A New York City man died during an arrest — partially captured on amateur video — during which a plain-clothes police officer placed him in what appeared be a choke hold while several others brought him to the ground and struggled to place him in handcuffs. Internal affairs investigators and prosecutors announced inquiries Friday into […]
Almost four years after Venezuela enacted a law to bar the U.S. from funding groups frequently critical of the socialist government, millions of the American dollars the administration tried to ban still flow to these organizations, an analysis by The Associated Press shows. Much more U.S. support is under consideration. The State Department and the […]
BY DIANE DIMOND Lee Boyd Malvo, inmate No. 330873, incarcerated at the super-maximum Red Onion State Prison in Virginia has a business plan to make himself some money. He either doesn’t know it is against the law or he doesn’t care. You won’t learn about this story anywhere else. I was only able to piece […]
MONSEY – Hundreds of mourners came out to say goodbye to a pioneer of Monsey’s Hasidic community today. Family and friends bid farewell to Moshe Yisrael Cohen, 76, at the Congregation Sharey Chesed in Monsey. READ MORE: http://westchester.news12.com/news/pedestrian-killed-while-crossing-street-in-monsey-1.8829123
The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week, a steady decline that suggests a strengthening job market. Weekly applications for unemployment aid dipped 3,000 to a seasonally adjusted 302,000, the Labor Department said Thursday. READ MORE: http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-unemployment-aid-applications-drop-302000-24612147
Kiev (AFP) – Social media posts by pro-Russian insurgents — most of them hastily removed — suggest the rebels thought they had shot down a Ukrainian army plane before realising in horror that it was in fact a packed Malaysian airliner. The Twitter and blog messages were immediately publicised by top Kiev officials in their […]