A federal judge was killed and a congresswoman gravely wounded Saturday in a shooting outside of a Tucson, Arizona, grocery store, according to police and government officials. In all, six
President Obama is planning to hand the U.S. Commerce Department authority over a forthcoming cybersecurity effort to create an Internet ID for Americans, a White House official said here today.
A former NYPD chief was named the new head of security for the MTA. Douglas Zeigler will replace William Morange, who is retiring after seven years of overseeing the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s police department, counterterrorism task force and other law enforcement efforts. During his 37 years with the NYPD, Zeigler’s positions have included chief of […]
Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old man who sources identify to Fox News as the gunman in custody in the deadly shooting rampage Saturday in Arizona, is suspected of posting a series
Another storm system is on the way for the Tri-State Area on Tuesday. AccuWeather Meteorologist John Feerick said it appears the snow will begin Tuesday afternoon, continue through Tuesday night and taper off early in the day on Wednesday. Although exact accumulations right now are “a little big sketchy,” Feerick said the storm system will […]
South Brooklyn was particularly hard hit after last week’s blizzard, from lack of snow plowing to the Sanitation Department’s reckless dumping of snow that toppled 30 gravestones at Washington Cemetery.
Giffords highlighted her Jewish identity as part of her first Congress campaign. “If you want something done, your best bet is to ask a Jewish woman to do it,” she said at the time. Giffords is the granddaughter of Akiba Hornstein, the son of a Lithuanian rabbi who in the 1940s moved from New York […]
On Friday morning the Lakewood Township held its annual reorganization meeting, where Deputy Mayor Menashe Miller was sworn in as the Mayor for 2011. Also sworn in, was newcomer Albert Akerman. The committee is now comprised of Menashe Miller, Steven Langert, Albert Akerman, Ray Coles and Meir Lichtenstien. The Deputy Mayor, is now former Mayor […]
Confident that he’d have a chance to win, Rudy Giuliani is rounding up his top political advisers for a possible 2012 presidential run, sources tell Page Six. Sources say the tough-talking former mayor “thinks the Republican race will be populated with far-right candidates like Mitt Romney, Sarah Palin and Mike Huckabee, and there’s opportunity for […]
An Israeli bird expert has called on Saudi Arabia to release a vulture that has been captured amid speculation it was on a spying mission for Israel. The Saudi press
The following is a Ynet article: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has adopted Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi’s stand and will aim to double the number of haredim serving in the army within five years. Netanyahu’s office said Friday afternoon that the prime minister would ask the government to vote on a plan […]
Please be Mispallel for the Vizhnitzer Rebbe Shlita of Bnei Brak, who has been hospitalized in Tel Hashomer Hospital for the past four days. Originally the Rebbe was hospitalized to
The city is making sure it’s prepared for whatever accumulation the city gets today. Only about one to three inches are expected across the five boroughs. But the city is using the opportunity to try to right the wrongs of the last storm response. Mayor Michael Bloomberg has instituted a number of personnel and technological […]
The blame game is heating up as the EMS Union President is now calling out Mayor Bloomberg for his response to the storm. But regardless of who is at fault,
Employers added fewer jobs than forecast in December and the unemployment rate dropped to 9.4 percent, a sign a labor-market recovery will take time to develop. Payrolls increased 103,000, compared
An anti-Obama heckler interrupted New Jersey Rep. Frank Pallone on Thursday as he read from the Constitution on the House floor. Pallone, who lives in Long Branch, was reading the portion of the Constitution that declares “no person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the […]
A would-be bank robber attempted to rob a Route 70 bank Thursday afternoon demanding $25,000 in cash and telling bank employees he had a bomb, township police reported. Robert Rowohlt,
With snow on the forecast, New Yorkers on Friday were concerned not only with roads, but with mass transit as well, Magee Hickey of CBS2 reports: Transit officials were promising to do things right this time around, claiming to have a distinctly different approach to Friday ‘s storm, compared to last month’s blizzard, which was […]
Despite being a billionaire, Mike Bloomberg is going to have a hard time buying back the trust of his fellow New Yorkers. After bumbling the cleanup efforts of what is
Facebook may be getting some new friends. The social network site will likely either disclose its financial results or hold an initial public offering by April 2012 in what will
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