Новости за 17.04.2018

Not even a broken bat can stop Bryce Harper. Harper broke his bat his first time up Monday against Jacob deGrom in the first inning. And he still homered, his major league-leading eighth of the year. “Barreled it pretty good. It just broke and kept going,” said Harper, who homered in his third consecutive game...

LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — A Georgia prosecutor will not seek the death penalty against a woman charged with killing her husband and four children and seriously injuring another daughter by stabbing. News outlets report 34-year-old Isabel Martinez appeared in court Monday in Gwinnett County, near Atlanta, and pleaded not guilty all charges. She is charged with...

A Binghamton University student from Long Island was arrested Monday, following a day-long manhunt and stabbing death of a freshman, authorities said. Michael Roque, a 20-year-old from Massapequa, was charged with second-degree murder and booked into the Broome County Jail, according to The Press & Sun-Bulletin. Joao Souza, 19, an engineering major from Rye Brook...

MINNEAPOLIS — Hundreds of travelers from Minnesota who were left stranded in Mexico after Sun Country Airlines canceled flights due to a storm at home had to scramble to find flights on other airlines because the carrier had ended its seasonal service south of the border. Sun Country, based in Eagan, Minnesota, said the flights...

SEATTLE — An anonymous donor has given $10 million to an independent radio station in Seattle. The Seattle Times reports that the gift to KEXP was made by a woman before she died. Betsy Troutman, the station’s director of development, said the amount of the gift was “transformational.” The bulk of the money will be...

Patriots’ Day pounding! Smear campaign continues. From Stitches is the “worst handicapper in history” to “he’s morally unfit.” Settle down, Sammy Gravano. And you too, Mr. Higher Loyalty. We’re hanging in. You won’t find a greater tax-paying patriot this side of New England. Well, maybe Giants new left tackle Nate Solder. Blocker! … Kansas City...

Giancarlo Stanton may not have been subject to many boos while rising to stardom in Miami, but his old Marlins manager was hardly surprised by New York’s reaction to the outfielder’s early struggles. Don Mattingly spent 14 years in a Yankees uniform, so hearing that boos rained down on Stanton during a pair of five-strikeout...

When it comes to weight loss, being healthy is not enough. Rather, sustainable weight loss comes down to calorie control and a balance of macronutrients — the carbs, proteins and fats that make up our food. This means that while popular breakfast options such as toast, yoghurt or a breakfast drink may appear to be...

Jeremy Lin played just 37-of-164 games in his first two Nets seasons. But going into the last year of his deal, GM Sean Atkinson cautioned against counting out the oft-injured guard. “He’s proven people wrong his entire career, so that’s something when we first brought Jeremy on board intrigued us about him,” Marks said. “There’s...

Just when the 2017 Mets seemed dead and forgotten came a flashback to that team’s worst moments. The Mets can only hope Monday night was a blip and not a sign of things to come for a bullpen that has excelled over the first two and a half weeks of the season but has often...

A Manhattan jury awarded $60 million to the family of a construction worker who died from asbestos exposure, in a verdict that critics say shows the need for tort reform. Pietro Macaluso did demolition work on single-family homes in Brooklyn in the 1970s and ’80s. The work required ripping out boilers laden with cancer-causing asbestos....

A powerful EF2 tornado ripped through Greensboro, North Carolina, on Sunday night — unleashing 135 mph winds and causing at least one death. But that didn’t stop young Anton Williams from finishing his game of Fortnite. “I was sitting at home and I was playing [the video game],” he explained. “All of sudden, I hear...

All of sudden, it’s a series. And a good one. The Devils were able to claw out a 5-2 victory over the Lightning in Game 3 of their first-round series Monday night in Newark, cutting the deficit in the best-of-seven contest to 2-1. It was a whale of a game for the Devils’ Hart Trophy...

Tesla has temporarily suspended its Model 3 assembly line in what the company said on Monday was a planned production pause, as the automaker continues to face challenges ramping up its new sedan. It was the second time since February that Tesla has temporarily shut down its production line for the Model 3 at its...

Mark Zuckerberg proudly trotted out a number when he was being questioned last week by Congress: His company, Facebook, would soon double the security team that monitors content on the site, to 20,000. There are now 10,000 people who keep watch for the bad things that users can put on Facebook and the monkey businesses...

No wonder Derek Jeter didn’t want to come back to the Bronx for this one. The Yankee great missed the Yankees 12-1 over the Marlins on Monday night at the Stadium, as the Yankees took advantage of a Miami team deep into a teardown under its new CEO, Jeter. The victory was the Yankees’ third...

New Yorkers may act tough, but we’re softies when it comes to tipping. The Big Apple is home to the nation’s highest average tip amounts for Lyft drivers — with residents dropping up to $1,000 in extra cash on any given night, according to the ride-sharing service. New York City ranks first among US cities...

The app world is coming for your kids. Nearly one in five of the most popular free children- and family-oriented apps in the Google Play store improperly collects “identifiers or other personally identifiable information,” a study has found. The study, which analyzed 5,855 apps, found that 281 — or about 5 percent — collect contact...

When asked to gauge the season, Nets general manager Sean Marks reminded that neither he nor ownership had measured progress by wins and losses. But going into what will be his and coach Kenny Atkinson’s third full season together, he admitted that could finally be about to change. “At the start of the season you...

Tax returns are due Tuesday, so folks have tax issues on their minds. So I asked Nicole Kaeding of the Tax Foundation to go over a few of the big things that changed because of the recently passed Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and how it will affect this year’s taxes and next year’s returns....

They get some right. They get some wrong. If they get a whole bunch more right than wrong, they get to stay around. If not, they are sent packing. It is the reality and fate of general managers in the NFL and it is the assignment soon to be accepted by Dave Gettleman, who understands...

This guy is as slippery as a sidewalk hot dog. A city food-cart vendor dodged $117,300 in health-inspection fines by cooking up a series of phony identities for himself so he could keep getting new licenses — and the Health Department swallowed his trick every time, according to an administrative judge. Normally, food vendors must...

Chilling texts between convicted city pimp Michael Lamb and a teen show how vulnerable young women can be forced into becoming sex slaves. Lamb got 18-year-old “JC” drunk, took provocative photos of her and then threatened to make them public if she didn’t agree to work for him. The distraught young woman dodged the scheme...

A Lower East Side tattoo parlor is opening a new outpost — in the window of Saks Fifth Avenue. Rivington Tattoo, which caters to rockers, athletes and Fortune 500 billionaires, will start inking customers later this month in a specially designed display at the tony department store’s lower Manhattan location. “It’s live theater,” said Wass...

They sit next to you on the subway and attend school with your children. Some come from money; others were born into poverty. There is no cookie-cutter mold for the city’s sex-trafficking victims, a hidden — and burgeoning — part of its population. “It’s that confluence of a super-young, vulnerable person meeting a predatory individual...