Sullivan County, Barryville, NY - After a search dive teams and boats from Yulan, Highland Lake and Lumberland have located a victim in the water of the Deleware River at Landers Campground on Rt 97, where he and four others tried to swim across the river from the New York shore to the Pennsylvania side. The others made it, but a strong current dragged him under the water. The aided is in...

New York City - VIN News has learned prosecutors have expanded their investigation in the spinka tax case, which now targets more than 100 individuals who were contributors to Spinka organizations. ...

Los Angeles, CA - A Los Angeles man who made “donations” to several charitable organizations associated with a New York-based orthodox Jewish group – “donations” that were largely refunded – has agreed to plead guilty to federal tax evasion charges. In a plea agreement filed today in United States District Court in Los Angeles, Uri Mandelbaum, 70, of the Hancock Park district of...

Belgrade, Serbia - Serbia's war crimes prosecutors are preparing a case against an American who allegedly served in a Nazi unit that killed 17,000 civilians here during World War II. Bruno Vekaric, a spokesman for the prosecutors' office, said that it has started gathering information about Peter Egner, 86, a native of Yugoslavia now living in U.S., in order to try him in Serbia. "We have...

Narrowsburg, NY - Hatzolah on scene requesting Medics on a rush to Camp Sternburg at 97 Camp Utopia Road for a child that is unconscious after a tree fell on her. Hatzolah requesting chopper to respond. Chopper Life Guard-18 has been launched, Sullivan Fire Department setting up the landing zone. U/D: The teenage girl was flown to LeHigh Valley Hospital in Bethlehem, PA, where she is doing...

Woodbourne, NY - Hatzolah BLS and Medics are on the scene for a person that sustained serious injuries after falling down into a hole at a construction site near the Alladin Hotel on Alladin Road and Hasbrouck Road. Hatzolah on the scene, chopper Life Net-75 responding. The victim was knocked into a pool from wet concrete pouring from a truck into a hole that was being filled for a Mikvah...

Manhattan, NY - Officials say they've caught their first - but not their last - outlaw Internet hotel mogul. Israeli businessman Raziel Ofer, 48, controlled hundreds of units at swanky uptown addresses. Advertising through his Woogo and Global Hotels Web sites, Ofer would offer the apartments to business travelers and vacationers needing places to stay for a night or a month. But he never...

Chestnut Ridge, NY - A drop of blood smaller than a pin point led Ramapo police to a suspect of three village robberies from earlier this year. Stanley Simeon, 31, of 19 Linden Ave. in Spring Valley is being held on $20,000 bail. Police said that Simeon was a suspect in three burglaries reported March 31 in Chestnut Ridge. Homes on Gail Court, Sunny Ridge Court and Scotland Hill Road were...

New York, NY - Parents who enrolled their children in full-day pre-kindergarten at day care centers might find themselves searching for new spots. City funding for community-based groups to provide pre-K has been slashed from $5 million to $2.6 million for this year, leading to about 300 fewer seats in 31 centers. "This comes as a complete surprise," said Nancy Wackstein of United...

New York City - Four enterprising 20- somethings bilked 4,000 apartment-seekers out of nearly $1 million through a bogus "No Fee Apartments" scam, officials charged yesterday. Customers were lured in by ads on Craigslist and other Web sites promising "Exclusive Listings!" from "New York City's #1 No Broker Fee Apartments" company. But all customers got for the $200 they paid the four young...

Israel - New York Magazine last weekend featured on its cover one of the most interesting, and certainly the most controversial, recent news stories on ultra-Orthodox Jewry. "Escape From the Holy Shtetl" by Mark Jacobson. The reporter, who yearns for the more simple days of American secular Jewry, sympathizes with Grunwald, sees her as the victim of an oppressive cult and barely veils his...

New York - Health officials in a Hudson Valley county are reporting an outbreak of a gastrointestinal virus that has sickened more than 200 people. Dutchess County Health Commissioner Dr. Michael Caldwell says his agency is working with the state Health Department to identify the cause of the 24-hour stomach illness known as norovirus. The first illnesses were reported earlier this week. Health...

Madrid - The Saudi king's talk of tolerance and moderation notwithstanding, the Jewish state is proving to be a divisive issue at the religious conference that the Saudi monarch has convened here. The conference, the theme of which is interfaith dialogue, is an effort by the Saudi monarch to foster more cordial relations between imams in his country and Christian and Jewish religious leaders...

New York City - Seeking millions in added tax revenues, the paterson administration this spring enacted a pair of provisions to assess business taxes against out-of-state banks that issue credit cards in New York and to force online retailers such as Amazon.com to collect state and local sales taxes on goods shipped to the state. Those changes could be undercut by a federal bill backed by Senator...

Israel - After a 17-year captivity to an abusive Muslim husband, a Jewish mother and her eight children were rescued Sunday from the Muslim quarter of Jerusalem's Old City. Yad L'Achim, an organization dedicated to solving problems of this type, freed Naama [not her real name] from imprisonment in her own home and almost two decades of fear, shame and violence. Seizing a window of opportunity...