The following update on DOI’s investigation into the snow storm was issued by DOI Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn today: “DOI is continuing its multi-borough investigation that we started last week into whether there is any evidence of intentional acts of commission or omission related to the snow cleanup. DOI is attacking this wide-ranging investigation on […]
A now-retracted British study that linked autism to childhood vaccines was an “elaborate fraud” that has done long-lasting damage to public health, a leading medical publication reported Wednesday. An investigation
Officials say neo-Nazis have taken over a village in east Germany, according to the Daily Telegraph. Residents of Jamel say their village has become a pilgrimage site for the extremists
The next time you’re in California, you might not want to bring your cell phone with you. The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that police can search the cell phone
Led by Yisrael Feld, a senior at Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA), the USA basketball team took the gold at the Maccabi Australia International Games on January 2 in Sydney, Australia. The team included two other local Yeshiva League ballplayers, HAFTR’s Shelby Rosenberg and JEC’s Yehuda Heller. Feld, a six foot guard and […]
A former Israeli justice minister on Wednesday said ex-President Moshe Katsav should be pardoned to spare Israelis the sight of a former head of state serving jail time. Katsav’s conviction last week has riveted the nation, with nearly unanimous scorn for the disgraced politician and wall-to-wall praise for the legal system that proved itself egalitarian […]
Facing questions over whether crime statistics have been manipulated to cast the New York Police Department in a more positive light, the police commissioner, Raymond W. Kelly, announced the creation of a panel consisting of former federal prosecutors to review the department’s internal crime-reporting system. Mr. Kelly said on Wednesday that the panel, the Crime […]
Message from Governor Cuomo: As I’ve said many times, I believe this is your government and I need your help to turn it around. That’s why this year ’s State of the State is being given at the NYS Convention Center and hundreds of real New Yorkers will be attending. I have much I want […]
It looked like an innocent e-mail X-Mas card from the White House. But the holiday greeting that surfaced just before the secular holiday was a ruse by cybercriminals to steal documents and other data from law enforcement, military and government workers — particularly those involved in computer crime investigations. Analysts who have studied the malicious […]
The following is a report by The Daily Journal: The Vineland Kosher Poultry plant on South Mill Road shut down production Dec. 30, according to a union official representing about
The Brooklyn Paper reports: The NYPD has been ordered to begin a borough-wide crackdown that will hit renegade riders for often-overlooked “vehicular offenses” like failing to obey traffic signals and signs, breaking the speed limit, tailgating, and even failure to signal before turning. Several police sources said on Tuesday that the strict enforcement of safety […]
Former Agriprocessors executive Sholom Rubashkin is taking his appeal to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in the latest chapter of the case. Rubashkin, 51, argued in a lengthy filing
YWN interviewed Andrew Wolpin, one of New York state’s kosher law-enforcement inspectors who has just been laid off by the state. The division has been gutted, sparking concerns in parts of the Jewish community that the cuts raise the risk of fraud in the billion-dollar-plus kosher-food industry. Under budget cuts instituted by outgoing Gov. David […]
Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary and close confidante to President Obama, said Wednesday that he will step down and become an outside political adviser to the president and
They are sanitationmen and – as a whole – they’ve been portrayed as abominable snowmen responsible for the lousy cleanup after the Blizzard of 2010. But five of them who work out of the Brooklyn District 11 garage – known as BK 11 – want the world to hear the “real” story. “Okay, so what […]
Hospitals were swamped Wednesday morning with patients seeking treatment for the swine flu, which hit Israel for the second sequential winter. The Health Ministry announced Wednesday morning that 14 people
Terror fears have struck a Brooklyn bus depot after reports that several suspicious people videotaped its highly-flammable natural gas tanks. Three incidents of mysterious filming were reported on Saturday, Sunday
The Daily News reports: Someone must have been in charge when the blizzard roared into town last week, but City Hall won’t say who. Mayor Bloomberg – who often jets
A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Toronto this week after the pilot dumped a cup of coffee on the plane’s communication’s equipment. The unwanted
President Obama has narrowed the list of candidates for White House chief of staff down to two — current interim boss Pete Rouse and former Clinton Commerce Secretary William Daley
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