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Bergenfield, NJ
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North Jersey Man Detained At JFK Airport Suing Gov. Cuomo
A North Jersey man with a history of suing public agencies is at it again -- this time, he's after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo. New Milford's Yoel Weishauss on Tuesday filed the suit in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, the New York Daily News first reported. Weishauss, in his late 30s, was returning from an overseas trip when an armed agent told him he had to fill out the New York State Traveler Health Form, despite having been cleared by U.S. Customs and Border Protection Nov. 18, the suit alleges. An executive order issued by Cuomo mandates airline traveler complet…
Massapequa, NY
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Covid-
19: Testing Sites To Be Set Up At JFK, LaGuardia
Testing sites for novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are being set up at LaGuardia and JFK airports as New York continues to combat the spread of the virus. Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced on Monday, Aug. 24 that testing sites were being arranged for travelers coming into New York from states with high COVID-19 infection rates. Cuomo said that the new testing sites will allow the state to quickly determine whether incoming travelers have brought the virus into New York. The testing sites are being set up by the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, and New York City Health + Hospitals. During…
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Police Investigating Shooting At Poughkeepsie Gas Station With Numerous Bystanders
Police are investigating a shooting between two men at an area gas station while numerous bystanders were in the range of fire. The incident took place in Dutchess County around 9:54 a.m. at the Gulf Gas Station at 128 Washington St., in the City of Poughkeepsie, said Det. Lt. Matt Clark. Responding officers found evidence that multiple shots were fired in the parking lot of that gas station between one subject inside a vehicle and the other outside the vehicle, Clark said. The vehicle, a 2018 silver Chevrolet Malibu, was found abandoned in the parking lot of Tubman Te…
Massapequa, NY
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Covid-
19: Some Out-Of-State Travelers May Be Subjected To Quarantine In New York
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said that he’s considered the possibility of quarantining travelers coming into the state from others that have seen a rise in novel coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. Boasting that New York is now doing the most testing in the country and has the lowest infection rate for the virus, Cuomo said that he has been investigating the possibility of a mandatory 14-day quarantine for some travelers coming into the state. With New York leading the way in battling the COVID-19 pandemic, Cuomo said that he has consulted with leading global experts on whether or not to impose a m…
Brentwood, NY
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Long Island Woman Sentenced For Providing Material Support To ISIS
A 30-year-old woman on Long Island will spend more than a decade behind bars for offering material support to ISIS. Brentwood resident Zoobia Shahnaz has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization, U.S. Attorney Richard Donoghue announced. Specifically, Donoghue said Shahnaz provided more than $150,000 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), and attempted to travel to Syria to join ISIS. According to court papers, between March 2017 and July 2017, Shahnaz defrauded numerous financial institutions to obtain money f…
Fort Lee, NJ
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: Port Authority PD Goes ‘Fast & Furious’ Against NYC Street Racers
Some 70 street racers and their entourages had eluded authorities who tried to clear them from clogging a corner of JFK Airport before they began tearing up area highways. So Port Authority police went all Vin Diesel on ‘em. Uniformed officers in surge patrols had trouble corralling the 60 to 80 wannabe drift kings who’d gathered between 1 and 3 a.m. each weekend for the past two months at the Sunoco Plaza -- blocking gas pumps, handicap parking spots and entrances and exits -- before running illegal New York City races. Whenever marked units entered the plaza, however, they all scattered. …
Hackensack, NJ
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NJ Woman Hospitalized In Hackensack Tests Negative For Coronavirus
UPDATE: A 25-year-old New Jersey woman tested negative for the coronavirus, the state Department of Health said. It turned out she had a cold. The woman was transported to HUMC from Riverside Medical Group at Mariners Plaza on River Road in Edgewater around 6 p.m. Thursday with possible exposure to the mysterious pneumonia-like respiratory illness, borough police said. She was discharged more than five hours later after tests came up negative. "The NJ Department of Heath consulted with the CDC and it was determined patient did not meet CDC criteria for testing for the novel virus," the sta…
Massapequa, NY
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Ex
-ceo
Arrested At JFK Airport For Scheme To Pay Millions Of Dollars In Bribes To Officials
The former CEO of a Brazilian chemical company was arrested this week at JFK Airport and charged with paying millions of dollars in bribes to government officials, federal officials said. Jose Carlos Grubisch, 62, was arrested on Wednesday, Nov. 20 and pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn federal court to violating anti-bribery and other provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and conspiracy to commit money laundering. Grubisch, who was the CEO of Braskem S.A. a Brazil-based petrochemical company involving their parent company, Odebrecht S.A. to a secret slush fund that was used, in part,…
Danbury, CT
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Danbury Off-Duty Chief Helps Save A Person During Flight From Vegas
This story has been updated. A Danbury deputy fire chief helped save the life of a person suffering a medical crisis on a flight from Las Vegas. The incident took place around 5:30 a.m., Thursday, Nov. 14, when Deputy Chief Bill Lounsbury was off duty on a flight from Las Vegas when he was altered that medical personnel was needed for a patient having an anaphylactic reaction. He told the flight crew that he was an advanced EMT, said Danbury Fire Communications Coordinator James Gagliardo. Lounsbury quickly teamed up with a Connecticut pediatrician to treat the patient.&nb…
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
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: Feds Charge Sussex County Jets Fan After Profanity-Filled Airplane Meltdown
A Sussex County man who was told he couldn't use the bathroom on the front of a plane was slapped with federal charges after going on a tirade and threatening to kill other passengers, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing, authorities said. Jwan Curry, 40, of Hamburg, was charged with interfering with a flight attendant on an Alaskan Airlines flight from JFK Airport to Los Angeles last Friday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office Western District of Missouri said. A video fo the incident was published by Roman Cheruhkin on Instagram. Clad in a NY Jets hat and jersey, Curry start…
Hackensack, NJ
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Rooftop Infinity Pool, Observation Deck To Open At JFK Airport
If you needed a reason to stop flying out of Newark, check out the infinity pool, bar and observation deck coming to JFK. The new amenities will debut May 15 on top of the airport's new 512-room TWA Hotel and stay open all year long. The 63-by-20 foot pool and the 10,000-square-foot observation deck overlook 4L/22R, one of the airport's largest runways, with views all the way to Jamaica Bay. Inspired by the infinity edge pool at the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Cap d’Antibes, France, the swimming spot has a beach entry and underwater seating, becoming a "pool-cuzzi" in winter (heating up to …
Massapequa, NY
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Second Phase Of Air Cargo Modernization Program At JFK Airport Unveiled
The second phase of the air cargo modernization initiative at JFK Airport has officially been unveiled, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced. The multi-tiered cargo modernization plan’s second phase is underway with the signing of a long-term lease to develop a state-of-the-art handling facility with JFK Air Cargo LLC. The Port Authority Board of Commissioners approved the 31-year lease, which is expected to bring around $152 million in rentals as well as $70 million in investments by JFK Air Cargo. The Port Authority is also contributing a maximum of $13 million toward efforts including site prepa…
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