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Disbarred lawyer sentenced to more than 4 years for stealing NYPD officer’s payout from 9/11 fund
NEW YORK — A disbarred lawyer who previously served as New York Police Department lieutenant was sentenced to four years and three months Monday for stealing nearly $1 million from a fellow officer suffering from cancer caused by work at the toxic rubble of the World Trade Center after the Sept. 11 attacks. Gustavo Vila swindled NYPD Officer John Ferreyra by representing the gravely ill former officer in an application to the September 11 Victims Compensation Fund. In October 2016 the fund issued a payout for Ferreyra that landed in Vila’s account. Vila kept almost all of it for himself and li...
New York Daily News
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‘Downton Abbey 2’ movie announced with Christmas premiere
The doors of Downton Abbey are opening again, just in time for Christmas. The second movie to serve as a sequel to the hit Julian Fellowes TV series will hit theaters on Dec. 22, Focus Features announced Monday. The original cast, including Hugh Bonneville, Michelle Dockery, Imelda Staunton and Maggie Smith, will all return, joined by newcomers Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye and Dominic West. Lily James, who appeared in 21 episodes as Rose Aldridge, the cousin of Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham (Bonneville), was not listed in the casting news. She was also absent from the first movi...
New York Daily News
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Biden administration bans controversial phrase ‘illegal alien’
President Biden’s administration has ordered U.S. immigration agencies to stop using the controversial and dehumanizing phrase “illegal alien” in reference to migrants. The term was common during former President Donald Trump’s administration, turning up frequently in statements and news releases from both Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and Customs and Border Protection. The Washington Post reported that the shift — which also junks the phrase “assimilation” in favor of “integration” — was outlined in memos sent Monday to ICE and CBP. The White House confirmed the change to the New York ...
New York Daily News
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George Takei reflects on his experience with anti-Asian hate
Legendary ‘Star Trek’ actor, author and activist George Takei says the recent surge in anti-Asian hate follows similar spikes in U.S. history. Here’s his personal story as told to the Daily News: I’ve experienced hate and cruelty. What’s happening today is the same thing Japanese Americans were subjected to in 1942 after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. People were being assaulted, set on fire, had bricks thrown through their shop windows. I had just turned 5 years old. I will never forget the morning I saw two soldiers marching up our driveway carrying rifles with bayonets. I remember their fists...
New York Daily News
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2021 network TV: Which shows on the bubble deserve to be renewed?
Will it stay or will it go? It’s that time of the year where networks announce which TV shows will be renewed and which will be canceled. But with the weirdness of last year — when almost every show was affected in one way or another by the COVID-19 pandemic — networks may have a harder time deciding which to keep or dump. Here are some recommendations: “All Rise,” CBS When it premiered, “All Rise” prided itself on being about fixing the judicial system from the inside, with a Black judge (Simone Missick) and a Hispanic public defender (Jessica Camacho). Barely 18 months later, more of the sho...
New York Daily News
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Alma Wahlberg, mom of actors Mark and Donnie, dies at 78
Alma Wahlberg, the mother of actors Mark and Donnie and restauranteur Paul, has died at the age of 78 from complications related to dementia. The death was announced in a number of social media posts by the family. “My angel. Rest in peace,” Mark Wahlberg, 49, wrote as a caption on an undated photo of his late mother. Donnie Wahlberg, 51, posted a slideshow of photos of Alma. “My mom Alma’s joy for life, love and people — combined with a pride in her humble beginnings and refusal to forget where she came from — undoubtedly shaped me into the man that I am,” the older Wahlberg brother wrote, in...
New York Daily News
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Florida Gov. DeSantis signs controversial ‘anti-riot’ bill into law
Gov. Ron DeSantis signed Florida’s controversial “anti-riot” bill into law on Monday, a measure that vastly increases law enforcement’s powers to crack down on civil unrest. The bill, which passed mostly along partisan lines, has been criticized by Democrats and civil rights groups as unconstitutional for infringing on the First Amendment’s right to protest. “If you look at the breadth of this particular piece of legislation, it is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country,” DeSantis said at a press conference in Winter Haven, surrounded by Polk County...
Orlando Sentinel
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Gun rules advanced in many states even before recent shootings
The spree of mass shootings over the past two months has led to renewed calls for more federal gun restrictions. But even before the most recent violence, state lawmakers were busy enacting measures designed to help solve a uniquely American public health crisis. After mass shootings in Atlanta and Boulder, Colorado, claimed the lives of 18 people, President Joe Biden earlier this month announced six executive actions. They would, in part, lead to the banning of untraceable “ghost guns” and set a federal standard for laws that take guns away from people a court deems to be a threat to themselv...
Stateline.org
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Jaslyn Adams shooting: First grader shot 6 times, Chicago police investigating if father was target
CHICAGO – The 7-year-old girl killed Sunday afternoon while with her father in a McDonald’s drive-thru was a first grade student who attended a Chicago public school in Humboldt Park and Chicago detectives are investigating her fatal shooting as possibly targeting her father, according to police. Jaslyn Adams, 7, was shot six times Sunday as she and her father waited in a drive-thru line at the McDonald’s, 3200 W. Roosevelt Road in the Homan Square neighborhood on the West Side, a preliminary police report states. A responding police officer took the gravely injured child in a squad car and ru...
Chicago Tribune
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Austin shooting suspect Stephen Broderick caught, authorities say; 2 victims identified
AUSTIN, Texas – Authorities have arrested 41-year-old Stephen Broderick, whom authorities have accused of fatally shooting three people in Northwest Austin on Sunday. Broderick was taken into custody after officials received two 911 calls around 7:30 a.m. about a man walking on Old Kimbro Road near U.S. 290 just outside Manor, Texas. Officials sent a car by the area to confirm Broderick's identity. Manor police officers and Travis County deputies arrested Broderick without incident. He was armed at the time, Manor police said. Broderick is the suspect in a triple homicide that started as what ...
Austin American-Statesman
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