AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Democrats pulled off a dramatic, last-ditch walkout in the Texas House of Representatives on Sunday night to block one of the most restrictive voting laws in the U.S. from passing before a midnight deadline. The sudden revolt torpedoed the sweeping measure known as Senate Bill 7, which would have reduced polling … Read more
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is predicting the U.S. death toll from the coronavirus could hit 321,000 by mid-December. By then, hospitals could be overflowing with patients in many parts of the country — and some are already preparing. A COVID-19 triage area has been set up in the lobby of Chicago’s Rush University Medical Center to make room … Read more
A Long Island man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly killing his 70-year-old mother inside their home, police said. Logan Lawson, 24, called 911 at about 4 p.m. and confessed to the killing, according to police. Officers with the Suffolk County Police Department found Lawson’s mother, Barbara Lawson, dead in their Bay Shore apartment, authorities said. … Read more
Rockefeller the owl is free again. The tiny brown-and-white speckled Saw-whet that inadvertently traveled from Oneonta to Manhattan aboard this year’s Rockefeller Christmas tree was released back into its natural habitat on Tuesday night. Rockefeller the owl.Ravensbeard Wildlife Center Workers with the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in Saugerties, where Rockefeller has been convalescing, released the bird … Read more
A 38-year-old man was killed and a woman was wounded during a stabbing attack in the Bronx on Tuesday afternoon, police said. The two victims were found on East 149th Street near Morris Avenue in Mott Haven at about 4:30 p.m., cops said. The man suffered several stab wounds to his torso, while the woman, … Read more
ALBANY — The waiting game just got longer. The fight over who will next represent New York’s 22nd Congressional district still isn’t over, as a state Supreme Court Judge granted an injunction Tuesday afternoon, further delaying certification of final results in a race that’s taken nearly all month to button up. Upstate Democratic Rep. Anthony … Read more
An off-duty city correction officer was busted on Tuesday after a fight at a Harlem apartment building — and arresting officers learned he had a warrant out for his arrest, sources said. Clifton Brooks, 37, was charged with assault following the feud inside the building on Fifth Avenue near East 138th Street at about 12:15 … Read more
The family of a gun-toting man killed by police along with NYPD officer Brian Mulkeen has filed suit against the city — alleging the since-disbanded anti-crime unit’s aggressive tactics caused the fatal shooting. “Every time we get more information like from the most recent non-NYPD video, we are validated about what we’ve always known — … Read more
A former NYPD cop was finally held on bail after his third arrest for sexually abusing children. Shaun Frazier, 40, faces three criminal cases stemming from the allegations of four underage victims, court records show. Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Kim Peterson ordered Frazier held on $150,000 bail during an arraignment Monday night. Hours earlier, Frazier … Read more
Staten Island opened its emergency field hospital Tuesday and accepted its first patient amid a troubling surge of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations in the borough. “We’re up and running,” Staten Island University Hospital’s spokesman Christian Preston told The Post Tuesday afternoon. Located on the grounds of the state-run South Beach Psychiatric Center, the newly-setup … Read more