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Dark Skies, Bright Streaks: Perseid Meteor Shower Starts With Spectacular Peak Coming
A stunning spectacle is beginning to stir just as the summer night sky offers a timely assist.
The moon turns new on Tuesday, July 14, creating dark conditions as Earth enters the outer edge of the Perseid meteor shower's debris stream, according to Space.com. A few early streaks could become visible that night.
The shower's formal activity period runs from Friday, July 17, through Monday, Aug. 24, the International Meteor Organization said. Rates will begin to rise slowly over the coming weeks.
The main event is expected overnight from Wednesday, Aug. 12, into Thursday, Aug. 13. That afte…
LI Powerlifter’s Social Media Flexes Exposed $100K Disability Fraud: Authorities
A Long Island powerlifter bilked more than $100,000 through disability payments while competing in professional competitions, authorities said.
Raymond Phillips, 40, of Huntington Station, pulled off the fraud between 2021 and 2024, the New York Attorney General’s office said.
Phillips said he suffered a serious injury while weightlifting in 2018, rendering him unable to work or perform routine activities without help, investigators said. He applied for state disability payments and was approved in May 2021, according to authorities.
But by 2021, Phillips was perfectly capable of working a…
Help Pours In After Fatal Crash Kills CT Dad, Critically Injures Local Musician
In the weeks following a devastating Hudson Valley, NY motorcycle crash that both killed a beloved father and critically injured a popular local musician from Connecticut, community members have raised over $100,000 to make sure their families receive the help they need.
The crash, which happened at around 11:30 a.m. on Monday, June 29, on Route 22 near 5761 Route 22 in the Dutchess County town of North East, killed Morris, CT resident Tim Nurnberg and severely injured CT-based blues musician Eran Troy Danner.
As previously reported by Daily Voice, a vehicle colli…
Killer Who Strangled NY Native On Euro Trip Learns His Fate: Authorities
The killer who strangled a New York native to death during an “intimate encounter” while she was on vacation in Europe has learned his fate, authorities said.
The suspect — a 38-year-old man identified only by his initials LTM under Hungarian law — was sentenced Tuesday, July 7 to 14 years in prison for the killing of Mackenzie Michalski in Budapest, the Associated Press reported.
Michalski, 31, was visiting Budapest when she met the man, an Ireland native, inside a nightclub, authorities said. The two returned to the man’s rented apartment, where he strangled her to death, according to inv…
