The New York State Thruway Authority has announced nightly ramp closures and traffic detours at exit 16 (Harriman – US Route 6 – NY Route 17) on the Thruway (I-87) in Orange County are scheduled to begin tonight for work associated with the conversion to cashless tolling at the Harriman Toll Barrier.

Authorities have charged a woman with impersonating a pharmacist and illegally filling more than 745,000 prescriptions in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Charges against Kim Thien Le were announced Tuesday.
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Officials in Congo on Tuesday said a second Ebola case had been confirmed in Goma, the city of more than 2 million people whose first confirmed case in this yearlong outbreak was reported earlier this month.
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A gunman cut through a fence at a popular California garlic festival and turned to a tent where the Honey Ladies were selling their habanero and garlic honey. He shot and wounded the business owner and her husband, but thanks to a 10-year-old girl, their young son escaped harm, witnesses say.
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President Donald Trump is claiming a groundswell of African American support in response to his comments denigrating Democratic Rep. Elijah Cummings and the congressman’s majority-black Baltimore district, despite polling showing consistently negative numbers.
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A terrible tragedy struck the Boro Park community on Tuesday, when word spread of the drowning of a young child.
Tzvi (Hersh) Elimelech Yechiel Michel Grossman Z”L (son of R’ Moshe and Mrs Shaindel), 9-years-old, was on a camp trip with the Belzer Talmud Torah to the Sahara Sam Water Park in West Berlin, NJ, where the tragedy occurred at around 7:30PM. 

President Donald Trump on Tuesday marked the 400th anniversary of the rise of American democracy by celebrating four centuries of commitment to the “righteous cause” of self-government, in a Jamestown speech that was boycotted by black state legislators and bracketed by Trump’s comments in Washington continuing to disparage a black member of Congress and his majority-black district.

Just after 1:00PM on Thursday afternoon the dispatch center of the Shomrim in Bnei Brak received a phone call from one of the proprietors of a Mikvah in Bnei Brak regarding a suspect who entered the Mikvah and was suspected of perpetrating a series of thefts in which mikvah-goers had their phones stolen over the past few days.
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The risk that Holocaust survivors will develop dementia is 1.21 times higher than that of people who did not experience the Holocaust. This finding emerged from a new study undertaken at the University of Haifa.

The Sheiris Yisrael hechsher has launched a new shechita operation in Poland for cattle. The new operation is reportedly to enable the hashgacha to meet the growing demand for its meat.
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