In light of last week’s heavy traffic at the Sloatsburg Mincha area, which resulted in the temporary closure of the area, community leaders are reminding the public of some simple, but very important guidelines for the Mincha area, which is located on the northbound side of the New York State Thruway. If you are travelling […]

A rabid fox has been captured at a camp in the town of Bethel earlier this week, CatskillScoop.com is reporting. Sullivan County’s Commissioner of Public Safety, Richard Martinkovic says that authorities were contacted after a fox had been bothering people during the daytime at a camp located on White Lake Turnpike. The Town Of Bethel […]

A comprehensive study on distracted driving has found there is no conclusive evidence that hands-free cell phone use while driving is any less risky than hand-held cell phone use. The

If you think living in Manhattan is expensive, try parking here. An annual survey by Colliers International found that midtown and downtown Manhattan are the most expensive places to park

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 Program, offered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, will provide eligible homeowners with assistance that will pay a portion of their mortgages for […]

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 seat in a Sept. 13 special election. He is heavily favored to win in the district, which covers parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Republicans are […]

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 stunning,” was rejected by the plenary session of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. The amendment, originally voted by a committee of the EU Parliament, was […]

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 originally proposed. Obama directed the Defense Department and other national-security agencies to slash $400 billion by 2023. But in the closed-door talks to raise the […]

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 founder, said in March that his group’s new strategy amounted to a “war on Fox,” Fox ratcheted up its response. In the past ten days, […]

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 on behalf of the Islamic militant group Hezbollah, according to an indictment unsealed in federal court in Detroit. Faouzi Ayoub, 44, faces one count of […]