A New York school principal is being accused of lifting his congratulatory message to graduating seniors and in the process, accidentally congratulating the wrong school. In a printed yearbook message to Roosevelt High School Class of 2014, Principal Dr. Steven Strachan delivered almost the exact same message as California Principal Dr. Ted Barone presented to Albany High School graduates in 2013. And Strachan even ends his message by congratulating Albany…
An upcoming documentary will look at the life and career of Julius Erving, on the 30th anniversary of his only NBA championship. “The Doctor” will air on NBA TV on June 10, between games of the NBA Finals. The 90-minute program features rare footage from his ABA career. Dr. J later came to the NBA and helped the Philadelphia 76ers win the 1983 title. One of basketball’s best-known high flyers, the Hall…
Suffolk County Sheriff’s deputies in Long Island, NY raided the home of Sandra Russell, 26, and Steve McDaniel, 29, earlier this month and arrested them for running a prostitution and drug ring. Instead of paying the prostitutes in cash, the duo paid them in heroin. McDaniel, the mastermind behind the prostitution ring, prepared Russell a list containing rules for running the crime smoothly. He titled the rules “Rules 2 Da…
Their Facebook page for the “Beautiful and Bald Barbie” campaign had won about 50,000 fans by Thursday — more “likes” than Mattel’s corporate page. New Jersey photographer Jane Bingham helped kick it off in December after reading about a 4-year-old Long Island girl who received a one-of-a-kind hairless Barbie from Mattel. Bingham, 41, lost her own hair while fighting non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma last year and noticed her 9-year-old, Belleliana,…