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Minnesota Timberwolves guard Malik Beasley and his Instagram model wife Montana Yao are now facing felony charges related to a September incident, in which the NBA player allegedly pointed an automatic rifle at car containing a family in an idling car near his rental house. According to a Hennepin County Attorney's Office press release, Beasley and Yao were both charged with fifth-degree drug possession after the police found nearly two pounds of marijuana at the scene. Beasley is also charged with felony threats of violence. Beasley will make his first court appearance November 19, while Yao's first appearance is scheduled for December 29.  On September 26, a couple was on a 'Parade of Homes' tour in Plymouth, Minnesota with their 13-year-old child when they inadvertently pulled up to a roped-off property being rented by Beasley. As they decided to look for another home to view, a man matching Beasley's description allegedly tapped a gun against their car window a

A black female police officer has been named the NYPD's new Chief of Patrol, making her the highest-ranking woman in the department's 175 year history.  Juanita Holmes was officially appointed to the powerful position Thursday, during a press conference held by Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Police Commissioner Dermot Shea.  Holmes will now be charged with overseeing more than 22,000 uniformed NYPD officers across 77 precincts.  Holmes' appointment comes at a tumultuous time for the NYPD, who are battling budget cuts, soaring rates of violent crime and widespread anti-police protests.  Speaking to the media following her appointment, Holmes pleaded for calm and pledged to help cops and communities come together.    'We have to bring those communities into our world, sit down and go back to the drawing board and get it right,' she stated.  Juanita Holmes was officially named NYPD's new Chief of Patrol on Thursday  Holmes has more than 30 years of policing experi

The father of one of the Rhodes parasailing victims said his family were 'put through four hours of misery' by doctors before being told the heartbreaking news of their deaths. Cousins Jessica Hayes, 15, and Michael Connelly, 13, died when a terrifying storm blew up off the coast of Rhodes causing the rope fastening them to a speedboat to snap. Michael's brother James, 15, was critically injured in the incident. Jessica's father Tony, from Kettering, paid tribute to his 'beautiful' daughter as he criticised medics for their response to the tragedy. Jessica Hayes, 15, died in Rhodes after a horrific parasailing accident, alongside her cousin Michael Connelly, 13 Pictured from left to right in a photograph from 2012: Jessica Hayes, James and Michael Connelly Speaking from the hospital, he told The Sun how the family were sitting on the beach when the children went parasailing, and they only learned of the accident second hand. Tony said the hotel didn't say an

Public schools in Los Angeles will not reopen their campuses for in-person learning anytime before at least January because COVID-19 infection rates are unlikely to fall quickly enough, it has been reported. The heads of the LA Unified School District told the Los Angeles Times on Wednesday that even if infection rates dropped to an acceptable level, it would be too disruptive to switch from virtual instruction so close to the end of the fall semester. ‘If you look at a calendar, it would be difficult to do,’ said Board of Education President Richard Vladovic. ‘I think best-case scenario is there’ll be some form of return in January, whatever that is.’ Heather Hernandez teaches her students about social distancing outside the classroom as roughly 40 students returned to St. Maria Goretti Catholic School in Long Beach, California, for in-person instruction on Monday. The school was the first in virus-ravaged LA County to receive a waiver to reopen for in-person instruction up to second

A mutated strain of coronavirus that originated in Spain may be the culprit behind Europe's catastrophic second wave, a study has claimed. An international team of scientists tracking the virus as it spreads and evolves, said the variant, called 20A.EU1, is behind 90 per cent of cases in the UK since summer.  Every virus mutation has its own genetic signature, which means they can be traced back to the place they originated.  The experts tracked 20A.EU1 back to a farm in northern Spain in June and believe it raced through the continent as holidaymakers returned over summer, when there was a lull in transmission and lockdowns were eased. It raises questions about whether the spiralling second wave - which is forcing European nations to retreat back into national shutdowns - could have been averted by improved screening at airports and borders. The scientists believe the strain is also behind 80 per cent of infections in Spain, 60 per cent in Ireland and up to 40 per cent in Switzerl

The number of bus passenger journeys in England fell by 238million in the year ending March 31, figures show. The total of 4.07billion journeys was a 5.5 per cent reduction on the previous 12 months. The Department for Transport said the fall can 'largely be attributed' to the coronavirus pandemic. The number of bus passenger journeys in England fell by 238 million in the year ending March 31, figures show Although the national lockdown did not begin until March 23, bus companies 'started seeing declines in journeys in the preceding weeks', the DfT added. Bus fares increased by 2.5 per cent in the year to March 31. This is steeper than the Consumer Prices Index measure of inflation, which was 1.5 per cent. Graham Vidler, chief executive of the Confederation of Passenger Transport, which represents the bus industry, said: 'This drop in passenger numbers reflects that in the weeks before lockdown we had already begun to see people deciding to travel less as a result

A former associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is expected to plead guilty to charges for conspiring to defraud investors and make illegal campaign contributions on Thursday.  David Correia is scheduled to appear at a change-of-plea hearing via video in Manhattan federal court, indicating that he intends to switch his plea from not guilty to guilty. If it occurs as planned, Correia would become the first conviction among four men charged last year with using straw donors to make illegal contributions to politicians they thought could aid their political and business interests. In September, an updated indictment charged Correia and co-defendant Lev Parnas with defrauding investors in the business they founded together, Fraud Guarantee.  A superseding indictment also charged Correia with additional campaign finance violations.  David Correia, former associate of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani is expected to plead guilty to ch

Kyle Larson will be back in NASCAR next season driving the flagship No. 5 Chevrolet for Hendrick Motorsports following a turbulent year in which he was suspended for using a racial slur during a live broadcast. Larson signed a multi-year contract Wednesday with Hendrick that ended his seven-month banishment from NASCAR for using the n-word while playing an online racing game last spring. He'd been considered the top pending free agent in the sport but was promptly fired by Chip Ganassi Racing and lost all his sponsors. Since using the slur on April 12, Larson has completed NASCAR's sensitivity training, hired an inclusion training coach, volunteered with the Tony Sanneh Foundation, visited Jackie Joyner-Kersee and her St. Louis community center, and the site of the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, that followed a fatal police shooting of a Black man. Larson has volunteered at food banks, went with Sanneh to the George Floyd Memorial site in Minneapolis, spent extensive time