Faith leaders from around New York state plan to gather at the state Capitol to denounce solitary confinement of prisoners.
The organizers behind Tuesday’s event say they’ll bring together clergy from several different faiths to call on lawmakers to abolish solitary imprisonment, which they say is a cruel practice that leaves life-long psychological scars.

According to the NYC health Department, as of today, 466 cases of measles have been confirmed since the beginning of the outbreak last October.

An NYPD Officer from the “Mounted Division” was thrown off his horse in Queens on Tuesday.
Sources tell YWN that the bizarre incident occurred on Queens Boulevard near 78 Avenue.
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Amazon launched its high-tech Go convenience store a year ago, where shoppers can pull items off the shelf and walk out.
Now it’s adding a decidedly low-tech feature: accepting cash.
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The New York State Senate unanimously passed sweeping legislation (S3558, S4385, and S2960) last week taking measures to ensure children’s safety while traveling to and from school by increasing penalties and education around school bus safety.

Connecticut’s Attorney General gave state lawmakers the legal go-ahead Monday to pursue legislation that would prevent parents from exempting their children from vaccinations for religious reasons, a move that several states are considering amid a significant measles outbreak.
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New York and New Jersey want to know how the Internal Revenue Service decided to stop requiring donor information from certain nonprofit organizations — among them big political spenders.
Monday’s lawsuit against the tax agency, from New York Attorney General Letitia James and New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal, comes as Montana and New Jersey are challenging the policy change itself in a separate case.

Police are looking for a man that inappropriately touched a girl while walking on a Boro Park street on Chol Hamoed Pesach
The NYPD says that on Wednesday, April 24, 2019, at approximately 5:50PM, a 13-year-old girl was walking home in the vicinity of 47th Street and 12th Avenue, when she was approached from behind by an unidentified male.

There was an fire at the Skulener Bais Medrash in Boro Park, early Tuesday morning.
The FDNY was on the scene just after 2:00AM for a fire in the basement of the building, located at 1315 54th Street – just off 13 Avenue.
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A building has collapsed in Flatbush on Avenue P and East 5 Street after a vehicle slammed into it on Monday night.
There is a massive response from Hatzolah, FDNY and NYPD.