Security is increased Friday, following the arrests of two homegrown terror suspects. There is an increased police presence at landmarks like the Empire State Building, which was reportedly on the
City residents will be paying more for water starting this summer. The water board voted in favor this morning of a 7.5 percent rate hike for the coming fiscal year.
A solar-powered airplane was making its first international flight Friday, a 12-hour, 370-mile journey from Switzerland to Belgium. Pilot André Borschberg left the experimental plane’s base in Payerne, Switzerland, at
There may be a dusting of truth to allergy sufferers’ complaints that this season is, well, a bigger headache than years past. Warnings for a difficult season have come from
Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s proposal to charge religious institutions and nonprofit organizations a fee for garbage pickup beginning in July 2012 drew stiff opposition at a City Council hearing Thursday. Council
Nearly a decade after the Sept. 11 attacks, forensic technicians are still identifying pieces of human remains found in the rubble of the World Trade Center. The New York City
Please Mr. Postman! Not another federal bailout! That’s one of the scenarios looming on the horizon after the U.S. Postal Service released its latest financial report on Tuesday. The dismal
Twin explosions struck a paramilitary training center in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing at least 69 people, in what the Pakistani Taliban described as its “first revenge” for the killing
Rep. Ron Paul, a soon-to-be presidential candidate known for opposing U.S. military intervention overseas, said if he were president, he would not have duplicated President Obama’s plan for taking out
A new GPS system could soon give city drivers something of a crystal ball. City officials are exploring technology that could give drivers real-time traffic updates and suggest the fastest
A dozen or so Chassidim from Williamsburg came Thursday to the neighboring Crown Heights, home to a large Lubavitch community, and were anything but polite guests. They held up signs,
A new picture emerged Thursday of what really happened the night the Navy SEALs swooped in on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan. CBS News national security correspondent David Martin
7:40PM EST: [UPDATE BELOW] A van carrying a mother and at least 5 children was just involved in a serious accident on Arnold Boulevard in Howell, just near Lakewood Township.
5:55PM EST: Tragedy has just struck the Williamsburg community, after a 4-year-old child was R”L struck and killed by a vehicle, Thursday afternoon. Willamsburg Hatzolah was dispatched to frantic reports
Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican and former prisoner of war, said Thursday he doesn’t believe the harsh interrogation techniques used by the Bush administration played a role in hunting
Remarks By Commissioner Kelly At Press Conference: At approximately 6 p.m. yesterday, detectives from the New York City Police Department’s Intelligence Division apprehended two Queens residents, Ahmed Ferhani and Mohammed
Most people believe the May 2 killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. Navy SEALs received too much news coverage, a poll indicates. An analysis of data by Pew Research’s
The House of Representatives voted to open more of the nation’s oceans for oil and gas exploration on Thursday by a vote of 243 to 179. The “Reversing President Obama’s
President Obama is asking Congress to pass legislation that would extend the 10-year term of Robert S. Mueller III, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, by two years,
Today, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, the nation’s largest Orthodox Jewish umbrella organization, sent a letter to New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly lauding him and
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