Afrika Owes was a star in her Harlem neighborhood, a smart girl who earned her way into an exclusive prep school.
Her future was filled with promise - until earlier this week, when the promising teen got caught up with a group of Harlem gangbangers and swept up by police.
The stunning arrest - a shock to many who knew her - left neighbors and friends… Continue
A Staten Island woman died a day after her husband beat her for not paying for cable TV while he was hospitalized over Thanksgiving, law enforcement sources said.
Blanche Scala, 59, died on Nov. 27 after her husband, Thomas Scala, 57, attacked her inside their New Dorp Beach home when he came home from the hospital, the sources said.
NEW YORK (AP) - Aretha Franklin, who says she's back at "150 percent," is planning to return to the stage in May for her first post-surgery performance.
The Grammy Award-winning singer will also release an album that month with Wal-Mart Stores Inc. More personally, she's working on losing more weight from her frame, which is noticeably slimmer since her December… Continue
A 29-year-old Virginia woman charged with savagely beating her 77-year-old boyfriend last year will now be charged with murder after the man died from injuries suffered in the attack, prosecutors announced.
Kristina Pongracz was charged last spring with aggravated malicious wounding after beating her sugar-daddy boyfriend, William Herchenrider, with his own cane in… Continue
Keep those cameras rolling!
Ex-"Jersey Shore" star Angelina Pivarnick is now a bride-to-be after boyfriend David Kovacs popped the question - on the red carpet, no less.
Kovaks dropped to one knee and proposed while flashbulbs went off and cameras rolled at the STYLE360 Sachika's fashion show Wednesday afternoon, an onlooker tells the Daily… Continue
A Brazilian woman who claimed to have the world’s largest fake breasts fell into a coma following a suicide attempt, a British tabloid reported.
Sheyla Hershey, 31, had her KKK-size implants removed in September after suffering an infection during an operation to have them blown up to an even-larger MMM cup, according to Britain's The Sun.
If this doesn't teach this youngster how to count to 26, what will?
The proud mother of youngster Le Yati Min is petitioning Guinness to recognize her daughter as the world record holder for total fingers and toes—26 in all.
The 16-month-old tot was born in Burma with six fingers on each hand and seven toes on each foot, which could make her the most… Continue
A Bronx jeweler shot at a trio of thieves who robbed his shop Wednesday - hitting one of the bandits in the leg, police sources said.
Sources said two people - a man dressed in a suit and a long, plaid tweed coat and a female - waltzed into Spinelli Jewelers with a leather briefcase about 2 p.m.
Another man, also donning a suit, paced outside the Arthur… Continue
The formula for Coca-Cola is one of the closest guarded corporate secrets in history. For 125 years, aspiring soda sleuths have tried to duplicate the iconic cola‘s signature taste and uncover John Pemberton’s secret recipe with no luck. But now, a group of radio producers say they’ve discovered the secret and claim it may not have been so “secret” after… Continue
Just days before Valentine's Day, Frankie Muniz and his longtime girlfriend, Elycia Marie Turnbow, had an explosive fight during which the actor allegedly put a gun to his head.
According to a police report obtained by TMZ.com, Muniz called the cops to his Phoenix home hours after the initial argument began on Friday, because "he was scared that this was getting out… Continue
Just days before Valentine's Day, Frankie Muniz and his longtime girlfriend, Elycia Marie Turnbow, had an explosive fight during which the actor allegedly put a gun to his head.
According to a police report obtained by TMZ.com, Muniz called the cops to his Phoenix home hours after the initial argument began on Friday, because "he was scared that this was getting out… Continue
The conservative blogger – who is at the center of a lawsuit over a video his site posted depicting a government official as racist – now has a cartoon on his Big Government site portraying First Lady Michelle Obama as a plump, hamburger-scarfing glutton.
In the cartoon, posted over the weekend, the First Lady is sitting at a… Continue
There has been a lot of talk about Ciara and her label, Jive Records, these last few days and none of it has been very good. CiCi who has been working hard to make sure her fans are happy but at the same time she still has to please the record label and meet all their needs which is very draining. Although everyone is trying to say that she was dropped thats somewhat untrue and… Continue
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, one-eighth of MTV's ratings smash "Jersey Shore," pleaded not guilty to a single charge of third-degree aggravated assault on Monday, MyCentralJersey.com reported.
The reality show's tough guy had been indicted in December over a September 2009 altercation with Stephen Izzo in New Jersey's Seaside Heights.
TAMPA, Fla. — Fresh off a Grammy win, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton is set to stand trial again in federal court in Florida.
Jury selection will begin Monday in Tampa. Banton is accused of conspiring to buy cocaine from an undercover officer and faces up to life in prison.
The jury deadlocked in his first trial in… Continue
Finding a free condom in the Big Apple is now a click away.
The city Health Department is unveiling a free iPhone application on Monday - Valentine's Day - that allows New Yorkers to input an address and find five nearby places to grab a free condom.
"We are trying to reach everyone having sex," said Monica Sweeney, the agency's point person for HIV/AIDS… Continue
School principals-turned-Inspector Gadgets had their online spy-gear store shuttered after the Daily News exposed their link to the sleuthing market.
The city Education Department pulled the plug on its website portal to an I-Spy-type arsenal where principals browsed for hidden cameras to trick out their halls.
Among the 45 undercover devices The News… Continue