Monroe, NY - A motor vehicle accident on Mountian Road in front of the Kiryas Joel Fire Department, with a vehicle into a pole, KJPS, NYSP, KJFD and KJEMS Hatzolah BLS and ALS transporting one aided the 2nd aided is pinned inside the vehicle and being extricated by KJ Fire Department. U/D: 06:44pm 2nd Aided has now been extricated and being transported by ground...

New York, NY - Mayor Bloomberg is making acting Building Department commissioner Robert LiMandri the permanent commissioner. LiMandri has headed the DOB after previous commissioner Patricia Lancaster stepped down after a month after the March 15 crane collapse. The City Council paved the way for the expected promoting by changing the requirements needed for the job. Now commissioners do not...

Lithiania - Construction plans at the site of a Jewish mass grave in Lithuania have been scrapped. The site near Marijampole where tens of thousands of Jews were killed during the Holocaust recently had been sold to a company that had begun demolishing buildings at the site, disturbing the remains there. Bones began to appear after concrete pavement at the site was dismantled. Heavy rains...

Kiryas Joel, NY - The company responsible for a trench collapse that nearly killed a man in the spring has paid $4,500 in fines to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). Rubin Duque, of Central Valley, was buried in the trench for four hours in May. It was being dug to accommodate a drain pipe at a multi-family house and measured 10 feet deep. Duque was working for DT...

Norfolk, VA - In a story that VIN News republished today from the prestigious Wall Street Journal on the Joseph Shereshevsk ponzi scheme, they quote Rabbi Chaim Silver of B’nai Israel Congregation Norfolk, VA incorrectly, below is a letter that was shared with VIN news and was just sent off to the Wall Street Journal By the good Rabbi himself.    Editor of Wall Street...

Bnei Brak - Tens of thousands of Jews including prominent Rabbonim attended the rally and funeral for 4 Torah Scrolls that were burnt this week in the Chef Rabbi of Bnei Brak's shul, Rabbi Moshe Yehudah Leib Landau. Before the funeral procession Rabbi Landau addressed the crowd with a siritual awakening call. Participating in the event were the Machanovker Rebbe, Rabbi Aharon Leib Steinman...

Washington - In peacetime they were cooks and lawyers, bankers and housewives, athletes and teachers. In wartime they were spies in the ferocious espionage battle against Nazism. Sworn to secrecy, few ever divulged the crucial part that they played in winning the war. Yesterday these members of a wartime intelligence network created by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and modelled directly on the...

New York City - Spotted this morning on the Gay City News site: A banner ad from the Empire State Pride Agenda thanking "Speaker Silver and the Assembly majority" for supporting gay rights. The ad doesn't cite anything specific, but the most recent Assembly vote of the highest concern to ESPA was, of course, the passage of the same-sex marriage bill last summer. Silver not only allowed the...

London - A strictly Orthodox charity is planning to step up its campaign over the next few weeks to educate its constituency about the risk of drugs. Talking Matters, a Stamford Hill-based welfare agency specialising in mental-health issues, last autumn published a ground-breaking 128-page guide in Yiddish, Hebrew and English on understanding addictions, ranging from gambling, sugar and...

Iowa - James Hoyt delivered mail in rural Iowa for more than 30 years. Yet Hoyt had long kept a secret from most of those who knew him best: He was one of the four U.S. soldiers to first see Germany's Buchenwald concentration camp. Hoyt died Monday at his home in Oxford, Iowa, a town of about 700 people where he had lived his entire life. He was 83. His funeral was Thursday at St. Mary's...

Talk about chutzpah! New York, NY - Three City Council members who have reserved parking spots - which Mayor Bloomberg promised to end after the Daily News exposed the perk - spent hundreds of taxpayer dollars on MetroCards and cabs last year. Councilwoman Helen Foster (D-Bronx) shelled out $737 on MetroCards even though she has reserved parking outside her district office, according to a...

Fallsburg, NY - South Fallsburg Police are requesting Hatzolah EMS to respond to their Police Station for a teenage victim that was assaulted by two other teenagers that have since been arrested, after being stopped by a Fallsburg police officer while they were smoking drugs on Main Street. The two 16-year-old boys from Brooklyn while on drugs, assaulted the other teen also from Brooklyn in...

New York, NY - Police, fire, Coast Guard and Port Authority officials are among those working on a nuclear training exercise today in thr New York Harbor. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says crews will try to detect a nuclear device on a vessel headed into the harbor. The crews will use equipment received from federal authorities to combat terrorism. The nuclear device used is harmless. The...

Norfolk, VA - Rabbi Chaim Silver of the B'nai Israel Congregation in Norfolk, Va., says members have called him often with a question about a congregant: "Can I trust Joseph Shereshevsky? I am planning to invest a lot of money with him." The rabbi assured them: "He is the kindest, most generous, trustworthy man." Rabbi Silver and a number of Orthodox Jews were shocked by Monday's arrest of...

New York City - At the farthest end of the Brooklyn Wholesale Meat Market, just past Chow Trading Co. and Lancaster Quality Pork, an inconspicuous black-and-white sign marks the presence of a very conspicuous tenant. The building houses the local warehouse for Agriprocessors, the largest kosher meat producer in the country. Agriprocessors is best known for its slaughterhouse in Postville...