New Orleans threw a party 100 years ago this week to celebrate the arrival of Itema, Audubon Zoo’s first elephant. She was ...
Queens and Staten Island merged with New York City. The Bronx Zoo opened. The inventor of basketball, Dr. James Naismith, was ...
A 33-year-old man was fatally shot in the chest during an argument inside a Bronx apartment early Saturday, police said. Cops called to a Bivona St. apartment near Boston Road in Baychester ...
In the late 1960s, long-haired, beaded and tie-dyed flower children brought their drugs, incense, guitars and peace symbols to South Florida. Hippies had finally reached Miami. Coconut Grove ...
The fire broke out around 11:50 p.m. on the third floor of the three-story building on Beaumont Avenue near Grote Street in Belmont, about two blocks from the Bronx Zoo, the FDNY said. The man ...
Jack Jones, a singer who found fame and chart success on the easy-listening side of the street in the 1960s, and who later became etched in television-watching America’s psyche with the “Love ...
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Colorado’s highest court is considering whether five zoo elephants can challenge their confinement under a ...
BELMONT, Bronx (WABC) -- A lithium-ion battery caused a deadly apartment fire in the Belmont section of the Bronx. A resident was hanging out of his window when firefighters arrived at the ...
Ron Ely, the tall, musclebound actor who played the title character in the 1960s NBC series “Tarzan,” has died. He was 86. Ely’s daughter, Kirsten Casale Ely, told the Associated Press on ...