ALBANY — Starting Wednesday, thousands of New Yorkers will be eligible to have low-level marijuana convictions wiped clean from their records under a new law. Click Here: NRL Telstra Premiership Individuals with convictions of unlawful marijuana possession and possession of marijuana as a class B misdemeanor will have those convictions automatically expunged from their record … Continue reading "New Yorkers can get marijuana convictions expunged under new law"

Selling political favors works: That’s clearly Mayor Bill de Blasio’s philosophy, and his bid to box in hotels to please their union is but the latest example. On Monday, Crain’s reported that Hizzoner ordered city planners to “study” the idea of forcing hotels to get special permits, a move long sought by the hotel union. … Continue reading "De Blasio\u2019s latest flagrant pay-to-play outrage"

A creepy former high school teacher in Missouri has admitted to secretly recording teenagers in a basement bathroom at his home for five years, federal prosecutors said. William Derek Williams, 39, pleaded guilty Monday to producing child pornography, admitting that he surreptitiously taped three underage victims in his Cameron home between January 2013 and September … Continue reading "Teacher admits recording teens in his bathroom for years: feds"

When I read that Mayor Bill de Blasio’s diversity-advisory committee recommended dismantling gifted-and-talented education and screened schools entirely, I saw it as a defenestration. I grabbed my phone and tweeted that “Team Carranza doesn’t simply want to level the playing field; they want to dig it up and salt it.” That is the entirely wrong … Continue reading "The city needs more Gifted & Talented programs like the one that worked for me"

A 23-year-old British man vacationing on the Spanish island of Tenerife was beaten to death in a random attack — and his family said he was simply “in the wrong place at the wrong time,” according to a new report. Michael Lewis, also known as Liam Boland or “Brillo” to his friends, died at the … Continue reading "Man beaten to death in random attack while vacationing in Spain"

Poor Pluto was declassified from being a planet in our solar system to just a humble dwarf planet 13 year ago. Despite it being over a decade since this decision was made, the topic is still hotly disputed and there are those who think Pluto should be labeled as a planet once more. The International … Continue reading "NASA chief argues Pluto should still be considered a planet"