Lancaster, PA - A group of young men from the Lancaster Yeshiva Center renovated a previously condemned home on Pine Street in Lancaster city. There was extensive damage to the home. A lot of the damage was water damage caused by a hole in the roof. The young men rewired the home, put in new plumbing, refurbished the kitchen cabinets and painted. The group's rabbi, Shaya Sackett, said this...

New York - You can be skinny and still be a heart attack waiting to happen. And you can also be overweight and otherwise healthy. A new study suggests that a surprising number of overweight people -- about half -- have normal blood pressure and cholesterol levels, while an equally startling number of trim people suffer from some of the ills associated with obesity. The first national...

Brooklyn, NY - Due to a motor vehicle accident between a taxicab and a van with two aided pinned on the Manhattan bound of the Williamsburg Bridge, NYPD has shut down the bridge and requesting ambulances from Brooklyn and Manhattan to respond on a rush, Fire Department responded for the extrication jaws going to work...

Washington - Dr. Martin Bashir of Washington Hospital Center prescribes acid blocking pills for his patients with chronic heartburn. "It's like more burning in my chest," said Cindy, one of Bashir's patients. "It's like a burning pressure?" he asked. "Yes, pressure," Cindy answered. For patients with chronic acid reflux, acid blocking pills with well known names like Prilosec, Nexium...

Fallsburg, NY - Hatzolah EMS BLS and ALS are responding to the 4-Corners for a person that fell over the waterfall down into the river, Woodridge Hatzolah ambulance responding Code-1. U/D: 07:24pm Chopper has been canceled, aided only sustained minor injuries after slipping from the stones...

New York, NY - With 1 in 10 Americans is chronically sleep deprived people are looking for anything to boost their energy. First there were Red Bull and double espressos, but now comes the latest -- canned oxygen! It's the latest way to boost your energy. it claims to do everything from helping your workout to boosting your memory, relieving stress to curing a hangover. Kevin DelGaudio...

Toronto, Canada - As if yesterdays explosion, displacement and damage aren't enough, some people are suffering the kind of terrible heartbreak that no amount of repairs can fix. The scene of the explosion at a propane facility is directly across the street from Mt. Sinai Cemetery, a burial site that was badly damaged in the explosion. Many gravestones were overturned and some destroyed...

Israel - The parents of a 10-month-old baby boy who suffocated to death after swallowing a plastic bottle cap have given life to two other children - one Israeli and one Albanian. The donor family asked to remain anonymous. A 16-month-old baby weighing only six kilograms - the smallest organ recipient in Israel - received his heart at Sheba Medical Center. The process was delayed slightly...

Jerusalem - MK Meir Porush was unanimously elected Monday evening as the ultra-Orthodox parties' candidate in the upcoming municipal elections in Jerusalem – the United Torah Judaism faction announced. The current mayor, Uri Lupolianski, is expected to retire from politics. The UTJ faction in Jerusalem, which is comprised of the Hasidic Agudat Israel and the Lithuanian Degel Hatorah...

Pikesville, MD - With a lifetime of pastrami pilgrimages under my belt, I have learned this much: There is good deli, and there is great deli. Baltimore's northwest suburban community of Pikesville, home to more than 4,000 Orthodox Jewish families and a shopping mecca for the 100,000 Jews who live in the area, is a place that has plenty of both, along with the just so-so. Most of the 40 or 50...

New York - As the first day of school approaches, the Health Department is reminding parents to get their kids the required vaccinations. City public schools open on September 2 this year, leaving only three more weeks to get your child to the doctor. Vaccines can prevent many serious illnesses, such as diphtheria, measles, and whooping cough. Children who do not meet the City’s immunization...

New York - The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission sued Chicago-based Wextrust Capital LLC and two of its owners, saying they used a Ponzi scheme to cheat investors, many in the orthodox Jewish community, of more than $100 million. The co-owners, Steven Byers, of Oakbrook, Illinois, and Joseph Shereshevsky, of Norfolk, Virginia, [aka Yossi Heller] were arrested today by the FBI on charges...

Shreveport,LA - Drinking up to six cups of coffee a day may lower the overall odds of dying, mainly because it cuts the risk of dying from heart disease, suggests a new study. However, the study found that heavy coffee drinking doesn't cut your chance of dying from cancer. "Our results suggest long-term, regular coffee consumption has several beneficial health effects," says Esther...

Monticello, NY - Life is going to change in the Catskills when 5,000 cars come rumbling down Route 17 at peak hours to visit the hotels and racino at the Concord. Guests will consume an estimated 1.4 million gallons of water a day, pump 1.2 million gallons into a sewer system each day and throw away 238 tons of garbage a month. That's what a 2006 Saccardi & Schiff Environmental Impact...

Lakewood, NJ - While house-hunting here some time ago, Nancy Cedeno and her daughter Tammy stopped to consider a rental on Caranetta Drive. It was in fair condition, spacious enough for a family and in a relatively quiet part of town. They liked what they saw. But once outside after a tour of the house, they got the instant impression the neighbors were not as pleased. "The next thing you...