Teaneck, NJ – A Jewish newspaper won’t publish wedding or engagement announcements from same-gender couples any longer after receiving complaints, according to a statement from the editor on the newspaper’s

More than 80,000 New Yorkers who fraudulently collected a total of $141 million in unemployment benefits will have to repay the state via their federal tax returns, a state official said. The new program begins next year and is open to all U.S. states which previously could only garnish state tax returns�not federal tax returns, […]

Mayor Bloomberg — who has no problem telling New Yorkers not to smoke, gobble trans fats or sprinkle too much salt on their food — insists, “Government shouldn’t tell you

Even as hundreds of police officers across the country are losing their jobs, law enforcement officials say there is another disturbing casualty of the financial downturn: basic training. Nearly 70%

Former Vice President Walter Mondale said on CNN that President Obama relies too much on teleprompters — which Mondale called “idiot boards” — when speaking to the American people. In

The MTA yesterday announced a 10-year agreement with AT&T and T-Mobile to provide cell and WiFi service in several Manhattan subway stations by the end of 2011 � a year earlier than expected. The first stations, all in Chelsea, include: 14th Street and Sixth Avenue on the F, M and L lines; 14th Street and […]

Given the news about Verizon Wireless overcharging its customers by about $50 million, mobile phone users may be smart to examine their bills more closely. About 15 million of Verizon’s

The New York City Police Department says the two men found dead inside an SUV on a Manhattan street early Monday morning were potential witnesses in two separate murder cases,

Just hours after burying 8-year-old�Avigdor Krasny A”H, who was tragically killed in the Shmini Atzeres fire in Flatbush, the parents�are asking Klal Yisroel to please be Mispallel for their son, 4-year-old Yitzchok Issac ben Chana. Yitzchok Issac was transferred on Sunday night from the burn unit in Staten Island, to Long Island Jewish Children’s Hospital, […]

The following is a Chicago Tribune article: Some might assume that the idea of a Rahm Emanuel candidacy for mayor would be cause for celebration along Devon Avenue, the longtime

Israeli Police have arrested Rabbi Yisrael Ariel and Rabbi Doc Stein, both members of the organization ‘Sanhedrin,’ that called upon settlers and right-wing activists not to recognize the authority of

Closing arguments are set to begin today in the trial of four men accused of plotting to blow up synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military planes upstate. After

Verizon Wireless said Sunday it will give refunds to about 15 million of its customers because the company incorrectly charged them for data sessions. Over the past few years, some

Among the possible targets in the suspected European terror plot are pre-security areas in at least five major European airports, a law enforcement official told ABC News. Authorities believe terror

It turns out that New York City�s streets actually are paved with gold�its tens of thousands of parking meters could be worth $5 billion or more if privatized. City officials are looking at how other cash-strapped municipalities have already auctioned off the long-term rights to their meters for hundreds of millions of dollars�and say the […]

A million times a year, fire trucks are driven into the streets of New York City, usually at breakneck speeds with lights and sirens blaring. The rush is often critical: Firefighters converge on fires, douse the flames and save lives. The same response applies in less serious situations � calls that are not life-threatening, which […]

Andrew Cuomo has been spending much of the afternoon meeting privately with the different leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish sets, including the two factions of the Satmars and with the