A heated discussion in the comments of leading Chabad community news service COLlive.com has led the Jewish Orthodox daily Hamodia to publish a clarification. Chabad readers were furious over an
A Gambino crime family soldier charged with shaking down a Manhattan real estate investment firm was released Wednesday on $2 million bail. Anthony Scibelli was indicted last week on racketeering
President Obama learned that even presidential motorcades can get stuck in snowy Washington, D.C. traffic. After a day trip to Wisconsin Wednesday following his State of the Union Address, President Obama returned to a sleeting and snowing Washington, D.C. What is usually a 10-minute or less helicopter ride aboard Marine One from Joint Base Andrews, […]
Former Deputy Attorney General and Harvard Law Professor Philip B. Heymann sent a letter to President Barack Obama, in which he formally requested that Jonathan Pollard be released from prison
The CliffViewPilot reports: A Ridgewood man with ties to neo-Nazi organizations was arrested by New Jersey State Police this morning following a SWAT team raid on his apartment and charged
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today urged the Egyptian government to allow peaceful protests to continue and not to block social media sites like Twitter Inc. and Facebook used by anti-government demonstrators. “We call on all parties to exercise restraint and refrain from violence,” she told reporters in Washington. “We urge the Egyptian authorities […]
The Department of Homeland Security is junking its color-code terrorism threat alert system after eight years of mockery. The system, put in place by the Bush White House a few
Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook fan page seems to have been hacked, with the hacker posting a message calling on the company to transform into a “social business”. The message, seemingly posted
Ben Smith of Politico reports the following interesting piece on his page: At a round table for reporters this morning, former Virginia congressman and CEO of the Republican Main Street Partnership Tom Davis said that despite the state of the union rhetoric, Obama’s real test on education will be on school vouchers. “I’m interested in […]
At the direction of the Mayor, the public is hereby advised that significant snowfall has been forecast for the evening rush hour tonight, through tomorrow’s morning rush hour. The snow is forecast to taper off this afternoon before becoming more severe this evening and overnight. The public is urged to avoid all unnecessary driving for […]
A fire has been extinguished aboard a commuter ferry on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River. Coast Guard spokesman Charles Rowe says the New York Waterway vessel Moira
The Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed over 12000 as investors cheered a wave of corporate earnings and President Barack Obama’s call for corporate tax cuts and a spending freeze. The
The story rocketed around New York City when streets went uncleared after the Dec. 26 blizzard: Sanitation workers, angry about job reductions, had deliberately staged a work slowdown. It resulted in fiery denunciations of unions on cable news and four criminal investigations. And it occurred because one man, Councilman Daniel J. Halloran, Republican of Queens, said […]
The sixth storm of the season will hit the Tri-State Wednesday. The National Weather Service issued Winter Storm Warnings until 6 a.m. Thursday. A period of snow in the morning
According to the Daily News, lawmakers are considering a plan to charge drivers $10 to enter Lower Manhattan on weekdays. It’s similar to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s defeated congestion pricing proposal that would have cost drivers $8. The Daily News says supporters are trying to get backing outside Manhattan before formally proposing a plan. The money […]
Toyota on Wednesday announced recalls involving more than 1.5 million vehicles worldwide for issues that could result in fuel leakage, the company said. One recall involves about 1.2 million units
Franklin Zimring, a law professor from the University of California at Berkeley, says when it comes to recording crime statistics police departments are a little like an umpire officiating a game he has a bet on. “That makes people deeply suspicious, and they should be,” said Zimring. Critics of the New York Police Department’s crime […]
11:25PM EST: Lakewood Hatzolah is on the scene of a serious car accident on New Egypt and Whitesville, with multiple patients injured – some seriously. Arriving members have requested Paramedics
A Jewish hockey player sued the National Hockey League’s Anaheim Ducks on Tuesday, claiming that coaches of one of its affiliate teams subjected him to harassment and anti-Semitic remarks. Jason
LIVE WEBCAST HAS ENDED: President Obama, on the defensive as Congressional Republicans press to rein in spending, will propose to extend for another two years the three-year partial freeze of
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