A New York City couple captured a 3-foot (1-meter) alligator in their local park and taped its mouth before calling police to pick the animal up.
Authorities believe the gator was an illegally owned pet that escaped.
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On July 20th 2019, Parshas Balak, the world celebrated the 50th anniversary of man landing on the moon. Man made history and accomplished the seemingly impossible by conquering new vistas in space and technology.
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The following is an official statement given to YWN by the NY State Police following the terrible tragedy in Kiryas Joel on Tuesday.
On July 23, 2019 at approximately 2:37PM, state police responded to a medical emergency at the Kiryas Joel Union Free School at 7 Israel Zupnick Drive in the village of Kiryas Joel.

For the second year in a row, Councilman Chaim Deutsch hosted separate beach events for males and females.
For many men and women, particularly those who observe modesty laws, going to the beach is simply not an option.
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New York’s City Council will consider a bill to ban the sale of cellphone users’ location data to marketers.
The New York Times reports that the bill to be introduced Tuesday would make it illegal for cellphone companies and app developers to share location data with third parties while a customer’s mobile device is within city limits.

Tragedy struck Kiryas Joel on Tuesday afternoon, after a child was killed in a horrible incident.
It happened on Tuesday afternoon at around 3:00PM at the Bais Rochel School on Israel Zupnik Drive, when a closet reportedly fell on top of a 7-year-old child (female).

YWN is sad to report the untimely death of Dr. Mark Lebowitz who was killed in an auto accident on Monday morning.
Dr. Lebowitz had a large practice in Brooklyn as well as being in charge of the Brooklyn Eye Surgery Center on Avenue J in Flatbush, with 35 ophthalmologists.

An early morning crash has left a Jewish man with critical injuries.
It happened at around 5:00AM on the Tappan Zee Bridge / NYS Thruway.
Sources tell YWN that there were two occupants in the vehicle travelling from Monsey to NYC.
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There is outage in NYC after videos surfaced showing NYPD officers being assaulted in two different incidents – with police doing nothing in response.
The videos, first tweeted by the popular @NYScanner Twitter account which is followed by more than 100K, showed disturbing footage of police officers being attacked in NYC.

As was predicted, dangerous thunderstorms ripped through the tri-state area, hitting Lakewood and NYC at around 6:30PM, Monday evening.
Flash flood warnings, and severe thunderstorm warning were issued by the national Weather Service.