Borough Park, NY - Friday morning residents in the neighborhood of 42 Street between 10 Avenue and FT Hamilton Pkwy where shocked when they found hateful remarks and swastikas painted on Simcha Felder's campaign posters. The 66 PCT responded and gave it over to the Hate Crime Division and they are investigating the incident. ...

New York, NY - New York City is addressing residents' complaints about salt from the waterfalls exhibition by cutting in half the hours per week they flow. Four waterfalls built as an art spectacle on Manhattan's East River became the subject of an eco-uproar for the damage their mist is doing to the waterfront greenery. Some New Yorkers want the falls to be shut off after Labor Day, not on...

New Orleans, LA - New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city beginning 8 a.m. Sunday but urged residents to consider escaping "the mother of all storms" before then. "You need to be scared," Nagin said of the Category 4 hurricane tearing along Cuba's western coast. "You need to be concerned, and you need to get your butts moving out of New Orleans right now. This is...

Williamsburg, NY - The New York City Housing Authority has hired ReedSmith L.L.P., one of the nation's largest law firms, to represent it in the Brooklyn district attorney's inquiry into the death of a 5-year-old boy who fell down an elevator shaft in a public housing complex last week. The accident has put renewed scrutiny on the Housing Authority over the safety and maintenance of its 3,337...

Norfolk, VA - The Securities and Exchange Commission added the wife of a WexTrust Capital owner to its list of defendants in a complaint of securities fraud by WexTrust and two of the investment firm's owners. In an amended complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan, the SEC named Elka Shereshevsky of Norfolk as a relief defendant, someone who received ill-gotten assets through the actions of...

Ste. Agathe, Canada - After a week of bad publicity over anti-Semitism in this Laurentian resort town, a Hasidic couple is getting married here next week in an outdoor ceremony, and the whole town is invited. Not only that: The local council is providing the wedding location (an arts centre by the lake that is normally used for exhibits and concerts); The bride is printing up a manual for...

Monticello, NY - Sullivan County Sheriff’s deputies have arrested three teens and charged with second-degree assault as a hate crime, gang assault in the second degree, aggravated harassment and disorderly conduct. Charged were William Harrison, 18, of Livingston Manor, Sean Gadsen, 16, of Youngsville, and Matthew Alcivar, 17, of Queens. The three are charged with beating several victims...