United Airlines flight diverts back to Newark after Bluetooth device’s name sparks security scare
A Spain-bound United Airlines flight out of Newark turned around mid-flight on Saturday because a teenager named his Fitbit “bomb” and it popped up on available Bluetooth devices, officials and sources said. The plane took off from Newark Liberty International Airport at about 6 p.m., but landed back at Newark by rough
Award-winning Albanian restaurant opening first N.J. location
A restaurant rooted in Mediterranean flavors and inspired by Albanian and Kosovan traditions is opening its first location in New Jersey. Çka Ka Qëllu, owned by Ramiz Kukaj, will open at 322 Kinderkamack Road in Westwood. No date has been set for the opening. The restaurant’s other locations...
Assemblyman quits $140k job in West New York
Assemblyman Gabriel Rodriguez (D-West New York) has abruptly resigned his $140,000-a-year job as an accounting manager for the West New York Board of Education after the superintendent of schools, Clara Herrera, got on his back for high absenteeism, the New Jersey Globe has learned. Three sources with direct knowledge
Shady DOE Deals Put ‘Perv’ Teacher Back In Manhattan Classroom
A city watchdog and fresh tabloid digging say breakdowns in Department of Education contracting helped a previously investigated teacher walk back into Manhattan classrooms last fall. The Special Commissioner of Investigation found patterns of split invoices and non‑DOE vendor deals at the district level that can let u
3 dead in pair of NYC stabbings; no arrests yet
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Three people are dead after a pair of stabbings in New York City, the NYPD said. According to Gothamist reporting, the police responded to a call from Brooklyn’s Avenue D prior to midnight Friday, where they found “an assault in progress and two men with stab wounds.”
Report: NY Mayor Mamdani’s ‘Propaganda’ Office Costly and ‘Morally Incomprehensible’
Some $5.2 million has been earmarked to pay the “swollen salaries” of information officers in socialist New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s “propaganda bureau,” the New York Post reported in a highly critical story published Sunday. The amount is a “staggering 175% more than first...
75-year-old Brownsville woman stabbed in broad daylight outside of NYCHA complex
Police are investigating a stabbing that sent a 75-year-old woman to the hospital in stable condition just after 11 a.m. Sunday morning, outside of the Glenmore Avenue Houses NYCHA complex in Brownsville. Police say they responded to a 911 call of a person being attacked and arrived at the scene...
Duo arrested after string of skills machine break-ins, thefts around Clearfield
CLEARFIELD, Pa. (WTAJ) — A Clearfield woman and a New York man were arrested early Saturday morning after police were called to multiple break-ins at skills machine rooms. Clearfield Regional Police arrived at the scene — Rainbow 3 Carwash — May 30, to find the suspects, later identified as Sydney Hellen Peteuil, 25, a
Family shocked to find stranger in dad’s coffin in NYC funeral home mix-up
A family mourning the loss of their father was shocked when they went to attend his wake and instead found a stranger laying inside his coffin. Jose Daniel Diaz Felipe, known as Danielito to his friends and family, passed away at the age of 84. His children prepared to say a final goodbye to him Thursday at a wake in W
Amy Greene: Friends with a ‘nice blonde girl,’ Marilyn Monroe
VENICE — Of the 96 years she's been alive, Venice resident Amy Greene spent 92 of them living in New York City.

















