The NBA expansion process in most cases takes 2 1/2 to three years from bid submission to approval then beginning play. That depends on the availability of an arena the NBA deems suitable.

Sonic Youth’s Lee Ranaldo, Kim Gordon, Thurston Moore, and Steve Shelley, August 1991 (Gie Knaeps/Getty Images) ...

West Midlands Fire Service initially sent eight fire engines to the scene on Warwick Road, Sparkhill, at 7.15am, but quickly increased the level of support upon realising the scale of the blaze.

A Staten Island man allegedly caused a three-alarm blaze that ripped through his neighborhood when he set fire to a pair of sex toys — including a rubber vagina — outside his home, cops said.

The 59-year-old actress — who recently hit the red carpet with son Damian — sported the Blaze Bikini from her ... plunging metallic silver gown that bared her cleavage.

Fire damage is seen on North Burgher Ave. in Staten Island after a man told authorities he tried to burn sex toys in his backyard. (Emma Seiwell / New York Daily News) A man busted for starting a ...