Lublin, Poland - A group of Orthodox Jews from Israel have broken in to the former Nazi extermination camp of Majdanek in eastern Poland. Security guards at the camp, now a museum, called police when the 33 Orthodox Jews penetrated the camp after the end of visiting hours. "They forced open two gates that lead to the army barracks of the former Nazi camp," Lublin police spokeswoman Anna Smazak...

Posted. 06:35am Orange County, Monroe, NY +Route 17 Traffic Alert+ A serious motor vehicle accident between a car and a truck on the northbound lanes of Route 17 at the exit ramp of Exit 130 to Toute 208, FD, EMS, KJ Hatzolah and NYSP are all on the scene. Traffic delays in the area due to prolonged extrication. Medevac has been cancelled, CPR in progress. U/D: 09:34 am Aided female was...

Monsey, NY - Today was sentencing day for the robbers of Monsey Glatt. Twenty three year old Edward Ceus along with twenty one year old Junior Marsielle both of Spring Valley were sentenced today in Rockland County Court. Both men plead guilty to the crime of robbery in the first degree for the November 23 robbery of the Monsey Glatt store. Marseille will serve 13 years in state prison while Ceus...

Sullivan County, NY - Sullivan Renaissance announced that a camp in Fallsburg and a bungalow colony in Monticello will each receive a $2500 matching grant for beautification improvements. Improvements at Camp Viznitz, located on Old Falls Road near the hamlet of Fallsburg, will include restoration of a stone wall and landscaping of the property. Town of Fallsburg Code Enforcement Officer Allen...

Pomona, NY - The village has formed a legal team to defend itself in the lawsuit brought by Congregation Rabbinical College of Tartikov.Tartikov sued the village, arguing that Pomona's unreasonable land-use regulations and intentional conduct prohibited it from building and operating a rabbinical college on a 130-acre site off routes 202 and 306. Mayor Nick Sanderson said that the village...

New York, NY - First they moved against smoking, and then trans fats. Now, city health officials are taking on the bottle -- as in a baby's bottle. Today they announced a new campaign to promote mom's milk instead of using formula, they want infants to eat at Mom's instead. "We're producing it. Why not give it to the baby," Mashia Nelson said. You won't see any...

Sacramento, CA - A case of a serial tagger or a string of copycat crimes? A fourth case of racist graffiti has happened early this morning in the Sacramento area. There have been three previous incidents. On July 25, at a park in Natomas, a swastika and death threats to African Americans was found on a bike path. On July 27, more swastikas were found spray painted in River Park. Yesterday...

Israel - An Israeli government offer of a new $20 monthly stipend for Holocaust survivors provoked outrage Tuesday, with survivors charging the meager allowance will do nothing to make up for years of neglect of the 240,000 Israelis who lived through Nazi horrors. Survivors have long claimed that European countries treat them far better than Israel, where many elderly survivors live in poverty...

New York, NY - U.S. stocks declined, erasing an earlier rally of 140 points, on concern losses from subprime mortgages are worsening. Banking shares fell after American Home Mortgage Investment Corp. said it's unable to fund loans and may have to liquidate assets. The DJ Industrial Average closed down 146 points. [vin...

Brooklyn, NY - After a long trial, the judge has just announced part of his verdict on the sentencing trial of Allou Healthcare, Inc. Herman, Aaron, and Jacob Jacobowitz, the top executives of the company, had pleaded guilty in December ’05 to charges of accounting fraud schemes, arson and bribery. Herman was condemned to 15 years and his brother Aaron for 10 years. Jacob's sentencing will...

Albany, NY - Governor Spitzer says he will testify about what he knew of the scandal that has been limited to two top staffers in his office. During a news conference earlier today in Syracuse, the governorsaid he'd be "happy" to answer questions under oath about the actions of staffers who used state police to track the whereabouts of Senate Republican leader Joseph Bruno. He said he'd...

Brooklyn, NY +Home Invasion+ Flatbush Shomrim Patrol on the scene at 1541 East 18th Street for a home invasion with a victim, an 82-year-old wheelchair-bound man and his health aide that were tied up with duct tape inside the home by two black males with guns, who pushed their way through the door and fled with cash, his cell phone and his wallet, Hatzolah responding to the scene. FSSP are...

Rockland County, Pearl River, NY +Palidades Parkway Traffic Alert+ A motor vehicle accident on the southbound lanes of the Palisades Interstate Parkway at MM 16.2 with a vehicle that overturned and aided trapped inside pinned by the dashboard. Fire Department from Pearl River and Orangeburg are all on the scene for the extrication. All southbound lanes have been shut down.Stat Flight responding...

Miami FL - Drivers of a specific Lexus may not be as safe as they think because of an alleged flaw in the airbag system that sometimes disables it. A class action suit has been filed in Broward County demanding that the car be recalled. Artie Rosen, of Boca Raton, says he first noticed the front passenger side airbag system of his 2007 Lexus ES 350 shut itself off about a year ago despite the...

Camden, NJ - Can adding a cup or two of coffee to your exercise routine increase protection from skin cancer? New research indicates that just might be the case.The combination of exercise and caffeine increased destruction of precancerous cells that had been damaged by the sun's ultraviolet-B radiation, according to a team at Rutgers University.In mice, there is a protective effect from both...