A pair of bizarre trespassing incidents at two of the region�s major airports, including one in Newark on Saturday, have heightened concerns about airport perimeter security. Early Saturday night, officials said a man with a knife in his pocket jumped over a retractable barrier at a vehicle gate near Terminal C at Newark Liberty International […]

Nearly a month after the State Legislature passed a bill drastically expanding access to taxi service in New York City, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has yet to signal whether he will sign the measure � providing hope to the city�s larger taxi fleet operators who oppose it. The fleet owners have stepped up efforts to […]

NYS Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver conceded Sunday that President Obama has a problem among Jewish New Yorkers, but said electing a Republican to fill ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner�s seat is not the answer. Former Mayor Ed Koch is urging voters in Weiner�s old district to vote against Democrat David Weprin in the special election as a […]

Herman Cain says voters across the country should have the right to prevent Muslims from building mosques in their communities. In an exchange on “Fox News Sunday,” the Republican presidential

Stanley Patz has been conditioned to expect his telephone to ring whenever a child goes missing, so he was bracing when he heard about the disappearance of an 8-year-old boy,

9:10PM EST: A reported drowning at Sportsmen�s and Bennett roads at the Rondout Creek -� near Satmar Camp – was a falsely reported incident, according to the Ulster County sheriff. The Ulster County Sheriff�s Office, Catskills Hatzolah, and fire and rescue personnel responded to the scene shortly after the 911 call of a reported drowning […]

Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, hospitalized since April and due to stand trial in August, is in a coma, his lawyer said on Sunday, although state television said the hospital

London’s police chief said Sunday that he intends to resign from his post as a result of the widening phone-hacking scandal that has rocked his department. “I have taken this

Washington – U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer of New York says that if airlines don�t start reimbursing their rising fees when passengers� bags are lost, he�ll introduce a bill to force the issue. The Democrat says that under a new rule airlines would only have to reimburse their baggage fees if the luggage is lost forever. […]

Construction workers are trying to stabilize the historic upper east side synagogue badly damaged in a fire. Workers began removing debris from the roof and inside of congregation Kehilath Jeshurun

A fire broke out in Jerusalem Forest Sunday, near Mount Herzl and Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum, and is currently ablaze and spreading. Police have evacuated the museum and blocked all main roads in the area, and eight teams of firefighters are on the scene. Firefighting planes have also been alerted. The fire�is ablaze and spreading […]

Leiby Kletzky�s grieving father put on a brave face to attend Sabbath services yesterday morning – just days after his son�s brutal murder. Nachman Kletzky drew strength from the religious services at the Bais Medrash Heichal HaTefillah synagogue near his home in Borough Park, worshipers said. �He is taking comfort in his belief in God,� […]

Parents are calling on Mayor Bloomberg to lift a ban on cell phones in city schools after he said Friday that mobile devices are the best tool for keeping tabs on kids. On his weekly radio show, Bloomberg said, �If you want to have something that a parent can know where their child is – […]

Police in Brooklyn are still looking into the events leading up to the murder eight-year-old Leiby Kletzky. Brooklyn, NY – Levi Aron�s apartment is still a very active crime scene three days after he was arrested for allegedly killing and dismembering the little boy. First a matress, then the box spring, followed by bags of […]

New details continue to emerge about Levi Aron, the Brooklyn man who confessed to killing and dismembering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky this past week. Aron was working as a clerk in

A woman claims that Levi Aron tried to kidnap her son two years ago, but high-ranking NYPD officials tell YWN that they highly doubt that the woman is credible. According

Airport body scanners that create unclothed images of passengers were improperly adopted by the U.S. as a primary screening tool, a federal appeals court ruled, while allowing their use to continue. The U.S. Transportation Security Administration should have sought public comment before deciding that the scanners, first deployed in 2007, would be used �everywhere for […]

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has won a federal ruling that will require a stronger review of potential �severe accident� scenarios at the Indian Point nuclear plant in New York City�s suburbs. The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board says more analysis of how to deal with severe accidents is needed before the plant can […]