The court schedule of a federal judge who faces allegations of bias in the financial fraud trial of Sholom Rubashkin has raised fresh questions about judicial impartiality. Defense attorneys argue
For the third time in a month, President Barack Obama on Sunday plans to visit a community savaged by a terrible act of nature, comfort survivors who’ve lost everything and
Concord owner Louis Cappelli and Mohegan Sun have locked up a key approval in the bid to resume construction on a $600 million hotel and racino at the former Concord.
A rabbi’s home has been targeted in a series of suspected anti-Semitic attacks. Rocks have been thrown through the windows of Rabbi Shmuli Pink’s house in Leicester, where he lives with his wife Rivkie and their seven children. A brick was also thrown through the window of his car, parked outside his home near the […]
The U.S. government said Saturday that U.S. weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin Corp. was hit by an unspecified cyber incident, according to Reuters. The Department of Homeland Security said it and
The last of Bernie Madoff’s ill-gotten gains that remain in the hands of the U.S. Marshals Service will go on the auction block next week, authorities said Friday. A diamond
A 4-year-old boy was killed after being mauled by his family’s dog inside their Brooklyn, New York, apartment, according to police spokesman Joseph Gallagher. Jayelin Graham was bitten multiple times
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A new CNN/Opinion Research Corporation national poll shows the former New York City mayor atop the slow-forming Republican primary field. The survey shows Giuliani getting 16 percent of independents and
1:00PM EST: The Harmony Bank in Lakewood was robbed just before noon on Friday afternoon. Lakewood Police are on the lookout for the suspect, who is reported to be a black male sporting a goatee, a red back pack, a blue hat and blue jeans. He reportedly handed the teller a note saying he was armed with a gun […]
A mix-up in using their children’s ages led to Fred and Beverly Lifschutz of Woodmere to win a Lotto jackpot of $21,500,000. “I started playing our daughters’ birthdays and ages
An imam from Trinidad is facing life in prison after being convicted of conspiracy Thursday in a failed plot to blow up jet fuel tanks at John F. Kennedy International
New York City - In a moving Fleet Week ceremony aboard the USS Iwo Jima Tuesday, the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC) presented a Sefer Torah to the Navy for use aboard the USS George Washington. The Torah was recovered during a criminal investigation by the NYPD and the Manhattan DA’s office. The […]
The commander of an Air France jet that crashed two years ago was in the cockpit, though not at the controls, as the crew struggled to recover from a high-altitude stall that occurred as the plane entered a zone of moderate turbulence over the mid-Atlantic, according to the initial chronology of the flight’s final moments […]
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly announced 22 high-level departmental transfers Thursday, sources told the Daily News. The shakeup included the move of Deputy Chief James Shea – nearly bumped from his
An off-duty veteran Newark police officer who was shot as he was ordering a slice of pizza inside a restaurant in the city’s South Ward has died, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Two other people — a man and a woman — were also shot during the incident, which occurred around 9:45 p.m. […]
Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) has, for the most part, insisted he’s not interested in running for president. But he’s also making sure his supporters know that other people want him to. The longtime Long Island congressman, now the chief of the House Homeland Security Committee, has sent out three emails to supporters highlighting news coverage […]
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has $2.4 billion in its Disaster Relief Fund to last through Sept. 30 and is seeking $1.8 billion for the fiscal year that begins
A new book reveals that the International Red Cross and the Vatican helped thousands of Nazis escape indictment, the British Telegraph reported Friday. According to the report, author Gerald Steinacher
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbetzin Chaya Frankel A”H, the Vyelipoler Rebbetzin, at the age of 95. The Rebbetzin was the wife of Rav Bentzion Frankel ZATZAL, the Vyelipoler Rov of Crown Heights. After her husband’s Petira three decades ago, the Rebbetzin moved to Flatbush. Recently, she lived at the home of her […]
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