A man scaled a traffic pole, and mounted himself on a traffic light in Midtown Manhattan on Wednesday.
The incident happened at the intersection of West 36th Street near 6th Avenue at around 2:00PM.
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Verizon Wireless customers in Lakewood and surrounding areas have been experiencing severe issues with cellphone coverage. Hundreds of residents have complained that they are unable to make phone calls and that their calls drop unexpectedly.

Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn’s election campaign was hit Thursday by renewed claims that he is not fit to lead the country because of his tolerance of anti-Semitic attitudes.

Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson will announce on Thursday that he will retire after more than three years as the city’s top cop, a post he took over during one of the most violent chapters in the city’s history and amid public outcry over the release of a video showing an officer shooting a black teen 16 times.

President Donald Trump on Thursday denied a report that he wanted Attorney General William Barr to hold a press conference to declare he broke no laws during a July phone call in which Trump pressed his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate Democrats.

Chareidi Members of Knesset taking part in a Knesset Finance Committee meeting which was attended by Civil Service Commissioner Rabbi Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz, told him the chareidi tzibur is discriminated against just because they are chareidim.

Former Attorney General Jeff Sessions will announce that he is entering the race for his old U.S. Senate seat in Alabama, two Republicans with direct knowledge of his plans said Wednesday.
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A bus driver in Beit Shemesh is suspected of hitting children who were traveling on his bus on Wednesday. An eye witness alerted the father of one of the children to the situation after the fact and told him that she is willing to testify against the driver in court due to the severity of what he did.

Yonatan Orich and Ofer Golan, close advisors of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu who are currently under police investigation, visited the home of Hagaon HaRav Chaim Kanievsky to receive a bracha on Wednesday morning.

The details of a complicated quest to matir an agunah in Tel Aviv were cleared for publication on Tuesday, according to a report by B’Chadrei Chareidim.
A 30-year-old man left his home in Tel Aviv in 2005, telling his wife that he was going out for a half-hour but never returned.