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☆ U.S. Releases Navy Officer Imprisoned After Causing Fatal Crash in Japan
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

He had served half of his three-year sentence in Japan and was expected to serve the rest of it in the United States, with an American agency deciding the length of his incarceration. That agency, the U.S. Parole Commission, ruled on Friday that he had already served a long-enough sentence. Lieutenant Alkonis “fell asleep” at the wheel, according to an accident report obtained by The New York Times. Lieutenant Alkonis pleaded guilty to negligent driving in an effort to receive a suspended sentence. At trial he said he had been suffering from “acute mountain sickness” just before the accident, but a judge disagreed.

Persons: Ridge, Alkonis, Alkonis “, ” Organizations: Navy, U.S . Parole Commission, of Prisons, Yokosuka, Toyota, Mount Fuji, The New York Times Locations: United States, Japan, Tokyo

☆ Wild Weather Is Affecting N.F.L. Wild-Card Games This Weekend
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-12 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The Kansas City Chiefs will play at home against the Miami Dolphins on Saturday night in what are likely to be “dangerously cold temperatures,” but your sympathies should probably be directed toward the visiting team. A wind-chill warning will be in effect across the region from Friday night through Tuesday afternoon, according to the National Weather Service. That’s where you get into trouble. We’re not having a snowball fight.”The highest temperature in Kansas City on Saturday afternoon will be 5 degrees, according to the forecast, though that could change before kickoff at 8 p.m. Eastern time. At least the Dolphins hope so.

Persons: Patrick Mahomes, Andy Reid, We’re, ” Organizations: Kansas City Chiefs, Miami Dolphins, National Weather Service, Chiefs, Dolphins, Kansas City Locations: South Florida, Kansas, Kansas City

Now, her children are fighting over who should inherit her money, pointing to conflicting wills that Ms. Williams left, including one she signed shortly before her death. It is the latest legal dispute spawned by Sue, a crown jewel of paleontology regarded as the most complete T. rex fossil ever found. Before her death in 2020, Ms. Williams had written two wills. In a 2017 will, she appointed one of her daughters, Sandra Williams Luther, as the personal representative of her estate. In another will, written in 2020, she designated that same daughter to be her sole heir and the sole executor of her estate.

Persons: Darlene Williams, Sue, Williams, Sandra Williams Luther Locations: South Dakota

The opening night of a revival of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera in New York was interrupted Thursday night by climate protesters shouting “No Opera” from the balconies on both sides of the opera house. Protesters with the group Extinction Rebellion NYC unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet,” according to Peter Gelb, the general manager at the Met. Met officials were then forced to bring down the curtain at around 9:30 p.m., halfway through the second act. About eight minutes passed before security officials ushered out the protesters perched on the balconies, Mr. Gelb said. The crowd jeered the demonstrators and burst into applause when the curtains again opened, but the elation was short-lived.

Persons: Richard Wagner’s “, ”, Peter Gelb, Gelb Organizations: Metropolitan Opera, Met Locations: New York

☆ A Cancer Patient’s Last Wish: To Pay Off the Medical Debt of Others
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-19 | by ( Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

A 38-year-old woman with ovarian cancer who started a campaign to help people pay off their medical debt has raised more than $200,000 in the week since she died. Two days after the woman, Casey McIntyre, died on Nov. 12, a post appeared on her social media accounts, saying: “A note to my friends: if you’re reading this I have passed away.”“The cause was stage four ovarian cancer,” the note read. “I loved each and every one of you with my whole heart and I promise you, I knew how deeply I was loved.”Ms. McIntyre asked for donations to a campaign to pay off the medical debt of others. By Sunday morning, the campaign had raised nearly $220,000.

Persons: Casey McIntyre, ”, “, ” Ms, McIntyre

☆ Apple Says It Will Improve the Green vs. Blue Texting Experience
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-18 | by ( Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Starting next year, it should be less frustrating for iPhone and Android users to text one another. Green message bubbles signal that they are coming from an Android or other non-iPhone user. But they have come to be associated with an unpleasant texting experience for iPhone users, whose messages are blue to indicate that they have been sent via iMessage. The green bubble is here to stay, however: It will signal when RCS is in use. The technology “will work alongside iMessage, which will continue to be the best and most secure messaging experience for Apple users,” Apple said in a statement.

Persons: iMessage, ” Apple Organizations: Apple Locations: iMessage

☆ Swifties Dug Up Travis Kelce’s Old Social Media … but It’s Not What You Think
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In addition to the thoughts about squirrels and work, Kelce also posted in 2010 about how much he loved going to IHOP and ordering the steak and eggs for breakfast, to which one user responded: “such a good order king.”He hated long lines at Chipotle, got excited for basketball games and enjoyed a good fettuccine Alfredo at the local Olive Garden from time to time. One user wrote that his posts represented a simpler time on that platform: “travis kelce’s old tweets perfectly encapsulate what twitter once was,” they posted. “Dudes expressing themselves without fear of judgement during study hall.”Still, many fans found reasons to make fun of the football star. Many pointed out the spelling errors he made in the posts, while others compared Kelce’s unsophisticated posts to complex lyrics from the song “All Too Well” that Swift, a 12-time Grammy winner whose Eras Tour this year shattered concert records, released around the same time. “oh this himbo .. i love him,” one user replied to a post that included one such side-by-side.

Persons: Kelce, ”, Alfredo, travis kelce’s, Swift, Bobbi Miller, Taylor, ” Miller, Matty Healy Locations: Chipotle, Olive

☆ Investigator Stole Items From Dead Men, Prosecutors Say
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-09 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

An investigator with the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office has been charged with stealing items, including a gold necklace, from two dead men, the authorities said. The investigator, Adrian Muñoz, who had worked for the department since 2018, was charged with one felony count of grand theft of property and one misdemeanor count of petty theft of property, the county district attorney’s office said on Wednesday. Mr. Muñoz, 34, would face a sentence of up to three years if he were convicted on all counts, George Gascón, the Los Angeles County district attorney, said at a news conference on Wednesday. “It’s a profound betrayal of the very essence of the role and the solemn duty owed to both the deceased and their bereaved families,” Mr. Gascón said in a statement on Wednesday.

Persons: Adrian Muñoz, Muñoz, George Gascón, “, ” Mr, Gascón Organizations: Los Locations: Los Angeles County

☆ ‘Mean Girls’ Adaptation Trailer Inspires Mixed Reactions
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-08 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Paramount Pictures on Wednesday released a trailer for the film adaptation of the Broadway musical “Mean Girls,” which was itself an adaptation of the beloved 2004 movie about a girl trying to fit in with the popular crowd at her high school. The new film is due to hit theaters on Jan. 12. The reactions to Wednesday’s trailer, which was posted across social media platforms, were mixed. !”There was some confusion about the lack of musical performances in the trailer, given that the film is being positioned as an adaptation of a musical. One user on TikTok wrote in a comment: “Wait so it’s based on the musical and there’s no music???

Persons: Regina George, Rachel McAdams, ”, TikTok Organizations: Paramount Pictures, North Shore High School Locations: Regina

Image This year’s women’s race was oddly slow until the last few miles. Tola had arrived in New York with questions about his fitness after he dropped out of the marathon at the world championships in Budapest this summer. When she made her marathon debut in New York last year, she went out fast before struggling to a sixth-place finish. “Sometimes,” Obiri said, “you learn from your mistakes.”She put those lessons to use in Boston earlier this year when she won her first world marathon major. By then, only Obiri, Gidey, Lokedi and two others — Viola Cheptoo, the runner-up in 2021, and Brigid Kosgei, a five-time world marathon major champion — were still in contention.

Persons: Hellen, Letesenbet Gidey, Gidey, Obiri, “, ”, Karsten Moran, Sharon Lokedi, ” Obiri, Tamirat Tola, Tola, Geoffrey Mutai’s, Jemal Yimer, Albert Korir, Peter Foley, ” Ritzenhein, Hellen Obiri, Uli Seit, Kellyn Taylor, — Viola Cheptoo, Brigid Kosgei, —, Ritzenhein Organizations: New York City Marathon, Boston Marathon, Boulder, Athletics Club, The New York Times, Shutterstock, Credit, Kenya Locations: Kenya, Ethiopia, Colo, New York, Budapest, Staten Island, Boulder, Boston, “ New York, Central Park, Gidey, Paris

It was hard to miss Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas and Masashi Kondo at the New York City Marathon on Sunday. With energy gels and bodega coffees in hand, the crowd made its way to Fort Wadsworth, where thousands of runners congregate each year before running the New York City Marathon. Speed demons wearing Nike Vaporflys and short-shorts mingled with casual runners wearing “Monsters, Inc.” onesies. That’s the record I’m going for. Running is therapeutic, even though I’m going to be running really, really slowly.

Persons: Mark Aaron Polger, Alexi Pappas, Masashi Kondo, ”, “, Adam Tjolle, Simon Waterhouse, Malina Roberts, we’ll, they’re, they’ve, Stephen Zachensky, Marlinda Francisco, Mika Shaw, Maansi Srivastava, It’s, I’ve Organizations: New York City Marathon, Nike, Inc, New York Times, York Locations: Fort Wadsworth, Edinburgh, Scotland, Newmarket, England, Brooklyn, York City, Tokyo, Berlin, New York, Westchester, N.Y, How’d, New York Times Tucson, Ariz, Ogden , Utah, Japan, Los Angeles, Manhattan

☆ How a Blind Runner Trains for the New York City Marathon
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-01 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The woman was briefly furious, but her face softened once she saw the tether connecting the men by the waist. Francesco Magisano, the man who had run into her, is blind, and his guide Nev Schulman nervously apologized for the accident. The men were running together for the first time in preparation for the New York City Marathon on Sunday. Marathons are physically and emotionally challenging, but the New York City Marathon has a unique set of difficulties for blind runners and their guides. The sheer number of screaming spectators and runners — race officials are expecting approximately 50,000 finishers this year — make it difficult for guides to steer blind runners along the tightly packed 26.2-mile course.

Persons: Francesco Magisano, Nev Schulman, Magisano Organizations: New York City Marathon, New York City Locations: Central Park

One person died and dozens of others were injured, at least five critically, after a bus carrying a high school marching band from Long Island crashed on a New York highway and went down an embankment on Thursday afternoon, the authorities said. The bus, carrying students from Farmingdale High School, was one of six coach buses traveling to an annual marching band camp in Pennsylvania, according to a spokeswoman for the Farmingdale School District. It went off the road on a section of I-84 in the town of Wawayanda, in Orange County, a spokesman for the Slate Hill Fire Department said. Details about what caused the accident were not immediately available.

Organizations: Farmingdale High School, Farmingdale School, Slate, Fire Department Locations: Long, New York, Pennsylvania, Farmingdale, Farmingdale School District, Wawayanda, Orange County

PinnedThe last time Novak Djokovic and Daniil Medvedev met in a U.S. Open final, Medvedev ruined Djokovic’s ambitious plans for 2021. Djokovic was one title away from completing the calendar Grand Slam, having already won the Australian Open, the French Open and Wimbledon that year. But Medvedev defeated Djokovic for the U.S. Open title in straight sets. There’s no calendar Grand Slam on the line this time, after Carlos Alcaraz defeated Djokovic over the summer at Wimbledon. Medvedev reached the final after upsetting Alcaraz in the semifinals, and Medvedev defeated Djokovic the last time they played, in March at a tournament in Dubai.

Persons: Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Medvedev, Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz, “, he’s, ” Medvedev, “ He’s, Alcaraz, ”, ” Djokovic Organizations: Wimbledon, U.S, Djokovic, Dubai Locations: U.S

The roads to the U.S. Open final have been different for Coco Gauff and Aryna Sabalenka. Sabalenka won her first five matches without dropping a set. Sabalenka’s 2023 U.S. Open campaign was nearly over when Keys then went up 4-2 in the second set. But Sabalenka fought back, forcing and winning a tiebreaker, then winning the third set also in a tiebreaker. The rest of the second set was close after play resumed, but Gauff went on to win it by 7-5, advancing to the final.

Persons: Coco Gauff, Gauff, Sabalenka, Madison Keys, Keys, ” Sabalenka, Laura Siegemund, Elise Mertens, Caroline Wozniacki, Jelena Ostapenko, Karolina Muchova, Arthur Ashe, ” Gauff, I’m, ” Organizations: U.S, Madison Locations: Czech Republic

☆ Coco Gauff Wobbles, Then Steals the Show at the U.S. Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-01 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

In the opening set of her third-round match against Elise Mertens on Friday, Coco Gauff looked fallible, frustrated and like she would be finished early, nothing like she had earlier this week at the U.S. Open. Mertens, a 27-year-old Belgian, was playing loosely and aggressively, while Gauff, the 19-year-old American superstar, made error after error on just about every stroke. It was suddenly easy to imagine Gauff’s run at the U.S. Open coming to an end on this cool New York evening. Instead, Gauff turned it on and turned the emotional tables on Mertens. Gauff won the third set cleanly, 6-0.

Persons: Elise Mertens, Coco Gauff, Mertens, Gauff Organizations: U.S ., U.S Locations: New

☆ John Isner Says Goodbye to Pro Tennis at the U.S. Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-31 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

Josh Zipin of Manhattan rushed over from Arthur Ashe Stadium to the Grandstand court of the Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on Thursday hoping to catch the final set of John Isner’s singles match. Zipin, 34, said he had never seen Isner play live, and wanted to see what his “insane” serve looked like in person. “Somebody behind me was asking if Isner served to you 100 times, how many times could you return it in the court and the person sitting behind me said one,” Zipin said. “I think that’s probably being generous.”For 16 years, Isner, the 38-year-old American star, has wowed fans around the world with his signature game, which combined a booming serve, powerful groundstrokes, and quick hands at the net with volleys and overheads.

Persons: Josh Zipin, Arthur Ashe, Billie Jean King, John Isner’s, Isner, ”, “, ” Zipin Organizations: Billie Jean King National Tennis Center Locations: Manhattan

☆ When 19 Makes You the Veteran Player at the U.S. Open
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-30 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

As Coco Gauff and Mirra Andreeva faced off at the U.S. Open on Wednesday, fans in the stands remarked about how old — really how young — they were while competing at the top of their sport. Gauff, who at 19 is not much older than the 16-year-old Andreeva, has for several years been a household name in tennis, ever since she made a run to the fourth round of Wimbledon in 2019. Her growing stardom means that she often finds herself playing in featured matches at the U.S. Open, in front of the most fans in person and in choice television slots. On Wednesday, that was in a 6-3, 6-2 win over Andreeva at Arthur Ashe Stadium, playing ahead of Novak Djokovic. It was a matchup, and a moment, that Gauff, a sixth-seeded American, controlled with ease while keeping a breezy but brisk pace.

Persons: Coco Gauff, Mirra Andreeva, Arthur Ashe, Novak Djokovic, Gauff, ” Organizations: U.S, Wimbledon, U.S .

☆ In New York City, the Odds of Spotting a Rare Bird are Rising
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Birds that were once rare in New York City have been making more frequent appearances in recent years, to the thrill of local bird-watchers. Birders have also noticed a reduction in the number of birds passing through New York City, said Marshall Iliff, the project leader for the Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s eBird project. Many birders love to watch warblers on their southward migration in mid-August, but Mr. Iliff noted that the wildfires in Canada caused many birds to leave earlier than expected. “It’s those kind of things that sort of raise the question of whether birds are going to be able to adapt to these changing environments,” Mr. Iliff said. He said that as the forests dry out and as fires increase, birds that are expected to be seen passing through Central Park in spring could become “these really rare, rare events.”

Persons: ”, Heather Wolf, Marshall Iliff, Iliff, “, Mr Organizations: Cornell, of Ornithology Locations: New York City, Canada, Central

☆ Woman Is Bitten by Shark in First New York City Attack in Recent Years
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-08 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

A spokesman for the New York City Police Department said on Tuesday morning that the woman’s condition was “serious but stable.” The woman is believed to have lost about 20 pounds of flesh because of the bite, according to the police report. Park officials described Monday’s shark attack as the first on Rockaway Beach “in recent memory.”There have been 20 unprovoked shark attacks in New York state since 1837, according to the Florida Museum’s International Shark Attack File, a database of all known shark attacks. But Monday’s shark bite marked the first confirmed attack in New York City since the 1950s, according to the Global Shark Attack File, an unofficial database of such encounters. The last documented shark attack in the city recorded in that database was in 1958, when a man was bitten by a harpooned shark after provoking it. “It’s not very common that we would see this,” said Gavin Naylor, the program director of the International Shark Attack File.

Persons: “, ”, Gavin Naylor Organizations: New York City Police Department, Florida Locations: Rockaway, New York, New York City

In a dramatic scene, a construction crane atop a high-rise building in Midtown Manhattan burst into flames and partially collapsed onto the street on Wednesday morning, injuring 11 people, officials said. The fire began just before 7:30 a.m. in the engine compartment of the crane, 45 stories above the street at 550 10th Avenue, officials from the fire and buildings department said. A crane operator who had been working in the machine’s cabin, lifting 16 tons of concrete, saw the fire and tried but failed to put it out with a hand extinguisher before fleeing to safety. As the top part of the crane — and its 16-ton load — fell, it struck a neighboring building at 555 10th Avenue.

Locations: Midtown Manhattan

☆ School District Woes Likened to ‘Environmental Racism’ in Flint, Mich.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-25 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Students and staff in the East Ramapo Central School District, about 30 miles north of New York City, cannot drink the tap water in any of the public school buildings, according to a new state-mandated survey, and the chronic state of disrepair has prompted calls for a takeover of the school system. The East Ramapo public schools serve more than 9,200 K-12 students, and all 13 school buildings received a failing rating in a survey of building conditions completed by a New York-based architecture, engineering and construction management firm. The district’s school administration building also received a failing rating, and other buildings in the district received unsatisfactory ratings. Lead was detected in the water in many of the schools in 2016, and some taps and water fountains were shut off at the time. Tap water is available now for hand-washing and cleaning, but students and staff must rely on bottled water and water from filling stations for drinking, according to a spokesperson for the district.

Organizations: East Ramapo Central School District, East Locations: New York City, East Ramapo, New York

☆ A 6-Year-Old Suffocated and Bus Monitor Didn’t Notice, Prosecutor Says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-20 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Amanda Davila, a 27-year-old school bus monitor, was sitting toward the front of her bus on Monday morning, focused on her cellphone and wearing her earbuds. The driver of the bus hit a bumpy patch of road, and the girl, Fajr Williams, slid down in her chair. Ms. Davila was arrested on Wednesday. On Thursday, the Somerset County prosecutor, John P. McDonald, announced that she had been charged with second-degree manslaughter and second-degree endangering the welfare of a child. Prosecutors said Ms. Davila was “utilizing a cellular telephone while wearing earbud headphone devices in both ears.”

Persons: Amanda Davila, Fajr Williams, Davila, John P, McDonald, Prosecutors Locations: New Jersey, Somerset County

☆ What’s Worse Than Heat and Humidity? Heat and Humidity on the Subway.
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

You make a mad dash out of one subway car and into another before the doors slam shut. Or you use your hands as fans. Or you sit by an open window, hoping for even the slightest hint of a breeze. On a recent Wednesday, when outdoor temperatures reached above 90 degrees and felt even hotter with the humidity, Car 1859 on the No. The car, which is about 37 years old, has been taken out of service four times because of reported air-conditioning problems over the past six years, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Organizations: Metropolitan Transportation Authority

☆ A Timeline of Events in the Gilgo Beach Serial Killings
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-14 | by ( Lola Fadulu | More About Lola Fadulu | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Four bodies are found along Ocean Parkway. While searching for Ms. Gilbert’s body, the Suffolk County police discovered four bodies over three days along Ocean Parkway between Gilgo Beach and Cedar Beach, nearby. The bodies were spread over about a quarter mile, each roughly 500 feet apart. DEC. 14, 2010Police suggest a serial killer may have been behind the deaths. Image Credit... Suffolk County Police Department/ReutersJAN 19, 2011

Persons: Richard Dormer, Mr, Dormer, Gilbert, Megan Waterman Organizations: DEC, Police, Suffolk County Police Department, Craigslist, . Suffolk County Police Department, Reuters Locations: Suffolk, Gilgo Beach, Cedar Beach, Scarborough , Maine, . Suffolk

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