A gunman who wounded a police officer in the leg after a brief car chase shot himself to death, the Albany police chief said Thursday, and was not killed by the officer’s returning fire as police initially implied.Autopsy results showed that Amiel Layeni, 28, “died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head,” Chief Eric Hawkins said at a news conference.Police released some of a recording from Officer Jonathan Damphier’s body-worn camera, showing him breaking off a chase of a speeding car through a neighborhood. Damphier then spots the same car. As he approaches it, Layeni emerges from behind the…

The NCIS Universe is constantly expanding — and fans have become enthralled with the original cast and the spinoff actors’ romances, both on and off screen. NCIS debuted in 2003 as a backdoor pilot for JAG, which ran from 1995 to 2005. NCIS, which originally starred Mark Harmon as Leroy Jethro Gibbs, entered season 21 in February 2024. Thanks to the addition of spinoffs, including NCIS: New Orleans, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: Hawai’i and NCIS: Sydney, the NCIS franchise reached 1,000 total episodes in April 2024. While viewers are constantly rooting for their favorite characters to find love — we’re…

Adam Fox, who won the Norris Trophy in 2020-21 and finished as runner-up in the balloting last year, may not get a first-place vote for the award this season after falling out of the conversation within the opening month of the season when the defensemen was sidelined for 10 games after taking a leg-on-leg hit from Carolina’s Sebastian Aho on Nov. 1. It didn’t particularly matter that Fox had started the year playing the best hockey of his career. Vancouver’s Quinn Hughes had already established himself the shiniest new toy vying for the Norris. The specter of Cale Makar is…

Gov. Kathy Hochul won support from state lawmakers to create a waterfront commission to fight the kind of mob corruption made famous in Marlon Brando’s 1954 flick “On the Waterfront.” Hochul beat back objections from the dock workers’ union to push through a new unit to replace the Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor — a joint venture with New Jersey that Garden State Gov. Phil Murphy pulled out of last year. Murphy knocked the bi-state agency, founded in 1953, saying it was a relic that was weighed down by bureacracy and impeding port business. Jersey state police now oversee the…

Missouri lawmakers on Thursday passed a bill to expand private school scholarships statewide, an effort made possible by extensive compromises including a commitment to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on public schools.The GOP-led House voted with a bare-minimum margin of 82-69 to send the measure to Republican Gov. Mike Parson. If signed, it would offer up to $6,375 per child for expenses including tuition, textbooks, tutoring, transportation, extracurriculars and summer school.The bill’s passage is a victory for advocates who have struggled for years to expand access to charter schools, virtual schools and private schools in Missouri. Worries about…

A hack that caused a small Texas town’s water system to overflow in January has been linked to a shadowy Russian hacktivist group, the latest case of a U.S. public utility becoming a target of foreign cyberattacks.The attack was one of three on small towns in the rural Texas Panhandle. Local officials said the public was not put in any danger and the attempts were reported to federal authorities.TEXAS FARMING CRISIS LOOMS AS US, MEXICO SPAR OVER LONG-STANDING WATER TREATY”There were 37,000 attempts in four days to log into our firewall,” said Mike Cypert, city manager of Hale Center, which…

Derek Hough and wife Hayley Erbert are back in action! Hough, 38, and Erbert, 29, showed off their moves in coordinated sparkly outfits during the Wednesday, April 17, performance of Hough’s Symphony of Dance Tour in Hollywood, Florida. Hough wore a shimmery silver jacket over dress pants and a collared shirt while dancing hand in hand with Erbert, who dazzled in a short sleeveless dress with fringe and stomach cutouts. Erbert made her triumphant return to the tour on Sunday, April 14, as the 2024 portion of the tour kicked off in Melbourne, Florida. Her comeback came four months after…

That didn’t take long, did it? So now what? Anyone have a copy of the plan? My guess is there will be no changes, no effort to rid or even reduce leagues-partnered gambling as there’s too much money to be vacuumed from the jeans of self-imagined slick young fans, especially via parlay bets, the big-payoffs super-sucker bets the leagues’ bookies sell hardest for that cynical reason. The reason singles tennis became the most suspicious international sport is that it took only one player to attach the con to the piracy, making for a one-pronged conspiracy. Even for sports execs who…

Chinese-linked hackers have snooped around critical US infrastructure and have put themselves in a position to attack at “the right moment,” FBI director Christopher Wray ominously warned. Speaking at the 2024 Vanderbilt Summit on Modern Conflict and Emerging Threats, Wray underscored that the bureau and other federal authorities have been scrambling behind the scenes to counter the threat, which he said is “upon us now.” “The PRC [People’s Republic of China] has made it clear that it considers every sector that makes our society run as fair game in its bid to dominate on the world stage,” Wray claimed. “[China’s]…

LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The leader of Iraq will travel to Michigan on Thursday following a sit-down with President Joe Biden to meet with the state’s large Iraqi community and update them on escalating tensions in the Middle East following Iran’s weekend aerial assault on Israel.Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani’s trip to both Washington and Michigan to discuss U.S.-Iraq relations had been planned well before Saturday’s drone and missile launches from Iran-backed groups. The visit has been thrust into the spotlight as tensions in the region escalate following the strike, which included drone and missile launches that overflew Iraqi…