Cherry Hill, NJ - It was one of the most notorious contract killings in the history of New Jersey. And now, 15 years later, the hit man is changing his story. Len Jenoff, a private investigator with a checkered past, says in a sworn affidavit signed this year that the 1994 bludgeoning of Carol Neulander was a robbery gone bad, and not a murder ordered and paid for by her husband, prominent...

Shreveport, LA - Men who consumed compounds in green tea showed a reduction in serum markers predictive of prostate cancer progression, U.S. researchers said. James A. Cardelli of the Feist-Weiller Cancer Center, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, and colleagues conducted an open-label, single-arm, phase II clinical trial to determine the effects of short-term...

New Windsor, NY - NY State Police and ambulance services are on the NY State Thruway at mile marker 58.9 between Exit 16 and Exit 17 for a car that drove off the road after the operator of the vehicle suffered an heart attack and is in cardiac arrest, CPR is in progress at this time. **UPDATE 12:00 AM** VIN News has confirmed that 36-year-old Chesky Ehrenfeld, son of Shmuel Betzalel, and...

Tegucigalpa - The newly-appointed leader of Honduras, Roberto Micheletti, ordered a 48-hour curfew starting late Sunday, after denying there had been a coup d'etat on deposed President Manuel Zelaya. "A curfew begins today and ends on Tuesday," Micheletti said at his first news conference since being appointed by Congress to replace Zelaya. "I came to the presidency not by a coup d'etat but...

Brooklyn, NY - The United Federation of Teachers blocked City Councilman Simcha Felder (D-Brooklyn) from receiving an "early endorsement" from the 1.3 million-member Central Labor Council to get even with him for exposing the union's arm-twisting during a City Hall hearing on charter schools, sources said. Felder disclosed that union reps brazenly distributed cue cards with prepared questions...

Jerusalem - Twenty-five hareidi religious Jews - including two minors - who were arrested during demonstrations in the Mea Shearim neighborhood Saturday night, were ordered out of the city Sunday evening by the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court. The minors were banned from the capital for 60 days while the rest were ordered away for two weeks. Demonstrations against the opening of municipal and...

Israel - The Ministerial Committee on Legislation approved a bill by MK Moshe Gafni (United Torah Judaism) demanding additional funding for ultra-Orthodox schools. Gafni, who serves as chairman of the Knesset's Finance Committee, proposed a bill allotting additional funds to private schools belonging to United Torah Judaism and Shas. The funds will be extracted from the local authorities...

Monsey, NY - Hatzolah volunteer ambulance has transported a child with C.P.R. In progress to Weschester Medical Center after a near drowning accident. The 2-year-old child was in cardiac arrest after he was found drowning on the bottom of the pool at College Road and Carlton Avenue. Hatzolah managed to revive the child and he is now in serious condition...

Boston, MA - A 20-year-old audio tape made by his father has allowed a Boston man and his family to discover the graves of grandparents killed in the Holocaust. "All of my mother's relatives, besides one surviving sister, were killed by the Nazis," explained Dr. Isaac Perle. His great-grandparents, Faivel and Hinda Schattan, died in the Lodz Ghetto in 1941 and 1942. "About 75 people would...

Yemen - The debilitating and fatal neurological Parkinson's disease affects various ethnic groups differently, according to new research at the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva. They have found that Yemenite Jews with Parkinson's suffer more than Jews of Ashkenazi origin who contract it. Chewing the leaves of the khat plant, which is common among Yemenites, may be a factor...

Jerusalem - Two e-mail death threats were sent to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat today, after police clashed with ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protesting the opening of a parking lot in the capital on Shabbat. Security at Barkat's office has been increased following the threats, and police have opened an investigation. Barkat's bureau issued a statement Sunday vowing that Barkat will not change...

Caracas, Venezuela - President Hugo Chavez has threatened military action after the country's ambassador to Honduras was kidnapped in a coup. Reported earlier by VIN News Honduras supreme court claims it told the army to oust President Manual Zelaya after his attempt to hold a referendum on his re-election. During the coup the ambassadors of Venezuela, Nicaragua and Cuba were taken...

Betar Illit, Israel - A 12-year old Beitar child who was on a tour to the Golan Heights, slipped into a brook and drowned. Ariel Voknin, an 18 year old from Kiryat Shemoneh who was on the same tour, related that he and another 3 individuals tried to save the child. "We immediately jumped into the water and began to comb the area until we found the child. We gave him over to the Magen David...

Williamsburg, NY - Public Advocate Betsy Gotbaum joined Queens Councilmember Eric Gioia and members of New Yorkers For Parks, urging the city Parks Department to create a replacement schedule for artificial turf fields in New York City parks after they recently stopped installing new artificial fields with recycled rubber. “For over two years, I raised concerns about the potential health and...

Haifa, Israel - A Haifa Rabbinic Court recently ruled that a husband was required to pay his wife the "ketubah money" (the sum of money a husband stipulates in the ketubah) - in this case, one million dollars, since that was the amount he promised her under their chuppah. This is apparently not the first time, nor the last, that a Rabbinic Court has ruled that a husband is required to pay ketubah...