Everything isn’t karate fighting, NBC. The network posted a clip on its Olympics Facebook and YouTube pages on Saturday, promoting karate in the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo for the first time. The only problem is, the video has nothing to do with karate — the martial artists are showcasing taekwondo. The Korean martial arts have been included in the Olympics since 2000. On NBC Sport’s YouTube clip, the taekwondo demonstration is described as “insane karate stunts.” NBC posted a clip of a taekwondo demonstration to promote karate in the 2020 Olympics. (NBC Olympic Facebook) The clips are really from

An Alabama criminal defense attorney is going to need to lawyer up after officers busted him for allegedly trafficking methamphetamine. Officers arrested John Fisher Jr., a Tuscaloosa defense attorney, on Friday after learning about a suspicious backpack drop. West Alabama Narcotics Task Force agents then saw a second man arrive and pick up the backpack, which was believed to be holding components of a methamphetamine lab. The agents tailed Fisher Jr. and Christopher Rushing to the same block as the attorney’s law office, taking the two into custody. Utah police bust man carrying $2 million of methamphetamine Officers searched the

Three people are dead, including a former aide to Gov. Cuomo, and a 10-year-old boy is in critical condition, after a horrific three-car crash Sunday on the Long Island Expressway. Carmelo Pinales, 28, was driving a gray Subaru Outback east on the expressway near Exit 68 in Manorville, possibly speeding, when he crossed the grassy median at 9:35 a.m. and went airborne, launching into a Honda and BMW going in the opposite direction, Suffolk County police said. Pinales and his sister, Patricia, 27, died at the scene, and a helicopter airlifted his 10-year-old son, Christopher, to Stony Brook University Hospital

ALBANY — A proposal to revive a lucrative affordable housing tax credit for developers by providing government wage subsidies for the workers they hire is being blasted by business groups, non-profit providers and economic experts. In order to jump-start talks involving the expired 421-a tax credit, the Cuomo administration has suggested the possibility of creating a two-tiered minimum wage for housing projects, with the state reimbursing part of the costs. E.J. McMahon, president of the Empire Center for Public Policy, said such a plan would be a double-whammy for taxpayers who would be on the hook for funding the tax

Police on Sunday announced two city employees had been arrested, including a housing employee who was caught with an open liquor bottle and a lit joint at a NYCHA building. Robert Magas, 23, was found with an open bottle of Hennessy cognac, a smoking marijuana cigarette, a bag of weed and a bag allegedly containing two OxyContin pills at the Tompkins Houses on Tomkins Ave. near Floyd St. in Bedford-Stuyvesant shortly before 10 p.m. on Saturday, police said. It was not clear if he was working at the time or if he was assigned to that housing development. Magas was

Jewish and black Brooklynites called for continued peace and unity on the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights riots Sunday — though the absence of one prominent guest showed some divisions remain. Norman Rosenbaum, whose brother Yankel Rosenbaum was stabbed to death by a block mob chanting “get the Jew!” did not attend the One Crown Heights event amid a debate over whether the goings-on were too festive. Carmel Cato lit a candle in honor of his 7-year-old son whose death on Aug. 19, 1991 sparked three days of violence in the neighborhood, but chose not to address the crowd.

A man who appeared intoxicated died after falling onto an Upper East Side subway track early Sunday, police said. The straphanger, whose name was not released, was struck by a southbound No. 6 train as it entered the E. 86th St./Lexington Ave. station just before 6 a.m., officials said. He died at the scene. Witnesses told police the man was stumbling around on the platform before falling in onto the tracks. Send a Letter to the Editor Join the Conversation: facebook Tweet Source link Shares FacebookTwitterGoogle+Pinterest

The federal Department of Homeland Security must investigate the response to a shots fired scare at Kennedy Airport that sparked chaos last week, Sen. Chuck Schumer said Sunday. “The panic and chaos that ensued from the ‘shots fired’ scare at JFK last week raises very disturbing questions about the state of preparedness and coordination of response if — heaven forbid — a real attack were to occur,” said Schumer (D-NY). Calls to 911 last Sunday night reporting shots fired at the airport turned out to be unfounded. Sen. Chuck Schumer said that last week’s “shots fired” scare at Kennedy Airport

Back to work. President Obama will return to the White House Sunday night after a 16-day family vacation in Martha’s Vineyard, Mass., to finish out the last five months of his presidency in typically busy fashion. On the agenda immediately is a Tuesday trip to Baton Rouge, La., to survey damage from flooding that killed at least 13 people and forced thousands into shelters. In coming days and weeks he is also expected to press Congress hard for money to protect against the Zika virus and to go on a public relations blitz regarding attacks over the administration’s $400 million

A 56-year-old Pennsylvania man died after he jumped off a cruise ship in Queens early Sunday, officials said. The man, of Strasburg, Pa., leapt from the Skyline Princess ship into the Flushing Bay near 110th St. in College Point just after 2 a.m., police said. The ship’s crew managed to get him back onboard by the time the NYPD’s Harbor Patrol arrived, police said. He was taken to Flushing Hospital where he died. His name was withheld pending family notification. The medical examiner will determine the cause of death.  Tags: queens nypd Send a Letter to the Editor Join the