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Councilman David G. Greenfield is encouraging homeowners who are struggling to stay in their homes to take advantage of a unique opportunity to receive mortgage assistance. The Emergency Homeowners’ Loan
New York – Democratic leaders have chosen a state Assemblyman from Queens as their candidate to replace Rep. Anthony Weiner, who resigned last month. Assemblyman David Weprin will compete for
The embattled British tabloid News of the World, one of the oldest and best-selling newspapers in Britain, will shut down after Sunday’s issue, its owner, News International, told CNN Thursday.
Several people are in custody after an early-morning shooting in Brooklyn involving an off-duty police officer left one person injured. It happened around 4 a.m. near The Old Gallery Sports
Israeli diplomats stationed in the United States was surprised to discover that Israel was one of 36 countries included in a new Homeland Security terror watch list. The list, which
An amendment to the new EU food information rules, calling for shechita, the kosher Jewish laughter of animals, to be singled out for specific labeling as “meat from slaughter without
Police are looking for a Hispanic or Black man, 5’9″-6’01”, between 20-30 years old in connection with 15 bank robberies that have occurred in Brooklyn and Queens since last December.
NYS Gov. Cuomo set himself on a collision course with the Legislature yesterday as he reiterated a threat to veto new congressional and legislative district lines being drawn for next
National security spending could be cut by as much as $700 billion in a deal to raise the debt limit, defense sources said. That’s almost twice the amount President Obama
For seven years Fox News has pushed back against the daily scrutiny and criticism leveled at it by Media Matters, the liberal watchdog group. But after David Brock, the group’s
On July 6, 2011, Yeshiva World News posted an article by Dick Morris, headlined “Dick Morris: Obama Losing Jewish Vote.” Putting aside the source of this story – Dick Morris,
A big, furry visitor has prompted a police warning to Rockland County residents. Eleven-year-old Amanda McNulty and her mom were walking their labradoodle Wednesday night in Nyack when they spotted
Spectators watching America’s last shuttle lift off at the Kennedy Space Center will be exposed to six times greater risk from a launch accident than people gathered on the area’s
A Michigan man on the FBI’s most wanted list of terror suspects is accused of using a fake passport in an attempt to get into Israel and conduct a bombing
Bichasdei Hashem, a search for a missing Yeshiva Bochur that has been ongoing since June 15th, has ended on Wednesday morning. In a story which was first published by YWN,
A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake strikes off the Kermadec Islands near New Zealand, triggering a tsunami warning, Reuters reports. The earthquake is about 1,000 miles from New Zealand’s mainland, NewsTalk Radio
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