A court in Georgia has ordered the owner of an auto-repair shop who disbursed a former employee’s wages with about 91,500 greasy pennies left in his driveway to pay nearly $40,000 in back pay and damages. The judgment said that the shop owner retaliated against the worker, who had asked for his final paycheck, and […]
Three men were convicted in Brooklyn federal court on Tuesday of stalking a family in the New Jersey suburbs on behalf of the Chinese government. The defendants, Michael McMahon, Zhu Yong and Zheng Congying, were found guilty of stalking and a related conspiracy charge. Mr. Zhu and Mr. McMahon, a retired New York Police Department […]
Paul-Henri Nargeolet, a French maritime expert who has been on over 35 dives to the Titanic wreck site, is one of the five people aboard the submersible that has been missing since Sunday, according to his literary representative, Mathieu Johann. Mr. Nargeolet, 77, is the director of underwater research for RMS Titanic, Inc., an American […]
Good morning. We’ll look at why New York City and the surrounding suburban jurisdictions are increasingly at odds. We’ll also follow up on the story of the famous wine store that is accused of failing to deliver more than $1 million in orders to customers. Tensions between the city and its surrounding areas over issues […]
An approximately 700-pound bronze Nazi eagle that once adorned a German warship and in recent years became the subject of a court case in Uruguay will be melted down and turned into a dove, the South American nation’s president said on Friday, a move that he said would transform a symbol of “violence and war” […]
ACROSS THE COUNTRY Much of the affordable housing in the tourist town is far from its famous entertainment strip. One solution: motor scooters offered for no money down. WHY WE’RE HERE We’re exploring how America defines itself one place at a time. In this Midwest tourist town, a housing crisis has led to creative transportation […]
The last time New Yorkers went to the polls, they had to contemplate a governor’s race and a slew of congressional races in the critical 2022 midterm elections. But there was one variable that they did not have to deal with: ranked-choice voting, which had been used the previous year in the mayoral election. For […]
The sudden deaths of five meerkats at the Philadelphia Zoo this month have stunned zookeepers and officials, and a dye used to mark the animals might be to blame. The meerkats, two males named Ari and Kgala and three females named Lula, Nkosi and Nya, were siblings and arrived at the zoo in 2013, said […]
A Vermont man died in jail on Thursday morning while awaiting trial on federal charges that he had lured his mother on a fishing trip, killed her and sank the boat in a scheme to inherit his family’s estate, the U.S. Marshals Service said. The Marshals Service, which announced the death in a statement, did […]
The Latest Advanced Placement Psychology is the subject of the latest skirmish in the monthslong battle between the state of Florida and the College Board. The board said in a statement released on Thursday afternoon that several Florida school districts had raised concerns about the course, noting that its content may violate new state laws […]