An 11-year-old girl became one of the world's youngest mothers - after she went into labor at her wedding.
Kordeza Zhelyazkova, from Sliven, Bulgaria, was still wearing her wedding dress and tiara when she was rushed to the hospital, where she gave birth to a 5-pound, 8-ounce girl.
"I'm not going to play with toys anymore - I have a new toy now," Kordeza told reporters as she showed off little Violeta.
El Salvadoran leaders of the MS-13 gang allegedly put out a contract on the federal agent responsible for a crackdown on its New York factions, the Daily News has learned.
The brazen plot to assassinate the unidentified Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent was revealed in an arrest warrant for reputed gang member Walter (Duke) Torres.
Torres tipped authorities to the plan after he and four other MS-13 members were stopped by NYPD… Continue
The mother of a Brooklyn man murdered by a hot-headed driver said Wednesday "it was not road rage," but an execution carried out by an old friend.
A despondent Lydia Blas told the Daily News the childhood friend "threatened" her son Ramon earlier Tuesday, the day of the murder.
Standing outside her 7th-floor walkup in Williamsburg, Blas, 61, said the old pal has vanished.
"No one will talk because all of Ramons friends are… Continue
TERRENCE Howard and Taraji Henson -- co-hosts of the "Soul Train Awards" Tuesday in Atlanta -- sneaking a kiss in the VIP area at La Pomme on West 26th Street.
Mary J. Blige is going back to the Bronx.
Major League Baseball says the Bronx-born singer will perform the national anthem at Yankee Stadium before Game Six of the World Series on Wednesday.
Blige is the latest superstar to sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during the championship matchup between the New York Yankees and Philadelphia Phillies. John Legend and Alanis Morissette have also lent their voices to the traditional pre-game… Continue
BEDFORD, Pa. – In exchange for no jail time, a woman and her adult daughter have agreed to stand outside a Pennsylvania courthouse holding signs saying they stole a gift card from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday.
Fifty-six-year-old Evelyn Border and 35-year-old Tina Griekspoor stood outside the court for 4 1/2 hours Tuesday. They held signs that read: "I stole from a 9-year-old girl on her birthday! Don't steal or this could happen to… Continue
It has a big, bulbous headbeady black eyesand eight squirming tentacles. It's the octopus. Many would call it ugly and disgusting. The one thing they wouldn't call it is… Continue
LOS ANGELES - Rihanna's brutal beating at the hands of boyfriend Chris Brown left her humiliated, lonely and feeling like Britney Spears, the singer says.
"I felt like I went to sleep as Rihanna and woke up as Britney Spears," the singer told Glamour magazine in her first print interview since the February attack.
"That was the level of media chaos that happened the next day. It was like, What, there are helicopters circling my house?… Continue
An New York University student leaped to his death Tuesday from the 10th floor of the main library, police said.
Andrew Williamson-Noble, 20, of Irvington, N.Y., used an NYU-issued card to swipe himself into the Bobst Library, where he committed suicide around 4:30 a.m., sources said.
Witnesses reported hearing a "loud thud" when the junior's body hit the marble floor in the atrium of the library.
Since Rihanna breaks her silence over being beaten by Chris Brown in a multipart interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer set to air Thursday and Friday.
"It's as a revealing an interview as I've seen," said a network insider. "She's just a brave, gracious young lady."
The first part will air Thursday on ABC's "Good Morning America." More will air Friday on "GMA" and the piece will conclude Friday night at 10 on… Continue
Mike Beck, a member of Fat Joe's K.A.R. collective, has reportedly passed.
While details are still sketchy, word is, the New York rapper was gunned down in Brooklyn late Friday (October 30), in a botched robbery attempt.
But, the death was confirmed by fellow rapper, N.O.R.E., who posted a message on his Twitter page (@Noreaga).
"Rest in peace. He was a real dude, Mike Beck. I did records for him n he ate in my crib, n drank… Continue
Hair's the ultimate way to show Yankees pride.
Forget replica jerseys and baseball caps - die-hard Bombers boosters wear their team's logo on their noggin.
Hairdos sporting the iconic interlocking NY are all the rage among the faithful during the Yanks' World Series run.
"It's good luck," said Tom McBride, 38, who was spotted with the cutting-edge haircut during the public broadcast of Game 4 in Yankee… Continue
Chris Brown released the album cover for his forthcoming Graffiti album (due December 15) on Monday (November 2). The singer tweeted the image on Monday afternoon, just as images from his "Crawl" music video were released.
On the cover, Brown is decked out in all black wearing a blazer, turtleneck, sunglasses and army boots and holding an electric guitar one shoulder and a can of spray paint in the other hand — which actually looks like a… Continue
Nas may be loaded, but it makes no difference. He's just filed legal papers asking the judge in his divorce case with Kelis to block her from getting spousal support.
In the papers, filed by his lawyer Mark Vincent Kaplan, Nas is also asking for joint custody of their two-month-old boy.
Kelis is asking for $72,728 a month -- which means they are now exactly $72,728… Continue
NFL on CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz made one really bad call -- with a 29-year-old woman -- and now it will cost him nearly a million bucks a year for the rest of his life.
A Connecticut judge ordered the famous announcer to pay his ex-wife $864,000-a-year in alimony -- and the only way out is death ... or if his ex-wife remarries.
The judge's decision comes in light of Nantz's admission that he began dating a 29-year-old woman before he… Continue
Talk about a premature promotion.
A Philadelphia newspaper Monday ran an advertisement by Macy's applauding the Phillies for a phantom World Series victory and promoting a 2009 championship T-shirt.
In the ad world equivalent of the "Dewey Defeats Truman" headline, the bungled banner in The Philadelphia Inquirer said "Congratulations Phillies! Back-to-back Champs."
Underneath, a shirt celebrating the Phils as the 2009 World… Continue
Cleveland Police were scrambling to identify the bodies of six women found in various stages of decomposition inside a convicted rapist's house of horrors over the weekend.
In a scenario ripped from "The Silence of the Lambs," Ohio ex-con Anthony Sowell allegedly strangled a series of women in his three-story house over a period of months - or even years.
Rotting bodies were found in upstairs bedrooms, the living room, a crawl space, a shallow grave in the… Continue