Woodbourne, NY - A motor vehicle accident involving two vehicles on Rt 52 and Rt 42 at the Mobil gas station. Hatzolah on the scene have canceled the medivac Life Net-75 and going by ground to the hospital...

Israel - New flights to Kiev will be increased by 16 percent during the High Holy Days to meet the demand from Israelis who want to visit the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslav in Uman for Rosh Hashana. Both countries will be entitled to operate a second carrier on the Tel Aviv-Kiev route, according to a draft agreement signed by Udi Zohar, director-general of the Civil Aviation Authority, and...

Winnipeg, Canada - City police are investigating the city's latest hate crime after eight swastikas and the phrase "kill the Jews" was scrawled on a billboard for the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Winnipeg Police Const. Robert Carver confirmed the incident is a hate crime, and that the graffiti will be wiped off once police complete their investigation. The violent message and swastikas...

The MTA has put out a request for proposals to transform its current toll plaza to an all-E-Z Pass and cashless payment system. Non-E-Z Pass users would be charged with license plate cameras (the same idea floated in congestion pricing). The MTA wants to "get rid of all toll booths in the next four years." The Port Authority is looking to do the same thing for its bridges and tunnels. ...

Stony Brook, NY - A Stony Brook certified public accountant was charged with evading federal income tax of $123,000. Michael Bedell, president of Bedell & Company, pleaded not guilty to an 11-count indictment in U.S. District Court in Central Islip. Bedell, who lives in Ridge, reported earning $554,000 between 1996 and 2001, when in fact he earned $909,000. As a result, Bedell paid only...

Albany, NY - A new Web site will allow New Yorkers to find out how state and local government spends money and awards contracts. The Empire Center for New York State Policy, part of the fiscally conservative Manhattan Institute think tank, is unveiling http://www.SeeThroughNY.net Thursday afternoon. E.J. McMahon, director of the center, says the site offers databases for the entire payroll...

Philadelphia, PA - Citing a Philadelphia man's "horrendous driving record," a judge sent the man to jail for driving without insurance and a license at the time of a hit-and-run accident that claimed the life of a pedestrian in Lower Merion. "Obviously, this is a very tragic case for all concerned," Montgomery County Judge Bernard A. Moore said as he sentenced Enrique F. Webb to 14 to 59...

Los Angeles, CA - An El Al airliner carrying 300 passengers and crew members has safely landed at Los Angeles International Airport after reporting a possible blown nose wheel. Federal Aviation Administration spokesman Mike Fergus says the Israeli airliner, which was coming from Tel Aviv, landed about 6 a.m. PDT on Thursday. No injuries were reported. An airport spokesman says passengers...

Albany, NY - New York Gov. David Paterson said Thursday the country faces "a national crisis of bankruptcy" unless state and federal governments revamp their budgets with a combination of new cuts and new spending to stabilize the economy. In a speech to the National Press Club, Paterson offered a disturbing vision of the economic turmoil that he said will continue to shake the economy as it...

Rochester, MN - Mayo Clinic, 10 p.m. At her mother’s urging, a pale eighteen-year-old girl lies perfectly still on an exam table. Her heart condition is so severe and complex that she and her mother flew in from Tel Aviv for surgery. “I am so relieved you are here,” the mother, also pale with jet lag and worry, said in Hebrew to Rabbi Dovid Greene. Without the Rochester’s Chabad...

New York City - The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell more than 200 points Thursday -- accelerating its decline in the final hour of trading -- as disappointing earnings from a trio of components dragged on the index, as did a disappointing jobless-claims report Dow Closed at 11,378 down 205 points...

Portage la Prairie, Canada - It came out of nowhere, passengers on the Canadian Greyhound bus said. A young man was sleeping, head against the window, when the man sitting next to him began stabbing and then decapitating him as other travellers looked on in horror. The grisly and apparently random evening attack, on a bus bound for Winnipeg, ended with police apprehending the assailant hours...

Manhattan, NY - An eighth card promising "Bombs! Bombs! Bombs!" in lower Manhattan was delivered as cops were investigating whether one of the recipients sent out the series of sicko greetings. The latest missive from the "New York Jihad" was received by an unidentified man at 400 E. 89th St. on the Upper East Side, cops said. Police declined to say which of the recipients was under suspicion...

Brooklyn, NY - “The proposed sale of the Kosher Gym has spawned rumors, misinformation, and allegations,” said Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn). “Consumers have a right to air their grievances on blogs, in forums, etc. Kosher Gym’s clientele should feel they have someone to turn to who will be proactive in examining the purported deficiencies in service-oriented goals. “I have...

Pelham Manor, NY - Police say someone has stolen more than 1,000 gallons of gasoline from a station in New York's Westchester County. Authorities said that the gas apparently was filched from five pumps sometime last weekend in Pelham Manor. The station values its losses at $4,000 for the gas and $2,000 for damaged pumps. Police will be reviewing surveillance tapes of the station...