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In a wild crossover of duty and delivery, a New Jersey police officer seamlessly transitioned from apprehending an Uber Eats driver to completing the food delivery, finding himself on the front porch of a home belonging to none other than “Jersey Shore’s” Snooki. Officers Mike Zvolensky and Alex Tredy, with the Florham Park Police Department, were out on routine patrol on Jan. 21 when the bizarre sequence of events unfolded, WABC reported Friday. They initiated a traffic stop around 8:30 p.m. that night, after a random license plate search revealed the driver had an outstanding traffic warrant......

Hundreds of Midtown East residents voiced overwhelming opposition to a plan to build an underground casino next to the United Nations during a heated town hall Thursday evening, with shouts of “blood money” and “not here!” The plan, from the Soloviev Group, would be for a massive entertainment district dubbed “Freedom Plaza” that would include a casino, hotel, shops, open space and over 500 units of affordable housing between 38th and 41st St. beside the FDR Drive. The developers presented the plan at a public meeting hosted by state Sen. Kristen Gonzalez at the NYU College of Dentistry, with ......

CHICAGO — Mike Nussbaum, acknowledged by the Actor’s Equity union as the oldest professional actor in America and a dynamic and yet steadying influence in Chicago theater for decades, died Saturday at home at the age of 99. He was days short of his 100th birthday. And until his final week, he had been participating in dramatic readings and other projects with his friend B.J. Jones, the artistic director of Northlight Theatre in Skokie. Most notably, Nussbaum and Jones had worked recently on a two-character, 15-minute playlet called “Pilot’s Lounge,” written in tribute to Nussbaum by David Mame......

NEW YORK — When a seven-story Bronx apartment building partially collapsed Monday afternoon, creating a jaw-dropping scene of devastation, some residents were away on vacation, others at work and still others were at home, forced to spring into action to save themselves. “Let’s go, let’s go, just leave everything,” tenant Sadie Martinez recounted telling her brother before they snatched up her 1-year-old and the family dog. “I was scared for my baby, not me.” There was no immediate warning the building would crumble, but Martinez recalled hearing a loud noise that afternoon as she was preparin......

A Massachusetts woman won big for a second time on a lottery ticket. But this time, her prize was even bigger. Desiree Fortini-Craft of Hyde Park won a scratch-off game’sthird grand prize of $25 million, according to a Massachusetts State Lottery news release. Fortini-Craft won on the Massachusetts State Lottery’s “Billion Dollar Extravaganza,” a $50 instant game. When she saw she won the grand prize, she hid her ticket and went on vacation, according to the lottery. “She said that she had scratched her winning ticket a few weeks ago and stored it in a secure place before going on a trip to Ar......

California's Gov. Gavin Newsom and Florida's Gov. Ron DeSantis love to brag about how their state is the best place to live, work and enjoy life. Newsom, a second-term Democrat, and DeSantis, a Republican presidential nominee, will debate Thursday for 90 minutes in Alpharetta, Georgia, starting at 9 p.m. Eastern time. Fox News Channel commentator Sean Hannity will moderate. Expect lots of boasts, along with numbers from both that appear to back up all of their claims. DeSantis, for example, told“Fox and Friends’’ last week “People are flooding into Florida because we’ve stood for freedom and p......