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Rude awakening: Couple wakes up to car slamming into NYC home, driver flees

A ‘boom’ in the middle of the night. Now uncertainty. Couple tries to figure out what’s next after hit-run driver blasts their home. Updated 3:22 PM; Today 3:22 PM Neighbors gathered Monday near a Willowbrook home, where hours earlier a driver crashed into the building and fled the scene. (Staten Island Advance/Kyle Lawson) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — It was just after 12:30 a.m. when a Willowbrook couple heard a “boom.” “My first impression was that someone was breaking into the house,” said Yardena Rothschild, 66, whose has lived on Fields Avenue for more than 20 ...

Pillar of the community, Aurora James, known to friends and family as Irma, died on March 31. Mrs James, who had lived on the Blackbird Leys estate for 55 years, was well-known in the community for her charity work. She began volunteering for the Sailors’ Society in 1988 after her late husband Eli James encouraged her to become a fundraiser.  She said back in 2018, when she was celebrating 30 years of volunteering for the charity: “I knew nothing about Sailors’ Society - Eli gave me the push to do it. “Old age is getting the better of me but for them, and for my husband, I ...

IRONTON — A South Point area man was sentenced Wednesday in Lawrence County Common Pleas Court to three years in prison by Judge Andy Ballard.