Sea Gate, NY – A man under indictment for stealing the identity of a missing Russian translator was charged Thursday with her murder – even though her body has never been found. Dmitry Yakovlev was also accused of killing Viktor Alekseyev, whose dismembered corpse was found in New Jersey woods in January 2006. The translator, Irina Malezhik, [...]

TA cyclist demands apology after accident allegedly involving embassy car.

Judges slam police ban, call for solution so that protest can go ahead.

Lieberman: Nothing to come out of reports Belarus envoy told him of investigation.

Like it or not, the dati leumi soldiers, who are generally right-wing, continue to make their mark in the IDF, moving up the ranks and now representing the backbone of the military’s most elite units, including infantry combat units. This is the result of a vision of two men, Rabbis Eli Sadan and Yigal Levenstein, [...]

2:20PM EST: Peter Kauffmann, who was scheduled to testify to the Attorney General’s investigators today, has resigned. Kauffmann was featured prominently in the Commission on Public Integrity’s findings about Gov. David Paterson’s solicitation of Yankees tickets — from the evidence, Kauffmann appears to have been grievously misled by Paterson and his top aide, David Johnson. Here’s [...]

Albany, NY – The top spokesman for New York Gov. David Paterson is resigning and says he can’t in good conscience continue to serve. Communications director Peter Kauffmann is the third key person to flee Gov. David Paterson’s scandal-marred administration in two weeks. Kauffmann says he cannot continue in the administration plagued by the scandals that threaten [...]

Pontiac, MI – A Bloomfield Township dentist on probation for sending an anti-Semitic letter to another dentist that included a picture of Adolf Hitler has been ordered to perform community service after offering to tell a probation officer a Hispanic joke. Oakland Circuit Judge Mark Goldsmith has sentenced 50-year-old Marc Kamp to complete previously ordered community [...]

PFLP head Ahmad Sa’adat had his day in court, albeit an unsuccessful one for the master terrorist. The secretary-general of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, who did not actually pull the trigger in a Jerusalem hotel but was the mastermind behind the assassination of Tourism Minister Rechavam Ze’evi, took his case to the [...]

Washington — Rep. Sander Levin of Michigan was chosen Thursday as acting chairman of the tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee, a post that plays a major role in health care and billions of dollars in expiring tax cuts. Levin replaces Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., who stepped aside Wednesday as chairman while the House ethics committee investigates [...]