John Collado, the Inwood man shot and killed by police on Wednesday, was not an alleged drug dealer as suggested in the headline. Collado had intervened in the arrest of a neighbor, who police believed was dealing drugs, when he was shot. Report an error
The Daily News mistakenly identified a photograph of a West Babylon, L.I., home in the April 17 edition as the last known residence of Amber Lynn Costello, a prostitute who was a victim of a suspected serial killer. The picture was of a neighboring home. The News regrets the error. Link Report an error
A PHOTOGRAPH that accompanied a story in yesterday's Daily News was not of the massage therapist Shannon O'Toole, but of a different woman, an author also named Shannon O'Toole, who wrote "Wedded to the Game: The Real Lives of NFL Women." That book, published by the University of Nebraska press in 2006, is a nonfiction [...]
A STORY IN yesterday's Daily News about cocaine possession charges against rapper Kid Cudi inaccurately stated that he had pleaded guilty. In fact, he was granted an adjournment in contemplation of dismissal, subject to completion of two days of community service. If he completes the service and stays out of trouble in the next six [...]
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The Daily News reported Monday that 44-year-old Brooklyn murder victim Anthony Blair, who was stabbed to death on Sunday, had multiple arrests on his record. Blair has never been arrested. Report an error
I placed a link to this remarkable Slate story on the What I’m Reading sidebar on this site last week. Now the New York Daily News has finally responded to the evidence uncovered by Slate. The News published this correction on Friday: AN AUG. 23 Daily News story by a freelance reporter about the hip-hop [...]
AN ARTICLE IN Tuesday’s Daily News incorrectly stated that former Tyco chief executive Dennis Kozlowski was a substance abuser when he defrauded his company and investors. There is no credible evidence to support that statement. The story also misstated the amount of money involved in Kozlowski’s fraud on Tyco. It was $156 million. He also [...]
A photo in yesterday’s Daily News is incorrectly identified as that of Matias Reyes, the man who claims he raped a jogger in Central Park in 1989. The photo actually shows Yusef Salaam, who was imprisoned in the attack, but later cleared of the rape. He denies involvement in the crime. The News regrets the [...]
An item in Mitch Lawrence’s “Slam Dunks” on Sunday stated that agent Jeff Schwartz financed a conditioning camp in California attended last summer by Oklahoma’s Blake Griffin. The item should have stated that this was only an allegation and that there was no proof of the allegation. The Daily News regrets any misunderstanding this item [...]
An article published on the New York Daily News’ website stole two paragraphs and two quotes from a story published on the front page of the San Antonio Express-News. Bob Richter, the Express-News public editor, described the theft on his blog: An editor at nydailynews.com, the Web site of the New York Daily News, acknowledged [...]
A Queens hairstylist is suing the New York Daily News after the paper twice identified her as the woman accused of helping run a prostitution service allegedly patronized by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer. In two stories from last week, the paper published a photo of Bojana Vuleta and identified her as Kristin Davis, [...]
A PHOTO IN Sunday’s Daily News incorrectly identified a member of the Newburgh Free Academy swim team as Michael Mele, a person of interest in the disappearance of Laura Garza. The young man circled in the picture is not Mele. Report an error
A story in yesterday’s Daily News incorrectly reported that city Board of Elections employee Valerie Vazquez-Rivera is the former wife of City Councilman Joel Rivera. They are still married. Report an error
AN AUG. 3 article about the partnership of Jamie Masada and Richard Basciano in the Laugh Factory mistakenly reported that Basciano’s brother is the former Bonanno crime family boss known as “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano, who is serving a life sentence for murder. In fact, the two are not brothers. The News regrets the error. Report [...]
Earlier this morning, a story on the New York Daily News’ website reported that New York Rangers forward Sean Avery “was rushed to a Manhattan hospital Wednesday morning in cardiac arrest just hours after his team’s playoff loss.” The story also reported that Avery was “unconscious and not breathing.” The information was attributed to “sources” [...]
A CAPTION in some editions of yesterday’s Daily News incorrectly identified a photograph of Detective Sgt. Fred Santoro of the NYPD’s Organized Crime Investigations Division (above) as Frank Santoro, a defendant in a Bronx murder case. The News regrets the error. Report an error
THE NEWS mistakenly reported yesterday that former ESPN anchor Rich Eisen and his wife divorced after Philly newswoman Alycia Lane sent him racy photos. It is Lane who is divorced. *Correction: The headline on this post originally misspelled “wrongly” and “Eisen.” We regret the errors. Thanks, Jay! Report an error
Some portions of an article about Hollywood romantic comedies (Boy meets girl: it always ends in tears, Screen, May 10) should have been attributed to Joe Neumaier in a New York Daily News article on the same subject from January 28, 2007. We regret the error Link And Joe Neumaier agrees this is plagiarism. He [...]
IN AN ITEM in yesterday’s paper on how Kirstie Alley lost 75 pounds, it was incorrectly stated that she “ate . . . Twenty-six, seven, eight thousand calories a day.” The correct figures are six, seven, eight thousand calories a day. Report an error
