New York - Here's some sweet news for those with a sweet tooth. A new study suggests that chewing Gummi bears made with the natural sweetener xylitol might promote healthy teeth. Snacking on just four of the treats three times a day for six weeks resulted in a much lower count of streptococcus mutans, a known cause of tooth decay, according to researchers at the University of Washington...

San Francisco, CA - A federal judge on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by conservative radio talk show host Michael Savage against a Muslim rights group that reprinted his attacks against Islam and called for an advertising boycott. Savage, who has about 8 million listeners a week on 400 stations for his syndicated "Savage Nation" program, sued the Council on American-Islamic Relations in December...

Postville, IA - An immigration rally kicked off today in Postville with protesters shouting "Si se puede," translated in English as "yes, we can." Hundreds of people marched through the small Iowa town of about 2,200 to protest a federal immigration raid of the Agriprocessors plant in May. Buses carried people from Chicago, Minneapolis-St. Paul and other nearby cities to take part in the...

Israel - The High Court of Justice on issued stinging criticism of the Education Ministry's evasiveness in abiding by 2004 Supreme Court ruling which forbade publicly subsidizing ultra-Orthodox educational institutions that refuse to teach their students the "core curriculum." "The executive branch's avoidance of adhering to a legal ruling issued by a court of law is one of the most worrisome...

New York - We're exposed to radiation everyday -- from the sun, seeping up from the earth, even when we fly or have an x-ray. But there's also a newly exposed source coming from your kitchen. Like a lot of families, Judy Shapiro and her three kids, spend a good part of their day in the kitchen, specifically around her beautiful granite kitchen countertop. "We are living, hanging on the...

Mountiandale, NY - Hatzolah responding to some injured by lightning stike in Camp Horim, requesting Medics to respond as well. U/D: Aided are in stable condition and are enroute Catskill Regional Medical Center...

New York, NY - Residents and tourists say they are disgusted by a mysterious fishy stink spoiling the ambiance of New York's posh South Street Seaport. Restaurant owners near the seaport in New York's Manhattan borough say the offending odor is chasing away diners from chic downtown eateries. "It's disgusting -- like rotten fish left out on a sidewalk for a year," said Venanzio Pasubio, 33...

Israel - A Jerusalem lawyer petitioned the attorney general today asking him to order a police investigation into the removal and subsequent publication of a personal note left in a crack of the Western Wall by U.S. presidential candidate Barack Obama during his visit to Israel last week. Attorney Shahar Alon asked attorney General Menachem Mazuz to launch an investigation against the editor of...

Israel - Conspiracy to commit murder has been added to the allegations against Rabbi Elior Chen. The charges arose from the interrogation of one of the children of the abused Jerusalem mother, in which Chen, the central suspect in the abuse case, was said to be preparing to murder the children's father. In the document that child investigator Micah Haran sent to attorneys last week, it was...

Washington - Two more banks were shut down by federal regulators late Friday, who sold the banks' deposits to Mutual of Omaha Bank. It brings to seven the number of bank failures so far this year. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. said it was appointed receiver of First National Bank of Nevada, based in Reno, Nev., and First Heritage Bank of Newport Beach, Calif. - both units of First National...

Washington - The Senate on Saturday passed a $300 billion housing rescue bill aimed at helping troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure and supporting mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. President Bush is likely to sign the bill into law within days. After the law kicks in on Oct. 1, thousands of at-risk borrowers will be able to refinance their unaffordable old mortgages into new...

New York, NY - Big Apple business honchos want four more years of Mayor Bloomberg - and are preparing to do whatever it takes to help him stay in City Hall for a third term. Sources close to the mayor say his deep-pocketed pals are "aggressively pushing" him to run again and are strategizing on how to change term-limits law to make it happen. "We believe it's very feasible," said one source...

Teaneck, NJ - In a letter sent on Tuesday by Rabbi Shmuel Goldstein, dean of the Rosenbaum Yeshiva of North Jersey, and Eli Weber, the school’s president, parents were notified that A.. M..., the River Edge school’s former basketball coach, had been arrested for child endangerment. According to a statement from Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli, M.., a married Teaneck resident...

Conceived as a symbol of modernity, Belgrade's fairgrounds were used by the Nazis as an execution site. New accusations against a former Nazi guard have brought up the atrocious history of Belgrade's killing fields. A boy on a bicycle, followed by a pack of dogs, passes an abandoned tower near the Sava River in central Belgrade, unaware that the structure was part of a Nazi death camp during...

Fallsburg, NY - Police got a call Saturday afternoon about 3:00pm of a vehicle that rolled over a few times on Route 42 and crashed into a bungalow at Friendship Bungalow Colony on LA Vista Drive. The car that missed a turn-off was driven by a drunk 16-year-old boy, who extracted himself out of the vehicle, and start running away, while Yiddish music was still blasting out of the vehicle...