The district attorney in Lehigh County Pennsylvania just released these photos of two men wanted for questioning in the murder of Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin. You'll recall that Rubin went missing on October 31st of last year; his smoldering body was found in an apple orchard outside of Allentown, P.A.—but he was so badly charred that investigators did not identify the remains until December. The cause of death was a gunshot wound, and one friend of Rubin later told the Brooklyn Paper that Rubin looked "very upset" the night he disappeared. Could these men have something to do with it? more ›

Police in two states are trying to piece together the last 12 hours of slain Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin's life, with Pennsylvania authorities working under the assumption that Rubin was killed elsewhere and dumped in an apple orchard outside of Allentown, while theories about Rubin's alleged money problems and drug ties continue to circulate. more ›

As authorities continue to investigate the death of Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin, the Post's sources suggest the 30-year-old may have been dealing weed: "[Rubin] had been pressing his friends to buy large weights of weed... Rubin’s friends told investigators that he’d get them as much as a pound of pot at time, according to the sources." And Rubin's money problems are also being looked at. more ›

The mystery surrounding the gruesome murder of Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin deepens today, with conflicting stories about whether or not he was in debt when he vanished, and a few more clues about how he may have disappeared. more ›

More details are emerging this morning about Josh Rubin, the missing Brooklyn cafe owner whose shot and badly burned body was identified last night, though investigators are still trying to piece together exactly what happened between the night of October 31, when Rubin went missing, and the morning of November 1, when his body was found. more ›

Brooklyn cafe owner Josh Rubin, who was last seen on October 31, was found dead outside of Allentown, Pennsylvania. It turns out that his burned body was found on November 1 in South Whitehall Township but DNA testing only recently identified the remains as Rubin's. more ›

Jerry Sandusky has left jail—for now. Yesterday the former Penn State associate head football coach's wife Dottie cut a certified check for $50,000 to bail her hubby out after he was arrested on two more sex abuse charges. In addition to the cash the Sandusky's used $200,000 in real estate holdings to make bail. Dottie also took time yesterday to release a statement to the media in which she emphasized her belief in her husband's innocence. more ›

Whatever Jerry Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach charged with sexually abusing a string of young boys, was hoping to get from his much-maligned interview with Bob Costas earlier this week it doesn't seem to be working. His claims that sexual misconduct was just "horseplay" has reportedly emboldened a number of other alleged victims to come forward while firming the resolve of those who already spoke out. Meanwhile, more questions are being asked about Mike McQueary, the assistant coach currently on paid leave whose testimony against Sandusky is key to the case. For instance? Turns out McQueary went to a fundraiser for Sandusky's charity a year after he says he saw him raping a 10-year-old in the Penn State showers. more ›

FADE IN: A 50-yr-old beatnick heads west from New York City, hobo stick slung over shoulder, humming Tom Petty's "Last Dance With Mary Jane" while the lyrics run through his head. "Well, I don't know, but I've been told, You never slow down, you never grow old. I'm tired of screwin' up, tired of going down, Tired of myself, tired of this town." It's looking bleak. Enter: Pittsburgh! more ›

The reports of creepy dudes using Facebook to stalk and harass teens keep rolling in: police have accused a 53-year-old Pennsylvania man of creating multiple fake Facebook accounts in an attempt to lure a 14-year-old girl into have sex with him. And there was a split-personality/teenage fantasy twist to the suspect's machinations. more ›

New York is full of stories of old folks losing it when faced with rambunctious young whipper-snappers. Every few months you'll hear about one opening fire or storming a school bus when they just can't take it anymore. But with a few notable exceptions, at least we don't have to deal with urine tossers. That's more for the old folks living in the wilds Pennsyltucky. more ›

Now that unemployment and poverty rates are sky high, why not open a few casinos? The Post reports that both parties agree: legalized gambling should happen. It'll give people a chance to discover a new rock-bottom get back on their feet, inject some cash into the state's austere budget, and finally allow us to knock Native Americans out of the one position of power that they currently hold. Everybody wins! more ›

The motive behind the horrific killings at a Pennsylvania weekend house owned by an East Village couple is still being investigated. East 10th Street residents Paul and Monica Shay were at their Bechtelsville farmhouse with their nephew Joseph Shay, his girlfriend Kathryn Erdmann, and her two-year-old son Gregory when Mark Geisenheyner (pictured) stormed in and shot them all in the head on Saturday night. Joseph Shay and Gregory Erdmann died from their wounds, while the others were seriously injured. Geisenheyner, who was killed by a SWAT team on July 4, told friends that Paul Shay hadn't paid him his share of an insurance fraud scheme. more ›

After a dramatic standoff that involved percussion bombs and tear gas, the man suspected of killing two people and wounding three others in a Pennsylvania weekend home owned by an New York couple was killed by a SWAT team in Trainer, Pennsylvania yesterday. Mark Geisenheyner, 51, apparently knew Paul Shay, an East Village resident, and was unhappy about not getting his cut of an insurance fraud scam. Montgomery County District Attorney Risa Vetri Ferman said, "What we’ve learned through the investigation is that, for the past 15 months or so, Mark Geisenheyner had been planning to break into this home, to steal and to kill Paul Shay." more ›

WABC 7 reports, "Their bodies were discovered in different rooms, suggesting the gunman went from room to room, killing his or her victims execution-style." Joseph Shay has an extensive criminal history: The Philadelphia Inquirer says it "[dates] to 1992, when he was sentenced in Atlantic County to 10 years in prison for drug dealing. He was released in 1998, state records show. More recently, he was imprisoned for nearly two years in New York for grand larceny - the theft of $1,000 or more. He was released about a year ago, according to state records." more ›

This morning, a tour bus from Kentucky headed to New York City rear-ended a flatbed truck on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The bus driver was killed, while dozens of passengers and the truck's driver were injured. According to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "The bus crashed into the back of the flatbed trailer the truck was pulling, pushing the truck halfway onto the highway berm. A skid mark at least 100 feet long was visible in the climbing lane." more ›

It was bad enough when Pennsylvania got its first self-serve wine kiosks last year, with thousands of bottles available at the click of a button in grocery stores. But now, they've gone too far: the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board is on the verge of approving a pilot program to sell hard liquor out of those wine vending kiosks. Why is the sixth borough at the cutting edge of alco-vending machine technology??? more ›

The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act that President Obama signed into law this year didn't just bring us a fancy new FDA recall page. It also is sending the 125-year-old A.L. Bazzini Co., which makes the “official peanut of Yankee Stadium,” out of New York and into the loving embrace of Pennsylvania. more ›

Chinese food is as beloved as Christmas Day in New York, so we're feeling a bit snubbed that we only have two restaurants in this top ten list of America's best Chinese restaurants. And while we could maybe be content losing the #1 spot to somewhere in San Francisco, we have to play fourth-fiddle to Yang Ming Restaurant in Bryn Mawr, PA. Foodie Ed Schoenfeld complained to the Post, "We have some wonderful restaurants in New York that were left off. It's simply wrong—not that there can't be great Chinese restaurants in Tennessee or Alabama but come on..." more ›

A Pennsylvania man wanted to make a point: David Kliss was upset that a mandated sewer tie-in would cost him thousands of dollars. So he put up a sign that read, "$10,000 to Take a Crap." He was ordered to remove the offending word, crap, because he was violating a zoning ordinance that "No Loud, Vulgar, Indecent or Obscene Advertising matter shall be displayed in any manner." He took off the word, but it didn't sit right with him, and he filed a federal lawsuit against what he viewed as a bogus, vague law. more ›

Does that headline make some of you trolls a tad concerned that the bridge is collapsing down on top of you? Because it is, so stop being so nasty! Okay, we're bluffing, but not completely: Six commenters on a website about Elizabeth, Pennsylvania could have their identities revealed within a month, after a judge ruled in favor of Township Supervisor Thomas DeRosa, who is trying to determine who defamed him on the site's online bulletin board. The ACLU had been fighting on behalf of the commenters, but recently decided not to appeal and has turned over their I.P. addresses. more ›

A 20-year-old autistic man died of hyperthermia on Saturday after being left in a van for over five hours, where the temperature may have reached up to 130 degrees. Bryan Nevins was on a trip to the theme park Sesame Place with other residents from Woods Services, a residential treatment home in Middletown, Pa. Upon returning at 12:30 p.m., the driver dropped off the clients and parked the van with Nevins still inside. Nobody noticed Nevins was missing until a nurse looked for him to administer medication around 4 p.m., and he was found in the van. His aunt, Jeanne Greco, said, "How this could have happened, how do you leave...How do you forget someone like that? I don't understand it." more ›

Forget pigeon racing... we've got bigger pigeon worries now! According to the New York City Bar, there's a big pigeon-napping problem—allegedly they're getting trapped in nets, tossed in vans and either used in some voodoo ceremonies, served up as food in a restaurant near you, or most commonly, they're used as targets at shooting ranges. What's worse, pigeons that are shot at the ranges often land on neighboring roofs (see video below). more ›

For the love of all that is holy, say it ain't so! Pennsylvania minister Gregory Malia, known for living it up at New York nightclubs and spending over $35,000 a night, has been stripped of his robes by church officials. The Daily News reports he was kicked out of the Episcopal Diocese of Bethlehem, Pa on grounds that he had "abandoned the communion of this church." What, just for enjoying a little Dom Perignon? Oh, actually it's for pulling out a gun in a club. more ›

Famous gospel singer Rev. Timothy Wright of the Grace Tabernacle Christian Center in Crown Heights was seriously injured in a car accident on I-80 in Pennsylvania Friday evening. His wife Betty did not survive the crash, after a man driving a Chevy Corsica the wrong way on the interstate struck their car as they were driving home from a conference in Detroit. The Wrights' grandson, 14-year-old D.J. Wright, was also fatally injured in the wreck and passed away in a Pennsylvania hospital. The driver of the Corsica, 44-year-old John Pick of Lewisburg, PA, was killed in the crash. more ›

Hillary Clinton's campaign estimates donations have totaled $10 million since her Pennsylvania primary win last night. Campaign chairman Terry McAuliffe crowed, "Senator Clinton’s game-changing victory last night has turned the tide and resulted in an historic outpouring of grassroots support." more ›

Brace yourself for more Democratic party infighting: Hillary Clinton is projected to win today's Pennsylvania primary. Now everyone, including the Clinton and rival Barack Obama campaigns, are waiting for what her margin of victory will be and how many of the state's 158 delegates she'll be able to pick up. more ›

NYC has agreed to lower the water levels in some of its reservoirs that supply the city with its drinking water. The move came after pressure from Ed Rendell, the Gov. of Pennsylvania, who argued for reduced reservoir capacity to spare citizens of his state from the regular spring flooding along the Delaware River that results from New York keeping its reservoirs filled to the brim. When spring storms exceed the already-full reservoirs' ability to retain water, the Delaware River floods and Pennsylvanians suffer. more ›