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A Utah woman was arrested Saturday after police say she impersonated her 21-year-old daughter during a routine traffic stop. Heather Garcia, 38, was booked into the Davis County Jail early Saturday morning on several charges including providing false personal information to a peace officer after she was caught allegedly lying to authorities about her identity to avoid getting arrested for outstanding warrants. Garcia was driving a silver BMW when she was pulled over on Main Street in Farmington after a Davis County police officer noticed her vehicle did not have a license plate, KABB reported. During a search of her car, police recovered drug paraphernalia and a white powdery substance. Garcia reportedly identified herself as Mercedes, adding she was born in 1998. Police soon discovered Garcia provided her daughter’s name and eventually made a positive ID. Garcia was charged with several drug charges including possession or use of a controlled substance, marijuana possession and...

The last time Daniel Jones approached a game week like this, he was a walk-on. It’s been that long since he wasn’t the starter, all the way back to his redshirt freshman year at Duke in 2015. As the Giants prepare to open the regular season Sunday afternoon against the Cowboys, Jones’ job is helping Eli Manning get ready to take on Dallas, and mimicking quarterback Dak Prescott as the scout-team quarterback. The only way he gets any action is if the game gets out of hand or Manning gets hurt. “It’s a change. It’s a little different,” the rookie signal-caller said Monday. “But I’m trying to figure out where I can be the most helpful for Eli, for the offense. … Whatever I can do to help — help Eli prepare, help the offense, help the defense prepare with the scout team — is my role. I certainly understand that.” Now that the real games are beginning, Jones is sliding out of the spotlight after his impressive summer, ceding the way in what will likely be Manning’s final year under cent...

Local girl Kristie Ahn’s U.S. Open run — just two miles from where she was born — came to an end on Monday. But it showed her budding tennis career doesn’t have to. Ahn fell in the round of 16, with No. 25 Elise Mertens rolling 6-1, 6-1 at Louis Armstrong Stadium. But after Ahn spent a decade dealing with injuries and doubt, she’s backed winning her first match at a Grand Slam with a run that’s validated her call to stick with the sport. Born in Flushing Hospital and living in tiny Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Ahn, 27, was a strong student who starred at Stanford. And while she got a wild card at the U.S. Open at just 16, she didn’t get back to the main draw of a Grand Slam again until earning her way to Wimbledon this year. Over that 11-year span — with a spate of injuries evidenced by the heavy wrap on her left knee — her parents repeatedly encouraged her to put away the tennis racket and join a corporate racket. She told The Guardian “My dad was like, ‘So! This is a bit of a problem....

A recently shaven Adam Gase caused most of the ruckus on an otherwise slow holiday Monday in Florham Park. Gone was the beard that had grown almost since the day he was introduced as the Jets new coach. It’s a look that wasn’t welcomed by all. “I told him today, you look like a totally different dude,” guard Brian Winters said. “He said, ‘I don’t like it.’ So I think he’s going to rock the beard for the rest of the season.” Gase even hinted it might not have been his best idea. “It felt right at the time,” he mused. Beard or no beard was apparently among the many decisions Gase and the Jets faced over the weekend while whittling their roster down to 53 players plus the practice squad. Expect more tinkering before Sunday’s regular-season opener against the Bills at MetLife Stadium, but the nucleus is set and ready for the 2019 debut. No one is happier than quarterback Sam Darnold, who has high expectations for a Jets offense he expects to be “electric” even though center Ryan Kali...

Rafael Nadal was presented with a threat for the first time at this year’s U.S. Open. To anyone besides the 18-time major winner, it would have been. After dropping his first set of the tournament to Marin Cilic, Nadal snapped back into legendary form, and reeled off nine straight games against the former U.S. Open champion, en route to claiming a 6-3, 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, fourth-round win Monday night at Arthur Ashe Stadium. The second-seeded, three-time U.S. Open champion, will next face 20th-seeded Diego Schwartzman in the quarterfinals. Credit: Source link The post Rafael Nadal avoids scare to reach quarterfinals appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2NPEVJ9

Rafael Nadal was pumped and so was Tiger Woods. Let the fist pumping begin. The golf great, along with his kids and girlfriend Erica Herman, watched Nadal’s 6-3, 3-6, 1-6 fourth-round win over Marin Cilic in the fourth round of the U.S. Open from a private box at Arthur Ashe Stadium on Monday night. At one point the 18-time major champion triggered a roar and signature fist pump from Woods. It came after a nine-shot volley that Nadal won with a strong forehand shot from the back line to put himself up 40-love while leading 2-1 in the third. He let out a yell and fist pump and Woods followed suit. “I always say that I’ve never had big idols, but if I have to say one idol it’s him,” Nadal said in his on-court interview. Credit: Source link The post Tiger Woods and Rafael Nadal trade fist pumps appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/30U39ps

The St. Barth sixth-annual Gourmet Festival takes place this fall — another sign of recovery from a hurricane that wrecked the West Indies island in 2017. The festival, which will be held Nov. 6-10, “reaffirms our position as the culinary capital of the Caribbean,” says Nils DuFau, president of the St. Barth Tourism Committee. This year’s festival, which in the past has been hosted by New York-based Jean-Georges Vongerichten, focuses on French cuisine and will pair French Michelin-starred chefs with local chefs to create gourmet meals. A series of dinners will be held at fancy spots like the Hotel Christopher, Hotel Le Toiny, Le Sereno, Le Tamarin, L’Esprit Jean-Claud Dufour and Nikki Beach. The island, a mere 9.26 square miles, was hit hard by hurricane Irma, which destroyed hotels and restaurants as New York billionaires and boldface names stayed away. Since then, new restaurants have popped up, roads have been reconstructed and the last of the major hotel renovations have been ...

The Giants already had a soft start to their schedule, and now they may be catching another break. The Cowboys could be without Pro Bowl running back Ezekiel Elliott, who is still holding out as he awaits a new contract. But Alec Ogletree is rooting for the two sides to reach an agreement. “I hope he does show up,” the inside linebacker said Monday after practice. “I hope he gets what he wants to get. In order to be the best, you have to play everybody that’s the best, and he’s one of the best in the league.” As the week progresses, and Elliott remains away from the team, the odds increase he won’t be out there Sunday afternoon in Arlington, Texas, for the teams’ regular-season opener. Even if a deal gets done in the next few days — the two sides reportedly are talking — it’s far from certain he would play, or play a lot. “That’s really an issue for Dallas,” coach Pat Shurmur said. The Cowboys are obviously a different offense when Elliott is in the backfield. He ran for 1,434 ya...

Watch out, Vegas: Here comes New Jersey. It’s been little more than a year since the Garden State legalized sports betting, but the home of The Sopranos and Bruce Springsteen is already poised to overtake Nevada as the sports betting capital of the US, experts say. New York’s neighbor west of the Hudson River is slated to take the crown from Nevada as soon as this year — thanks to the NFL, according to Alex Kostin, founder of AmericanGambler.com, a sports-betting community and Web site devoted to legalized gambling data. That’s because the NFL’s new season, which kicks off on Thursday, will open the floodgates of sports bettors flocking from New York City and Philadelphia to close what has been a fast-narrowing gap in total wagers, Kostin told The Post. NJ’s total sports gambling handle during last year’s season from September through January was $1.5 billion — despite the fact that sports betting had only become legal in the state last June. Nevada’s, meanwhile, was $2.7 billion...

Floridians, Georgians and Carolinians fled the Atlantic coast in droves on Monday as Hurricane Dorian plowed in their direction and officials downgraded the storm to a still-dangerous Category 4. “The window to prepare is closing,” tweeted Peter Gaynor , acting director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. “If you are on Florida’s east coast, finish preparing & evacuate if local officials tell you to. Don’t tough it out — get out!” FEMA was encouraging those on the coast to expect extreme winds and evacuate if instructed. Mandatory-evacuation orders were in place for coastal communities in 11 Florida counties that make up nearly all of the state’s Atlantic coast. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster on Sunday ordered his state’s entire coastline to evacuate. The order, which took effect at noon Monday, affects 830,000 people. Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp ordered evacuations for his state’s coast, also effective at noon Monday. Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carol...

Funny, but I didn’t find much about the criticism of former FBI director James Comey on The New York Times Web site last Friday. That was the day after the Justice Department’s internal investigator, Michael Horowitz, blasted Comey for being deceitful about memos he leaked, through a friend, to The Times. I’m not going to criticize The Times for allowing Comey to use it to get information he wanted out to the public. Every journalist is in that position at one time or another. But it’s still embarrassing when the public gets to see how news stories come about. It’s not a whole lot less disgusting than the way sausages are made. Here’s my guess for what happens next: Comey isn’t off the hook yet. And The Times had better be prepared for more embarrassment when the rest of Horowitz’s investigations on what the FBI did under Comey comes out. The reporter who got the memo from Comey in the now-criticized instance also was part of a team that, back in 2017, wrote a story on direct co...

The unofficial end of summer is a good time to consider how much things have changed for American motorists. It wasn’t too long ago that it was almost guaranteed that drivers would have to pay more for gasoline from Memorial Day to Labor Day. This was the legend of the “peak driving season.” The only question was: How much would family vacations be impacted by the higher price of fuel? It was also a macro-economic question. If fuel prices rose too much, people wouldn’t travel by car; airlines would raise fares; hotels, restaurants and vacation spots would be hurt, and the economy as a whole would suffer. Boy, how things have changed! Much like the summer of 2018, this past summer saw gasoline prices decline. I pulled up some numbers from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and what happened is stunning. Back in May – when energy speculators were itching for costs to rise — the price of a gallon of gasoline in the US averaged $2.95 a gallon. Watch out! The word aroun...

The doomed Santa Cruz diving boat that caught fire and sank early Monday off the coast of Southern California had been chartered by a local adventure company owned by a marine biologist — who is among the missing and feared dead. “Please pray for my sister Kristy!” wrote Brett Harmeling, brother of Kristy Finstad, on Facebook. “She was leading a dive trip on this boat,” he said. Finstad co-owns the Worldwide Diving Adventures company, which chartered the 75-foot vessel — dubbed the Conception — through Truth Aquatics, a Santa Barbara-based boating operation. Worldwide Diving was reportedly founded in 1972 by Finstad’s father, Bill Finstad, and later passed down to her upon his retirement. She and her husband, Dan Chua, both run the business and lead excursions as licensed scuba instructors. Chua is currently leading a dive trip off in Costa Rica, according to Finstad’s brother, who was supposed to be with her on the Conception during the Labor Day Weekend getaway. “I was going t...

A dog rescuer in the Bahamas has taken in nearly 100 canines to shield them from the rain and powerful winds as Hurricane Dorian lashes the island, a report said Monday. The woman, Chella Phillips, who runs the rescue The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas, opened her doors to 97 pups amid the hurricane, she wrote in a Facebook post Monday. “97 dogs are inside my house and 79 of them are inside my master bedroom. It has been insane since lastnight, poop and piss non stop but at least they are respecting my bed and nobody has dared to jump in,” Phillips wrote in the post. She pleaded for donations to help care for the homeless pooches and added that she’s saved a total of about 1,000 dogs since she started the rescue about four years ago. “Each island has abundance of homeless dogs, my heart is so broken for the ones without a place to hide,” she wrote. In a phone interview, Phillips told news station WFTS that she lost power and has some water in her home, but her and the dogs ar...

As if the pictures from earth weren’t scary enough. An engineer and astronaut for NASA shared photos of Hurricane Dorian from space on Monday. The harrowing images were posted on Christina Koch’s Twitter page after being captured from the International Space Station. “#HurricaneDorian as seen from @Space_Station earlier today,” tweeted Koch, who is on her first space flight. “Hoping everyone in its path stays safe,“ she said. NASA shared jaw-dropping video footage of Dorian last week as it was barreling through the Caribbean. The storm made landfall in the Bahamas as a Category 5 — with sustained winds of 185 mph, according to the National Hurricane Center. At least five people have suffered hurricane-related deaths, including a 7-year-old boy. There have been more than 20 reported injuries. Credit: Source link The post Hurricane Dorian is even more terrifying from space appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/2ZLeZRj

One of the first things Nets GM Sean Marks did when he got to Brooklyn was buy out Joe Johnson’s contract. Could he be bringing back the big shot-making wing? The 38-year-old Johnson will work out for Brooklyn next week at HSS Training Center, according to ESPN. The veteran played for the Nets from 2012-16, averaging 14.7 points in 288 games over 3 ½ seasons. Johnson earned the nicknames Iso Joe and Joe Jesus for his clutch late-game shot-making ability. He was even named an All-Star in 2013-14, the last time a Net had played in the game until the just departed D’Angelo Russell did so this past season. But Johnson is obviously a very different player now. He didn’t play in the NBA last season, playing in the BIG3 League instead, though he was its MVP. He averaged 6.0 points in 23 games for the Rockets in 2017-18, shooting 38.1 percent and 27.9 percent from 3-point range in 23 games. Still, Johnson’s return is far from certain for a couple of reasons. One, Brooklyn’s roster is ful...

Donna Vekic got off the mat so many times in her U.S. Open round of 16 victory, she’s not even sure how she won herself. But she gutted her way to a come-from-behind 6-7(6), 7-5, 6-3 marathon win Monday over hard-serving German Julia Goerges. In a match that lasted nearly three hours, Vekic staved off match point and fought her way into the first Grand Slam quarterfinal of her career. “Yeah, I’m happy to win and I’m happy to win saving match points, happy to be first time in the quarterfinals. I’m just happy right now,” the 23rd-seeded Vekic said with an ear-to-ear grin. “I don’t know how I won this match. She served for it, she had match points. I kept fighting and believing I could win. … I was just trying to get a return in the court. She served amazing today. I felt confident in the rallies and I felt that if I got the ball in, I’d have a good chance.” Vekic couldn’t have been faulted if her confidence had been flagging. She came into the Open winless in three prior meetings —...

Authorities have recovered at least four bodies from the fatal Santa Cruz boat fire — and they’ve located another four on the bottom of the ocean floor, according to officials. Dozens more are feared dead, with local police suspecting that their remains are still trapped inside the sunken vessel. “This is probably the worst case scenario you can have,” said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown at a press conference on Monday night. Local officials provided an update on the recovery efforts, saying they had only come across eight victims so far. “We have four actual bodies that have been delivered to our Coroner’s Bureau,” Brown said. Four others have been “spotted” on the ocean floor “in close proximity of the vessel.” “[The boat] is upside down in relatively shallow water,” Brown explained, noting how receding tides were causing it to sway and move, making the scuba diving ship “unstable.” “We’re unsure when we will be able to recover those bodies,” he told reporters. Five ...