A Staten Island sex-education teacher who sued the city after being suspended for allowing students to use vulgar slang in class has settled her claim for $45,000, officials said yesterday. Faith Kramer, 48, had sued the Department of... Read Full Story
Six young men who had spent Saturday night drinking at a Staten Island bar sped off in a car -- and wrapped it around a light pole in a grisly crashed that killed two of them, police and witnesses said. The Nissan Altima crashed...
Call it medical waste. Debt-riddled St. Vincent's Hospital, under the legal knife for allegedly blowing through millions of dollars, also wasted $3.9 in taxpayer money on a Staten Island mental-health facility that never opened....
A top aide to Albania's deputy prime minister has been busted in that country for murder, kidnapping and racketeering crimes committed in New York City on...
Archbishop Timothy Dolan yesterday traded his St. Patrick's Cathedral pulpit for one at a Staten Island church -- amid a troubling spate of hate crimes against Hispanics. In a sermon delivered in Spanish, he told St. Mary of the...
Staten Islander Evelyn Kormanik is squarely behind helping others -- and formed a circle of those who share her passion. Nearly two years ago, she launched the Staten Island Giving Circle, whose members get together to pool their...
A Staten Island mother of five was fatally struck yesterday morning by a livery cab whose driver had lost consciousness, cops said. Sylvie Cameron, 48, was walking on Vanderbilt Avenue in Clifton at about 7 a.m. when a Crown...
A black 17-year-old was arrested on Staten Island yesterday morning for his role in a hate crime earlier this week, police said. Yashua Plair was hanging out with a group of seven black males Wednesday at about 8 p.m. when he...
Talk about adding insult to injury. An apparent miscommunication led the Staten Island borough president to falsely claim that vandals had ripped five granite plaques off the borough's 9/11 "Postcards" memorial. In fact, the...
A sloshed motorist speeding over the Verrazano Bridge with two kids in his back seat yesterday became the first person busted on Staten Island under Leandra's Law, authorities said. The law -- named after Leandra Rosada, 11, who...
This is hardly a breath of fresh air. A city Department of Health study on summer air quality released yesterday showed a troubling finding: Even quieter neighborhoods that don't have New York's infamous crowds, traffic and...
He tangoed with the wrong woman. A big-shot bond trader is being sued for $20 million after allegedly grabbing a 27-year-old clerk for an unsolicited dirty dance across his company's trading floor near the New York Stock Exchange....
It's a schoolyard brawl. The United Federation of Teachers' honcho yesterday squared off against a writer for its newspaper, insisting the man was fired for causing problems around the office -- not for trying to organize his...
The feds gave a "time out" to 11 people busted yesterday in an $18 million day-care scam, authorities said. The suspects charged in Operation Pay Care...
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. — State police say an 8-year-old New York City boy has died after being pulled from the deep end of a pool at an upstate motel. Troopers...
A deranged, out-of-work chiropractor stabbed his live-in girlfriend and their two toddlers in their necks last night before fatally slashing his own throat, cops said. "All we heard was a man yelling, 'I'm not doing this anymore!...
A 15-year-old has been arrested in the latest bias attack on Staten Island, accused of beating a Mexican-American teen who volunteers with an anti-bias group. "One bias crime is one bias crime too many, and we'll do everything we...
The city's medical examiner has ruled that the death of a mother who died in a fire with her four children on Staten Island was a suicide. Spokesman Ellen Borakove said Thursday that autopsy results show that Leisa Jones died from...
A Staten Island man filed a $500 million suit yesterday over his son's death while working as a US military contractor in Afghanistan. Qaid Alsaydi says...
Cops last night beefed up patrols in parts of Staten Island as Mexican officials made plans to station a representative there to deal with a growing number of crimes against Hispanics -- most of them Mexican. After meeting with...
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Susan Wagner, one of the most storied programs in PSAL history, had some of its lowest numbers last season. It got so difficult that legendary coach Al Paturzo had to use a quarterback, in this case Jordan Rodriguez, on defense for the first time in...
Tottenville lost to Curtis in last year’s PSAL city championship game, 16-10. And Pirates coach Jim Munson is bent on not letting his players forget that margin. The goal for this season is to make up those six points. “Throughout the year after...
As he was preparing to take on the defending CHSAA champions a year ago in the Class A intersectional quarterfinals, John Liantonio didn’t know what to...
Vinny Feminella knows all about Monsignor Farrell football history, from the glory days of the 1990s to the struggles in recent years. The senior linebacker is also very aware of the chatter around Staten Island about the program. “Everyone said...
The St. Joseph by the Sea football team made history last year, going 6-1 during the regular season and beating eventual CHSFL Class AAA champion St. Anthony’s for the first time. But Phil Corhan is more concerned about the Vikings playoff history....
The Port Richmond you see in Week 1 might not be the same one you see in Week 7. At least that’s the plan for coach Lou Vesce. Now two years removed from a PSAL city title, the Red Raiders could have as many as 13 sophomores on the roster. The hope...
Aaliyah Lewis views the game like a quarterback. Picture an imaginary offensive line standing in front of the Bishop Ford point guard as she dribbles the ball calmly at the top of the key. She isn’t in a rush to move, but is aware of everything...
The nickname Danny Jennings received at Dyckman on Tuesday night from famed emcee Joe Pope was better than both of them even realized. “What’s a...
There will not be a return trip to Williamsport for the South Shore National Little League. The Staten Island dynamo, which reached the Little League World Series last year, received an excellent performance from starter Nicholas Meola, but was...
DISTRICT HEIGHTS, Md. – To Kevin White, Christine Kline is like a catchy radio jingle. The first time you hear it, you might not notice. But after multiple times, you can’t help having it get stuck in your head. “You have to watch her play a few...
WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. – It’s easy to figure out Lisa Laursen’s highlight of the 2010 Empire State Games and it has nothing to with an individual...
Anthony Varvaro is five years removed from St. John’s, but he’s just a short drive away from Seattle. The Staten Island native has earned his first Triple-A call-up and will fly to Tacoma Wednesday just two days after pitching in his second...
Ashley Motrechuk can knock down 3-pointers. She will fly all over the court for loose balls and save them out of bounds. The St. Peter’s rising senior can drive to the basket and dribble up the floor to break a press – but she is not a guard. What...
As a player at McKee/Staten Island Tech in the late 1990s, Kevin Hughes forged a reputation on Staten Island. “I loved the way he played,” said St. Peter’s coach John Eberlein, who at the time was the head coach at Curtis. “He was old school, he...
Citing the inability to field a team able to compete in the CHSAA Brooklyn/Queens ‘B’ division, Moore Catholic athletic director Rich Postiglione informed the league that the Mavericks will not play in the CHSAA this season. Postiglione notified...
The NY Panthers Elite started the summer travel softball season off with a bang. The team, made up of some of New York City’s best players, won the Long Island Bandits tournament this past weekend in Kings Park, L.I., to earn a bid to the ASA...
Like it has been, Staten Island was the capital of New York City softball this season. St. Joseph by the Sea had one of its best years ever. The Vikings won the CHSAA Staten Island title, the CHSAA Archdiocesan title and finally the CHSAA state...
What a year it was on Staten Island. Led by Jon Silva, Zach Granite, Kevin Krause and a seemingly endless cast of characters, Tottenville won the PSAL Class A title, its 11th championship, while St Joseph by the Sea, buyoed by Nick Pavia, Chris...
Timminses are tough. They can fight through anything. Curtis standout defensive end James Timmins kept repeating those eight words to himself – words his father, James D. Timmins, often spoke. He told them to himself on his way home from his...
Devante Wheeler expected to be making big plays at Hofstra’s Shuart Stadium. He just thought he’d be doing it for the Pride. As it turned out, Hofstra dropped its football program late last year and Wheeler signed with Stony Brook. But the...
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