Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said at Hillcrest Jewish Center in Fresh Meadows that prosecutors and law enforcement officials must work with community members to fight the homegrown terrorism
Authorities evacuated a plane at the airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday after one of three people loading the plane failed to produce identification and then disappeared, police said. U.S.
MTA board members approved a whopping fare hike this morning with a 12 to 2 vote — sending the monthly MetroCard to $104 from $89 and increasing the single ride
Members of Pakistan’s spy agency are pressing Taliban field commanders to fight the U.S. and its allies in Afghanistan, U.S. officials and Afghan militants have told The Wall Street Journal,
It’ll be Carl Paladino time and only Carl Paladino time on television Thursday in many parts of the state. The raucous Republican governor candidate bought a bunch of tube time
A Mississippi judge yesterday jailed a lawyer who refused to recite the Pledge of Allegiance in his courtroom. Attorney Danny Lampley, 49, was taken into custody Wednesday morning after Chancellor
Yahoo is rolling out a new search experience today, making its web search more streamlined and visual, improving its mobile search and adding a list of hot search topics to
Multiple media outlets are reporting that that disgraced former NYS Comptroller Alan Hevesi will be in court this morning to be arraigned on charges in connection with an ongoing investigation
A Bronx man busted last year for threatening to assassinate the President and the NYPD’s top cop was arrested Wednesday for threatening to blow up Penn Station, sources said. Jonathan
Officials are looking to eliminate sugary drinks from the grocery lists of some lower income New Yorkers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor David Paterson are expected to petition the U.S.
An employee of Cambridge Internet company Akamai Technologies Inc. was arrested today and charged with wire fraud after allegedly trying to sell confidential information about the firm to a foreign
For more than a decade, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has been the predominant tool the world uses to connect to the Web, but that’s no longer true, according to a Web
The search for a missing Great Neck man is intensifying, with many volunteer organizations joining the search. Since YWN posted our initial story yesterday, volunteers from Shomrim, Chaverim & other
Apple Inc. plans to begin mass producing a new iPhone by the end of 2010 that would allow Verizon Wireless to sell the smartphone early next year, said people briefed
The number of Americans receiving food stamps rose to a record 41.8 million in July as the jobless rate hovered near a 27-year high, the government said. Recipients of Supplemental
Firefighters in rural Tennessee let a home burn to the ground last week because the homeowner hadn’t paid a $75 fee. Gene Cranick of Obion County and his family lost
The recession put a 3.1 percent dent in the personal incomes of New York state residents, who endured their first full-year decline in more than 70 years, according to a
Brooklyn — Councilman David Greenfield is making the community aware that over one-thousand Jewish non-profit organizations are at risk of losing their 501(C)(3) designation because of a new law that
Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is the nation’s most popular senator, according to survey results released by Public Policy Polling on Tuesday. The polling firm released advance details of the poll
Among adults whose heart had stopped beating, those who received ‘hands-only’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) from a bystander were 60 percent more likely to survive than those who received no CPR
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