More than 1,000 people in New Jersey and New York, many of them adolescent Orthodox Jews, have been sickened with mumps since August, health authorities said Monday.

Arctic Monkeys are not done supporting their twisty, stoner-rocking (and sorta underrated) 2009 album Humbug . They've got a new single coming out fronted by Sabbath-y album opener "My Propeller" and backed by three brand new tracks, including one excellently titled "Don't Forget Whose Legs You're On". The single is due March 23 digitally and through the band's web store before it hits record ...

The Royal Shakespeare Company will hold court in Manhattan for an unprecedented six-week, five-play residency inside the Park Avenue Armory.

NEW YORK CITY, February 8, 2010 Winston & Strawn LLP announced today that Lawrence A. Larose and Samuel S. Kohn have joined the firms New York office as partners in the firms Restructuring and Insolvency Group, and William J. Grant has joined as senior counsel in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice.

When tragedy strikes around the world, one Brooklyn-based doctor is sure to lend a hand.Dr. Herbert Rader, 71, a general surgeon by trade and the current medical director of New York Community Hospital, 2525 Kings Highway, recently returned from three weeks assisting the medical effort in Haiti following the...

The Claims Conference fired three employees last week who allegedly approved more than 100 fraudulent Holocaust-era claims filed primarily by Russians now living in Brooklyn that bilked the German government out of more than $350,000, The Jewish Week has learned.

The Panetta Institute for Public Policy is pleased to announce the thirteenth annual Panetta Institute Lecture Series. This years theme is The Second Decade (2010-2020): Whats Next for America?

Q I got my green card through the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status program. Can I petition to bring my parents and siblings to the United States? I am 24 years old. Must I first get U.S. citizenship before I petition for my family?Shah, Long Island City,.

NEW YORK, Feb 10 (Reuters) - The father of an Afghan-born airport shuttle driver accused of plotting an al Qaeda-inspired bomb attack on New York City pleaded not guilty on Tuesday to charges of conspiring to alter, destroy and conceal evidence.

PIRAEUS, GREECE--(Marketwire - February 8, 2010) - Navios Maritime Partners L.P. ("Navios Partners") ( NYSE : NMM ) announced the completion of its follow-on public offering of 4,025,000 common units, which includes the full exercise of the underwriter's over-allotment option, at $15.51 per unit, raising gross proceeds of approximately $62.4 million.

Check out Cheryl Burke and more at http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/swimsuit. Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue - Brooklyn Decker - Sport Illustrated - United States - Andy Roddick

Secretly Canadian (2010) Yeasayer have created a decadent, densely produced mess of a second album.

The small prophecies of Patti Smith How do you get to be the Godmother of Punk? Pure dumb luck, for starters. MORE PATTI SMITH FROM THE PHOENIX ARCHIVES READ: " On the Road Again, Part 1: With Patti Smith and Bob Dylan ," a backstage diary by Al Giordano READ: " Positively okay: Dylan still has authority; Patti Smith has that and more ," by Stephanie Zacharek READ: " Trampin on: The spirit of ...

You may have noticed that some people around here are still grumpy about the Civil War.

February 08, 2010 A deafening roar filled the Convention Hall in the Empire State Plaza Feb. 2 as several students from New York City and western New York school districts rallied to raise or eliminate the state's cap on charter schools.

Shirley Chisholm was the first African-American woman elected to Congress and the first African-American presidential candidate.

After voting with 36 other members of the House in November against a resolution that the Goldstone Report to the UN was unfair to Israel, Brooklyns Yvette Clarke reportedly told Jewish leaders in her district that shed consult with them on Middle East issues in the future.

Two Tamils, who had fled the civil war in Sri Lanka about two decades ago and had become Canadians, were sentenced to 25 years each in prison last week by a New York court for attempting to buy heat-seeking missiles and military assault rifles for Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rebels about five years ago. The two will also have five years of probation.

"I couldn't believe that I managed the heavyweight champion," said Finkel. "It was a great feeling."

On February 3, a Department of Justice press release headlined "Aafia Siddiqui Found Guilty in Manhattan Federal Court of Attempting to Murder US Nationals in Afghanistan and Six Additional Charges."

The Ocean County Health Department is monitoring an outbreak of mumps first detected last year in New York at a summer camp for Orthodox Jewish children.

Aline M. Jungen, age 87, passed away on Friday, February 5, 2010, at St. Paul Home in Kaukauna. Aline was born on October 3, 1922 in Oshkosh, daughter of the late Frank and Agnes Mimi (Doctor) Rose. On January 17, 1942, Aline was united in marriage to Leo Jungen, and they shared nearly 60 years together before his death on December 4, 2001. Aline was her husbands partner and inspiration in their ...

INDIANAPOLIS - Team USA will send its biggest ever team to the World Masters Athletics Championships Indoor (WMA) March 1-6 at Kamloops, British Columbia, featuring 298 athletes (including 71 women) between the ages of 35 and 92. This is the fourth WMA indoor world meet but the first outside Europe.

Organizers of a Hebrew charter school in suburban Los Angeles were dealt a major blow last week when the local school board deadlocked over the projects approval, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Some people begin their New Year with prayers for world peace or solemn resolutions to stop overeating.

As Sandra Glicksman walked towards the private room of Inge Heilbrunn in the Grace Plaza Nursing Center in Great Neck, Heilbrunn was in a wheelchair anxiously awaiting her arrival.

The Horned Frogs will return to Daniel-Meyer Coliseum when TCU welcomes Utah for Mountain West Conference action on Wednesday evening. Game time is slated for 7:00 p.m. Central Time. GAME NOTES | LISTEN LIVE!!! | GAMETRACKER | BUY TICKETS

Helicopter tour, by Several Seconds Today on the Gothamist Newsmap : double shooting in Brooklyn, falling debris on East 33rd Street, and an unusual incident on 40th and 2nd ("PCT REQ ESU TO CUT A BICYCLE DOWN FROM A TREE"). Sad: more than 59% of Haitians living in the United States lost loved ones in the earthquake. According to Pat Kiernan, you really can die of a broken heart . Happy ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Barack Obama said Sunday he has not ruled out a New York federal court trial for Sept. 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, but he was taking into account the objections of the city's mayor and police...