A fire ripped through a home in Monsey on Wednesday morning, but thankfully, the occupants escaped unharmed.
The Monsey Fire Department responded to the home at 15 Nyack Turnpike just after 10:00AM.
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A Brooklyn man convicted in connection with a 2018 crash on Long Island that killed newly engaged couple Yisroel Levin Z”L & Elisheva Kaplan A”H, was sentenced Tuesday to 18 years to life in prison.

New York City’s newly sworn-in police commissioner has told the force he wants to change a media-driven misperception that officers and the communities they patrol have a bad relationship.
Dermot Shea took the oath from Mayor Bill de Blasio on Monday at a police headquarters ceremony.

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden Petira of R’ Shmuel Aharon “Alan” Lipman Z”L. He was 72.
Alan was a Talmid of Yeshiva Chaim Berlin as a Bochur, and spent the past 30 years learning each day in Mirrer Yeshiva in Flatbush.
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A Rockaway/Lawrence Hatzolah Ambulane taking a patient to the hospital was involved in an MVA this morning.
It happened at the intersection of Central Avenue & Woodmere Boulevard at around 7:30AM.
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The Supreme Court is turning to gun rights for the first time in nearly a decade, even though those who brought the case, New York City gun owners, already have won changes to the regulation they challenged.
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New York City police say a bank robbery suspect fell from an elevated subway line and suffered severe head trauma while attempting to elude capture.
Police say the man plummeted to the pavement around 12:30 p.m.
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A blocked sewer main flooded basements Saturday with brown filth and left residents in the neighborhood near New York City’s Kennedy Airport feeling sickened by the stench.
A water condition caused the backup, pushing human waste into about 300 homes in Jamaica, Queens, officials said.

Each month, Dermot Shea sits with other top New York City police officials and the mayor to brief reporters on the latest crime statistics. In front of them, often, is a big, blue sign featuring a variation on their underlying message: “Safest Big City in America.”
Sworn in Sunday as the city’s 44th police commissioner, Shea now has the ultimate responsibility for keeping it that way.

A fire caused damaged in a Jewish-owned home in Inwood, Sunday afternoon. It happened at 78 Meadow Road.
Multiple fire departments along with Hatzalah Paramedics were on the scene.
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