Six people, including four children, were killed Wednesday when an overnight fire ravaged an apartment in a city-owned Harlem building, fire and police officials said.
Firefighters, who were called at around 1:40 a.m., moved aggressively into the flames and thick smoke and found a man and a woman, as well as two girls and two boys ages 3 to 11, in bedrooms of the fifth-floor apartment, according to Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro.

Police say a Long Island driver used a dummy tactic to try to take advantage of a carpool lane.
Suffolk County police say something about the front-seat passenger in a Saturn sedan raised Highway Patrol Officer Andrew Spina’s suspicions Monday on the Long Island Expressway in Dix Hills.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Donald Trump’s businesses lost more than $1 billion from 1985 to 1994, based on tax information the newspaper acquired.
The Times said it has acquired printouts from the future president’s official IRS tax transcripts, including figures from his federal tax form.

There is much criticism in Israel over the latest ceasefire with Hamas, which after the terrorist regime fired over 700 rockets into Israel resulted in a sudden cessation of Israeli retaliatory strikes.
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On Monday evening on Chris Cuomo’s primetime show, former New York City Democratic Council Speaker Christine Quinn made a sickening remark in defense of abortion rights.
Quinn was debating former Pennsylvania Senator and Presidential candidate Republican Rick Santorum.

Just five days after suffering serious injuries in a fall from a second floor window in a Spring Valley home, two young brothers returned home on Tuesday evening.
As YWN reported last week, the two boys, ages 5 and 2, were leaning on a screen in a window which gave way, leading to their fall. 

In a time when anti-Semitism is rearing its ugly head both in the city and around the county, it’s painful when it comes from an NYPD Traffic Agent.
A motorist contacted YWN and told us that he was on 57th Street and Park Avenue at 6:00PM Tuesday night, trying to get into the Queens Midtown Tunnel.

In a show of interfaith unity, faith leaders from across the city gathered on the steps of City Hall Tuesday afternoon to call for security funding for houses of worship.
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A shooting at a suburban Denver middle school injured seven people Tuesday, and two suspects were in custody, authorities said.
Douglas County Undersheriff Holly Nicholson-Kluth says there is a possible eighth injury and doesn’t believe there are any other shooters, but tactical teams were still searching room by room.

According to the NYC health Department, as of today, 466 cases of measles have been confirmed since the beginning of the outbreak last October.