Wawarsing, NY - Ulster County sheriff’s deputies arrested a New York City man at a bungalow colony Saturday after he allegedly threatened other campers with a gun. The man, who was from Brooklyn, was charged with second-degree menacing, a misdemeanor and jailed on $200 bail. He is due to answer the charge in Town of Rochester Court on Friday. Deputies said the man became involved in an...

Staten Island, NY - A drunken driver was caught going 105 mph in Westerleigh. Cops stopped a 2008 Mazda on the Staten Island Expressway near Route 440 shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday after they clocked the vehicle on radar going more than double the 50-mph speed limit. The suspect, Yakov Kofman blew twice the legal blood-alcohol limit on a Breathalyzer test, said the DA's spokesman. ...

Yuma, AZ - Under the watchful eyes of several black-garbed rabbis, the combine made its passes east of Yuma on Thursday around a wheat field grown by Tim Dunn. While the field isn't large, the crop it produces is a very special one: kosher wheat to make matzah for the tables of ultra-orthodox Jews in New York during Passover. The wheat to make the matzah flour must be grown and harvested...

Berlin, Germany - A man tore the head off a controversial Adolf Hitler wax figure at Madame Tussauds' new branch in Berlin on its opening day Saturday. German police said they arrested the 41-year-old man. He was the second visitor to enter the museum, employee Stephan Koch said. Koch said he and a colleague tried unsuccessfully to prevent the man from jumping over a table in front of the...

Brooklyn, NY - A van loaded with gasoline cans, wires and switches that prompted police to swarm a desolate Brooklyn street [reported first by VIN News] may belong to a suspect already in federal custody for alleged bomb-making, law enforcement sources said Friday. The red Ford with mismatched license plates in Sunset Park contained explosives nearly identical to those previously used by Yung...

Brooklyn, NY - A New York City police lieutenant serving as a national guardsman has died in Afghanistan, police said Saturday. Lt. Daniel Farkas, of Brooklyn, who joined the NYPD in 1988, was assigned to the 112th Precinct in Forest Hills, police said. The date and details of the lieutenant's death were not available Saturday afternoon. An police spokesman said the military informed the...