What you should know A Brooklyn man who admitted to driving 119 mph on the Long Island Expressway in 2022 while drunk and high before crashing into the back of another vehicle, killing a 9-year-old boy, was sentenced to 4.5 to 13.5 years in prison, Suffolk, county District Attorney Raymond Tierney announced. Travis Dickson, 32, … Read more
“The money that is being put into day care, which at 15.2 million francs is already too expensive for us taxpayers, is not justifiable, even if the savings of 1.5 million ordered by Parliament were achieved – presumably to circumvent a referendum . With the original loan requirement of 8.9 million, the city parliament clearly … Read more
NEW JERSEY — An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.8 shook New Jersey on Friday, sparking frantic phone calls from Manhattan to Rockland County to Montclair, Brooklyn and Long Island. The US Geological Survey said the earthquake occurred 7 kilometers northeast of the White House station in Hunterdon County. No injuries were immediately reported. … Read more
NEW YORK — A huge jet of water was seen shooting out of a Manhattan skyscraper on Thursday, video posted on an online app shows. The New York City Fire Department said it received a call around 12:15 p.m. about a water leak in a building at Eighth Avenue and West 42nd Street. Video posted … Read more
What you should know We are just a few days away from an exciting celestial event: a total solar eclipse, which we will not see again until the year 2045! Because of this exciting phenomenon, the Brooklyn Public Library plans to distribute free solar eclipse educational kits, while supplies last, all in hopes of helping … Read more
NEW YORK — This is good news for thousands of New York City subway riders. To be more exact, some 149,000 of them have a reason to smile this morning. This is because since Monday the trains on lines F and M return to full service after 7 months, specifically since August, of being under … Read more
The German rapper Thomas D, a member of the Fantastischen Vier, will perform with the jazz-oriented band The KBCS on the first evening of the festival in the Uri Theater. On the second evening the French soul singer Ben L’Oncle Soul is on the program. Both evenings will be opened by the musician collective Take … Read more
1. Beels no longer a party leader for Antwerp municipal elections Jinnih Beels is giving up her position as party leader for the Antwerp municipal elections. This was decided at a meeting of the Antwerp department of Vooruit. Her party leadership came under pressure since her fellow alderman Tom Meeuws left the city council. It … Read more
The stepping stone gardens project was started in Leimbach. Following the example of the Nature in Settlement Area association in Riesbach, the environmental protection organization WWF Zurich promotes biodiversity in the settlement area. Advice on increasing biodiversity takes place both for private gardens and for the surroundings of larger properties. Many of our native animals … Read more
Los media in Catalan from the Balearic Islands They will have a new platform next month: LIFE. This is a television proposal exclusively in Catalan that will be broadcast on streaming and whose content can be found on the internet with an ‘a la carte’ service. The director of the medium, the journalist and activist … Read more