It didn’t take. Last week Sammy the Bull was back in jail. After a seven-month undercover investigation, local and federal authorities charged Gravano with helping to run a multimillion-dollar drug ring in Arizona and New Mexico. Police say the 54-year-old Gravano and several associates dominated the regional market in ecstasy, a hallucinogen popular among teens and college students. Each week their network of distributors and dealers allegedly sold as many as 25,000 pills, mostly in dance clubs....

Eats: For French food, nothing beats the recently reopened Les Amis (lesamis.com.sg), although the soon to be opened Les Saveurs at the St Regis hotel, where I recently ate at a “preview lunch”, will be a strong competitor. I highly recommend the duck-leg-confit wrap and grebiche sauce and the wild mushroom veloutee with baby scallops and green apple. These two dishes had an entire table of journalists raving about them!...

Booker tweeted his support of the Stanford women’s team, who squared off against Pac-12 foe Arizona in the national championship game Sunday night in San Antonio. “I celebrate the hard work of every athlete who participated in #MarchMadness, especially @StanfordWBB. But we can’t lose sight of the greater struggle for justice for these athletes—the NCAA must change and allow these athletes to share in the profits they helped create,” Booker wrote....

This afternoon in New York, Lidle was doing just that, but at 2:42 p.m. something went terribly wrong. He crashed his four-seat Cirrus SR20 aircraft into a high-rise apartment building in Manhattan’s Upper East Side neighborhood, killing him and one other passenger. Lidle’s passport was found at the crash scene. Authorities say that all indications point to an unfortunate accident. Lidle is survived by his wife, Melanie, and a son, Christopher....

What do I mean by that? People around the country know Cosby well, but they likely don’t understand the level of veneration he previously received in Philadelphia. Cosby made his home in the area and was the public face of his alma mater, Temple University; he was as ubiquitous as cheesesteaks and soft pretzels. Before he was “America’s Dad,” Cosby was unmistakably Philadelphia’s hometown hero. And it’s here in Montgomery County, just north of Philadelphia, that Cosby was first accused of sexual assault back in 2005 by a single victim....

What Is LASIK Surgery? LASIK first came into being in 1989 when an ophthalmologist, Gholam A. Peyman, was granted a patent on his procedure for the correction of vision. Eyeglasses and contact lenses work by bending, or refracting, light. LASIK surgery instead reshapes the dome-shaped cornea by correcting for refraction and vision. LASIK surgery involves creating and pulling back a flap on the cornea and then using an excimer laser to reshape the tissue underneath before laying the flap back down....

Under a new conference rule, effective with the 2016-17 academic year, schools can be fined for fans rushing the field in football or the court in basketball before a 60-second cooling-off period meant to allow visiting teams not to get caught up in celebrations. CU fans streamed onto the playing surface at Folsom Field after Saturday’s victory over Utah clinched the Buffs’ first Pac-12 Championship berth. MORE: Colorado moves up in CFP rankings...

Agent: I’ve discussed Courtois with Real Costa has had two spells at Atletico already and was particularly successful between 2012 and 2014 under Diego Simeone, helping the Madrid team to La Liga and also the Champions League final before a move to Stamford Bridge. The Brazil-born forward, who now represents Spain at international level, has won two Premier League titles in his three seasons at Chelsea, but recently revealed he had been told by Blues boss Antonio Conte that he is not in the Italian’s plans for the 2017-18 season....

A recent report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) states that there is slightly more than a 50-50 chance that the climatological phenomenon known as La Niña will linger into the summer months. But will that have any implications on the coming Atlantic hurricane season — and if so, how? Forecasters actively monitor the sea surface temperature trends near the equator in the central and eastern parts of the Pacific Ocean, as these water temperatures have a significant bearing on the weather patterns across the globe....

So deep that it might need someone like Connor Shaw, the winningest quarterback in school history, to dig it out. MORE: SN Week 4 picks | Ranking the conferences Maybe that someone has arrived. Freshman Lorenzo Nunez will take over at quarterback Saturday when the Gamecocks (1-2) play host to UCF. Nunez will be the first true freshman to start for South Carolina since 1999 (Mikal Goodman) and the first to start for Spurrier since Jesse Palmer at Florida in 1997....

The condition is called text neck, Smartphone neck, and iPhone neck. Note: These are not official medical diagnoses. All refer to posture problems in the cervical spine that are created by prolonged use of a cell phone, tablet, or similar handheld electronic device. Using small electronic devices generally means you spend a lot of time with your head bent forward. The problem is—this head action actually takes place in your neck....

No matter what’s happening elsewhere, that’s why nobody should fade Seattle as a Super Bowl contender. Seattle is 1-1 — actually a game better than it started last season season, a year in which it still finished 10-6 and got to the NFC divisional playoffs. Yet, because everyone tends to look at everything offense-first in the NFL, there’s a major freak-out over a team that’s scored only 15 points over two weeks — the same that averaged more than 26 per game last season....

In particular, nations where the U.S. has pushed democracy or offered election advice have weighed in, while many have pointed to the history of American involvement in regime change abroad. Governments that have been criticized in the past took the opportunity to chide the U.S. “Who’s the banana republic now?” asked Colombia’s Publimetro daily newspaper on its front page, according to the Associated Press. The headline was accompanied by a photo of a man wearing a mask printed with a U....

The blast took place at a service station in Creeslough that destroyed the gas station and part of a nearby apartment block on the outskirts of the village in the country’s northernmost county. An Garda Síochana - the Irish police force - reported that three deaths had been confirmed on Friday, with a further four overnight. Seven people had been formally confirmed dead as of Saturday morning, but a further two deaths were announced by police, according to the Press Association....

That August, up-and-coming rapper Jett McKee broke into their home in the suburb of Forest Lodge and demanded money. Davis and Quinn told the court that McKee, who was high on meth at the time, threatened to kill them and their families before knocking Davis out with a pair of knuckledusters. When Davis came to, he snatched a samurai sword from his prized collection of the weapons, ran out of the house, and allegedly found McKee holding Quinn at gunpoint....

The children are alleged to have suffered months of serious abuse until 31-year-old Priscilla Meachem and 38-year-old Elijah Waltz were arrested on October 21, reported the Zanesville Times Recorder. Zanesville Police Detective Bryan Ruff would not say how the case first came to light but told the news outlet: “This is the worst abuse case I’ve seen.” The couple are accused of using the restraints to torture the children at their home....

Pistorius was handed a five-year jail term last October for the “culpable homicide” of Steenkamp, whom he killed by firing shots through a locked bathroom door on Valentine’s Day 2013. MORE: Photos of principal characters in Pistorius trial | Most heinous crimes connected to athletes The Paralympic gold medalist, who said he thought Steenkamp was an intruder, was released and put under house arrest this October, having served a fifth of his sentence....

The court-appointed Persily after members of the state legislature’s Reapportionment Commission couldn’t agree on how to redraw the districts in accordance with population changes. Four Republican members of the commission filed the motion on December 24 asking the court to reverse its decision to appoint Persily. Instead, they asked that two special masters—one Republican and one Democrat—be appointed. They argued having one from each party would “preserve the public’s confidence in the fairness of the redistricting process....

New Justices in the Wings Thank you for the clearly written cover story on the Supreme Court (“The Supreme Question,” NATIONAL AFFAIRS, July 10). I am a high-school senior about to turn 18 and vote for the first time. I appreciated the careful delineation of Gore’s and Bush’s differences and possible influences on the composition of the court. This had not been brought to my attention before as a major election issue and I will certainly consider it when I add my vote to the ballot box....