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A proposed additive ban could change New York’s pizza and bagels, some say for the better
NEW YORK — After more than a decade of mixing and kneading dough in his family’s Brooklyn pizzeria, Salvatore Lo Duca recently made a distressing discovery: A key component of their thin-crust pies, bromated flour, contained a suspected carcinogen already banned in much of the world
Brooklyn mother who drowned 3 kids on Coney Island beach sentenced to 20 years to life
A Brooklyn woman was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison on Wednesday for drowning her three young children in the ocean near Coney Island’s famed boardwalk
Texas board faults Camp Mystic leader for inaction and suspends her nursing license
AUSTIN, Texas — A Texas board has suspended the nursing license of Camp Mystic’s co-director in a scathing order that accused her of not helping children evacuate during last year’s catastrophic floods that killed 25 girls and two teenage counselors
Suit targets whites-only Arkansas community over applicant rejected for Jewish roots, Black husband
A white supremacist group is facing a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by a real estate broker who says she was barred from purchasing property in their rural Arkansas community because of her Jewish ancestry, Black husband, and biracial children
Mamdani announces $50 World Cup ticket lottery for New York City residents
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that the city will use a lottery system to distribute 1,000 World Cup tickets at $50 apiece to residents of the five boroughs
‘Paid the price’: Matthew Perry’s mother condemns assistant who enabled his fatal addiction
In a heartrending victim impact statement, Matthew Perry’s mother, Suzanne Morrison, condemned the actor’s former assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, for enabling the addiction that led to his death in 2023.“His number one responsibility was to ensure that Matthew remained what he wanted to be: drug‑free,” Morrison wrote.“But instead of protecting Matthew, he aided and abetted illegal drug use, arranged for one source of supply and then another.”
Tennessee is preparing to execute Tony Carruthers, whose defenders question trial fairness
Tennessee is scheduled to execute Tony Carruthers on Thursday after his attorneys questioned whether the state’s lethal injection drugs had expired and courts denied requests to test DNA and fingerprint evidence or to deem him mentally incompetent.
Prosecutors seek 50-year sentence for nonprofit leader at center of sprawling Minnesota fraud case
The former leader of a Minnesota nonprofit who was convicted for her role at the center of a staggering $250 million fraud case that helped ignite a federal immigration crackdown should spend 50 years in prison, prosecutors argued in a court filing.
Detroit-bound flight diverted to Canada after Congolese passenger boarded ‘in error’ amid Ebola outbreak
An Air France flight bound for Detroit was redirected to Canada after a passenger from Congo boarded “in error” amid the Ebola outbreak in central Africa, officials said.