Author: Grace Thompson

Joe Douglas was fired by the New York Jets on Tuesday, the team confirmed. In 2019, Douglas, then 48, was in the last year of a six-year deal he had signed to run the Jets' front office. After a 3–8 start to the season, New York fired him. In a statement, owner Woody Johnson stated, "I want to thank Joe for his commitment to the Jets over the last six years and wish him and his family the best going forward." After serving as the Philadelphia Eagles' vice president of player personnel for three years, Douglas was hired by the Jets. Since Douglas took over as general manager, New York has a 30-64 record in 94 games. Douglas has failed in both of his attempts to play quarterback. Douglas used the second overall pick in the 2021 NFL Draft to choose quarterback Zach Wilson. However, Wilson had...

On Tuesday, New York prosecutors informed the court presiding over Donald Trump's hush money prosecution that the president-elect's attorneys should delay his sentence until they submit additional legal reasons requesting that the case be dismissed. Judge Juan Merchanto would need to approve the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office's application for it to become official. Prosecutors had previously asked Merchan to grant extensions. While acknowledging that they are in new area when it comes to sentencing a president, prosecutors said they would contest Trump's attempts to have the case dismissed. They also admitted that Trump's sentencing may need to occur after his term in office. The public recognizes that the inauguration of the defendant will bring up hitherto unheard-of l...

According to church officials, a New York City monsignor who caused controversy by permitting pop sensation Sabrina Carpenter to record a video in his church was stripped of his duties after he reportedly embezzled about $2 million in church funds. Bishop Robert J. Brennan of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn announced in a statement on Monday that Monsignor Jamie Gigantiello of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Annunciation Parish no longer has any pastoral leadership or governance responsibilities at the parish. According to NBC New York, the decision came following an examination of the parish's subpoena in the context of New York City Mayor Eric Adams' corruption scandal. According to the Diocese, the inquiry "uncovered a pattern of serious violations of Diocesan policies and protocols by ...

On Tuesday, New York prosecutors informed the court presiding over Donald Trump's hush money prosecution that the president-elect's attorneys should delay his sentence until they submit additional legal reasons requesting that the case be dismissed. Judge Juan Merchanto would need to approve the motion from Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's office on Tuesday for it to become official. Prosecutors had previously asked Merchan to grant extensions. The DA's office requested last week that the judge temporarily halt the proceedings while it assessed the effect of Trump's election victory on the case, casting doubt on Merchan's tentative plan to sentence Trump later this month on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. According to prosecutor Matthew Colangelo, the motion was m...

Authorities announced an arrest Monday in thebrutal murder of an exotic dancerwhose body was discovered in a burning car on an Arizona interstate more than a year ago. Sencere Hayes, 22, was taken into custody Nov. 11 in Tennessee in connection with the killing of Mercedes Vega, 22, April 17, 2023, the Maricopa County Sheriff s Office said in a statement. The sheriff s office and local prosecutors are working to extradite Hayes to Arizona, the statement said, adding that the case remains active and under investigation and that no other information would be released. It isn't clear what Hayes has been charged with, where he is being held or whether he has a lawyer to speak on his behalf. Vega s mother, Erika Pillsbury, said that for 19 months she felt her daughter would never see justice. N...

Jay Z'sTeam Roc, the social justice armof his Roc Nation entertainment company, filed a lawsuit Tuesday claiming Kansas City, Kansas, has violated public records laws by failing to "timely produce" law enforcement records related to decadeslong allegations of police abuse and misconduct. The suit, filed in Wyandotte County District Court in partnership with the Midwest Innocence Project, says the Kansas City Police Department has not released substantial documents related to complaints pertaining to current and former detectives and officers after Roc Nation submitted a records request in November 2023. "For decades, communities in Kansas City, Kansas particularly minority and immigrant communities have been subjected to an alarming pattern of abuse and other serious misconduct by the ...

The man accused ofkilling three people in a grisly stabbing spreeon Monday had been released from New York City jail a month earlier and was free on bail for other alleged crimes in New Jersey, records showed. Just hours after 51-year-old Ramon Rivera was taken into custody following the trio of slayings, New York City Mayor Eric Adams was already questioning why the homeless man was walking free. He was sentenced a few months ago, and there s a real question that we need to look at on why he was out on the streets, and he has some severe mental health issues that should have been examined, Adams told reporters on Monday. Rivera has now been charged with three counts of first-degree murder, police said. He was released from a New York City jail on Oct. 17 for time served on burglary and a...