The NYPD is gearing up to buy cops a new high-tech device for their crime-fighting arsenalmobile fingerprint scanners that will let them instantly receive a suspects criminal history, including mug shots, rap sheets and outstanding warrants. The handheld gadget, about the size of a BlackBerry, can search state and federal databases for a fingerprint match. […]
The federal government will cover half the cost of New York Citys plan to remake 34th Street by 2012 by creating physically separated, dedicated bus lanes. The city is hoping to speed crosstown buses on the busy midtown corridorwhere bus speeds average 4.5 miles per hourby 20% to 40%. The U.S. Department of Transportation said […]
Former President Bill Clinton officiated Saturday at the interfaith wedding of Representative Anthony D. Weiner and his bride, Huma Abedin, a longtime aide to Secretary Of State Hillary Rodham Clinton,
Mayor Bloomberg is headed to primary battleground New Hampshire Friday, fueling speculation hes planning a 2012 presidential run. The mayor will be the first speaker in a presidential lecture series at Dartmouth College, alma mater of gal pal Diana Taylor. The speech comes as the third-term mayor has been raising his political profile, including making […]
The Charedi leadership is considering a significant reduction in or complete prohibition against holding protests after a trash bin shoved onto Route 1 during a Jerusalem demonstration seriously injured a
Fifteen people were injured today in a collision that involved a city bus, an ambulance and two other vehicles. It happened at 125th Street and Adam Clayton Powell Boulevard in
Two HSBC Holdings Plc employees are at the heart of an investigation into the leak of Swiss confidential client data that landed up in the hands of the French tax
New Jersey would close its centralized car inspection lanes and motorists would pay for their own emissions tests under a sweeping set of recommendations set to be released by the
10:55AM EST: Catskills Hatzolah is on the scene of a pedestrian struck and have requested a chopper to launch. The location of the incident is on Lake Street near Deforst
In a seeming flashback to the cold war, Russian and American officials traded prisoners in the bright sunlight on the tarmac of Viennas international airport on Friday, bringing to a quick end an episode that had threatened to disrupt relations between the two countries. Planes carrying 10 convicted Russian sleeper agents and 4 men accused […]
A new type of religious certification has been launched in Sderot: A modesty standard. Businesses that commit to ensure modest dress and modest advertisements are to be granted a “modesty
Gov. Paterson warned yesterday that the state could run out of money “in a month and a half” and threatened to cut short the Legislature’s summer vacation if lawmakers don’t
Millions of straphangers would be hit with a $1 surcharge when they get a new MetroCard from a vending machine instead of refilling an old one under one of the
A white former transit police officer was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in a videotaped shooting death of an unarmed black man last year in Oakland, California, sparking a wave
A year and four months of going home empty-handed, the Shalit family has returned to the protest tent outside the prime minister’s residence in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has
In a third trial, three men have been convicted in a 2006 plot to blow up commercial airliners over the Atlantic Ocean, the head of Britain’s counterterrorism prosecution told CNN
(Click on image for exclusive photo) A deranged man stabbed four people – including one Jewish person – in an apparent random attack in Chelsea this afternoon. The mayhem began
A light aircraft crashed this morning by route 38 near Beit Shemesh after it got tangled in a high-voltage power line. MDA, Ichud Hatzolah volunteers, Bet Shemesh Hatzalah, and firefighters
8:00PM EST: The Monticello Fire Department is currently fighting a blaze at the Sefarady Bungalow Colony in Monticelllo, located on Old Liberty Road. The fire has fully engulfed one bungalow,
As the Atra Kadisha activists ponder ways to halt ongoing excavations in Jaffa, there is talk of arriving at Herzls Tomb with shovels and other digging equipment, to announce they plan to exhume the body to relocate the grave, hoping to drive the point home. Eida and Atra officials are unwilling to permit the continued […]
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