Huntington, UT – Mine official: Utah Miners May be Forever Entombed.
Huntington, UT - Six coal miners caught in a cave-in are probably dead and may forever be entombed in the still-quivering mountain, officials conceded Sunday, all but abandoning the unflinching optimi...
Blacksburg, VA – 2 Virginia Tech Students Critical in CO1 Leak
Blacksburg, VA - Two Virginia Tech students are in critical condition and 15 other people are hospitalized after a suspected carbon monoxide leak at an apartment complex.The two were flown to the Uni...
South Fallsburgh, NY +Child Struck+
Sullivan County, South Fallsburgh, NY +Child Struck+ A motor vehicle accident with a 2-year-old child that was struck and sustained serious head trauma at 14 Parnes Drive and Laural Park Drive near th...
New York, NY – Fire That Killed 2 Firefighters Questions FDNY Preparedness After 9/11.
New York, NY - A fire that killed two firefighters in an abandoned skyscraper near ground zero may have been harder to fight because of the protective polyurethane on several floors in the building, G...
Ramapo, NY – Court Upheld Villages Rights to Sue Town Over Religious Housing
Ramapo, NY - A state appeals court has upheld villages' rights to sue the town over environmental concerns about zoning for multifamily housing connected to religious schools.
The unanimous de...
Adelaide, Australia – London Dayan Won’t Hear Case Between Synagogue and Its Former Rabbi
Adelaide, Australia - The former chief judge of the London Beth Din will not travel to Australia to arbitrate in a bitter dispute between Adelaide's only Orthodox synagogue and its former rabbi.
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Boston, MA – Two Members of Regional ADL Resign in Protest
Boston, MA - Two members of the local Anti-Defamation League have resigned in protest over the decision by the national organization to fire its New England regional director.Andrew Tarsy was fired be...
Karachi, Pakistan – Pakistani Jew Awaits Her Day In Court.
Karachi, Pakistan - There are still some Jews living in Karachi, though their number has decreased from 2,500 at the time of independence, according to a report in a Jewish publication. One of them ha...
New York – Judge Knocks State Police for Withholding Information
New York - A judge has criticized the NY State Police for playing a game of "cat and mouse" over a request for public records and ruled it had no legitimate reason to delete certain informat...
Israel – Israel’s Refusal To Let In Refugees Stirs Debate.
Israel - Israel said Sunday it would expel refugees from Sudan's wartorn Darfur region, touching off hot debate over whether the Jewish state, founded after the Nazi genocide, has a duty to take in pe...
Melbourne, Australia – Race Hate Attack on Yeshiva Students
Melbourne, Australia - Two men with baseball bats beat a teenage Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva student outside a Melbourne restaurant in a racist attack on Motzei Shabbos.
The boy, Alon Tam, said the two m...
Monticello, NY – Popular Hangout Billiards for Sale after Village Shuts it Down for Violations
Monticello, NY - The Village of Monticello shut down Hi-Cue Billiards on East Broadway after finding numerous fire and code violations, village officials said.
Hi-Cue Billiards gained attention aft...
Orange County, NY – Kiryas Joel on Legislative Committee’s Agenda
Orange County, NY - Two Kiryas Joel-related topics coming before an Orange County legislative committee on Wednesday will probably draw spectators and provoke more than the usual discussion.
One is...
New York – NY Bridges Data Online.
New York - You can now research that bridge before you come to it.
New York’s Department of Transportation has put up on the Web data on the condition of every highway bridge in the state — more than...
New York – Toys “R” Us Recalls Baby Bibs Made In China.
Consumer Recall.
New York - Toys "R" Us Inc. yesterday said it was removing all vinyl baby bibs from its Toys "R" Us and Babies "R" Us stores as a precaution after two bibs made in China for one supp...
Seattle, WA – Sabbath Is A Day to Shut Down Gadgets and Really Connect
Seattle, WA - Keeping ourselves so connected can be exhausting. with e-mail and voice mail and snail mail; with our ever-new hardware and constantly updated software; with all of the booting up and lo...
Scranton, PA – Will the Hasidic and Local Tie be Lost?
Scranton, PA - Even though he and his followers apparently will not be moving to Scranton after a court turned down his proposed purchase of East Scranton Intermediate School, as was reported here on ...
New Haven, CT – Officials: Shomrim Patrol Have Reduced Crime
New Haven, CT - For the past two months, Mr. Eliezer Greer, Mr. Alfred Brooks and fellow volunteers in the Edgewood Park Defense Patrol — half of whom carry guns — have walked and biked through this ...
Manhattan, NY – Seven-Alarm Fire Kills 2 Firefighters
Manhattan, NY - A seven-alarm fire in the abandoned Deutsche Bank skyscraper at 130 Liberty Street and Greenwich Street sent a plume of gray smoke trailing above ground zero this afternoon as firetru...
Monticello, NY – Secular Temptations Lure Orthodox Youth.
Originally Posted Aug 17.
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