New York City - The New York City Health Department wants to battle HIV/AIDS with a new approach: test every adult in The Bronx. The death rate from AIDS is highest in the borough at 37 per 100,000 residents. According to The New York Times, it will become routine to test anyone who comes into an emergency room if they are willing. The new approach will be given Friday. Other locations...

New York City - Police are searching for two men who masquerade as police officers in order to lure their suspects into handing over their property. The two men are connected to six robberies, police said. According to police reports, the two typically approach their victims and identify themselves as police officers. They flash phony silver badges to corroborate their story, and use them as a...

Philadelphia, PA - The Lubavitch House has been a center for Jewish life at the University since 1980. However, recent picketing efforts by Philadelphia union workers have disrupted the House's $2.8 million expansion project. For the past two weeks, picketers from Local Union 98, have protested the use of non-union workers on the project, disrupting house activities, as well as residential...

Washington - North Korea submitted a long-delayed declaration of its nuclear program on Thursday, as the Bush administration said it would remove the country it once described as part of the “axis of evil” from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. President Bush spoke about decision on North Korea on Thursday in the Rose Garden at the White House. Chinese Vice...

Nanuet, NY - A serious motor vehicle accident on the southbound lanes of the Palisades Interstate Parkway MM 29.3 at Exit 9W with one victim trapped inside a vehicle that's on fire. Fire Department are on the scene operating with jaws for the extrication. All lanes are blocked off at this time...

Krasnoyarsk, Russia - Four teenagers were convicted of vandalizing a Jewish cemetery. The defendants faced the rarely applied charge of "damaging tombstones motivated by ethnic hatred"--most cemetery vandals are charged simply with "hooliganism." They were found guilty of vandalizing the cemetery on the night of October 7, 2007. One was confined to a psychiatric institution, the others got...

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - A rash of monument thefts, claimed a six-foot bronze menorah erected at the city’s Zozimo Barroso do Amaral Square. According to Rabbi Yehoshua Binyamin Goldman, director of Beit Lubavitch of Rio de Janeiro, burglars apparently cut the menorah into pieces so that it would be easy to melt down. The menorah was constructed six years ago at a cost of $5,000, said the...