NYC NOW - March 21, 2024: Morning Headlines

Episode Date: March 21, 2024

Get up and get informed! Here's all the local news you need to start your day: Some students at Brooklyn’s South Shore High School are angered by the Education Department’s decision to disqualify their basketball team from a city league championship game. Schools Chancellor David Banks says the team violated age eligibility requirements, which caused the cancellation. Meanwhile, a Manhattan judge has set the trial for Daniel Penny, the man accused of choking subway rider Jordan Neely to death on the F train last year, to take place in October.

Welcome to NYC Now. Your source for local news in and around New York City from WMYC. It's Thursday, March 21st. Here's the morning headlines from Michael Hill. Some students at Brooklyn's South Shore High School are angered by the Education Department's decision to disqualify their basketball team from a City League championship game. School Chancellor, David Banks, says the team violated age eligibility requirements which caused the cancellation.

But in the days after the announcement, many coaches and students in the league say they're still confused as to exactly why the game was canceled. Carlos Blackwood, who plays junior varsity basketball at South Shore, says the scandal has rocked the campus. They should have just played and just whoever wins wins, whoever take it home, take it home. But we got to qualify, we work hard. South Shore was slated to play in the league's 4A champion. basketball game last week. No winner was declared after they were disqualified. A Manhattan judge has set a trial day for the man accused of choking subway rider Jordan Neely to Death on the F train last year. Daniel Penny is expected to stand trial in October on manslaughter and criminally negligent

homicide charges. The month before the trial, the judge is expected to hold a hearing to decide whether the jury should hear some evidence, including statements Penny made to police after he got off the subway. Prosecutors say Penny was reckless when he held Neely in a chokehold for about six minutes. Penny's defense attorneys say he was trying to protect himself and other scared subway riders and that Neely was acting erratically. Your forecast, 30-1 and clear right now, so it's cold out there. Grab something to put on today a hoodie, a coat, or something. It's going to be cold when you go out because that wind will make it feel colder than today's high of 43. Sunny as well.

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