Port-au-Prince – Man Rescued From Debris in Haiti, May Have Been Trapped for 4 Weeks
Port-Au-Prince - A 28-year-old man was rescued from the rubble of a building in Haiti's capital Monday and it is possible he may have been trapped for four weeks since the devastating Jan. 12 earthqua...
New York, NY – Audit: Lousy Record Keeping at Disability Parking Permit Program
New York, NY - Perfectly healthy scammers could fake their way to free parking on city streets by exploiting shoddy record keeping in a program for disabled drivers, a new audit claims.
City Contro...
Washington – Obama Gets Real Kick in New Poll
Washington - President Obama's job approval rating has taken another dive, putting him underwater for the first time in the latest Marist poll.
Just 44% of the country approve of the work Obama is ...
Kiryas Joel, NY – Mayor Appeals To State Police Superintendent To Delay Ticket Blitz
Kiryas Joel, NY - Complaints are mounting about a deluge of traffic tickets state troopers have written while patrolling Kiryas Joel to quell the latest conflicts between its feuding factions.
Seve...
Barcelona, Spain – Out of Hiding, First ex-Marrano Returns to Spain as Rabbi
Barcelona, Spain - For the first time since the expulsion of Spain's Jews in 1492, a descendant of forcibly-converted Spanish Jews who immigrated to Israel, returned to Judaism and received rabbinical...
Irvine, CA – 11 Arrested for Disrupting Israeli Ambassador’s Talk at UC Irvine
Irvine, CA - Eleven students have been arrested during a raucous lecture at University of California, Irvine, where Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren spoke about U.S.-Israel relations.
Oren's speech ...
Forest Hills, NY – WWII Vet Crashes Into Synagogue Blames Toyota
Forest Hills, Queens, NY - A World War II veteran said he and his wife became the latest victims of Toyota accelerator woes when his 2009 Camry's gas pedal jammed - sending the car careening into a sy...
New York – Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander – An Accomplished Life
New York - Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander, the founder and president of Touro College and Lander College, was a brilliant man of vision and compassion who trail-blazed new paths in education for both Bnei ...
Washington – ADL Gives Obama An ‘F’ for Failing to Deliver in Middle East
Washington - Two-and-a-half weeks after US President Barack Obama completed his first year in office, observers both in Israel and the US gave his Middle East policy largely failing grades for efficac...
Brooklyn, Y – B44 Bus Route Gets Federal Stimulus Money For New Initiative
An infusion of federal stimulus dollars could provide the jolt to get the Nostrand Avenue Select Bus Service (SBS) project jump-started.
That after the Obama administration’s 2011 budget included $...
London – Teacher Fired for Complaining Muslim Students Called 9/11 Hijackers ‘Heroes’
London - A British teacher was fired from his job after complaining that some of his Muslim students were celebrating the Sept. 11 hijackers as "heroes," the Daily Mail reported.
Nicholas Kafouris,...
Albany, NY – Paterson Wants to Raise NYC Payroll Tax to Aid MTA
Albany, NY - New York Governor David Paterson proposed changes to a payroll tax aimed at assisting the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, saying it would restore about $230 million in revenue this...
Dallas, TX – American To Charge $8 for Blankets, Pillows
Dallas, TX - If you want a pillow and blanket in coach on American Airlines, it's going to cost you.
The airline will charge $8 for a pillow and blanket in coach class for domestic trips and some i...
New York – NYC Mayor Bloomberg Donated $254 Million to Charity in 2009
New York - New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg gave $254 million of his fortune to philanthropic causes in 2009.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranked the billionaire No. 4 on its list of 50 Ameri...
Albany, NY – New York Governor David Paterson Lashes Back at Rumors
Albany, NY - New York Gov. David Paterson is lashing back at what he calls an orchestrated, scandalous assault on his character that includes unsubstantiated accusations about womanizing and drug use ...
Miami, FL – Super Bowl Was Most Viewed TV Program Ever
Miami, FL - The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of M-A-S-H to become the most-watched program in television history.
The Nielsen Co. estimated Mon...
Stockholm – Court: Punishing Muslim for Refusal to Shake Hands With Women is Discrimination
Stockholm – Sweden's unemployment agency has been found guilty of discrimination for expelling a Muslim man from a job training program because he refused to shake hands with a woman.
A Stockholm c...
New York, NY – Huge Jump in City Workers Making More Than $100,000
New York, NY - The number of city workers pulling down $100,000 or more jumped more than tenfold in the last decade, largely because of hefty raises won by schoolteachers and principals.
Figures co...
Tallahassee, FL – Supreme Court Refuses to Halt Execution of Jewish Inmate
Tallahassee, FL - The Florida Supreme Court has refused to halt the execution next week of a man convicted of murdering a state wildlife officer 26 years ago.
The justices today rejected claims fro...
New York – U.S. Stocks Keeps on Sliding: Dow Down 100 Points
New York - The Dow slipped Monday, with financials leading the retreat, as concerns about the economic recovery and Europe's debt problems kept investors on edge.
The Dow Jones industrial average (...