Jams” in Washington, D.C. in 2006. Jazz drummer Chuck Redd performs during the Jazz at Lincoln Center's 'American Anthems' performance at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in New York on Nov. 23, 2011. (Photo by Jack Vartoogian/Getty Images) The Kennedy Center’s website simply ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has been charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges in connection with the ambush on November 26 that fatally wounded one of the West Virginia National Guard members and seriously injured the second. Related Articles ‘The best gift ever’: Baby is born after the rarest of pregnancies, defying all odds NJ man charged with murdering girlfriend, a former Broadway child star Investigators sift through wreckage after a deadly Pennsylvania nursing home explosion ‘The Middle,’ ‘Seinfeld’ actor Pat Finn dies after cancer battle US stocks drift to more records on a holiday-shortened day of trading Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, has been charged with transporting a firearm in interstate commerce with the intent to commit an offense punishable for more than one year. He has also been charged federally with transporting a stolen firearm in interstate commerce. “The transfer of this case from...

The NBA is once again taking a hard look at tanking, and the timing is no coincidence. As the league continues to deal with the fallout from a gambling scandal that exposed how injury information and late-season lineup decisions can be exploited, officials have begun exploring new ways to remove the incentive to lose on purpose. The focus isn’t on rebuilding teams as a whole, but on the gray areas that allow competitive integrity to erode late in the season, particularly when draft positioning and protected picks come into play. According to ESPN’s Shams Charania , the league recently gathered input from owners and general managers at a Board of Governors meeting, presenting several early-stage ideas tied to the draft lottery, traded pick protections and late-season incentives. No proposals have been formally adopted, but the goal, per Charania, is to discourage teams from manipulating availability or outcomes once draft math starts to outweigh on-court priorities. That context mat...

By MATTHEW LEE, Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is recalling nearly 30 career diplomats from ambassadorial and other senior embassy posts as it moves to reshape the U.S. diplomatic posture abroad with personnel deemed fully supportive of President Donald Trump’s “America First” priorities. The chiefs of mission in at least 29 countries were informed last week that their tenures would end in January, according to two State Department officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal personnel moves. All of them had taken up their posts in the Biden administration but had survived an initial purge in the early months of Trump’s second term that targeted mainly political appointees. That changed on Wednesday when they began to receive notices from officials in Washington about their imminent departures. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president although they typically remain at their posts for three to four years. Those affected b...

By DMYTRO ZHYHINAS, DEREK GATOPOULOS and VASILISA STEPANENKO KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The icy ground crackling under their feet, members of an elite Ukrainian drone-hunting team set up for a long night. Related Articles Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says progress in US-led peace talks is ‘quite solid’ Singer-songwriter Chris Rea, known for ‘Driving Home for Christmas,’ dies at 74 Starlink in the crosshairs: How Russia could attack Elon Musk’s conquering of space Car bomb kills Russian general in Moscow Today in History: December 22, French Jewish army captain unjustly convicted of treason Antennas and sensors are clipped to a light stand. Monitors and controls are pulled from hard cases, and a game-changing new weapon is readied for deployment. The Sting, shaped like a flying thermos, is one of Ukraine’s new homegrown interceptors. The unit’s commander says the interceptors can effectively counter Russia’s fast-evolving suicide drones, which are now flying faster and at higher altitud...

The No. 1 overall pick in April’s NFL Draft is still in play. The Giants lost their ninth straight on Sunday, 16-13, to a shorthanded Minnesota Vikings team that had flight complications on Saturday and played backup quarterback Max Brosmer for half of the game. Interim head coach Mike Kafka had no idea how to protect Jaxson Dart from Brian Flores’ aggressive and complicated defense. Dart didn’t complete a pass until 1:44 remaining in the second quarter. The Giants (2-13) finished with 141 total yards of offense and 13 net yards passing. And they did not score a touchdown on offense. Their only points came on a 27-yard fumble return by Tyler Nubin late in the first half after a Brian Burns strip sack. The Giants have two games remaining against the Raiders and Cowboys. If they lose both, they can land the No. 1 overall pick in April’s NFL Draft. GM Joe Schoen now has a 3-24 record (.111) in the Giants’ last 27 games, a 5-27 record (.156) in the last 32 games, a 5-18-1 record (....

Nick Reiner may remain on suicide watch and in solitary confinement for the foreseeable future as he faces charges for the double murder of his parents, Rob and Michele Reiner . Nick was arrested last Sunday and later charged in the fatal stabbings of the beloved director, 78, and photographer, 70, whose daughter Romy discovered the grisly scene at their Los Angeles home . The 28-year-old reportedly found her father’s body, but wasn’t notified until later that her mother had also been slaughtered. Actor/Producer/Director Rob Reiner (center) and wife Michele Singer (L) and son Nick Reiner (R) attend Teen Vogue's Back-to-School Saturday kick-off event at The Grove on August 9, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Buckner/Getty Images for Teen Vogue) A police source confirmed to People that the late couple’s son must wear a blue suicide-prevention smock 24/7  while he’s behind bars at the Twin Towers Correctional Facility in downtown L.A. He’ll “remain on suic...

Lawyers for Luigi Mangione are arguing that Attorney General Pam Bondi has a conflict of interest in the case, claiming her distant ties to the victim, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson , could be fueling her fight for the death penalty . Bondi was previously a partner at Ballard Partners, a firm that represented UnitedHealthcare’s parent company, UnitedHealth Group. Mangione’s attorneys contend that her work created a “profound conflict of interest” that violated their client’s due process rights, according to court documents filed late Friday as part of a renewed effort to block the death penalty and to get several charges in the case tossed. Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel (R) appear during a news conference at the Justice Department on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) Bondi also continues to enjoy financial benefits through Ballard’s profit-sharing plan, his lawyers said, emphasizing that she should have lon...