A former New York state correction officer has been found guilty of murdering inmate Robert Brooks in 2023 while two other officers were cleared of all charges. David Kingsley was convicted Monday of second-degree murder and first-degree manslaughter. Prosecutors said Kingsley and several other guards beat Brooks, who was handcuffed ...
I grew up on “The Gallagher Girls” books. I read them in middle school and then again in high school when I probably should’ve outgrown them. I didn’t care. They felt safe. The main character, Cammie Morgan, wanted to be invisible. She was good at it too. People called her ...
Some nights, I scroll through Netflix for 20 minutes and still end up watching the same movie I’ve already seen a bunch of times. You know exactly what I’m talking about. There’s that familiar music, lines you can quote by heart and the ending you already know. For me, it’s ...
A new report shows that over 154,000 public school students in New York City lacked stable housing at some point during the 2024-2025 school year, a record high. This means that nearly one in every seven students in the city’s public school system was homeless. The nonprofit Advocates for Children ...
They say silk pillowcases are good for your hair and help your skin. Naturally, I bought one at full price. I’ll admit that I would love to have soft hair that isn’t a frizzy, hot mess and better skin. Honestly though, I think I mostly bought it so I could ...
The Giants had that game. I’m serious. One stop, one clean tackle, one bounce the other way, and they win. It hurts because you could feel it. They actually showed up this time. It wasn’t one of those nights where you turn it off early or scroll your phone by ...
A southbound 4 train in the Bronx experienced a scary incident Sunday evening when two cars of the train detached while in motion which forced an emergency evacuation. The situation happened at around 5:15 p.m. between the 161st Street and 149th Street-Grand Concourse stations. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority thankfully confirmed ...
I was just a kid when I first picked up “Dork Diaries” at the library. The title had “Diary” in it, and that was all it took to get me completely invested. Admittedly, I also really enjoyed looking at the doodles on each page as I read the story. I ...
They say “Beauty is pain.” (I’ve always wondered what in the world is up with that. Who made these rules? I just want to talk, honestly.) They also say cold metal things on your cheek at the crack of dawn will somehow zap the puffiness away and move your lymph ...
Paul Daniel “Ace” Frehley, founding guitarist and one of the signature faces of the rock band KISS, died Thursday at the age of 74, his family announced. Frehley passed away at home in Morristown, New Jersey, due to complications following a recent fall, according to his agent. His family said ...
For a long time, men have been told to be strong and to handle things on their own. They can’t cry or talk about their feelings without being seen as weak. In reality, it’s not weak; it’s normal. We all go through hard times and emotions like stress, sadness and ...
Most romance movies end right when life would actually start to get hard (go figure, right?). It usually goes something like this: someone falls in love, they kiss, the romantic music starts to play in the background and the screen fades to black. The end, right? What about the stories that begin after heartbreak, after losing ...
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