The NYC transportation commissioner wants to catch motorists who exceed the city’s 30 mph speed limit. Commissioner Janette Sadik-Khan tells the New York Post that her agency is aggressively pushing
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At a moving memorial ceremony last week for the Carmel Forest fire victims, the ZAKA Rescue and Recovery Organization launched its latest tool in its ongoing efforts to save lives
The Department of Transportation announced Sunday that alternate side parking will resume citywide on Monday. Alternate side parking had been suspended by the city since X-Mas and the blizzard that
(Video in extended article) A one-year-old girl from Yesod Ma’ale in northern Israel R”L drowned to death on Sunday after falling into a rubber pool that had filled with rain
[Op-Ed By Yossi Gestetner] Before it was even clear if Democrat Congressperson Gabrielle Giffords survived the shooting, members of the media and press were already pointing to Palin and to
U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is able to communicate with doctors by following simple commands, a doctor said Sunday. “We are very encouraged by that,” said Dr. Michael Lemole, Jr., chief
Don’t hold your breath, but a new study predicts smoking could disappear by the middle of the century. A Citigroup analysis of the tobacco industry indicates there may be zero
Hundreds of crackpot callers tied up overworked EMS units and swamped the 911 system with frivolous calls during the Christmas-weekend blizzard and its snowy aftermath, worsening a deadly backlog of
Authorities said they are not convinced one person was behind a shooting rampage at a town hall-style event Saturday in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead, including a federal judge,
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YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of R’ Shmuel Feiner Z”L, father of R’ Usher Feiner – who was Niftar last night. R’ Shmuel Z’L, 95, was recently
YWN regrets to inform you of the Petira of Rebbitzen Esther Alster A”H, wife of HaRav Shimon Alster Shlita, Rov of Bais Medrash Torah Utefillah, and Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshiva
The nine-year old girl who was killed in Saturday’s shooting has been identified as Christina Taylor Greene. Greene was born on Sep. 11, 2001, according to Tucson TV station KVOA.
The words “mother” and “father” will be removed from U.S. passport applications and replaced with gender neutral terminology, the State Department says. “The words in the old form were ‘mother’
Gabe Zimmerman, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords director of community outreach, is among the dead from the Arizona shooting, Giffords’ office confirmed to Politico Saturday night. Zimmerman was 30, and had been
The President speaks from the White House on the shootings in Arizona and on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Full transcript below: THE PRESIDENT: As many of you are aware, earlier today
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