Rajon Grant, 43, was also charged with endangering the welfare of a child and issued a six-month order of protection as the boy lay in a medically-induced coma at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, where anxious family members awaited news about his fate.
Philip Smith, powerhouse Broadway executive, dies at 89 of COVID Tim Balk
Philip Smith, the beloved Brooklyn-born theater enthusiast who climbed from movie usher to the chair of the Shubert Organization, the largest Broadway theater company, died Friday at a Manhattan hospital. He was 89.
The cause of Smith’s death at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center was complications of COVID-19, said Bill Evans, a spokesperson for Shubert.
Smith, a burly Broadway powerhouse, retired in June after more than two decades as the president of Shubert and more than 60 years in the New York theater world.
He said the coronavirus crisis, which shuttered the Theater District in March, created a natural time for him to step down from his perch at the company, which operates 17 Broadway theaters. Robert Wankel succeeded him as Shubert’s chair.
Published January 07. 2021 10:33PM
Paulina Firozi, The Washington Post
As angry rioters and supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol in a last stand for the outgoing president Wednesday, the violence overshadowed a deadly day across the nation as the coronavirus pandemic continued its surge.
A record 3,915 people died of covid-19 in the United States, the deadliest day of a pandemic that has claimed more than 360,000 lives across the country. A record 251,646 new coronavirus cases were reported, about 16,000 more cases than the Wednesday before, according to a Washington Post analysis. More than 132,000 are battling covid-19, the illness that can be caused by the virus, in hospital beds.