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Crown Heights - Jewish girl was mugged Wednesday evening, and her blackberry was taken. The incident occurred on Kingston Avenue and Park Place at...

The High Court of Justice on Thursday ruled in favor of allowing 'kosher' bus lines, in which women and men sit separately, to serve...

Rav Moshe Adler ZATZAL from Eretz Yisroel was R"L Niftar from critical injuries after being struck by a vehicle early Wednesday evening. The accident...

The chief of the city's EMS was abruptly demoted tonight - becoming the first head to roll because of the city's disastrous response to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Led by Yisrael Feld, a senior at Yeshiva University High School for Boys (MTA), the USA basketball team took the gold at the Maccabi...

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...

Facing questions over whether crime statistics have been manipulated to cast the New York Police Department in a more positive light, the police commissioner,...

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...

 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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary and close confidante to President Obama, said Wednesday that he will step down and become an outside...

They are sanitationmen and - as a whole - they’ve been portrayed as abominable snowmen responsible for the lousy cleanup after the Blizzard of...

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...

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...

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...

A United Airlines flight from Chicago to Frankfurt, Germany, was diverted to Toronto this week after the pilot dumped a cup of coffee on...

President Obama has narrowed the list of candidates for White House chief of staff down to two -- current interim boss Pete Rouse and...

A toddler is in critical condition after getting hit by a car in Williamsburg on Tuesday tonight. The child was reportedly in a stroller being...

5:00PM EST: Just two weeks after more than 200 Jewish graves were vandalized at the Washington Cemetery in Flatbush, numerous headstones were once again...

The attached video & photos obtained exclusively by YWN are quite interesting, to say the least. They show a NYC Sanitation employee (the...

Lottery players in states that play Mega Millions are getting the chance to vie for the seventh-largest lottery prize in U.S. history. The Mega Millions...

Last week, the nearly 200,000 people I represent were left stranded by their Mayor – a Mayor I have supported for years. In fact,...

Dear Mr. President, On behalf of the people of Israel, I am writing to you to request clemency for Jonathan Pollard. At the time of his...

12:48PM EST: The Lakewood Police Department has just closed off two streets, after a suspicious package was found in front of police headquarters, YWN...

Ever wondered how NYC gets rid of those huge mountains of snow? The following video taken for FlatbushScoop.com will show you exactly how that's...

The following article is from the Chicago Tribune: Runners gearing up for the Bank of America Chicago Marathon usually like to "carb up" in the...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is aiming to reduce the state's Medicaid spending by billions of dollars, exceeding the size of cuts to the program proposed...

Surveillance video caught Sanitation Department supervisors buying six-packs of beer at a Brooklyn bodega and then heading back to their official car during last...