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Mardi gras is here. you dont have to take my word for it. the place seems to be pked as locals and visitors alike take over the streets of the city to celebrate fat tuesday. there we go. thats a float in the rex parade. along with more than a million visitors, the big easy is seeing the typical epic costumes, parades and yes, lots and lots of beads. and king cake. well, heres something that wouldnt be weird in new orleans, but i doubt visitors to this new york city park had spotting an alligator...

The first week of games will be rescheduled as double headers and then will be postponed, double headers this year will last a full nine innings. and also no more ghost runner. the regular season will be extended by three days to allow all of the days to be made up. and with the freeze on roster transactions lifted last night, we can expect a free agent frenzy over the coming days. along with a wave of speculation about new homes for players like carlos correa, freddy freeman and more than 100 f...

As for new york states vaccine mandate for all healthcare workers, a panel of three federal judges ruled healthcare workers can be exempt from the vaccine mandate for religious reasons. at least for now. this is a temporary ruling until the judges meet again in two weeks. governor is standing by the states vaccine mandate for healthcare workers noting vaccine rates jumped at least 10% in the last month. 87% of new york hospital staff are now fully vaccinated. >> let people know this is not somet...

Say, in an ideal world, they would share with the southern district. ill tell you firsthand, theres a long history of rivalry, eastern district is brooklyn, queens, long island, southern district is manhattan and bronx. we dont always play nicely together, sdny, we used to have turf battles with them all the time. the better way to do it is to share information. if brooklyn, eastern district finds information thats incriminating to rudy ha shows he was working on fwbehalf of ukraine, i would hop...

Mueller brought these charges that he probably knew he would never be able to make arrests on. its important that we know. the other thing is you dont know where an investigation is going to lead. the eastern district could well find information thats incriminating to rudy giuliani. if so, by the way, i want to say, in an ideal world, they would share with the southern district. however, ill tell you firsthand, theres a long history of rivalry. its a new york rivalry. eastern district is brookly...

Image zoom | Credit: Courtesy of Mario Rigby Few people would relish being told where they can and cant go. But that was the reality for African Americans living in the Jim Crow era. From 1936 to 1966,  The Negro Motorist Green Book and subsequent titles helped keep Black travelers and their families safe, with warnings about "sundown towns," where people of color could face intimidation an...

Id like to say theres many different things. right now the 10th anniversary. theres documentaries left and right, and i think the more, the better. but what we did is different. its not a better. what we did is not a documentary. its roger smith, one man, on a stage, giving a whole history of who rodney king was. a lot of people dont know who he was. he got beat up and along. thats it. he has a whole life. >> thats right. >> thats what rogers piece gets to. it infos us who this individual was. >...

Another deputy went to talk to mr. spell and said if you dont calm down we will have to put you in a restraint chair. were spell, first time i ever heard this from an inmate, wanted to go into the restraint chair so we obliged him. >> spell neither denies nor recalls requesting the chair. but says he didnt enjoy being confined to it. >> they put me in a hard black plastic chair and strapped me down in it with my hands cuffed behind my back and everything. that just made it worse because i was fr...

>> the jail, however, has offered her a very different opportunity, a spot on the 28 day long substance abuse program but for day its not an easy decision. >> i know it would help me. its just my pride. i dont know if i would be able to let myself do that. its just the fact that people would know, probably all of my family would know where is brooklyn? she is in a rehab. that would be embarrassing to have to say to anyone. coming up -- jack spell and brooklyn day step outside the rules to crea...

>> well, i really never, ever would have thought that i would be going through this. i didnt even think that i had a problem until i was here and sober and able to realize that. >> brooklyn was a big concern for us when she first came in. for a little girl, brooklyn had been taking a lot of crazy drugs and her life was very chaotic. brooklyn has been able to move to a place where she understands that she has a problem and that she is an addict. and thats not easy for someone at 18 years old. >> ...