CHICAGO — Snow, freezing rain and rain made for a messy Monday morning commute as a winter storm pushed further east. The National Weather Service has issued winter storm warnings and winter weather advisories for parts of the Great Lakes and the Northeast. As of Sunday night, the storm had dumped more than a half-foot on several states in the Midwest and Great Lakes regions, causing dangerous travel conditions. Parts of the Northeast, including New York City, received a wintry mix late Sunday and early Monday, slowing travel for morning commuters.It’s a “slap of reality” after a mild November, National Weather Service meteorologist Dave Schmidt in La Crosse, Wisconsin, said.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Violence across the Bronx and Brooklyn left a man shot dead, and seven other people wounded in four separate bloody scenes Sunday night.

At about 7 p.m., a gunman shot two men, killing one, after an argument on the corner of E. 175th St. and Weeks Ave. in Mt. Hope. — the same intersection where a man and woman were killed in a double murder in July. One man, 41, was shot once in the head and died on the scene.

The other, 25, is in critical condition at St. Barnabas Hospital later Sunday night, after the shooter blasted him in the jaw, right eye and back, police sources said. Cops were looking for a Hispanic man in his 30s, wearing a black jacket, who ran east on Weeks, police sources said. “This block is known for violence. When you’re raised in an environment of violence, you adapt to it,” said a friend of one of the victims, who identified himself as Michael Garcia, 31. Garcia described his friend as a “neighborhood person” who worked at a Bronx Foot Locker store to raise money for his three children.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A faith-based Queens nonprofit is trying to boot low-income renters into the street in the midst of the holiday season — in the hopes of converting their building into a homeless shelter, residents told the Daily News.

The New York School of Urban Ministries in Astoria wants tenants out of the 46th St. building as soon as possible and has been using underhanded methods to speed up the process, residents say. Pastor Peter DeArruda, the executive vice president of the ministry, sent notices out last month informing tenants they must vacate the building by Dec. 31. “I will never understand how a Christian group can dump longstanding and faithful residents in the middle of the winter and during the holidays,” said 39-year-old actress Amy Burgmaier, who has lived at the address on and off for two years.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

All aboard the mayor’s money train, a planned streetcar from South Brooklyn to northern Queens that appears to have triggered developers with projects along the route to donate big money to de Blasio’s favorite causes.

First came the push to get de Blasio to back the $2.5 billion taxpayer-supported streetcar running from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, to Astoria, Queens. Supporters call it the Brooklyn Queens Connector, or BQX.

Then came the checks from six developers, totaling $245,000, to support de Blasio’s favorite causes. The developers sent the checks to the mayor’s nonprofit Campaign for One New York. Then came the mayor’s announcement, in his State of the City address in February, that the city would go full steam ahead with the 16-mile trolley line.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

Right-wing pundit Allen West stated that President-elect Donald Trump’s tapped retired Marine Gen. James (Mad Dog) Mattis as Secretary of Defense to “exterminate Muslims,” according to a Facebook post.

In bold white letters, the hatemongering message blasted President Obama for firing Mattis “to please the Muslims” and that Trump will use his hawkish cabinet pick, Mattis, to commit mass genocide. The post, first shared just after midnight Saturday, spent hours accumulating scores of shares, likes and comments. It has since been deleted and Michele Hickford, a staffer for the one-time Florida lawmaker, took the blame for the Islamophobic meme.

“Last night I posted a meme without Col. West’s knowledge or consent which was inappropriate and crossed the line,” wrote Hickford, a writer and communications strategist for West. “I take full responsibility for this. It was wrong. I was wrong. It does not reflect Col. West’s beliefs.”(nydailynews.com)…[+]

ATMORE, Ala. — A man who killed an Alabama convenience store clerk more than two decades ago was put to death Thursday night, an execution that required two consciousness tests as the inmate heaved and coughed 13 minutes into the lethal injection.

Ronald Bert Smith Jr., 45, was pronounced dead at 11:05 p.m., about 30 minutes after the procedure began at the state prison in southwest Alabama. Smith was convicted of capital murder in the Nov. 8, 1994, fatal shooting of Huntsville store clerk Casey Wilson. A jury voted 7-5 to recommend a sentence of life imprisonment, but a judge overrode that recommendation and sentenced Smith to death.

Smith heaved and coughed repeatedly, clenching his fists and raising his head at the beginning of the execution. A prison guard performed two consciousness checks before the final two lethal drugs were administered.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

A Bronx NYPD officer has been suspended after being caught drunk on the job Thursday, police sources said. Officer Richard Evans, 44, was deemed “unfit for duty” while working his midnight shift in the 52nd Precinct in Bedford Park. Evans and his rookie partner were responding to a call on Webster Ave. near E. 203rd St. when things went south, sources said. A civilian at the scene complained that he was drunk, and his supervisors soon determined he was unfit for duty, sources said.Evans’ supervising officer may also be hit with disciplinary action for failure to supervise, depending on when Evans started drinking, sources said. Evans joined the NYPD in July 2001. It’s not clear if the veteran officer was driving when his patrol car pulled up to the scene, but police sources said officials do not believe he was behind the wheel.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

The pilot operating the private jet that crashed and killed Osama bin Laden’s family members last year during a flight to England may have been undergoing a mental “overload,” a report found.

The Saudi-registered Phenom 300 jet crashed when it landed at the Blackbushe Airport runway and skidded onto a nearby parking lot where the flames “incinerated” all the passengers on board on July 31, 2015, according to an Air Accidents Investigation Branch report.

Bin Laden’s stepmother Raja Bashir Hashem, 75, her husband Zouheir Anuar Hashem, 56, and her daughter, Sana Bin Laden, 53, died from severe burn injuries during the fatal crash.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

The son of a “Sopranos” actor was arrested for scrawling a swastika on a dorm wall at Purchase College, according to reports.

Vadim Imperioli, 19, the son of actor Michael Imperioli, faces charges of criminal mischief for spray-painting the Nazi symbol on a bulletin board on Nov. 21, according to the Journal News.

“We assisted SUNY Purchase police,” Capt. Doug Larkin of the New York State Police told the newspaper Wednesday. “He was arrested for the swastika incident.”

Imperioli was in court Tuesday on unrelated petty larceny charges when the vandalism was brought up by prosecutors.(nydailynews.com)…[+]

President-elect Donald Trump blasted a challenge from United Steelworkers leader Chuck Jones, accusing the billionaire of “lying his a– off” about his prized Carrier deal to discourage job outsourcing to Mexico.

Trump, the self-proclaimed business tycoon, said the Indiana union boss “has done a terrible job representing workers.” “No wonder companies flee country,” Trump wrote in a spate of dueling tweets on Wednesday night.

Jones, who represents employees at the Indiana factory Trump championed throughout the campaign trail and during last week’s jobs deal, claims the future commander-in-chief staged “a dog and pony show” about the number of jobs he saved. The deal scored a $7 million state tax incentive that would last one decade for parent company United Technologies.(nydailynews.com)…[+]