A disgraced emergency medical technician charged last year with doing nothing while a pregnant woman died in a Brooklyn Au Bon Pain was busted Tuesday for shoplifting, authorities said. Melissa

A new Goethals Bridge is in the works, but the Port Authority is not building it. A private company will build, maintain and front the money for the project. It

About 200 protestors rallied Tuesday outside the district office of Rep. Peter King (R-Seaford), who has stirred controversy with his plans to hold hearings on radical Islam in his role as homeland security committee chairman. A counter protest backing King broke out as well, with the total number of protestors split about evenly “for” and […]

The following is a NY Daily News article: Chicago voters were poised Tuesday to move former White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel a huge step closer to becoming the

Libyan leader Col. Moammar Gaddafi appeared on state TV on Tuesday to deliver a defiant address. Speaking in a loud voice, he announced he had no attention to step down

You’re walking to work, making good time, and then… someone steps in front of you, moving at a snail’s pace. Or a tourist blocks your path to snap a picture. Or some knucklehead in front of you is focused on their Blackberry, not where they’re going. We’ve all been there. If just the thought of […]

Russia – This week, Rabbi Aaron Gurevich, the head of FJC Russia’s Department for Cooperating with the Military, the Ministry of Emergency Affairs and Law Enforcement Agencies, visited Corrections Facility 11 in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Over the past six months, due to prison reforms and the reorganizing of Corrections Facilities, many prisoners have been […]

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s deputy blamed Google Inc in an interview published on Tuesday for stirring up trouble in the revolution that ousted Egyptian leader Hosni Mubarak. “Look what they

Yet another prominent elected official, national intelligence leader, and legal professional has appealed to the President to free Jonathan Pollard. Arlen Specter, a former Senator United States Senator who served

Mayor Michael Bloomberg is expected to sign legislation into law today that bans smoking in many public spaces around the five boroughs. Under the new law, smoking will be banned in the city’s 1,700 parks and 14 miles of public beaches and. City pools and recreation centers will also be smoke free. The bill also […]

UK budget airline easyJet apologized Tuesday to Jewish customers after the only food choices served on a flight from Israel were ham melts and bacon baguettes. Passengers who follow the faith’s ban on eating pork were forced to go hungry for the four-and-a-half hour journey from Tel Aviv to London. The airline introduced the route […]

The monthly Community Board 12 (CB12) meeting is taking place tonight, and is sure to be quite a spectacle. This meeting has gained attention of Brooklyn residents because of the recent controversy regarding millions in tax breaks that are pending approval to assist Moisha’s Supermarket with a large expansion of of their store on Avenue […]

Chicagoans are voting today in one of the city’s most historic municipal elections. Polls opened at 6 a.m. For the first time in 64 years, a sitting mayor is not

A dispatching error delayed the response of a second engine company to Saturday’s deadly five-alarm fire in Brooklyn, prompting the FDNY to launch an internal probe, department sources told The

This report has been updated at 1:30AM EST: A powerful earthquake slammed New Zealand’s already-bruised city of Christchurch on Tuesday, killing at least 65 people, and sending rescuers scrambling to

Two Iranian ships entered the Suez Canal on Tuesday and were heading towards the Mediterranean, a canal official said, a move certain to anger Israel. Iran appears to be testing

Libya’s leader, Muammar Gaddafi, has dismissed reports that he has fled the country, calling them “malicious rumours” spread by “hating channels”. Speaking to state TV from outside a ruined building,