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NEW YORK — Frank James unleashed smoke, blood and horror in a subway car full of unsuspecting New Yorkers with 32 quick squeezes of a trigger — and for that act of terrorism, he will spend the rest of his life in prison. James, 64, who turned the N train into a hell ride on April 12, 2022, wounding 10 people in a morning rush-hour shooting, learned his fate Thursday, when Brooklyn Federal Court Judge William Kuntz handed down his sentence. Kuntz referred to the shooting as “raw evil,” and sentenced him to 10 concurrent life sentences, one for each shooting victim, plus 10 additional years on a......

Noah Appelbaum was freezing on a bitterly cold evening as he stood waiting at a Chicago bus stop in January. He was headed to work and didn’t want to be late. The bus-tracking app on his smartphone kept showing that the next bus would be there in just a few minutes. But that time kept being pushed back, and the bus never showed up. He ended up boarding a later scheduled bus that finally arrived after he had been shivering for 40 minutes. “It’s extremely frustrating,” said Appelbaum, 34, a guitar teacher and actor. “There’s not just the unpleasantness of waiting in the cold. It also throws off ......

NEW YORK — Accused subway shooter Frank James tried to play dumb and claim he was just another passenger on the train when officers and FBI agents questioned him after his arrest, according to a new court filing in the Eastern District of New York. The questioning came after James, 63, was arrested for boarding a rush-hour train on April 12, setting off a smoke bomb and firing a gun 33 times as the train approached the 36th Street station in Sunset Park, Brooklyn. Ten people were hit, but miraculously, no one died. A FBI agent asked James if he had weapons anywhere else in the city or somethin......

NEW YORK — A Brooklyn federal court judge is ordering accused subway shooter Frank James to be hauled to court by force if necessary, after the terrorism suspect tried to dodge his last appearance. Judge William Kuntz is taking no chances with the 63-year-old James, who on Oct. 12 initially refused to come to court from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn. James is accused of boarding a rush-hour train on April 12, setting off a smoke bomb and firing 33 bullets as it approached the 36th Street station in Sunset Park. Ten passengers were shot. All of them survived. “Upon the defendant......

When Alexis Nelson hitches a ride to work on a 450-passenger boat heading from San Francisco to Marin County, she is arguably getting the best deal in Bay Area travel: Nearly private ocean views for $8.50. But behind that ticket price are millions of dollars in Golden Gate Bridge tolls and massive sums of federal pandemic relief money that keep the ferry afloat. “Earlier in the year it would literally be me and one other person on the 8 a.m. ferry to Larkspur,” said Nelson as she read a book on her 30-minute commute. “It’s pretty nice.” San Francisco ferries are one of the Bay Area’s iconic pu......

NEW YORK — Thousands of New York City transit workers flooded lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11 attacks, lending crucial hands and expertise in the city’s greatest hour of need. More than two decades later, they want their due. Officials at Transport Workers Union Local 100 — which represents roughly half of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s workforce — are angered by what they consider a lack of representation for their members at the downtown National September 11 Memorial Museum. Transit workers who spent months clearing rubble, rebuilding tracks and driving buses near ground zer......