PHILADELPHIA — As general manager Brodie Van Wagenen continues to insist his manager has full autonomy on game decisions for the Mets, a specific example has surfaced that indicates otherwise. According to an industry source, it was the rookie GM who instructed Mickey Callaway to remove Jacob deGrom from a game in Arizona earlier this … Continue reading "Van Wagenen is managing Mets games from home in ‘unusual’ struggle"

An Italian Mafia boss nicknamed the “Cocaine King of Milan” broke out of a Uruguayan prison by climbing out of a hole in the roof, authorities said Monday. Notorious mobster Rocco Morabito and three other inmates made their exit from the Montevideo central prison Sunday night and immediately robbed the owner of a nearby house … Continue reading "Italian ‘cocaine king’ mafia boss escapes from prison in Uruguay"

Looks like the “Long Island Lolita” may be inspiring a new generation of violent vixens. Valerie Cincinelli, 35, the NYPD officer accused of trying to arrange a hit on her estranged husband and a teenage girl, spent time Googling the infamous 1992 Amy Fisher case as she was plotting her ultimately failed assassination attempt, new … Continue reading "Amy Fisher may have inspired NYPD cop’s murder-for-hire plot"

HONOLULU — Yesenia D’Alessandro loaded a GPS tracking app on her cellphone and trudged into a remote Hawaii forest, joining more than 100 other volunteers looking for a missing hiker. She climbed through muddy ravines, crossed streams and faced steep drop-offs in the thick tangle of trees and ferns where her college friend Amanda Eller … Continue reading "New tech helping search teams find people in the wilderness"

You won’t need binoculars to spot these birds. Along the Broadway Mall, from 64th to 157th streets, are 10 oversized birds, whose real-life counterparts are threatened by climate change. Working with the NYC Audubon Society, Brooklyn artist Nicolas Holiber used lumber from old floorboards and shipping pallets to fashion a flotilla of colorful fowl. The … Continue reading "Broadway is for the birds this summer thanks to this artist"

After the 2016 presidential election, there wasn’t a lot that could unite Brooklynite Fig Chilcott and her conservative dad, Don — except, as it turns out, for a bright red wig, a leather mini-dress and fabulously long false eyelashes. Transforming Don, 66, into a drag queen for a day was just the thing to bring … Continue reading "Becoming a drag queen saved my relationship with my daughter"

We still can’t diagnose diseases like Alzheimer’s with a blood test, despite decades of trying. But scientists are getting closer. Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) are working on a blood test called the APEX system, which took two years to develop, to detect an early-stage molecular marker of the brain-robbing disease — … Continue reading "New blood test could detect Alzheimer’s before symptoms appear: study"

Eldorado Resorts has agreed to buy Caesars Entertainment for about $8.5 billion in cash and stock, as it looks to build scale to take on competition from larger companies such as Las Vegas Sands and Wynn Resorts. The deal comes more than three months after Caesars agreed to give billionaire investor Carl Icahn three board … Continue reading "Eldorado Resorts to buy Caesars Entertainment in $8.5 billion deal"

A postal worker was fatally shot Saturday in Louisiana while he was delivering mail — and a suspect has been arrested in connection to his murder, according to reports. Antonio Williams, a 52-year-old letter carrier, was gunned down around 11:20 a.m. as he delivered mail to a residence in Shreveport, news station KSLA reported. Williams … Continue reading "Postal worker fatally shot while delivering mail, cops say"

More than 150 children have died in eastern India from a “brain fever” believed to be linked to a toxic substance found in lychee fruit, officials said. Health officials said Monday that at least 152 children have died from acute encephalitis syndrome in the country’s Bihar state, Agence France-Presse reported. The deadly disease causes glucose … Continue reading "Dozens of kids are dead in India from ‘brain fever’ linked to lychees"