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Cops said Barbara Heller accidentally fell from an apartment window to the sidewalk below, where workers were uloading produce in front of a market.(snip) Heller said his former wife landed on a plastic storage bin that jutted out from a first-floor ledge on the E. 81st St. building before dropping onto the boxes of produce.(snip) "She hadn’t been feeling well and she was having trouble breathing,” said Blue, who said Heller has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. “She wanted to get some air so I opened the window for her about a foot. She opened it the rest of the...

A federal court of appeals in New York on Monday moved a step closer to unsealing documents that could reveal new evidence in the case of Jeffrey Epstein, who’s been accused of being part of an international sex trafficking operation. A three-judge panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals gave the parties until March 29 to argue their case that the documents detailing the alleged international sex trafficking operation should remain sealed. The evidence will be made public unless the lawyers make a convincing argument, the panel said, according to the Miami Herald. An unusual coalition of media organizations, a...

Toogood Reports [Weekender, January 26, 2003; 12:01 a.m. EST]URL: http://ToogoodReports.com/ As neoconservatives have constantly reminded us in the affirmative action debate, Martin Luther King Jr. argued for people to be judged based on the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin. Hence, they say, 'Martin would have opposed affirmative action; you do the same.' Enter journalist Leonard Greene. Writing on January 20, when Martin Luther King Day was celebrated this year, in "Listen to His Whole Message," Greene argued that King actually supported affirmative action. Now, I knew that King supported affirmative action by the time...