Davie, FL - A lawsuit filed by two former Davie police officers claiming religious discrimination and retaliation has been dismissed. The lawsuit, filed in 2005, alleged Matthew Malin was subjected to anti-Semitic comments from his supervisors. Malin, who is Jewish, said he was called a "dirty Jew pig" and told "you Jews are not wanted here in Davie." The suit also said Brandon Rivera, who...

Cape Town, South Africa - Southern Cape populations of four indigenous bird species have been hard hit after an estimated 3000 chicks and developed eggs were illegally destroyed when a campsite manager started cutting down trees in which their heronry was located. The campsite, on a farm near Hartenbos outside Mossel Bay, was being prepared for an influx of 1000 youngsters to a camp organised...

Brooklyn, NY - A distressing video was released showing a 49-year-old psychiatric patient left to die in the waiting room of Kings County Hospital. The video shows the woman, identified as Esmin Green, slump and fall to the ground--and two guards and a doctor look in and ignore her. Finally, a nurse comes to check on her, but not before kicking Green, who was dead at that point. Attorney Robert...

Saharah Desert, Morocco - Most of the time, Rachamim Amos is a tour guide. Sometimes, on extremely short notice, he becomes Rachamim the United Hatzalah Medic of Israel. Whenever he leads a tour one of his bags is always his United Hatzalah medic kit bag. Most of the time the kit bag is only opened for sprains, bruises or minor cuts. This tour started like so many others with loading and...

Tarrytown, NY - The New York State Police has arrested Trooper Lester C. Hooper, following a joint investigation with the Westchester County District Attorney's Office. He was arrested by members of the State Police Internal Affairs Bureau. The arrest was the culmination of a three month investigation into allegations that Hooper falsely issued five traffic tickets in three different...

New York - How and when to have "The Talk" with one’s children – speaking to them about abuse prevention and personal privacy before sending them off to camp? Rabbi Horowitz gives advice: To begin with, this is a very “real” issue and one you most certainly ought to address. As a parent, if you chose to ignore this matter, you do so at great risk to your children. From my vantage...

Williamsburg, NY - District Manager of Community Board 1, Gerald Esposito, is outraged over the deferred repairs in Williamsburg and in Greenpoint by the Department of Environmental Protection. Streets at 19 locations in the district need improvements, the work includes trench restoration of depressed roadways, sidewalks and curbs. Repairs were tentatively scheduled to begin in fall of...

Sullivan County, Woodbourne, NY - A serious motor vehicle accident on Route 42 in front of the fire training center with one vehicle that overturned and aided trapped inside the vehicle. Local EMS on the scene also Loch Sheldrake Fire Department Rescue truck on the scene for the extrication. Medivac on stand-by at this time...

Salonika, Greece - The head of Greece's Jewish community warned that work on a new metro line for the northern city of Salonika risks disturbing the remains of a historic Jewish cemetery. "The entire area was once a Jewish cemetery. In-depth excavation is certain to hit upon graves and remains," Moses Constantinis, head of the Central Board of Jewish Communities (KIS), said. "We would not...

New York, NY - Brooklyn's most dangerous neighborhoods are getting safer, thanks to an influx of cops. Murders, thefts and assaults are down in traditionally violent precincts, Police Department statistics show. "Nine more people are alive [now] than this time last year in the 75th Precinct," said, the NYPD's Brooklyn North borough commander. "I feel great because I see that we have made a...

South Fallsburg, NY - Jerry Ehrlich, the former owner of The Pines in South Fallsburg, is still waiting for some action at the resort. Folks still have the run of the place. A group of men continue to meet on Sundays and run through the buildings holding paintball tournaments. There's been no movement to board up broken windows or clear away piles of contaminated dirt. Ehrlich said a...

Budapest, Hungary - The Hungarian Constitutional Court said it rejected Socialist-initiated amendments of the country's hate speech bill, calling them unconstitutional. The amendments would cause the curtailing of freedom of expression, the court said in a statement. "In a free and democratic society the expression of extreme and exclusive opinion does not endanger the foundations and...

Borough Park, NY - Fire Department and Hatzolah EMS members responded to 5215 16th Avenue to the Boro Park garage of Hatzolah after some smoke from the air condition system filled the room while Hatzolah members were dispatching inside the garage. the dispatching lines were transfered, most of the oxygen tanks were quickly removed as a safety precaution and the ambulances pulled from the garage...