The following message was sent to YWN by Baltimore Shomrim: As you all know our community was hit with hate crime(s) this past week. The Police Commissioner is coming to

12:45AM EST: YWN regrets to inform you of the tragic Petira of Mrs. Reva Esther Robins A”H, who was R”L killed in a car accident in Twin Mountain New Hampshire

The Mir Yeshiva in Yerushalayim has upgraded their generator with 2 fuel tanks. A special Liebherr mobile hydraulic crane with a telescopic boom was called in to lower the tanks

For the second time in 10 days, a Yeshiva in Lakewood made a decision not to reopen on the opening day of school. Yeshivah Keter Torah, an Sefardic elementary school,

The next time you order a bagel you may want to hold off on the cream cheese or other toppings. Under orders from cash-strapped Albany, state tax officials have begun

WikiLeaks, the whistleblower website that infuriated the Pentagon when it published thousands of classified military reports, said it will release a fresh set of documents Wednesday. The group posted on

Chief Ashkenazi Rabbi Yona Metzger last Thursday visited the West Bank settlement of Kochav Hashachar, east of Ramallah, in order to hand out award to outstanding students. The rabbi was

Sen. John McCain slid to an easy victory over former congressman J.D. Hayworth in Arizona’s Republican Senate primary election, overcoming early predictions that Hayworth represented the biggest threat to his

The judge who presided over Sholom Rubashkin’s fraud trial did nothing improper when she met with federal agents prior to the massive 2008 immigration raid at Agriprocessors, Inc., prosecutors argued

Officials in Moldova seized 1.8 kilograms (about 4 pounds) of smuggled uranium and arrested three of seven suspects, an interior ministry spokesman said Tuesday. Tipped off in early July, authorities

During opening arguments today, federal prosecutors outlined their case against four men accused of plotting to blow up two Bronx synagogues and shoot down military planes last year, focusing on

The U.S. Department of Education has named New York State as one of the 10 winners of the second round of its “Race to the Top” school reform grant competition.

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver called Tuesday for the developers of the mosque near Ground Zero to find a new, less controversial location. Silver, who represents the area, said there’s no

5:00PM EST: A Jewish woman was R”L killed in a plane crash in India, YWN has learned. Misaskim was contacted by a family member of Irina Shekhets A”H, after it

Detectives are questioning a possible suspect in the murder of Yoseph Robinson HY”D, who was brutally murdered this past Thursday night. The man police think is tied to the killing

Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) is calling on Mayor Bloomberg to withdraw his support of the Ground Zero mosque in the wake of the revelation of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf’s anti-American

Viewer discretion is advised in this horrific video of security officers at Barzilai Hospital beating Charedim protesting Chillul Kevarim. According to Kikar Shabbat, a journalist at the Hafganah saw the

A spectacular crash was caught on video by a police cruiser in Green County, Ohio. A car police say was going 100 mph is seen hitting the center divider of

The New York State Thruway Authority and State Police Troop T today announced that “Operation Summer Brake” will take place Monday, August 30, 2010, and continue through Labor Day, Monday,

If you’re planning on taking the Long Island Railroad Tuesday, you should plan ahead, CBS 2′s Jay Dow reports. “We’re canceling 33 out of 144 trains that we have run

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