A wind-whipped five-alarm blaze tore through a Brooklyn apartment building Saturday, killing a woman and injuring four residents and 25 firefighters, officials said. About 200 Bravest fought the flames that
7:00PM EST: Sources have confirmed to YWN that a police officer has been shot inside the 67 Precinct in Brooklyn. He has been transported to Kings County Trauma Center with
President Barack Obama declared Friday that New York State was a “disaster area” following December’s blizzard, allowing certain areas of the state to get federal recovery money. Staten Island and
A Brooklyn police precinct is under scrutiny after cops told investigators their bosses manipulated crime statistics, sources said. The 77th Precinct, covering Crown Heights and Prospect Heights, first raised a
Years ago, a major bridge expansion on Long Island was funded with a $5 million congressional earmark, but the project remains untouched and not a penny has been spent. This
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.) promised that he would post a picture from his boyhood Bar Mitzvah when he hit 10,000 followers on Twitter. He made his goal last Thursday, Feb.
US President Barack Obama warned the Palestinians of “repercussions” if they pushed for a United Nations Security Council vote against Jewish settlements, a Palestinian official said Friday. “President Obama threatened
The Volover Rov has released the following Kashrus alert in regards to the recent controversy with worms found in sardines. This story was first brought to light in an article
Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) sent a letter to Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren requesting Israeli intervention in the protection of Har HaZeitim, the Mount of Olives. The site, an ancient
President Obama and his political rivals in Washington have jumped into the epic battle in Wisconsin between organized labor and the state’s newly elected Republican governor over the rights and
The Verizon iPhone and AT&T iPhone have gone head-to-head in thousands of broadband tests, and the numbers tell the story you’d expect: AT&T’s network is much faster. Ookla, creators of
The European Jewish Congress (EJC) has called on Dutch politicians not to vote for a ban on shechita, Jewish ritual slaughter, ahead of a bill on the subject is presented
The New York Police Department has informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it plans to pull all six of its detectives from a joint task force that investigates armed
The man accused in a bloody stabbing rampage that left four dead and four wounded across New York City is due before a Brooklyn judge. Maksim Gelman has been held
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attacked Barack Obama on Friday, saying the American president “doesn’t even know how to spell his own name properly.” During a visit to Bushehr ahead of
The Jews did not have to leave Germany and Poland following the Holocaust since they were not being persecuted anymore, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas said in an interview
Authorities in New York seized more than $9 million worth of opium hidden inside a shipment of porcelain figurines last month at John F. Kennedy International Airport, U.S. Customs and
The New York State Police is warning the public of a telemarketing phone scam where the callers indicate they are calling from the Bureau of Criminal Investigation and request money
[MULTIPLE LETTERS BELOW] Today, Congressman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) released the following statement regarding reports that the U.S. may be willing to support a U.N. Security Council resolution critical of Israeli
Alaska Gov. Sean Parnell says he will not enact the federal health care overhaul after a judge in Florida struck down the law as unconstitutional. Parnell considers that ruling the
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