New Jersey - Republican Chris Christie has won the New Jersey governor's race against Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine. Saddled by tanking poll numbers and the poor economy, Corzine brought in the party's heavyweight champions – President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden – to rustle up some excitement among voters and re-energize the base. The multi-millionaire Corzine has...

New York, NY - Call him Mike "Three Times" Bloomberg. Mayor Bloomberg was narrowly re-elected to a third term tonight as he defeated -- while vastly outspending -- Comptroller Bill Thompson to win four more years at City Hall. With 94 percent of the precincts reporting, Bloomberg had a 50 to 46 percent lead -- a much smaller gap than the polls had projected on the eve of the...

Monroe, NY - Two longtime Republican incumbents lost their Town Board seats, thanks to the changing loyalties of powerful voting blocs in the Hasidic Village of Kiryas Joel. Councilmen Don Weeks and Peter Martin lost to Democratic challengers Gerard McQuade and Richard Colon. Cards giving voting instructions within Kiryas Joel before the election suggested the outcome even before the results...

Jerusalem - National bus company Egged was fined NIS 15,000 after the Supreme Court rejected its appeal against a ruling that found the company and one of its drivers guilty of failing to lower the volume of a radio in response to a rider's request and behavior that doesn't guarantee passengers' comfort. In July 2006 Alihab Habib rode the number 227 bus from Jerusalem to Elad at 11 p.m.. Habib...

Virginia - Virginia has swung back to Republican hands in a big way on Tuesday With Republican Bob McDonnell wining with a wide lead over Democrat Creigh Deeds in the Virginia race for governor. The traditionally purple state has trended Democratic in recent elections. President Obama secured a victory there in last year's presidential election and the governorship has been in Democratic...

New York - The U.S. Department of Justice filed a complaint against a New York real estate investor and real estate attorney Wednesday, accusing them of accepting $50 million in kickbacks from a pharmaceutical vendor that served nursing home companies in which they are principals. The owner of the Woolworth Building, and real estate attorney, a partner at Troutman Sanders, participated in the...

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Fort Lauderdale attorney and money-raising bigfoot Scott has achieved Enron status in Florida political circles this week. Just as politicians scrambled to shed their ties to the fraud-inflated energy company after its 2001 bankruptcy, Florida elected officials this week are rushing to unload Rothstein-related campaign contributions after his law partners accused him of...

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Scott Rothstein is back in South Florida and the losses being attributed to his investment business exceed at least $400 million, according to attorneys who attended an afternoon court hearing about the scandal. Rothstein is in the region and "the most persistent rumor is that he is in some meeting somewhere with federal authorities," Kendall Coffey, the attorney hired...

New Jersey - Amid this recession, families across New Jersey are struggling to keep up with basic needs, including securing the education of our children, yet the state chooses not to do all it can to assist private education in this crucial endeavor. Private education in New Jersey is a more complex issue than simply favoring or opposing school vouchers. It is about the right of parents to...

Sioux Falls, SD - The man who founded Agriprocessors Inc. testified today that he spent “every penny” he could gather to keep his kosher meat plant afloat after it was raided by immigration agents. Abraham Aaron Rubashkin, who opened the Postville slaughterhouse in 1987 to process kosher meat, told jurors that he mortgaged his home, two buildings that he owned and his store in Brooklyn...

New York - Five men who were detained and deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1.26 million settlement with the U.S. government. The men sued the government over the roundups that put them in federal detention and the abuse they say they suffered while they were there. They were among more than 170 Arab and Muslim men jailed for immigration law violations at the...

Israel - Security forces today arrested another man in connection with the case of alleged Jewish terrorist Ya'akov Teitel. Yossi Shpinoza, Teitel's neighbor from the Shvut Rachel settlement, has been arrested some two weeks ago after his association with Teitel came to light, but was released after only a few hours. He was rearrested again today on suspicion of involvement with Teitel's...

Washington - Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday paid tribute to the six million Jews and other victims who perished during the Holocaust, which she called a "break with civilization." In an address to a joint session of US Congress, Merkel also expressed regret for the "hatred, destruction and annihilation Germany brought over Europe and rest of the world," during World War II...

New York - David Friehling, the accountant for con artist Bernard Madoff, pleaded guilty for his role in the largest U.S. Ponzi scheme and said he helped Madoff and “others” prepare phony tax returns. Friehling, 49, entered his plea today in Manhattan federal court. He has also reached a cooperation agreement with the government and is helping prosecutors with their probe. He becomes the...

India - Details of negotiations and phone conversations between 26/11 terrorists at Nariman House in Mumbai and the Israeli Embassy in Washington were revealed at the Mumbai special court on Tuesday. The court heard a CD of telephone conversations between the terrorists who attacked Mumbai in November 2008 and Israeli officials. So was Israel negotiating or buying time? The court heard...