Swan Lake, NY - Fire Departments from Liberty, White Lake are on the scene at 54 Bushville Swan Lake Road for fire in one of the structures of the Pupa Boys Camp. All occupants are believed to be safely evacuated. Hatzolah also on the scene. **Upsate** Fire is under control, and all are safe...

Jerusalem - Australia's Network ABC news Middle East correspondent Anne Barker became caught in violent street protests involving ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem at the weekend. This is her graphic account of her ordeal. As a journalist I've covered more than my share of protests. Political protests in Canberra. Unions protesting for better conditions. Angry, loud protests against...

Albany, NY - New York's gridlocked Senate has adjourned again after meeting in another extraordinary session called by Gov. David Paterson. No bills were debated or passed in Sunday's 3-minute session. Two Senate factions continue to refuse to recognize each other's leaders so no legislative action was made on critical bills, including some that would extend laws that expired during the...

New York - Mikhail Mallayev, who was convicted in March of murdering an orthodontist whose wife wanted him killed during a bitter custody battle, stayed off his cellphone the morning of the shooting in Queens. But afterward, he chatted away, unaware that his phone was acting like a tracking device and would disprove his alibi — that he was not in New York the day of the killing. Darryl...

Israel - An error by Eritrean air traffic controllers last month almost caused a midair collision between an El Al plane and another aircraft over the Red Sea, an El Al official revealed. The Israeli plane carrying 200 passengers was en route to the Far East when it received permission from air traffic controllers in the Eritrean capital, Asmara, to enter an international air lane. However...

Tegucigalpa - Two people are dead, including one child, after pro-Zelaya protesters clash with soldiers in Honduras. Several have been injured.The clashes come hours after ousted president Zelaya was refused to land at the airport. Tear gas has been deployed at the protesters. according to Honduran bloggers the death are 18-year-old girl, and a 10-year-old boy. According to the AFP and...

Israel - Rabbi Yehoshua Shapira, a leading national-religious rabbi, has declared war on what he says is a neo-Reform stream within the religious Zionist camp. “This justifies tearing the clothes [in mourning – ed.] and tearing apart the public,” he told an audience of religious youth from the Ezra movement. Shapira belongs to the more strictly traditional stream within the...

Tegucigalpa - Honduras interim President Roberto Micheletti said on Sunday Nicaraguan troops were moving to the mutual frontier and urged Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega to respect Honduran sovereignty. He gave no further details about troop movements in Nicaragua which shares a border with Honduras to the southeast of the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa. Meanwhile Nicaraguan army spokesman...

Ellenville, NY - The state Division of Housing has awarded tax credits that will allow a local developer to build 42 additional units of senior housing next to Ellenville Hospital. Construction on the multi-million expansion is scheduled to start in September. It’s being built by developer Jonah Mandelbaum’s Warwick Properties, Inc. The first 57 units built last year are fully occupied, and...

Jerusalem - Police plan to press charges against all 65 haredim arrested in three violent demonstrations over the last month against the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem on Saturdays, police said today. Ten of the suspected rioters remain in custody through the duration of criminal proceedings against them, while the remainder has been released on bail, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel...

Tegucigalpa - Honduras' interim government says it has ordered the military to prevent ousted President Manuel Zelaya from landing in the country. Soldiers outnumbered travelers at the nation's main airport and commercial flights have been canceled. Zelaya has called on his supporters to mass at the airport for a showdown with the country's current leaders. The news comes as Exiled Honduran...

New York - Homeowners across the country are challenging their property tax bills in droves as the value of their homes drop, threatening local governments with another big drain on their budgets. The requests are coming in record numbers, from owners of $10 million estates and one-bedroom bungalows, from residents of the high-tax enclaves surrounding New York City, and from taxpayers in the...

Bloomfield Hills, MI - A dentist was sentenced to 60 days in jail and 5 years of probation after pleading guilty to felony ethnic intimidation. Marc Kamp appeared before Oakland Circuit Judge Mark Goldsmith. Officials say Kamp sent a threatening, anti-Semitic letter in April 2008 to another dentist with whom he was involved in a civil lawsuit. The other dentist, Steven Moss, is Jewish. The...

Washington - Vice President Joe Biden seemed to give Israel a green light for military action to eliminate Iran's nuclear threat, saying the U.S. "cannot dictate to another sovereign nation what they can and cannot do." Israel considers Iran its most dangerous adversary and is wary of hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who just won a disputed re-election. He repeatedly has called...

Jerusalem - The former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Israel Meir Lau, decided to speak out against the Aida Hachareidis's demonstrations over Shabbos in Jerusalem. He instead asked demonstrators to sit together in dialogue to find a solution. "The struggle on behalf of Shabbos have taken place for decades around the country, in particular in Jerusalem," said Rav Lau. "One of the lessons we learned is...