Auburn, NY - It’s expected to bring more than 70 new jobs to Cayuga County. Today, the Saratoga Cheese Corporation unveiled their plans for a $40 million, 64,000-square-foot facility in Auburn. With so many dairy farms and so many cows in Cayuga County, the folks at the Saratoga Cheese Corporation say it just made sense to put a cheese plant outside of Auburn. “This project has been -- to...

Pompano Beach, FL - Among the images that greeted visitors to the John McCain campaign office in Pompano Beach on Thursday was a sign headlined "Barrack Hussein Obama," that compared the Democratic presidential candidate to Karl Marx, Adolf Hitler and Fidel Castro. Shown a picture of the sign Thursday night, Broward Republican Chairman Chip LaMarca said he was "disgusted" and would immediately...

Bristol, England, UK - An elderly woman failed in her battle for compensation from police amid allegations they damaged her valuable signed photograph of Hitler. Dorothy Phillips, 78, from Clandown, North East Somerset, took the Avon and Somerset force to court over claims the photo, which she valued at £10,000, had faded while being held at Bath police station as part of an...

Brooklyn, NY - Prosecutors are investigating allegations that five cops chased a 24-year-old Brooklyn man into a subway station, knocked him down and sodomized him. Michael Mineo says he was standing outside the Prospect Park subway station in Flatbush at 12:30 p.m. on Oct. 15 when a group of uniformed cops approached him and accused him of smoking marijuana. The confrontation somehow...

New York City - Not long after his term limits victory on the floor of the Council, Mayor Bloomberg exited City Hall en route to the Greater Jamaica Development Corp. gala at the Grand Hyatt in Midtown. To say that he was not well-received by some of the people who were standing outside would be an understatement. He was met with screams of "Sellout!," "Bloomberg hates New York!", "Liar"...

Pittsburgh, PA - Pittsburgh police are investigating after a volunteer for the Republican campaign says she was attacked by a mugger who became enraged after seeing a John McCain bumper sticker on her car last night. According to police, the 20-year-old woman said she was robbed at an ATM at the corner of Liberty Avenue and Pearl Street in the Bloomfield area around 9pm Wednesday after leaving a...

New York, NY - The City Council has approved to extend a two-term limit, allowing Mayor Michael Bloomberg to seek four more years in office. The vote was 22 No and 29 Yes. See a tally of the votes cast. Bloomberg, a former Wall Street trader and self-made billionaire who was elected New York mayor in 2001 and again in 2005, wants to run again on grounds that his financial experience will be...

Cairo - Israel has deployed about 3,000 dogs on the Egyptian-Israeli border, witnesses said on Thursday. The dogs were deployed in the centre of the Sinai peninsula to protect the advanced early warning radar system Israel recently received from the US. The dogs are also intended to prevent Africans trying to migrate into Israel to find jobs. Since the beginning of this year, more than 25...

New York - You know what they say: If you don't like the weather on Wall Street, wait five minutes and it could change. After another topsy-turvy day that left the Dow chart looking like the Rocky Mountains, stocks attempted a third rally in the final 15 minutes of trading, after it traded down nearly 300 points. The Dow Jones Industrial Average turned higher, with the Dow up 172 points, to...

Bucharest, Romania - 200 graves and 100 monuments have been vandalized at a Jewish cemetery in Bucharest. Romanian Jewish community spokesman Paul Schwartz said it was the worst act of vandalism in the nation in recent times. He said the destruction was discovered early today in the Jewish Cemetery in south Bucharest. Police confirmed the vandalism, and Justice Minister Catalin Predoiu has...

London - A Stamford Hill shul has promised to launch an investigation into how leaflets appeared in the building warning worshippers that their children would die if they spoke during services. Congregants at the Jacob Benjamin Elias Synagogue were shocked to see a pile of the "outrageous" flyers at the site over the holidays, with one posted up on a door. The leaflets, attributed to New...

France - Two young boys wearing kippa's were attacked last night in a Paris suburb. Police detained five youths aged between 16 and 21 after the aggression which took place in Vitry-sur-seine, southeast of Paris. After they came in defense of their two nephews hunted down by a band of 10 youths, a 40-year-old man and his 18-year-old son were severely beaten. According to CRIF, the...

New York, NY - The MTA is looking to put high-tech digital screens on the sides of buses so it can target ads to neighborhoods and even individual blocks. Right now, the MTA is testing the screens on the M23 bus route in Manhattan. If the test is a success, the agency will install the digital displays on some 200 buses beginning in the first quarter of next year. Titan Worldwide, which...

London - A synagogue's decision to abandon a study course after a religious commentary was pronounced "racist" has been criticized as "outrageous" and "spineless" in the latest edition of the shul magazine. London's Hampstead Garden Suburb United Synagogue, one of Britain's biggest synagogues, discontinued an adult-education class on the Tanya earlier this year, following objections by three...

Albany - New York Gov. David Paterson is ordering background checks of executive chamber employees after it was discovered that his chief of staff, under fire for not paying nearly $300,000 in taxes, had no completed background check. Paterson also released a letter dated Jan. 28, 2007, from Charles O'Byrne to the governor's counsel noting the tax debt, which he has since paid with penalties...