NEW YORK (VINnews) – Is your driver’s license valid? It may not be. In the last 28 months, New York issued nearly 1.7 million driver’s license suspensions for not paying traffic tickets. That is nearly two thirds of all license suspensions in New York. New York State lawmakers are saying enough is enough. A new […]

New City, NY (VINnews) — Rockland County Health Commissioner Dr. Patricia Schnabel Ruppert advises residents that two Rockland County residents who have been confirmed to have Coronavirus (COVID-19) potentially exposed others to the disease from February 28 to March 2. Anyone who visited the following locations in Rockland County may have been exposed to Coronavirus […]

NEW YORK (JNS) — A woman who went on an anti-Semitic tirade against two Jewish people on a New York City subway in December was indicted with a hate crime by a Manhattan grand jury, attorneys of one victim told Fox News on Wednesday. Israeli college student Lihi Aharon and an Orthodox Jewish man she […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday morning that there are two additional patients in NYC whohave tested positive for coronavirus. One new patient is a man in his 40s, and the other patient is a woman in her 80s. Neither patient has a connection to travel nor any of the […]

NEW YORK (AP) – New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Wednesday that the wife, two children and a neighbor of a New York lawyer who is hospitalized in critical condition with COVID-19 have also tested positive for the disease. That increases the number of confirmed cases in the state to six. Yeshiva University, where one […]

NEW YORK (VINnews-Sandy Eller) — An Orthodox Jewish man has been hospitalized with coronavirus, prompting the closure of three local yeshivas. In a Tuesday morning news conference, Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York State Health Commissioner Howard Zucker said that the 50 year old man lives in Westchester with his family and had traveled to […]

NEW YORK (AP) — The news that Amtrak will ramp up repairs to its century-old Hudson River rail tunnel while a project to build a new tunnel languishes likely will translate into more headaches for already beleaguered commuters. U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao told a House subcommittee Thursday that federal officials are working with Amtrak […]

CROWN HEIGHTS (VINnews) — The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating a hate crime against a Jewish boy that took place in Crown Heights this week. A black male approached the victim in the Crunch Fitness gym located on Lefferts Ave in Crown Heights. The attacker pulled off the boy’s headphones headphones, called him […]

BROOKLYN (VINnews) – The New York Lottery today announced one second-prize ticket for the February 26 Powerball drawing was sold in BROOKLYN. The ticket is worth a guaranteed $1,000,007. The ticket was purchased at NEW ANCHOR GROC & HALAL MEAT located at 544 HEMLOCK ST. The winning numbers for the Powerball game are drawn from […]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s governor says he believes President Donald Trump is punishing his home state for being too liberal. In the past few weeks, New York has come out on the losing end on a series of federal acts. The Army Corps of Engineers slashed funding for a study of a colossal […]