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38+ min ago (392+ words) ELMONT, NY "Home cooking clearly is not agreeing with the New York Islanders, who lost for the fourth time in five games amid this seven-game homestand with a 4-1 result against the Washington Capitals on Sunday afternoon at UBS Arena. Tom Wilson scored twice and added an assist for the visitors, while the Islanders (13-10-3, 29 points) were stymied by Capitals goalie Logan Thompson, who made 30 saves. New York has scored just five goals in their last five games, and three of them came in Friday's 4-3 shootout loss to the Philadelphia Flyers. Ilya Sorokin, who gave Wilson his second goal on a silver platter thanks to an errant pass in the second period, stopped 14 Capitals shots. His giveaway proved to be the difference, as Bo Horvat finally broke through Thompson with 6:17 remaining in regulation. Aliaksei Protas and Alex Ovechkin added empty-netters inside the…...

1+ hour, 19+ min ago (189+ words) Former Mayor Bill de Blasio was spotted dining with police Commissioner Jessica Tish Saturday at Flora restaurant in Park Slope. But both participants are staying mum on what they discussed. A source familiar with the chat said de Blasio requested the casual meeting with Tisch, who he knows well from his time in office. De Blasio Tisch appointed Tisch as his commissioner of the New York City Department of Information Technology and Telecommunication in 2019, where she led the IT response during the height of the global COVID-19 pandemic. She previously served the de Blasio administration as then-police Commissioner William Bratton "s deputy for information technology. Tisch, who served as sanitation commissioner and then police commissioner under current Mayor Eric Adams, has agreed to stay as the NYPD boss under Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani " who de Blasio supported during this year's election…...

1+ hour, 53+ min ago (352+ words) Luigi Mangione, the accused assassin of United HealthCare CEO Brian Thompson, will be back in a Manhattan courtroom on Monday for a pre-trial hearing just days before the one-year anniversary of the killing. The hearing will take place before Acting Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro at the criminal courthouse in Lower Manhattan on Dec. 1 in advance of Mangione's state murder trial. He is also being prosecuted for the shooting in federal court. During Monday's hearing, ABC News reported, Mangione's attorneys are expected to argue against certain evidence that prosecutors for Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg intend to present before the jury. The evidence includes writing in a notebook Mangione kept, excerpts of which have already gone public, which seemed to establish an apparent motive for the assassination. Prosecutors said Thompson, a Minnesota resident who was in town for a…...

2+ hour, 6+ min ago (326+ words) We're thankful for the Big Apple's street sweepers. The city Department of Sanitation ended up picking up a horrendous 41.54 tons of tossed food, discarded clothing and other rubbish that was littered across the 2.5-mile route of Thursday's Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. The dirty post-parade haul was equal in weight to a chubby humpback whale. It also was significantly more than the 36 tons collected after last year's famed shindig, which drew packed crowds despite the rainy weather. Still, this year's disgusting tonnage is relatively small potatoes compared to the decade-high 65 tons scooped up after the 2023 parade. An average of 62 annual tons were collected in the years before. "In addition to the usual confetti and shredded paper, a cold sunny day like [Thursday] also means a lot of coffee cups, doughnut boxes and extra layers of clothing that marchers leave behind," a…...

3+ hour, 18+ min ago (169+ words) A 33-year-old worker at a suburban school for special needs kids was fired after being busted for allegeldy choking a disabled student at the Westchester County campus. Jonathan Merceu was charged Friday with criminal obstruction of breathing for allegedly attacking the youngster at the Shrub Oak International School in Yorktown last month, lohud.com reported. Yorktown police were called to the school, which educates children on the autism spectrum, shortly after 5:20 p.m. on Oct. 26, on reports that the student had been attacked by a staffer. Cops determined that Merceu allegedly sought to "injure the student's physical, mental and moral welfare," according to the outlet. He turned himself in to police on Thursday, and was also charged with first-degree endangering the welfare of an incompetent or physically disabled person, a felony, and is due back in court Dec. 4. According to News12 Westchester, the…...

3+ hour, 45+ min ago (307+ words) ELMONT, NY "New York Islanders head coach Patrick Roy has the non-envious role of trying to fill out his team's lineup after top-six forward Kyle Palmieri went down with a season-ending torn ACL in Friday's loss to the Philadelphia Flyers at UBS Arena. The veteran winger got tangled up with Flyers forward Jamie Drysdale roughly four and a half minutes into the second period before awkwardly falling on his left leg. He needs surgery on the ACL, which will sideline him for the next six to eight months. It is the second prominent injury that the Islanders have suffered in as many weeks. One of their top defensemen, Alex Romanov, is out five to six months after suffering a shoulder injury that requires surgery after he was slammed into the boards on a brutal hit from behind by Dallas Stars…...

4+ hour, 14+ min ago (406+ words) A Manhattan judge has dealt an early blow to an effort by a group of fellow jurists to strike down New York's judicial retirement mandate. Under the current retirement laws, Miller and Marrazzo, who both turned 76 years old during the current calendar year, must step down after Dec. 31. Meanwhile, judges who turn 70 years old " as Montelione did this year " must regularly prove their competency to do the work if they intend to stay on the bench. In his ruling to deny the plaintiffs' motion for a preliminary injunction to bar the state court system from enforcing the retirement mandates, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Lyle Frank said that, for New York's new equal rights amendment to apply to their case, the judges would need to show that the age limits "violate a civil right of theirs." The judges "have not shown,…...

4+ hour, 48+ min ago (424+ words) Amongst the Mets" lengthy to-do list this winter is to address a starting rotation that needs a significant overhaul after last season"s collapse. So anything linking former Houston Astros ace and free agent Framber Valdez to Queens would be understandable." According to MLB insider Hector Gomez, the Mets are trying to get a six-year, $200 million deal over the finish line for the veteran right-hander, who is coming off a down year in which he went 13-11 with a 3.66 ERA. Still, an ace who boasted a 3.08 ERA and a 1.153 WHIP over his previous four seasons projects far better as a No. 2 than nearly anything else the Mets have to slot in behind Nolan McLean." Of course, there are significant wrinkles in all of this. Gomez"s reporting has been spotty in the past, including a story last winter that the Mets…...

4+ hour, 54+ min ago (447+ words) Close out your Thanksgiving weekend with a $150 bonus on NFL week 13 action. Upload the Bet365 promo code AMNY365 Sunday and bet as little as $5 on one of the games kicking off today. As soon as you do, the sportsbook will lock you into one of their two available bonus bets, including the guaranteed $150 bonus here. Fans can also choose to receive a $1,000 first bet safety net instead of the $150 bet-and-get bonus option. The safety net will allow fans to wager up to $1,000 in cash and get that bet back in bonus bets if they lose. There is no better way to start an NFL Sunday than already having $150 in bonus bets in your account. When you use the Bet365 promo code today, that is exactly what will happen. Bet $5 on one of the matchups kicking off and unlock the massive bonus, win or…...

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