Ten preteens from around New York have won the first round of state college scholarships for 5-to-11-year-olds who get vaccinated against COVID-19, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Saturday. The youths’ names were drawn by lottery after their parents or guardians entered them in the “Vaccinate, Educate, Graduate” contest. It’s open to children 5 to 11 who get their first vaccine dose by Dec. 19. Weekly drawings will continue through Dec. 20. Winners get tuition, room and board for an associate’s or bachelor’s degree program at a New York State or New York City public university, plus money for books and supplies. Hochul’s office released video of the Democrat phoning some of the young winners, whose full names weren’t given.

Chris Christie is everywhere. The former New Jersey governor and onetime Republican presidential candidate denounced “conspiracy theorists” during a September appearance at the Ronald Reagan Library in California. He followed up with a speech this month to influential Republicans in Las Vegas, warning that the party will only succeed if it offers a “plan for tomorrow, not a grievance about yesterday.” In between, he’s been interviewed by everyone from Laura Ingraham on Fox News to David Axelrod, a former adviser to President Barack Obama, on CNN. On its face, Christie’s publicity campaign is in service of “Republican Rescue,” his new book that offers a simple prescription for his party: stop talking nonsense about 2020 and focus on the future — or keep losing elections.

A man suspected in a deadly mugging on a subway station stairway was arrested four months later after someone spotted him in Central Park and called a tip line, police said Saturday. David Robinson, 53, was awaiting arraignment after being arrested Friday on murder and manslaughter charges in the death of Htwe Than Than. It wasn’t immediately clear whether Robinson had an attorney who could comment on the allegations, and no phone number for his home could immediately be found. Police said the 58-year-oldl victim was walking up some steps in a station in Manhattan’s Chinatown with her 22-year-old son on July 17 when Robinson grabbed the son’s backpack, propelling both son and mother down the stairs. She was in a coma for several days before succumbing to her injuries.

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A police officer who was shot while confronting an armed man in the Bronx was released from a hospital Thursday, while a second officer wounded by the same gunman remained hospitalized, police said. Scores of New York Police Department officers and Mayor-elect Eric Adams, a retired police captain, lined up and applauded outside a Bronx medical center as Officer Alejandra Jacobs headed home. “I’m good, thank you,” she told reporters as she got into a van. “Happy Thanksgiving.” She and the other wounded officer, Robert Holmes, are expected to recovery fully. They are “doing well, relatively speaking,” Police Commissioner Dermot Shea said Thursday on NBC’s “Today” show. Holmes, who has been on the force for about eight years, and Jacobs, a U.S.

Police Commissioner Dermot Shea announced today that Rodney Harrison, a 30-year-veteran of the New York City Police Department who is currently the Department’s highest-ranking uniformed officer as the 41st Chief of Department, will be retiring on December 30, 2021. Chief Harrison’s decision means he will be capping a three-decade-long career in the NYPD that began in June of 1991. Born and raised in the City of New York, he grew up in Rochdale Village in Jamaica, Queens, where, at the urging of his father, he came to view a career in law enforcement as an opportunity to create positive change for residents across New York City.

Disturbing video has emerged of a police officer being body-slammed by a suspect during a struggle and passerby completely ignoring the scene unfolding before their eyes. “We have a police officer in distress, and nobody helps him. Is this the city we want? Has this become normal? It has to stop,” said Patrick Lynch, President of the Police Benevolent Association of the City of New York. “We need your help,” Lynch continued. “We need your help on the street and we need your help to force our reckless elected officials to do their job.” (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)

NYC Mayor-elect Eric Adams attended the annual Chof Alef Kislev event in Williamsburg, celebrated by Satmar chasidim around the world in commemoration of Hagaon Rav Yoel Teitelbaum ZT”L’s 1944 escape from the Nazis. The mayor-elect was introduced at the event by Rabbi Moshe Dovid Niederman. Many dignitaries and elected officials have attended Chof Alef Kislev events over the years out of respect for the Rebbe and to show their support for chasidim and other frum communities.

Two NYPD officers were shot and wounded in the Bronx Wednesday night, police said. Authorities said the shooting occurred near East 187th Street and Beaumont Avenue, in Belmont shortly after 8 p.m. The officers were responding to a call of a person with a gun when gunfire broke out. One officer was then allegedly shot in the arm, while the other was shot in the leg, according to the outlet. Police said the officers were taken to St. Barnabas Hospital with non-life threatening injuries and are expected to be okay. A suspect was also wounded and transported to a hospital. (YWN World headquarters – NYC)

Shomrim of Boro Park is urging residents to be vigilant of their valuables following a disturbing incident on Tuesday that was thankfully resolved with their assistance. According to Shomrim sources who spoke with YWN, a frum home in Boro Park was visited on Tuesday by a legitimate National Grid employee who was conducting routine and required inspections. After the female inspector left the home, the homeowner made a startling discovery – her pocketbook was missing. She immediately phoned Shomrim and apprised them of the situation, who sent units to respond to the scene. After initial fact-gathering, Shomrim members determined that the pocketbook was most likely stolen by the inspector.