A Staten Island woman curiously known for roleplaying as a dog said she ran away to be with her beau and “couldn’t be happier” following her Christmas Eve disappearance. “I am fine,” Anna Teshu said repeatedly in a Facebook video shared Tuesday night. Teshu, 23, did not reveal her location in the video but prior to vanishing, she said she was moving to North Carolina and would need someone to adopt her pet fish named Rocco. She revealed that she left NYC to seek independence away from her mother. “And if I wasn’t alright, you’d all know I’d be dead: ‘Oh, dog girl shooting, blah, blah, blah,” Teshu added.(nydailynews)…[+]

President-elect Donald Trump began his Tuesday morning by tweeting a threat to General Motors about its decision — from nearly two years ago — to build one of its models in Mexico.

Stranger still, the tweet targets a company run by one of his own policy advisors. “General Motors is sending Mexican made model of Chevy Cruze to U.S. car dealers-tax free across border. Make in U.S.A.or pay big border tax!” Trump wrote in his tweet.

It was not immediately clear why Trump had GM on his mind. The car manufacturer announced in March 2015 it would build its next-generation Chevrolet Cruze compact in Coahuila, Mexico, a move that takes advantage of the country’s low labor costs. The company also still makes the model at a plant in Lordstown, Ohio.(nydailynews)…[+]

AMARILLO, Tex. — A poisonous gas believed to have been released when someone tried to wash away a pesticide that had been sprayed under a Texas home killed four children and left six other people hospitalized, officials said Monday.

Phosphine gas was likely released when water mixed with the pest control chemical, Amarillo fire officials said. A specific cause of death had not been released for the four children Monday afternoon. The other six people who were in the home are “not out of the woods yet,” fire officials said. Crews who responded to a 5 a.m. call to the home originally thought it was related to carbon monoxide poisoning, Amarillo fire Capt. Larry Davis said in a statement. One child died at the scene and three others died at a hospital. Officials didn’t release any identifying information, including the children’s ages or whether they were related. Davis said all four people who died were residents of the home.(nydailynews)…[+]

A search for a missing person ended tragically Monday, when the body of a 19-year-old man was pulled from Prospect Park’s lake, cops said. Officers found the man’s body around 7 p.m., after a helicopter shone a light over the park during the evening’s search. Police found no apparent signs of trauma on the body. The death comes exactly two months after police pulled another 19-year-old man from the park’s lake.Around 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 2, police found Geordan Childs, of Newark, floating on the water. Officials determined Child drowned and are investigating his death as a possible suicide, cops said.(nydailynews)…[+]

Now he’s in a jam. A drugged-out Seattle man is accused of trying to steal guns from three cops in Times Square on New Year’s Eve after, his lawyer said, he blacked out after a Phish concert. Scott Zaleski, 40, ran up to two cops stationed at 36th St. and Broadway about 1:30 a.m. Sunday as scores of people were streaming away from the festivities, police said. Zaleski tried to take the guns from their holsters, then ran off — only to jump another cop standing about a block away, officials said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A gunman killed a 31-year-old Queens man early Monday and shot a 24-year-old man in the back, police said. The gunman shot the men in front of a building on 124th St. near Liberty Ave. in South Richmond Hill at about 3:25 a.m., officials said. Paramedics rushed the men to Jamaica Hospital, where the 31-year-old man died. The 24-year-old man was in stable condition, officials said.No one has been arrested. Neither man was immediately identified.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A stashed cell phone may have saved a Pennsylvania man’s life during a New Year’s Eve massacre at an Istanbul nightclub. A gunman’s barrage of bullets ripped through the popular party spot packed with an estimated 600 revelers, striking Chadds Ford native Jake Raak, 35, in the leg after piercing his phone, his mother said.He narrowly escaped a life-threatening injury to his upper leg.(nydailynews)…[+]

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he will not kick out American diplomats in response to U.S. sanctions, and will instead wait to work with President-elect Donald Trump.

Russian officials responded angrily to Obama administration measures meant to punish its intelligence services for interfering in the U.S. election, with the country’s foreign minister saying it may mirror its Cold War rival tit-for-tat.

Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov told news agency Interfax that he has offered to President Vladimir Putin to kick out 31 employees at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow and four from the consulate in St. Petersburg. The proposed move came a day after 35 Russian diplomats were declared “persona non grata” by the U.S. and said to be “intelligence operatives” believed to be connected to the hacking of Democratic National Committee emails released through Wikileaks in July.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A former Columbia University professor who recentlyleft several suicide notes at his Harlem apartmentwas found dead inside a rental car in upper Manhattan Thursday night, cops said. Bruce Chadwick, 48, was discovered unconscious and unresponsive inside a red Zipcar near W. 123rd St. and Riverside Drive. shortly after 11 p.m., police said. His cause of death was not immediately known but a source told the Daily News the case was being investigated as a suicide.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A 33-year-old Philadelphia man, known as compassionate and selfless among friends and family, was shot to death by his girlfriend after the couple got into a heated argument while driving on Tuesday afternoon, police said.

Martina Westcott, 27, turned herself in to police Wednesday and was charged with murder after admitting to fatally shooting Terrell Bruce in the head while they were driving around a section of north Philadelphia around 12:30 p.m., a police spokesman told The Philly Inquirer.

The shooting caused Bruce to lose control of the car and crash into another vehicle. Cops arrived within minutes, and initially thought Bruce had died from the collision since Westcott was nowhere to be seen.

But when medics took Bruce out of the car, they discovered a gunshot wound to his right temple. A hunt for Westcott was launched after witnesses told investigators they had seen a woman get out of the car and run away immediately following the crash.(nydailynews.com)…[+]