The Health Department is urging New Yorkers to take extra precautions against West Nile virus, after the 13th human case of the virus in the city this summer was confirmed.

YWN has confirmed that since 6:30pm there has been a blackout on 48th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues affecting hundreds of residents. Initial estimates were that electric would be

6:09PM EST: Monsey Hatzolah is currently on the scene of a child struck by a vehicle on 38 Monsey Heights Road. The child is reportedly pinned underneath the vehicle, and

4:35PM EST: Just 24 hours after 4 Israelis were killed in a terrorist shooting attack, YWN Israel is receiving initial reports that gunfire has been sprayed at a vehicle on

Rep. Charles Rangel, awaiting the congressional equivalent of a trial on House ethics charges, appeared Wednesday at a rally at City Hall in New York in support of the planned

An elderly wedding guest died and dozens more were left seriously ill after suffering salmonella poisoning at the reception meal. Rene Kwartz , aged 82, was one of four guests

The National Weather Service forecasts that impacts of Hurricane Earl may reach the New York metropolitan area by Friday afternoon, bringing heavy rainfall and high winds. In preparation for the

Jewish Senator Eric Schneiderman “proudly” accepted Al Sharpton’s endorsement last week. To win Sharpton’s support, Schneiderman promised that Al Sharpton’s organization would have an “annex” in Schniederman’s Albany office if

WPIX Reports: If Hurricane Earl maintains its force and makes a beeline for New York, coastal neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens could be in trouble. With that threat in mind,

The NYPD Hate Crimes task force is investigating an anti-Semitic scrawl at NYU. Cleaning staff found “Damn Orthodox Jews” scrawled in a first-floor men’s room at 40 Washington Square South

With one final, fitting blast of 96-degree heat on Tuesday, the summer of 2010 went down in the National Weather Service’s record books as the hottest ever in New York

After more than seven years of American military operations in Iraq, U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will help mark the transfer of U.S. military command in Iraq on Wednesday. The

Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he doesn’t have an eye on the White House but it sure seems to have one on him. The mayor’s summer datebook has included golf with

New York, NY – Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly presided over the NYPD’s annual High Holiday security briefing at One Police Plaza Tuesday. As it has every year since 9/11, the

WJZ Reports: There are three more ambulances responding to emergencies in Northwest Baltimore. As Suzanne Collins reports, they were purchased with private funds, and the paramedics are volunteers from Baltimore’s

Police have tracked down and suspended an officer accused of refusing to help a Brooklyn girl dying from an asthma attack last Friday. The mother of Briana Ojeda, 11, says