Fallsburg, NY - The break-ins started right after Labor Day, right after the Orthodox Jewish summer people left their seasonal homes at Luxor Estates and Evergreen Estates, and within a few weeks, there had been about 20 burglaries. Now, Fallsburg police have arrested local two teenagers and a local man in the case. Hector Flores, 25, and Richard Postell, 18, of Loch Sheldrake were charged...

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY - A new synagogue was erected in this section of Brooklyn in a whirlwind 14 days by more than 200 workers, many of them disciples of a fractious Satmar Hasidic group that up till now had been congregating under a tent. Neither stop-work orders from the city nor the setting sun could keep followers of Rabbi Aaron Teitelbaum from building the stucco Temple Yetev Lev...

Sharon, PA - A former Nazi concentration camp guard who has lived in Western Pennsylvania for about 50 years was stripped of his citizenship by a federal judge. Anton Geiser, 81, of Sharon, Mercer County, has two weeks to hand over his certificate of naturalization, passport and any other documents indicating he is an American citizen, U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone ruled. His lawyers...

Montreal, Canada - A highway overpass in a suburb of Montreal collapsed today, trapping cars underneath and sending others crashing down from above. Five people were pulled from the rubble and taken to hospital, Police Sergeant Daniel Guerin said. No deaths were reported, he said. "There were four or five vehicles including one motorcycle travelling over the top and a few underneath - we don't...

Brazil - A Brazilian jetliner crashed Friday deep in the Amazon jungle, apparently after clipping a smaller plane, and officials said they doubt any of the 155 people aboard survived.  Rescue teams reached the crash zone hours after air force helicopter pilots found the Boeing 737-800's wreckage on Saturday, but "so far it is impossible to confirm the existence of survivors in the area,"...

New York, NY - Six New York men were arrested and charged with fraud and conspiracy, accused of running a foreign exchange scam that cheated more than 230 investors out of as much as $7 million, government officials said. The men, most of whom are U.S. citizens, are accused of operating a scheme from May 2002 to March 2003 where investors were cold-called with offers of out-sized returns on...

Israel - El Al Israel Airlines said on it has been ordered to testify before a grand jury in a U.S. government investigation of possible price-fixing violations in air cargo transport. In a statement to the Tel Aviv stock exchange, Israel's largest carrier said it had received a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in Washington on November 1 and to produce documents relating to the...

Chicago - Some call it the seat tax, and not with affection. During the Jewish High Holy Days, the ticket fee to attend some synagogues can reach hundreds of dollars, Jackie Saltz realized. ''Couples would say, 'Look, it's not that we're poor, but we have expenses. Rent comes first,''' he said. So as the 10 days that span Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur continue through Monday, Saltz leads one...

Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY +Construction Accident+ Hatzolah BLS and ALS responded Code-1 for a 35-year-old male that a pile of bricks fell on his head at the construction side on 204 Middleton Street. NYPD ESU also responding.Aided has very serious injuries. U/D: 11:31 Aided is alive and semi consious...

Borough Park, Brooklyn, NY +Pedestrian Struck+ A motor vehicle accident on New Utrecht Avenue and 47th Street with a pedestrian that was struck, Hatzolah on the scene. ...

Wellington, FL - A state child abuse investigator spat out a string of expletives about a Jewish family without realizing the family's voice mail was recording. Daniella Arnold, a Department of Children and Families employee since 1989, was following up with a Wellington family after the father of two young children was charged with domestic battery. She left her cellphone number on the...

Lakeland, FL - Hundreds of police were swarming "through every square inch" of thickly overgrown Florida woods this morning as the manhunt intensified for an accused cop killer. "I want to say to his friends, that if you try to hide him or move him, we'll put you in jail," said Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd at a news conference in Lakeland. "We're watching associates, we're watching their...

Brooklyn, NY +HazMat in Transit+ Fire Department on the scene using all hands in transit on Metropolitan Avenue and Lorimer Street and have stopped all trains coming into the Lorimer Street Station due to an unknown substance sprayed on the last car of a Queens bound train that's in the Lorimer Street station now. Situation is D/W/H, both sides have been evacuated. PD, FD and EMS are all on the...

Boston - Some 45 passengers and crew were evacuated down emergency shoots when smoke started pouring into the cabin of a Delta Shuttle flight from NYC to Boston. Delta flight 1908 from LaGuardia to Logan Airport, as it was taxiing off the runway and toward the gate, smoke was seen in the cabin and the captain ordered everyone off the plane via the emergency shoots, at this time at least two...

West Bank - Police are investigating whether a girl abducted from Tulkarm and taken to Ashdod last night had an Israeli mother, and who is behind the kidnaping. The girl's Palestinian father claimed som Israelis disguised as police officers had come to their house last night and abducted both him and his daughter, but afterwards, he was released, and his girl vanished. Police say that...