Jeurys Familia, the New York Mets’ All-Star closer who was recently featured in a new ad campaign for an anti-domestic violence organization, was arrested on a domestic violence charge this week, according to a complaint filed by authorities in Fort Lee municipal court.
An upstate New York man died Sunday after police shot him with a stun gun. The man reportedly crashed his truck into a car and then a church before fleeing on foot and later confronting officers, Rochester police told reporters.
A lawsuit in New York City has local residents crying afoul over Jewish slaughter of fowl, decrying what they called the “barbaric” Yom Kippur tradition of kaparot in which chickens are thrown to their death in a symbolic act of atonement.
Officials in New York announced a new anti-gang initiative on Wednesday to crack down on violence by the MS-13 street gang plaguing communities on Long Island, including four murders earlier this month.
A Jewish New Yorker who regularly appeared on “worst landlords” lists and whose son recently drew headlines for verbally abusing an Uber driver in a viral video has been charged with 20 felonies.
CenterLight Healthcare, a Jewish health care charity based in New York, has agreed to pay $47 million dollars in compensation to state and federal authorities after admitting to Medicaid fraud, the Forward reported Thursday.
The Muslim store employee who saved 15 French Jews during the terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket was honored in New York.
New York – Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday that an explosion that rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood, injuring 29 people, doesn’t appear to be linked to international terrorism, and he vowed that authorities would find and prosecute whoever was responsible.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul vetoed a bill last week that she deemed antisemitic in nature, JNS reported on Thursday. This decision earned positive nods from Jewish organizations such as the Rabbinical Alliance of America. Governor Hochul vetoed New York State Senate Bill S1810A, known as the Community Preservation Fund for the Town of Chester…
DetailsNew York – A state police helicopter carrying New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to New York City was forced to make an emergency landing on Wednesday after the cabin filled with fumes.
