The money woes keep growing for a developer of the Ground Zero mosque. Valley National Bank is suing Sharif El-Gamal and his real-estate company, Soho Properties, seeking $95,778 plus interest
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed Sunday reports that the negotiations to secure the release of kidnapped IDF soldier Gilad Shalit have been renewed. “There have been renewed talks with the
US President Barack Obama is likely to visit the places attacked by terrorists during the 26/11 assault on Mumbai, in what may strongly symbolize the burgeoning cooperation between the two
One Palestinian was killed and two other injured in an IDF strike in northern Gaza on Sunday, Palestinian sources report. A statement by the Israel Defense Forces said that Israel
YWN regrets to inform you that the body of 62-year-old Steven Mayer Z”L was found over Shabbos. Sources tell YWN that his body was found in a wooded area of
Students at Al-Quds University in the Gaza Strip were surprised to see an unusual guest at their lecture room on Saturday – a chimpanzee who had escaped from a nearby
A man was found shot dead on a side street just blocks away from the scene of a shooting a few hours earlier that sent two men to the hospital
The APP reports: A deputy state attorney general has told a judge that New Jersey officials “looked the other way” while a rabbi buried truckloads of bagged religious artifacts on
City officials have approved plans for a controversial mosque in Sheepshead Bay that’s been at the center of a divisive debate. The original plans were shot down by the city
Less than a year before terrorists killed at least 163 people in Mumbai, India, a young Moroccan woman went to American authorities in Pakistan to warn them that she believed
Several agencies including the city’s Office of Emergency Management took part in an emergency response drill Saturday at Manhattan’s Grand Central Terminal. Emergency workers simulated a train accident, which included
For the second consecutive year, more than 58 million retired and disabled Social Security beneficiaries won’t get a raise. As expected, the Social Security Administration announced Friday that beneficiaries won’t
Mayor Michael Bloomberg put out Councilman Peter Vallone’s compromise plan about creating smoking zones in parks and beaches once again on Friday. Bloomberg said he’s not willing to pursue an
A New York member of the U.S. Coast Guard fell overboard to his death during a nighttime anti-terrorism training exercise in Virginia, authorities said. The gear-laden body of third-class petty
Flatbush Shomrim received numerous complaints of a man driving in the vicinity of Avenue L & East 31st street exposing himself to young girls. Responding members urged the victims parents
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad ended a two-day visit to Lebanon by meeting with Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. The overnight meeting took place at the Iranian embassy in Beirut’s Bir
Russia plans to help Venezuela build a nuclear power station, President Dmitry Medvedev said Friday. Russia and Venezuela signed an agreement Friday on the construction, during Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s
Enough Tea Party-supported candidates are running strongly in competitive and Republican-leaning Congressional races that the movement stands a good chance of establishing a sizeable caucus to push its agenda in
Long Island College Hospital, a financially troubled community hospital in Brooklyn, has been saved from the threat of closing or bankruptcy through a planned merger with SUNY Downstate Medical Center,
Andrew Cuomo told attendees at the Empire State Pride Agenda’s Fall Dinner, that he wants to make their hopes of legal same-gender marriage a reality. “I don’t want to be
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