MOSCOW — Islam Karimov, who crushed all opposition in the Central Asian country of Uzbekistan as its only president in a quarter-century of independence from the Soviet Union, has died of a stroke at age 78, the Uzbek government announced Friday.
Former New York City Mayor David Dinkins denied on Saturday an accusation in a lawsuit that he plowed into a bicycle deliveryman while driving on a Manhattan street and then fled.
Twenty-seven years after his disappearance led to the creation of “Jacob’s Law” child protection statutes across the country, the remains of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling have finally been found, Minnesota authorities said Saturday.
A Philadelphia police officer who was photographed with a tattoo on his forearm that some say resembles part of the official insignia of Adolf Hitler’s Nazi Party is under review by the department’s internal affairs.
MOSCOW – The Jewish director of a prestigious Moscow school resigned following reports that a former history teacher at the school had had sexual relations with teenage female students and left to Israel.
Canton, NY – A head on collision late Thursday night in upstate New York took the life of a respected Canadian Orthodox Jewish scientist.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — SpaceX is scouring computer and video data for clues to the devastating launch pad explosion that destroyed a rocket and satellite.
A Queens EMT who vanished on her way to work at the U.S. Open Thursday morning hasn’t been seen since, according to her scared family and friends.
SAN FRANCISCO — A former Stanford University swimmer whose six-month sentence for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman sparked national outcry was released from jail Friday after serving half his term.
A Brooklyn lawyer with hopes of becoming a civil court judge has failed to pay back over $500,000 he did not account for from a deceased man’s estate, court documents reveal.