Imprisoned US Ponzi scheme fraudster Bernard Madoff alleged that some senior executives at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. “knew what was going on” and that all the banks were given
An NYPD Detective was arrested for drunk driving late Thursday night after he flipped his car on the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, cops said. Det. Thomas Handley of the 90th Precinct in
Four additional rockets were fired at Ashkelon Friday and three were intercepted by the Iron Dome defense system, the IDF announced, adding that it had bombed the terror cell that
Israel’s Yad Vashem museum on Friday said it had uploaded footage of the entire trial of Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann YM”S to YouTube to mark the 50 years since the groundbreaking court case. Eichmann, who was captured by Israeli agents in Argentina in 1960, was brought to Israel and put on trial on April 11, […]
In selecting Cathleen P. Black as schools chancellor, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was, in many ways, playing to type: a man famous for ignoring advice, relying on his own instincts and doing the opposite of what an ordinary politician would do had chosen as leader of the nation’s largest school system a woman with no […]
What happens when you apply an 1884 law to BlackBerries? Mass confusion. The Antideficiency Act, passed by Congress during Chester Arthur’s administration, prevents non-essential federal employees from working when the
New York, NY – The city’s Department of Environmental Protection commissioner will propose a 7.5 % increase in the water rate, which will continue more than 15 years of rising rates if it’s approved. But the proposal is the first rate increase under 10% in five years and significantly less than this year’s 12.9% hike. […]
The Israel Security Agency (ISA) and the IDF arrested members of a terrorist cell in Ramallah in the first weeks of January, 2011. The cell admitted to having planned a kidnapping of Israeli civilians or soldiers to gain leverage for the release of Palestinian prisoners. The cell’s activities serve as an example of the high […]
Mohammed Tantawi, the head of Egypt’s ruling generals, was an obstacle to Israeli efforts to stop arms smuggling within the Gaza strip, according to Israeli security forces. The assessment was
The condition of the 16-year-old critically injured in the anti-tank missile attack on a school bus in the Negev on Thursday remains unchanged, Dr. Itzhak Lazar of Beersheba’s Soroka Medical
New York State troopers will once again be on the lookout for cell phone users behind the wheel. The crackdown starts on Monday and runs until Thursday. Some drivers in
In Texas, it seems 80 mph just isn’t fast enough. A bill passed in the state House of Representatives would raise the speed limit to 85 miles per hour on
A partial shutdown of the federal government could begin Saturday morning and would affect some people, programs and services more than others. Here’s a look at what could happen. Q:
Brooklyn Civil Court is a crowded place, but one judge handles the litigation backlog by forging compromise between debtors and banks. At a recent Tuesday morning calendar call, acting Kings
The Obama administration is replacing the five-color terror-alert system with two warning levels and plans to sometimes use Facebook and Twitter, the Associated Press reports, citing a draft proposal from the Homeland Security Department. The new system is to be in place by April 27. The new alerts — elevated and imminent — are to […]
An ex-con accused of shoving a New York City police officer to his death during a domestic violence call in Boerum Hill last month has pleaded not guilty to a murder charge. George Villanueva, 42, was arraigned in Brooklyn on Thursday. He is being held without bail in the death of Officer Alain Schaberger — […]
Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s office Thursday announced it is revamping how state-issued parking placards are handed out. The state Inspector General’s Office launched its own investigation. As part of the system redesign, the number of “police” placards will be cut by 84 percent to 261 and limited to police personnel. The number of “official business” placards […]
Before it was UBS, now it’s HSBC. The Department of Justice is continuing its efforts to prosecute US persons with unreported foreign bank accounts and the DOJ is expected to file papers today, seeking to compel HSBC India to disclose the names of its US customers. Once HSBC gives the names of its US customers […]
House Republicans burst into applause at the passage of their one-week government funding measure Thursday afternoon. The bill, which also funds the military through the end of the fiscal year,
1:10PM EST: [UPDATE IN EXTENDED ARTICLE] A device believed to be a pipe bomb exploded about 6:45 a.m. Thursday in the parking lot of a Chabad Shul in Santa Monica, authorities said. No details were available regarding injuries or damage. The incident occurred at a synagogue near 17th Street and Broadway in Santa Monica. Police evacuated […]
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