BURLINGTON, Iowa (AP) — Take Bernie out to the ball game? Bernie Sanders, the Vermont senator and Democratic presidential candidate, is aggressively opposing a Major League Baseball plan to cut 42 minor league teams across the country after 2020. Among the targeted are the Vermont Lake Monsters, the Single-A affiliate of the Oakland Athletics in […]

RAMAPO (VINnews) — A resident of Passaic, NJ has been charged with allegedly sexually assaulting a child in Ramapo. Dov Weinraub, 24, a Passaic resident was arrested by Ramapo police on December 4. He is accused of allegedly assaulting a child under 13 years of age at least twice, over a period of 3 months. […]

BNEI BRAK (VINnews) — A young father who was in the midst of the Shiva for his infant son who had died of crib death, collapsed himself and died during the Shiva. Yitzhak Meir Weiss, a 31-year-old graduate of the Mir Brachfeld Yeshiva in Kiryat Sefer, had waited a number of years before his only […]

LONDON (AP) — There will be no letup for U.K. lawmakers worn out after Britain’s bruising election campaign. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is set to begin “before Christmas” the push to secure Parliamentary approval for his Brexit deal. Buoyed by its landslide victory in Thursday’s election, Johnson’s Conservative government plans to move fast to make […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former FBI Director James Comey acknowledged Sunday that a Justice Department inspector general report identified “real sloppiness” in the surveillance of a former Trump campaign aide and said he was wrong to have been “overconfident” about how the Russia investigation was handled. But Comey also insisted he was right to feel some […]

JERSEY CITY, NJ (JTA) — Jersey City Mayor Steven Fulop was one of the first New Jersey officials to describe Tuesday’s shooting at a kosher market as a hate crime motivated by anti-Semitism. He did so on Wednesday, a day before the state’s attorney general did. “Had I said that we were unsure of the […]

EDISON, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey’s largest hospital system said Friday that a ransomware attack last week disrupted its computer network and that it paid a ransom to stop it. Hackensack Meridian Health did not say in its statement how much it paid to regain control over its systems but said it holds insurance coverage […]

WASHINGTON (AP) — As Washington braces for this week’s expected vote to impeach President Donald Trump, partisan battle lines hardened on Sunday, with Democrats defending impeachment even if Trump isn’t removed from office and Republicans denouncing the integrity of the constitutional process. The Democratic-controlled House planned to vote Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) – The New York State Police recently modified the light bars on top of their police cruisers. The cruisers already had horizontal light bars that sat on top of them, but these new lights bars sit horizontally and vertically. The goal is to make the emergency vehicles more noticeable, especially from a […]

BORO PARK (VINnews) — In a frightening incident this past Friday night, a man holding a knife entered a Boro Park home at approximately 12:30 AM. Security footage from the house shows the man walking through the kitchen while holding a knife with a blade several inches long. When the homeowner discovered the intruder, he […]