A woman fell in front of an oncoming subway train on Monday night and survived. Emergency crews carried the woman out of the station on a stretcher and into a
New York City bus drivers took an average of two months paid days off last year after being spat upon by upset riders. The Metropolitan Transportation Authority said Monday that
Opponents of a mosque planned near Ground Zero may be getting some unexpected help from the City. The building at 45 Park Place was constructed in 1857 in the Italian
Oil company BP is expected to brief reporters Tuesday morning about its next attempt to contain the gushing oil in the Gulf of Mexico — a maneuver called a “top
A man convicted of killing a Brooklyn rabbi 16 years ago could walk out of court free today because the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office withheld evidence during his trial. Jabbar
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly today announced that New York City remains the safest big city in America, according to the FBI’s Crime in the United States, the preliminary Uniform Crime Report for 2009. The report shows that total crime decreased by 5.1 percent in New York City during 2009, […]
The United States Supreme Court, it was announced today, will be hearing an appeal of a U. S. Court of Appeals decision that declared an Arizona school choice program unconstitutional.
Motorists are advised that the State Department of Transportation will be conducting lane closures on Route 17 eastbound and westbound between Exit 119 (Route 302) and Exit 116 (Route 17K)
The Transport Workers Union will file legal papers today to force the MTA to award planned raises to transit workers, according to the New York Daily News. The TWU is
7:50PM IL: As Deputy Prime Minister & Interior Minister Eli Yishai made his way to make a shiva visit at the Meah Shearim home of Maran R’ Yosef Sholom Elyashiv Shlita, area hoodlums bombarded his vehicle with rocks. It is unclear at this time if the minister was out of the car completely, which appears […]
A U.K. medical regulator revoked the license of the doctor who first suggested a link between vaccines and autism and spurred a long-running, heated debate over the safety of vaccines.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind is calling for an official inquiry into the botched arrest and prosecution of Ms. Chila Lati, a 39-year-old Brooklyn mother of four who was arrested in February for allegedly running over the foot of traffic agent Natasha Floyd on January 8, 2010 while trying to evade a parking summons. But Chila Lati’s only […]
Last Wednesday, at approximately 8:00PM, reports came into Lakewood Police Department of assaults of persons walking on East County Line Road near Park Avenue. An officer further investigated those reports and found five victims who were struck by eggs from persons travelling past them in a white vehicle. Assisted by additional officers they ascertained that a […]
7:30PM IL: In the past, reporting on chareidi violence and rioting was not a commonplace occurrence, but it appears the tide has changed and violence surrounding kevarim and arrests seems
Federal sentencing for former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin has been delayed. Rubashkin, who had worked at the meatpacking plant in Postville when it was raided in May 2008, is currently
The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration is bringing back their annual safety enforcement program, “Click It or Ticket.” This year’s enforcement period will being on Monday, May 24 and run
Google began offering an encrypted option for Web searchers on Friday and said it planned to roll it out for all of its services eventually. People who want to use
Two weeks ago, YWN posted an article by Rabbi Mordechai Kuber regarding the current issue of ‘worms found in fish’. Rabbi Kuber states that there the worms are permissible to be eaten according to Halacha. We now present the following article written by Rabbi Chaim Scher, who is a “Boki in the Sugya”, which refutes Rabbi Kuber’s article: […]
4:15PM IL: Over 100 chareidim have been detained on Monday in response to ongoing stormy protests in Jaffa seeking to halt ongoing excavations which protesters insist are desecrating kevarim. Among
The protests against ongoing excavations in the Jaffa area of Tel Aviv continued on Sunday night as Atra Kadisha and the Eida Chareidit insist the bones at this location are
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