Staten Island Yankees ask fans to help pick new nickname

Edit New York Post 09 Sep 2016
What, was “the Fresh Kills” taken?. The Staten Island Yankees asked fans Thursday to help them pick the team’s new name, pitching them a bullpen full of miserable monikers ... While Staten Island is a Bronx Bombers stronghold, Smith said the team would benefit from a new identity — apart from its parent club ... ....

Yankees’ new strategy for helping Aaron Judge snap slump

Edit New York Post 09 Sep 2016
The Yankees coaching staff hasn’t been able to get Aaron Judge going since his call-up from Triple-A Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Maybe the minor league staff will have better luck ... He succeeded enough that Judge overcame that slump to get to The Bronx after Carlos Beltran was dealt to the Rangers, but if the Yankees are going to remain contenders in the American League, they can hardly afford the black hole that Judge has become ... ....

Pro-Palestine protesters booted from tense city hearing

Edit New York Post 09 Sep 2016
The nonbinding resolution, introduced Thursday by City Councilman Andrew Cohen of The Bronx, condemns “all efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel” and the boycott, divest and sanction movement against Israeli companies and groups ... Opponents also argued that the measure seeks to stifle a form of protest protected as free speech — but they didn’t win over lawmakers by shouting over those who testified in support of the measure ... ....

Snell out to slow Yanks' charge for playoff spot

Edit MLB 09 Sep 2016
When Blake Snell made his Major League debut at Yankee Stadium on April 23, the left-hander faced a lineup featuring Carlos Beltran and Alex Rodriguez, who were playing in the Major Leagues before Cobb was old enough for elementary school. Five months later, Snell is back in the Bronx ... Full Game Coverage. "I faced [Aaron] Judge in [Class A-Advanced] and Triple-A," Snell said ... Three things to know about this game ... ....

New York Man Pleads Guilty To Role In $1 Million Stolen Identity Refund Scheme (United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey)

Edit Public Technologies 09 Sep 2016
(Source. United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey). NEWARK, N.J. - A Bronx, New York, man today admitted his role in a scheme to obtain stolen identity information and use it to file phony tax returns with the IRS, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Jhan Luis Mejia Marcelino, 27, pleaded guilty before U.S ... According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court. ... Treasury ... U.S ... Larsen; the U.S ... (noodl....

For the future of New York’s kids: Post endorsements in legislative primaries

Edit New York Post 09 Sep 2016
Tuesday’s primaries will effectively decide the final winner in legislative races across New York. In many Democratic districts, the nominee is unlikely to agree with us on taxes, crime or other issues. But Democrats are divided on one of our top concerns — creating new and better options for New York’s schoolchildren ... Democrats who care about kids should vote for these candidates in tight races.. STATE SENATE ... SD-33 (West Bronx)....

Doc who hit cop with car brags about court-ordered trash pick-up skills

Edit New York Post 09 Sep 2016
She’s picking up trash with surgical precision. The cancer doctor accused of clipping an NYPD officer with her car and declaring, “I’m the hero; the cops are not,” is putting her fine motor skills to new use — by cleaning up city parks as part of her community service. Dr ... Dr ... Christopher Sadowski ... 18 arrest in Hell’s Kitchen, after which she was fired as senior breast surgeon at Montefiore Einstein Center for Cancer Care in The Bronx....

Don’t want to be a joke, Tim Tebow? Prove it on the field

Edit New York Post 09 Sep 2016
Buried within Tim Tebow’s signing with the Mets, underneath enough secret agendas to fill the House of Representatives, lays the simplest reality.. It’s on Tebow now. He wants his baseball career to be more than another entertaining chapter in his polarizing narrative? He can make that happen in the most concrete way ... Seth Lugo, a 34th-round draft pick in 2011, and T.J. Rivera, a non-drafted free agent from The Bronx ... Makes sense ... AP....

Hottest teams in AL, NL: New York, New York!

Edit MLB 09 Sep 2016
Suddenly, these New York baseball teams just might be the most interesting in the entire sport. They're living charmed lives, both of them, the Yankees and Mets. No big deal there. Both were built to win in 2016. It's how they're winning that's so amazing. Here's to youth and energy. Here's to talent, too ... He only knew that the Yankees weren't good enough as they were built and that it was time to deliver the Baby Bombers to the Bronx ... ....

Judge compares Bronx’s slow courts to segregation

Edit New York Post 08 Sep 2016
A judge compared allegations that residents are being denied their constitutional right to a speedy trial because of the snail’s pace of Bronx criminal court to segregation in the south at a hearing Wednesday over whether to toss a lawsuit against Gov ... was no official policy to deliberately impede people’s rights in Bronx state court....

Campus ought to be where the wildflowers live

Edit The Guardian 08 Sep 2016
University of Sheffield ... Bob Lamb’s letter (8 September) reminds me that my Auntie Jean, who lived in Allerton, recounted the arrival of unexpected guests at her door one day in the early 1960s ... ....

Man who killed rapist who was attacking his wife walks free after intervention by dead ...

Edit The Independent 08 Sep 2016
Security footage shown to the court in the Bronx captured Nash attempting to rape Mrs Diallo before her husband entered and chased the attacker into the building’s lift, where he administered the fatal beating....

Coast Guard searches for missing kayaker in Quincy, seeks public assistance (USCG - United States Coast Guard)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Sep 2016
(Source. USCG - United States Coast Guard) ... When he didn't arrive home as planned, his roommate reported him as overdue to the police. A 29-foot boat crew from Coast Guard Station Point Allerton launched as well as MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter air crew from Air Station Cape Cod....
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