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
Sen. Charles Schumer, the last statewide candidate to resist a debate before Election Day, has agreed to a showdown with GOP challenger Jay Townsend, according to people familiar with the
Senior U.S. officials are concerned over recent intelligence indicating that the Pakistani Taliban, which orchestrated the failed Times Square bombing, may have successfully placed another operative inside the United States
President Barack Obama signed a major disaster declaration for New York and ordered federal aid to help Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island recover from the severe damage caused by the
Verizon Wireless will begin selling Apple’s iPad at its 2,000 retail stores nationwide on Oct. 28, the companies announced Thursday. The move ends AT&T’s exclusive grip as the U.S. wireless
A suspected bank robber was shot and wounded by police outside of Penn Station today, law enforcement officials said. The incident happened outside a Chase Bank at 2 Penn Plaza.
Overseas authorities are searching in Tel Aviv, Israel for a mentally ill man who police believe stabbed his parents to death inside their Staten Island home yesterday. Eric Bellucci, 30,
The growing importance of the Stamford Hill Shomrim was recognized this week at a groundbreaking meeting with local police. Dayan Dovid Grynhaus of the Rabbinate, the President of the U.O.H.C
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