Stephen Rex Brown

In this Sept. 9, 2019, file photo, Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora talks about the dismissal of president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski, during a news conference before the team's baseball game against the New York Yankees in Boston. Cora was fired by the Red Sox on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2020, a day after baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred implicated him in the sport's sign-stealing scandal.

Judge tosses DraftKings bettors’ lawsuit against Houston Astros and Red Sox, but calls both teams a disgrace

April 4, 2020 at 1:32 a.m.

The Houston Astros and Boston Red Sox are a disgrace to baseball — but the cheating teams did not defraud fantasy baseball bettors, a judge ruled Friday. The decision by...

This March 28, 2017, photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein has pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges after his July 6 arrest. A partial transcript of the September 2016 deposition was included in hundreds of pages of documents placed in a public file on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, by a federal appeals court in New York. On Aug. 10, 2019, Epstein was found dead in his cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

Surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during suicide attempt was destroyed: prosecutors

January 9, 2020 at 10:42 p.m.

Surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell during his summer suicide attempt was destroyed, prosecutors revealed Thursday. The revelation in a letter filed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey and...

An inspector from the Department of Buildings takes measurements outside of billionaire Noam Gottesman's residence in Manhattan on July 9, 2019.

A New York billionaire cut the curb in front of his mansion, scaring off cars and creating a parking space for himself on a crowded street

July 25, 2024 at 2:39 p.m.

A billionaire hedge fund honcho carved out a personal driveway in a Manhattan sidewalk — and didn't pay a dime for the annexation of public space. Deep-pocketed investor Noam Gottesman...

<p>Victims of disgraced banker Bernie Madoff, serving 150 years in prison for defrauding customers as part of a $17 billion Ponzi scheme, will receive $504.2 million, the government announced Thursday, bringing the total reimbursements to $1.3 billion.

Bernie Madoff victims to get $504.2 million as feds continue to repay money obtained in Ponzi scheme

May 2, 2018 at 4:10 a.m.

Victims of Bernie Madoff will receive $504.2 million, the government announced Thursday, bringing the total reimbursements from a Department of Justice fund to $1.3 billion. The money will be sent...

Newsweek, under investigation by the Manhattan district attorney's office, has fired several top editors and reporters.

Newsweek fires editor-in-chief, deputy editor and 3 reporters in possible retaliation for negative coverage

December 15, 2018 at 1:00 a.m.

Chaos roiled the Newsweek offices Monday with the firings of the editor-in-chief, his number two and three reporters — possibly in retaliation for their unfavorable coverage of the company.Johnathan Davis,...

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