MONSEY (VINnews) — The lawyer for Grafton Thomas, the man accused of going on a stabbing rampage at a Monsey Chanukah party this past December, is working on a new defense for his client. Attorney Michael Sussman wrote a letter to Judge Cathy Seibel following the recent passing of 72-year-old Josef Neumann, who was stabbed […]

ROCKLAND COUNTY (VINnews) — Ramapo police arrested eight men in Monsey on Passover. The arrests come just days after Albany authorized Rockland County officials to crack down on large gatherings. Late Thursday morning, Ramapo PD was advised by a neighbor of a gathering at Congregation Shaarei Chesed, located at 92 North Saddle River Road in […]

NEW YORK (AP) — Governor and mayor locked horns again Saturday, this time over whether school buildings in the nation’s largest district would close for the rest of the year, with classes continuing online. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said in a news briefing that public school sites in the city’s 1.1 million-student […]

NEW YORK (AP) — As health officials around the world push to get more ventilators to treat coronavirus patients, some doctors are moving away from using the breathing machines when they can. The reason: Some hospitals have reported unusually high death rates for coronavirus patients on ventilators, and some doctors worry that the machines could […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio acknowledged Wednesday that the city’s official coronavirus statistics have missed hundreds of people who died at home without ever being tested for the virus, and said the city would start including such victims in its COVID-19 tally. “The blunt truth is coronavirus is driving […]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York City’s death toll from the coronavirus rose past 4,000 on Tuesday, eclipsing the number killed at the World Trade Center on 9/11. In Britain, Prime Minister Boris Johnson lay in intensive care, believed to be the first major world leader hospitalized with the virus. The twin developments came even […]

NEW YORK (AP) – Anna Fortunato, a 90-year-old survivor of COVID-19, has a message for the rest of us: Do not be afraid. Do not despair. “Keep on fighting, have that positive attitude, and pray,” she says. “And get out of bed. Don’t stay in bed all the time. … And I want to say […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo called on the Orthodox Jewish community to refrain from holding large religious gatherings, saying on Tuesday that the New York Police Department will “do what they need to do” to enforce his social distancing regulations. “I made it clear yesterday that these social distancing regulations are […]

NEW YORK (AP) — More people have now died from the coronavirus in New York City than perished in the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center. At least 3,202 people have been killed in the city by the virus, according to a new count released by city health officials Tuesday. The deadliest terror […]

NEW YORK (AP) – To the lengthy, sorrowful list of losses from the pandemic, add these: hugs unexchanged, visits unmade, hands unheld. Just when many feel they need it the most, the comfort of physical closeness is being denied. Dr. Loren Olson, 77, a psychiatrist in Urbandale, Iowa, misses the hugs and kisses from friends […]