Wednesday marked the start of a one-year litigation window in New York allowing people to file civil lawsuits that had previously been barred by the state’s statute of limitations, which was one of the nation’s most restrictive before lawmakers relaxed it this year.
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The two thugs wanted for at least 7 gunpoint robberies in the Boro Park area were arrested early Wednesday morning following an attempted robbery and shooting.
Sources tell YWN that at around midnight the pair tried robbing a victim in the area of 32 Avenue O.

The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has brought new scrutiny to a federal jail in New York that, despite chronic understaffing, houses some of the highest-security inmates in the country.
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Another NYPD Officer died by suicide, making this the eighth incident so this year.
The 35-year-old was a seven-year veteran who temporarily was assigned to a detail surrounding Yankee Stadium.
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New York police are investigating a series of assaults on Hasidic Jews in Williamsburg as hate crimes, officials said Monday.
At least three people between the ages of 56 and 71 were violently mugged in the Brooklyn neighborhood within an hour, a local CBS affiliate reports.

Governor Andrew M. Cuomo has signed legislation (S.04037 /A.4204) which prohibits employment discrimination based on religious attire, clothing or facial hair.

Attorney General William Barr said Monday that there were “serious irregularities” at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life as he awaited trial on charges he sexually abused underage girls.
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A 24-year-old off-duty New York Police Department officer and her passenger have died after a car driven by the officer veered off a Manhattan parkway, hit a tree and erupted in flames.
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Over the past year, New York yeshivas have been dealing with an attempt by the State to force yeshivas to alter their curriculum and schedule.
An article by Dr.
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This weekend always has lot of extra traffic heading to the Catskills: It is Shabbos Nachamu. It is also Visiting Day which always add tons of extra traffic. But that is not what authorities are concerned about.
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