The family of the top lawyer at the Securities and Exchange Commission invested with Bernie Madoff and earned more than $1.5 million in ill-gained profits, according to trustee Irving Picard,
The crew chief aboard an NYPD chopper that rescued two West Point cadets from a mountain ledge described for the first time yesterday the potential catastrophe he faced while painstakingly
Authorities in Florida arrested a 16-year-old boy and intend to charge him with first degree murder in the shooting death of St. Petersburg police Officer David Crawford. The killing was
Rahm Emanuel, the former chief of staff to President Barack Obama, won the Chicago mayoral election Tuesday, topping the 50% threshold to avoid a run-off vote, CNN reports. Emanuel, the
9:09PM EST: Rahm Emanuel is out to an early lead in the Chicago mayor’s race tonight.�With 84 percent of precincts counted, Emanuel had 54.9 percent to 24.3 percent for Gery Chico. Emanuel is trying to score more than 50 percent to avoid a runoff election on April 5. �Major contenders Rahm Emanuel, Gery Chico, Carol […]
Los Angeles -�The officer that arrested Mel Gibson in his infamous 2006 DUI charge has been granted permission to pursue a court case against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s department. TMZ reports that James Mee, who stopped the actor on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, is seeking to sue his employer over […]
The following is a WCBSTV report: There was an ugly war of words Tuesday between Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the fire unions over the impact budget cuts had on fighting a deadly fire in Brooklyn. CBS 2�s Marcia Kramer has obtained dispatch tapes that reveal the difficulty firefighters had battling the inferno. Bloomberg weighed in […]
The Obama administration plans to nominate a top White House Middle East advisor to be the next U.S. envoy to Israel, POLITICO has learned. President Barack Obama intends to nominate one of his most trusted Middle East aides, the National Security Council�s Senior Director for the Middle East and North Africa Dan Shapiro, to be […]
With state revenues beginning to thaw, Gov. Chris Christie of New Jersey nonetheless proposed a tightfisted $29.4 billion budget on Tuesday, calling for sharp cuts in benefits for public-sector workers
The radiation emitted after just 50 minutes on a mobile phone increases the activity in brain cells, according to a new government-funded study. The effects of that brain activity are
A disgraced emergency medical technician charged last year with doing nothing while a pregnant woman died in a Brooklyn Au Bon Pain was busted Tuesday for shoplifting, authorities said. Melissa
A new Goethals Bridge is in the works, but the Port Authority is not building it. A private company will build, maintain and front the money for the project. It
About 200 protestors rallied Tuesday outside the district office of Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), who has stirred controversy with his plans to hold hearings on radical Islam in his role as homeland security committee chairman. A counter protest backing King broke out as well, with the total number of protestors split about evenly �for� and […]
The following is a NY Daily News article: Chicago voters were poised Tuesday to move former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel a huge step closer to becoming the
Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gaddafi appeared on state TV on Tuesday to deliver a defiant address. Speaking in a loud voice, he announced he had no attention to step down
You�re walking to work, making good time, and then� someone steps in front of you, moving at a snail�s pace. Or a tourist blocks your path to snap a picture. Or some knucklehead in front of you is focused on their Blackberry, not where they�re going. We�ve all been there. If just the thought of […]
Russia – This week, Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, the head of FJC Russia�s Department for Cooperating with the Military, the Ministry of Emergency Affairs and Law Enforcement Agencies, visited Corrections Facility 11 in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Over the past six months, due to prison reforms and the reorganizing of Corrections Facilities, many prisoners have been […]
If political unrest in Libya spreads to other oil-rich countries and the ensuing chaos disrupts crude oil production, gas prices could hit $5 a gallon by peak summer driving season,
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s deputy blamed Google Inc in an interview published on Tuesday for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. “Look what they
Brooklyn – In light of Mayor Bloomberg’s massive proposed cuts to child care programs in his preliminary Fiscal Year 2012 budget, Councilman David Greenfield sent a letter to yeshiva administrators
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