Brooklyn, NY +Pedestrian Struck+ A serious motor vehicle accident with a pedestrian that was struck on Kings Highway and East 26th Street, Hatzolah on the scene requesting Medics on a rush for aided that is unconscious. U/D: 15:54 Aided was pronounced D.O.A. NYPD Highway A.I. Team responding for the job...

Monsey, NY +Child Struck+ A serious accident with a van that struck an 11-year-old girl - from the Riverdale section in the Bronx who was visiting family in Monsey - while crossing Saddle River Drive in front of Bais Rachel School for Girls on Route 59 and Saddle River Road, Ramapo PD and Hatzolah BLS on the scene requesting ALS on a rush, child is in respiratory arrest in very serious condition...

New York, NY +Mafia Cops Convictions Thrown Out+ A judge threw out a racketeering murder conviction against two detectives accused of moonlighting as hitmen for the mob including a Jewish man, saying the statute of limitations had expired on the slayings. ...

New York State Thruway +4 Car MVA+ A motor vehicle accident involving 4 vehicles on the northbound of the New York State Thruway at M/M 37.2 is causing some traffic, aided have minor injuries, Hatzolah on the scene. U/D: 13:19 Traffic is backed up about 10 miles from the area of Exit 15 to Exit 16...

Bronx, NY - Bernard B. Kerik, the former New York City police commissioner, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges as the result of accepting tens of thousands of dollars of gifts and a loan while a city official in the late 1990's. He entered the pleas in a Bronx courtroom and was sentenced to a total of $221,000 in fines. He was accompanied by three lawyers and three supporters for the...

Hollywood, FL - Commissioners offered a last-ditch offer to settle the religious discrimination case with the Orthodox synagogue. As with a settlement proposed earlier in the week, the new offer calls for the city to pay $2 million to the Hollywood Community Synagogue, while the synagogue would be able to continue to remain in two homes in a residential neighborhood. But compared to the...

Berlin, Germany - Vandals sprayed two swastikas on signs at a Jewish cemetery in western Germany. The vandals also daubed with paint the wall of the cemetery in the town of Alsbach-Haehnlein, south of Frankfurt. Police in nearby Darmstadt said it was the fifth time the cemetery has been desecrated in the past two years. Prosecutors were investigating the incident...

Boynton Beach, Florida - A $400,000 mikvah is expected to be ready by the beginning of July at the synagogue, of Greater Boynton Beach, at 10655 El Clair Ranch Road. "The Jewish community in Boynton Beach has been steadily growing over the last decade," said one resident in the area, 31. "In recent years, we have seen a large influx of young families. Having our own mikvah will not only serve...

New York, NY - As the number of complaints made against the police department reaches record levels, police officials are imposing harsh punishment on fewer officers, Civilian Complaint Review Board data shows. The board received 6,796 complaints in 2005, an increase of 600 from the prior year, according to the board's status report. The number of substantiated cases against police officers...

Lakewood, NJ - Artur Issakov of Lakewood was killed Sunday morning in a motor vehicle accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway. He was 21. People come into the store "Dollar Ron's" in Neptune City, where the young store manager greeted everyone with an accented English, and ask where he is, and they're crying, said Ron Kleiman, who worked with Issakov. "Everyone loved him." ...

Lakewood, PA - Camps Lavi and Morasha were scheduled to open Wednesday, June 28, however, it had become evident that things are not going as planned.  According to Camp Lavi Director David Fischberger, the relentless rains were making roads impassable, the local access roads from both Route 17 and Route 247 were shut down. Both camps went into a state of lockdown, with staff...

Blooming Grove, NY - In a landslide decision last night, residents voted 856-89 to incorporate a 4.98-square-mile section of the town into a village, the first one in the county since Kiryas Joel was created nearly three decades ago. "We worked hard for this," said Garry Dugan, member of the South Blooming Grove Homeowners Association, which spearheaded the movement. "We've been around for 20...

Manhattan, NY +Senators Arrested+ Senator Kevin Parker who is senator in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY and Senator Tom Duane of Manhattan and a few other people from Local 32BJ, were arrested yesterday for disorderly conduct, blocking the entrance and trespassing into 350 5th Avenue at the Empire State Building, while protesting for higher salarie for security employees at the building. ...

Freehold, NJ - A three-hour effort by a judge to negotiate a major settlement in the Solomon Dwek bounced-check case failed, pushing PNC Bank closer to deciding whether to force Dwek into bankruptcy, according to two participants who asked not to be identified. The effort began after the judge agreed to postpone a hearing into whether HSBC Bank should put aside $22.2 million that PNC says...

Cairo, Egypt - Osama bin Laden has praised slain al-Qaida in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi as the "lion of holy war" and as a martyr, he vows al Qaeda will continue to fight the US. and he is demanding the body of al-Zaqarwi to be turned over to his family. All in a new videotape. ...