Four passengers apparently fainted on an American Airlines flight headed to Chicago from Washington D.C. because of a possible issue with cabin pressure. An American Airlines spokesman told NBC News
Mayor Michael Bloomberg says that tough economic times mean the city will have to reduce the size of its police force. The mayor said in a radio appearance Friday that
Transportation Security Administrator John Pistole defended controversial full-body scanning techniques that have endured withering criticism from Republican leaders in Congress. Speaking at a Department of Homeland Security conference in Washington
A New York judge has concluded that he has jurisdiction to preside over litigation resulting from a lawsuit filed against the Palestine Liberation Organization by victims of bombings in Israel.
Starting May 28, households in the five boroughs will be socked with rate increases of up to 12 percent to run appliances — after the feds decided that power companies
Police are building a profile of a criminal with “intimate knowledge” of the Jewish community after more than £110,000 worth of religious items was stolen in a spate of robberies. At least eight robberies have taken place within three months in and around Golders Green, north-west London. Detective Sergeant Julie Henderson of Barnet CID said […]
The unemployment rate fell to a two-year low of 8.8 percent in March and companies added workers at the fastest two-month pace since before the recession began. The Labor Department
As several of Israel’s neighbors deal with tumult in the streets, Israeli President Shimon Peres will visit President Barack Obama for the first time in nearly two years, a White
It may not seem that way when some knucklehead speeds past you on the right, but driving is getting much, much safer: last year the United States recorded the fewest
The NYPD held some type of drill on Wednesday evening, on 8th Avenue and 49th Street, in Boro Park. Dozens of of NYPD vehicles participated in the drill. At the end of the evening, a police van belonging to Patrol Borough Brooklyn South, was not starting, and instead of calling their own department for assistance, they […]
Three firefighting aircraft landed at the Sde Dov Air Force base on Thursday (Mar. 31), to become part of the IAF’s new firefighting unit. Four more firefighting planes are expected
Out of all 62 counties in the Empire State, New York City is home to the one ranked the least healthy by a new study – plagued a high number of premature deaths, overweight adults, and lack of doctors visits. The national study by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson foundation ranked […]
Washing your hands in an automatic faucet seems so much cleaner than have to touch a handle on the old-fashioned model. But guess again. A study revealed that automatic faucets
The following is from Globes: In a last-ditch effort to prevent the grounding of its charter subsidiary Sun D’Or International Airlines Ltd. on Saturdays, El Al Israel Airlines may lease Sun D’Or planes to and crews to other airlines, most likely Arkia Airlines or Israir Airlines. The idea, which has not yet been approved, could come […]
The deadly cobra that escaped the Bronx Zoo on Saturday is back in custody, a source said Thursday. The highly venomous 20-inch-long snake apparently escaped from its habitat sometime Friday,
The mystery continues in newspapers around the world, with the latest by AOL News: What if the biggest mystery surrounding Col. Moammar Gadhafi had nothing to do with his long,
Workers at the disaster-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan say they expect to die from radiation sickness as a result of their efforts to bring the reactors under control, the
An appeals court this morning upheld crooked ex-Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik’s extra-harsh sentence for lying to the White House and cheating on his taxes. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of
The shoe is about to fall (if it hasn’t already fallen) on taxpayers who transfer real estate to family members for little or no consideration, and fail to file gift
Speaking to a crowd of hundreds in Yeshiva University’s Lamport Auditorium, the mayor of Itamar, Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith, described the impact of five brutal murders on his small, close-knit community. “For a community to lose a special family like the Fogels, there are no words to describe the pain,” Goldsmith said of the parents […]
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