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A two-year-old boy died in a Bronx public library on Sunday after possibly choking on a piece of candy, sources said. The toddler was with his older brother at Bronx Library Center in Fordham Manor when he had trouble breathing at around 3 p.m., according to law enforcement sources. The boy’s brother said he was vomiting and could not breath. The child may have choked on a piece of candy, sources said. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was declared dead. The Medical Examiner would determine the official cause of death. Credit: Source link The post Two-year-old boy dies in Bronx public library appeared first on Fox USA Live . from Fox USA Live https://ift.tt/31oGWzW

President Donald Trump on Sunday night said the United States is “locked and loaded” and ready to intervene with whoever is behind the drone attacks on Saudi Arabia’s oil supply. “Saudi Arabia oil supply was attacked,” the president said in a series of tweets. “There is reason to believe that we know the culprit, are locked and loaded depending on verification, but are waiting to hear from the Kingdom as to who they believe was the cause of this attack, and under what terms we would proceed!” Early on Saturday, two major Saudi Arabian oil facilities were set ablaze in a coordinated drone attack, forcing the kingdom to shut down half its oil production and sparking fears of a big jump in oil prices. Leaders of the Iranian-backed Houthi rebel group claimed responsibility for the attack on the Abqaiq refinery, saying they launched drones from 500 miles away in Yemen. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo dismissed the Houthis’ claim and blamed Iran for the strike, tweeting Saturday, “There...

A city database meant to shed light on police-misconduct settlements is missing the largest deal struck in the first three months of the year — even though it involved cops on both sides. Transit Officer Larry Jackson agreed to take $5 million in January to resolve his claim that he was beaten and choked by fellow NYPD cops in 2010. The payout wasn’t included in a city Law Department database of settlements reached this year because a 2017 law creating that database exempted settlements from cases more than five years old. Jackson’s lawyer, Eric Sanders, called it “ridiculous” that the settlement was excluded because of when the case occurred. “Of course, they like to hide things,” said Sanders, who’s an ex-NYPD cop. “The public should know about all public expenditures or transactions because it’s the taxpayers’ money.” In the case, Jackson claimed several officers punched, choked, pepper-sprayed and battered him with batons after responding to a 911 call at his home. City lawye...

Alexandar Georgiev is well aware things might change for him this season, as the Rangers’ goaltending situation enters the very early stages of transition. But that doesn’t mean he’s approaching things any differently. “I’m just looking at it like it’s the same preseason as last year — focus on my game, playing good and showing that I’m a great goalie,” Georgiev told The Post as he is set to be the presumptive backup to 37-year-old Henrik Lundqvist for the second straight season. Barring a trade of Georgiev — which, if it happens, is more likely to happen later in the season — that would start hyped 23-year-old Russian Igor Shesterkin in AHL Hartford as he adjusts to his his first year in North America after leaving the KHL. “I want to have a really good camp,” Georgiev said, “and better start of the season than last year. That’s my focus.” Georgiev, 23, came on at the end of last season, when he became the de facto starter soon after the trade deadline. He finished the year with ...

City Hall’s official tally of NYPD lawsuit settlements is woefully incomplete — and fails to account for $22 million in deals struck during the first three months of this year alone, The Post has learned. From January through March, 286 suits filed against the NYPD over alleged police misconduct were settled for a combined $16 million in taxpayer money, according to data on the city Law Department’s website. But thanks to a legal loophole, another 432 cases that were resolved in the same period aren’t included in the Law Department’s database, according to information obtained from the city Comptroller’s Office through the Freedom of Information Law. Those settlements, which are the most recent available, exceed the amount that the Law Department said was paid out by nearly 40% — and pushed the actual total to $38 million. Under a 2017 law signed by Mayor Bill de Blasio, the Law Department is required to post “information regarding civil actions filed in state or federal court aga...

A 22-year-old man called in a bogus warning about a mass shooting at a fair in the Los Angeles area — so he could avoid going there with his parents, police said. Erik Villasenor sent an email to the Los Angeles County Fair association that “someone was planning on doing a mass shooting Sunday at the fairgrounds,” and he just wanted to “inform you guys,” the Pomona Police Department said Saturday. “It was with the intent that it would spark some chaos and commotion, it would be captured in the news media.” Pomona Police Chief Michael Olivieri told reporters. “And then he could use it as an excuse to his parents not to go to the fair.” “Kind of a crazy thing,” Oliveri added. “But that’s what we have learned.” When confronted by authorities, Villasenor allegedly admitted that the email was a hoax. Villasenor, who lives with his parents, is being held at the Ponoma City Jail on $20,000 bail, records show. The Los Angeles County Fair is a month-long festival in Ponoma that draws tho...

He likes to hit the road almost as much as his boss does. The new head of the New York City Housing Authority averaged nearly one business trip a month over more than two years at his last job — and racked up more than $40,000 in travel expenses doing it, The Post has learned. NYCHA Chairman Greg Russ did not shy away from attending out-of-town conferences and going on fact-finding missions while running the Minneapolis Public Housing Authority, records reveal. His penchant for getaways dovetails neatly with that of Mayor Bill de Blasio, who appointed Russ to his $403,000-a-year job in June in between frequent out-of-town jaunts to pursue his long-shot campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. Records obtained under Minnesota’s Data Practices Act show that Russ took 27 trips between February 2017 and July 2019, before he left to take his lucrative new job in the Big Apple. Russ’ receipts show he regularly exceeded the rules that govern how much New York City employees ...

North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sent a letter to President Donald in August detailing his willingness to meet the US leader for yet another summit, a South Korean newspaper reported Sunday. It was the second letter the North Korean leader sent to Trump last month that expressed his willingness to meet amid stalled denuclearization talks between the two nations, a source told Joongang Ilbo newspaper. Trump faced Kim at the Korean Demilitarized Zone in June where the two leaders shook hands and agreed to resume a dialogue over North Korea’s missile and nuclear programs. The June meeting followed the February summit between the two leaders in Vietnam. Trump last month described his first mailed message from Kim, telling reporters he received from the dictator a “very beautiful letter.” Despite the summer letters and June’s historic border meeting, North Korea has continued to test-fire short-range missiles. The White House, the State Department and the North Korean mission to...

Josh Allen didn’t take offense to Pat Shurmur’s comments. Instead, he let his play inflict damage. On Wednesday, the Giants’ coach said in evaluating Allen prior to the 2018 draft, the team thought he was “a guy that had a chance to be a starter in the NFL.” The Bills posted the comment on televisions around their training complex, and Allen went out and showed Shurmur and the Giants’ decision-makers what they missed out on. “Everybody has their own opinion and I know he didn’t mean anything [by it],” the second-year signal-caller said after leading the Bills to their second win at MetLife Stadium in a week, running for a touchdown and throwing for another in a 28-14 win over the Giants. “All I want to do is focus on what the Bills are doing.” The two talked pregame, but Allen said the comment wasn’t even discussed. It was more about catching up after the two had spent time together before the 2018 draft. “It doesn’t bother me. I don’t really care about what was said,” said Allen...

The devastating fire that consumed the Notre Dame Cathedral in April spread toxic dust over Paris — exposing at least 6,000 children under the age of six to alarming levels of lead, according to a new report. French authorities were alerted that lead exposure could be a problem within 48 hours of the April 15 blaze — but it took a month before city officials conducted the first test, a New York Times investigation published Saturday found. More than 450 tons of lead that had covered the Gothic gem’s roof and iconic spire dispersed as dust during the inferno, settling in schools, day cares, parks and other public places, according to the report. “It’s almost a no-brainer that if you incinerate hundreds of tons of lead, you’re going to have some significant deposition of particles in the neighborhood,” Matthew J. Chachère, counsel to the New York City Coalition to End Lead Poisoning, told the paper. Confidential documents obtained by the Times found that lead deposited near the hist...

A knife-wielding worker at a Park Slope smoke shop foiled the plans of an armed robber Sunday afternoon — by stabbing him, police sources told The Post. The 25-year-old clerk knifed the crook around 1 p.m., after the suspect pulled a gun on him while an accomplice acted as lookout outside the store near Carroll Street and Fifth Avenue, according to sources. “He screamed out ‘I got stabbed!’ ” said a 45-year-old resident, who only identified himself as Joseph, of the armed punk. The suspect’s accomplice later tried passing himself off as a good Samaritan simply trying to help a wounded man when cops arrived, witnesses said. It’s unclear if the accomplice was ever caught. Bassel Tawil, a co-owner of the store, said the armed robber came in pretending to look for “different stuff’’ and that one of his clerks, a family friend who he calls “cousin,’’ came out from behind the counter to assist who he thought was a customer. “My little cousin comes around the counter to help him, [the t...

St. John’s University student Taylor Healey was puffing on an e-cigarette one night in February when she suddenly became violently ill. Healey, 21, said she’d taken between 25 and 35 puffs of a mint-flavored Juul pod while hanging out with friends near the school’s Jamaica, Queens, campus when her mouth started to water and her body became drenched with sweat.  “ I started vomiting like I never have before, and have never felt that kind of pain before while getting sick,” Healey, an accounting major, told The Post.  She’s one of hundreds of people nationwide who’ve confounded doctors with mysterious illnesses apparently related to vaping in the midst of a crisis that’s already claimed six lives, sent another 380 people across 36 states to the hospital and spurred a temporary federal ban on flavored e-cigarettes by President Trump that will be implemented in the next couple of months.  But doctors are still scrambling to identify the root cause of the problem — leavi...

TORONTO — If Dellin Betances has to live with a fastball in the 92-94 mph range instead of nearing triple-digits, he will accept it and move on to other avenues to get hitters out. In Betances’ first big-league appearance since last October, the alternate routes were pretty good against the two Blue Jays batters he faced in Sunday’s 6-4 loss at Rogers Centre. Betances entered in the fourth and struck out Reese McGuire looking at a 94 mph fastball and Brandon Drury looking at an 84 mph breaking ball that locked the former Yankee’s knees. Since Betances was told he was only going to face two hitters, he wrongly believed he was done and started off the mound thinking there were three outs instead of two. “It was good, the breaking ball was good,’’ Betances said. “It’s nice to be back with the guys.’’ When fully healthy and fresh, Betances’ fastball routinely flirts with the 100 mph mark. There is a chance he won’t have enough time to get it there in the final two weeks of the season...

An upscale Manhattan pizzeria backed by a famous dough-tosser shuttered in July — seven months after it opened — because it was a scam, according to an explosive new lawsuit. La Rossa in Nolita received rave reviews for its margherita pizza when it launched in December, thanks to Stefano Callegari, the Italian chef behind the popular Trapizzino eatery on Orchard Street. Callegari — who rose to fame as the inventor of pizza-dough pocket sandwiches — also runs several popular eateries in Italy. But La Rossa, a 22-seat Lafayette Street eatery, never made it past summer and was seized by New York City marshals in July for nonpayment of rent. It owed its landlord $46,000 in back rent and more than $44,000 in New York state taxes, court papers say. Now, one of the eatery’s shareholders has filed suit against La Rossa’s owners, claiming he was defrauded out of half a million dollars through a sham plan to open a chain of La Rossa pizzerias around the world, including in Miami and Dubai. I...

The owner of a Bronx apartment — where police found a man’s rotting remains — allegedly assaulted the victim following an argument, according to new court documents. Charles Votaw, 37, hit Jason Nieves inside his Fordham Heights residence on Creston Avenue near Field Place during a fight last week, a criminal complaint alleges. When Nieves fell to the ground and lost consciousness, Votaw allegedly wrapped him from the waist down to the ankles in duct tape and slit his throat “in an effort to decapitate him,” the complaint says. Then he allegedly placed a bag over Nieves’ head and cut his chest and each of his wrists to “dismember and conceal his remains.” The corpse was found when someone called the cops Friday around 2:30 p.m. to report a foul odor seeping through the walls. Disturbed residents told NBC4 that the stench had been emanating from the apartment for days. Responding officers had to take the door off of its hinges to enter the apartment. Inside, they found the d...

A Minnesota man has been arrested for torching a nearly 120-year-old synagogue, although police aren’t calling the incident a hate crime yet, authorities said Sunday. Matthew J. Amiot, 36, was booked Friday on arson charges in connection with last Monday’s blaze, which decimated the historic Adas Israel Synagogue in Duluth, Minnesota, Duluth Police Chief Mike Tusken said at a press conference. But at this point in the investigation, there is “no reason to believe this is a bias or hate crime,” Tusken said. “That may change,” he said. “But at this point in time, that is the determination I have.” Duluth Fire Chief Shawn Krizaj said flames erupted around 2:30 a.m. outside the house of worship but “quickly spread through voids in the wall space and spread throughout the synagogue.” No one was inside at the time. Firefighters hosed down the wood-framed building for at least five hours before it collapsed into a pile of charred rubble. Six Torah scrolls, handwritten on parchment pap...

It was almost identical to Dallas. Saquon Barkley goes off on the first drive, leading the Giants to an early lead. But his impact is limited from there in a lopsided loss. Sunday, he notched 55 yards on four carries the first time the Giants touched the ball. The rest of the 28-14 loss to the Bills at MetLife Stadium, he managed 52 yards on the ground, plus 28 more receiving. “I don’t think you could ask for any better start for the first two games that we had, but it’s the NFL,” Barkley said after the Giants fell to 0-2 for the third straight season. “They’re going to make plays, and the Bills made great adjustments.” Barkley wound up with 21 touches. He had 18 carries for 107 yards to go with three receptions on seven targets. That’s an improvement on the loss to the Cowboys, when the star running back had only 15 touches. It’s still not enough, especially since the offense was without No. 1 receiver Sterling Shepard (concussion) and lost de-facto No. 1 receiver Cody Latimer (...