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Iconic All-News Radio Station WCBS 880 Will Sign Off Permanently Iconic All-News Radio Station WCBS 880 Will Sign Off Permanently
Iconic All-News Radio Station Wcbs 880 Will Sign Off Permanently An iconic radio station that has served the New York metropolitan area for 57 years will be permanently signing off within weeks. Audacy, the parent company of WCBS NewsRadio 880, just announced that the station will end its run as an all-news station later this month. Audacy also operates another New York City-based all-news station, 1010 WINS. Audacy will keep 880 in its stable of stations, and it will become ESPN New York beginning Monday, Aug. 26. The WCBS call letters will be retired and are to be replaced by WHSQ, pending FCC approval. Known for its "Traffic and Weather Togethe…

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by Joe Lombardi
News
TSA Newark Nabs PA Man Trying To Board Plane With .357 Revolver TSA Newark Nabs PA Man Trying To Board Plane With .357 Revolver
TSA Newark Nabs PA Man Trying To Board Plane With .357 Revolver A Pennsylvania man was arrested at Newark Airport over the weekend with an unloaded .357-caliber revolver in his carry-on, the TSA said. The Bethlehem, PA traveler was nabbed after the weapon was spotted going through an X-ray scanner at a Terminal C security checkpoint on Sunday, Jan. 29, the Transportation Security Administration’s Lisa Farbstein said. Port Authority police took him into custody. Whenever the TSA catches a traveler with a gun at a checkpoint, the entire lane comes to a standstill until the incident is resolved, Farbstein noted. That can delay – and even prevent – others…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue
Congregants Self-Quarantine After NY Rabbi In Coronavirus Outbreak Visits Passaic Synagogue A Westchester rabbi at the center the New York metropolitan area's coronavirus outbreak visited a synagogue in Passaic last week, city health officials confirmed. An undisclosed number of congregants of Agudas Yisroel Bircas Yaakov in the Passaic Park section of town are self-quarantining for two weeks since Tuesday's visit, Daily Voice has learned. This came after Passaic city health officials asked that anyone who had close contact with the rabbi self-quarantine until March 16 -- defining close contact as being within six feet of the rabbi for 10 minutes or more. They emphasized that th…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Port Authority K9 Detects Compartment That Concealed 154 Pounds Of Coke In Fruit Trailer Port Authority K9 Detects Compartment That Concealed 154 Pounds Of Coke In Fruit Trailer
Port Authority K9 Detects Compartment That Concealed 154 Pounds Of Coke In Fruit Trailer Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- and species: A Port Authority Police K9 sniffed out a compartment used to smuggle more than $10 million in cocaine into the Bronx in a trailer filled with rotting fruit, prosecutors said. Balu and his Port Authority police officer partner are assigned with the DEA, the NYPD and New York State Police to a task force that pursues international drug smugglers in the New York metropolitan area. During one of the area's largest cocaine seizures in years, Balu's nose led task force members to a hidden compartment in the top of a refrigerated trailer that aut…

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by Jerry DeMarco