Bellevue, WA - The Justice Department has asked a federal court to revoke the citizenship of an 86-year-old Washington state man it says served in a Nazi unit. A complaint filed today in Seattle says Peter Egner severed as a guard and interpreter with the Security Police and Security Service in Yugoslavia during World War II. The unit slaughtered 17,000 Serbian civilians. The Justice...

Brooklyn, NY - Hatzolah responding to 456 Montgmery and Clove Road in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, for a person that was shot with a BB gun in the right arm, following a dispute. NYPD responding to the scene. ...

Detroit, MI - Dr. Heshy Josephs is a 72 year old father of five and grandfather of K”AH thirty-six aineklach. So what makes him different than your ordinary Zaidy? It’s not often that you’ll meet a Zaidy biking through rural America, Teffilin, Chumash and Gemorah in tow, pedaling his way from Detroit, Michigan to Lakewood, New Jersey. That’s right, Dr. Josephs, a local of Detroit is...

Clifton, NJ - A 2-year-old boy was revived after being found not breathing in a locked car Tuesday. Police say the incident happened in parking lot of the Home Depot on Bloomfield Avenue in Clifton, New Jersey. The toddler was reportedly taken to St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson in stable condition. Authorities say a group of moms in Passaic County takes turns babysitting and carpooling...

New York, NY - A Brooklyn man was sentenced to 30 months in prison today for sending spam e-mails to more than 1.2 million subscribers of America Online in a scheme that foiled the Internet company's spam-filtering system. Adam Vitale, 27, was sentenced in federal court in Manhattan after pleading guilty more than a year ago to breaking anti-spam laws. He was also ordered to pay $180,000 to...

Orenburg, Russia - Police have detained three young men suspected of vandalizing a synagogue in April. The suspects reportedly have neo-Nazi tattoos and have confessed to the crime. A search of one suspect's apartment reportedly yielded extremist leaflets. The vandals painted swastikas and death threats on the walls of the synagogue; the suspects could face up to four years in prison if...

New York - In People v. a Monsey residence, 2008 N.Y. Misc. LEXIS 4111 (Sup. Ct. Rockland Co., June 18, 2008), a New York trial court rejected a free exercise challenge by plaintiff to a violation of probation order that had been issued against him. Mr. Y. O. moved to an area that was off imits to convicted sex offenders. He claimed that as an observant Orthodox Jew he needed to live within...

London - A student and his mother died in a motorway crash hours after he graduated from university with first class honours. Ben Dalah, 21, from Edgware, his mother Nadia, 50, and father Freddy were travelling back from Birmingham University when their Saab was hit by a lorry and another car on the M6. Mr Dalah, 53, who was driving, received minor injuries in the crash on Friday...

Seattle, WA - A King County judge postponed the second trial of accused Jewish Federation shooter Naveed Haq for several months. The delay was ordered by Superior Court Judge Paris Kallas so defense attorneys can review the estimated 500 to 600 recordings of telephone calls to and from Haq in the King County Jail that were turned over by prosecutors. In addition, both sides need additional...

New York - The latest video that caught major media attention of a hospital security camera footage from June 18 that features a woman, who was allegedly suffering from psychosis and who was taken to Kings County Hospital Center involuntarily by emergency medical service workers. Due to a shortage of beds, she waited alone in the psychiatric emergency room for more than 24 hours. the woman...

Liberty, NY - Liberty Police are on the scene and closed off North Main Street due to a robbery at the TD Bank North Branch. Police are looking for an elderly black man wearing all black who told the teller in the bank that he had a bomb in his bag and demanded money, the perp fled on foot on Rt 52, with an undisclosed amount of cash. Sullivan County Sheriff's and New York State Police are also...

Washington DC - Suzanne Kurtz, communications director for the Republican Jewish Coalition, spent her afternoon knowingly misleading -- if not downright lying -- to reporters. On Monday, the RJC blasted out a press release calling on Barack Obama to "disinvite" Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) from his upcoming trip to Israel. "If Barack Obama is getting advice from Chuck Hagel about Israel, then...

Israel - Gearing up for the prisoner exchange deal: Dozens of IDF soldiers have been making the final preparations at Rosh Hanikra's border crossing Tuesday, ahead of Israel's prisoner swap with Hizbullah, which is scheduled to take place on Wednesday morning. The IDF is expected to declare the area a restricted military zone later Tuesday night. The order is expected to stay in effect until...

Odessa, Ukraine - VIN News has learned that Police have arrested the wife of an American businessman 52-year-old Asaf Yagudaev that was found murdered in his hotel room. [VIN News report of the original story here] The American couple who are from Tampa, Florida where on vacation in Ukraine, the wife claimed that a perp enterd their hotel room and robed them, and killed her husband. The...

Washington - Banks in Colorado, Maryland, Georgia and California top privately-prepared lists of troubled banks being circulated on Wall Street and in Washington. While the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) is keeping secret its official list of 90 troubled banks, ABC News has obtained other lists prepared by several research groups and financial analysts. The lists use versions...