Orange County Consumer Affairs Commissioner Charles Mitchell is warning residents of a gift card scam in which scammers are pretending to be a pastor, rabbi, priest, imam, or bishop. “Members of the clergy will notify the congregation as a whole before they send out requests for contributions,” Mitchell said. “If you receive a request that […]

A vehicle overturned into a lake in the Catksills, Thursday morning.
It happened at around 11:20AM on the Harris-Bushville Road.
Sources tell YWN that the driver swerved to avoid a vehicle which had crossed the double-yellow lines – directly into his lane.

A lifeguard pulled an unconscious 9-year-old chareidi girl from a pool in Beit Shemesh on Wednesday night. MDA and United Hatzalah paramedics and EMTs worked to revive her, and she arrived at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in serious/stable condition after being intubated and sedated.

After a troubling anti-semitic video was posted to Facebook by the Rockland County GOP, many spoke out against it, including NYS Attorney general Letitia James. Now one day later, Rockland County Executive Ed Day settled on his course of action. Speak out against the tone of the video, while still defending the message. Read his […]

According to a report from the private investigations company which was hired by the Blue & White party, a suspected cyber breach has been detected. An in depth probe revealed that Russians have breached the phone of all campaign heads.
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James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump in the weeks before Comey was fired as bureau director, the Justice Department’s inspector general said Thursday.
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The Justice Department’s inspector general says former FBI Director James Comey violated FBI policies in his handling of memos documenting private conversations with President Donald Trump. The watchdog office says Comey broke FBI rules by giving a memo containing unclassified information to a friend with instructions to share the contents with a reporter. The office […]

The World Health Organization says there has been a “dramatic resurgence” of measles in Europe, in part fueled by vaccine refusals, with nearly 90,000 people sickened by the virus in the first half of 2019. In a report issued Thursday, the U.N. health agency said the number of measles cases from January to June this […]

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Hurricane Dorian posed an increasing menace to Florida Thursday as it pushed over open waters after doing limited damage in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.The U.S. National Hurricane Center said Dorian was expected to grow into a potentially devastating Category 3 hurricane before hitting the U.S. mainland late […]

A New Jersey law that permits doctors to prescribe life-ending medications went into effect after an Orthodox Jewish doctor lost in his bid to challenge the measure. The Medical Aid in Dying for the Terminally Ill Act was to take effect Aug. 1, but a state Superior Court judge placed a temporary hold on the […]