Archive for the ‘Miscellaneous’ Category

Manhattan, NY - Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly unveiled on Wednesday the NYPD's latest high-tech weapon against terror. Addressing a civic group, Kelly said the department has begun using analytic software to monitor the behavior of potential terrorists. By training cameras on something as mundane as an article of clothing, police can lock in on a person and ... Full story

Windsor Locks, CT - Three hundred travelers started the summer with a travel nightmare they will not soon forget. Hundreds of Newark-bound passengers sat for four hours on a tarmac in a stifling cabin after bad weather and union regulations grounded their flight from London in Connecticut. To make matters worse, passengers said,  the plane's generators ... Full story

Berlin - The day the Mossad operation on German soil began was a clear, sunny Sunday in late March 2009. Alexander Verin, who holds an Israeli passport, had an appointment with an attorney in Cologne to discuss naturalization. Verin was accompanied by a man named Michael Bodenheimer, who claimed that he was an Israeli of ... Full story

Calgary, Canada - Authorities have arrested a man wanted on warrants in connection with anti-Semitic graffiti that was spraypainted on Jewish monuments in Calgary The 18-year-old Calgary man was wanted on Canada-wide warrants for mischief to property and inciting public hatred, (as was reported here on VIN News). Calgary police believe it's ... Full story

Nashville, TN - The loud pop of a semi-automatic rifle shatters the quiet of a still winter day. The sun is shining through the motionless branches of bare trees in a large wooded area, reflecting off the sunglasses of a slender, dark-haired German. He takes aim once more, then fires. Just a ... Full story

Washington - Pushing toward a history-making vote, Democrats struggled to eliminate lingering complications standing in the way of House action this weekend on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul. Their drive to change the way health care is administered and extend coverage to millions of uninsured Americans took on a growing ... Full story

New York - The far-left J Street activist group has written its supporters saying that President Obama is “under attack” for what it called his appropriate condemnation of Israel’s “provocative announcement” last week. The organization has urged its supporters to email Congress and tell them they support Vice President ... Full story

New York - 'If you really want to learn how to coach, lose." So says Jonathan Halpert, who should know. Halpert was just named the Skyline Conference's 2009-2010 Coach of the Year and is currently finishing his 38th season as Yeshiva University's head basketball coach - the longest serving coach in the ... Full story

New York - A Queens accountant says it will take $4 million to even the balance sheet after he was anonymously smeared on Craigslist, court papers reveal. Two ads attacking Whitestone CPA Leo Kehoe were published March 5 in the online ads, the suit alleges. One ad was headlined, "CPA FRAUD ALERT! (BEWARE OF ... Full story

Cottage Grove, MN - Unlike many other boys his age, 17-year-old Levi Dubov wakes up excited to go to class each day. "There is no other place like this," he says, as he finishes up breakfast in his school's basement cafeteria. Dubov is talking about his Yeshiva school outside Minnesota's Twin Cities, known simply ... Full story