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Weekly roundup of world briefs   By Ben Sales (JTA) — A dead pig’s body was found outside the door of a rabbi in the heavily Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey. The body was found on Shabbat, according to The Lakewood Scoop, and the local police department is treating the incident as a bias crime. Pigs are seen as the quintessentially unkosher animal and have long been used as an anti-Semitic symbol. “We will not tolerate such acts in our town,” Lakewood Police Chief Greg Meyer told The Scoop, a local publication in the South Jerse... For access to this article pleas...

Florida congresswoman debbie wasserman scholes who represents the 23rd district, this airport, inside the 23rd district. congresswoman, thanks, thanks so much for your time, this evening. at this point, what more do we know about the circumstances surrounding what happened at that airport four hours ago? what more do you know perhaps about this suspect? >> craig, thanks for having me and for doing such a good job covering this and keeping people informed. the most important thing that people should know right now is that this is definitely still an active situation. not in terms of a shooter b...

An inspection of the airfield, the taxiway, the runway, the lights, when you have an emergency response like this, there's a possibility that equipment or some part of the airfield might be damaged or equipment on the airfield might be damaged. we have to do a complete inspection of the airfield before we can release anything. i'm going to let mike speak now to the actual response to the incident. then i'll talk about when the airport may reopen. >> thanks, greg. mike jachles, with broward fire sheriff fire rescue. received the call at 12:34 for report eed engine fire. our units deployed. with...

Greg meyer is standing by to come over and join us. greg's with the airport as well. he can explain a little bit about dynamic air. why don't you come on this side of me. thank you. dynamic air which has been operating here at the airport for about 6 to 8 months. scheduled service but it operates different than most airlines because -- >> it's a charter flight service. they don't work like a normal flight like a delta airlines or someone else here. they have flight schedules, but they have different requirements and that type of thing. they've been here, as you said, six to eight months. they'...

Our response here. we had an effective response, a quick response. and i think that that's reflected by the results that we see. >> is the remaining fuel on the plane going to stay there? do you guys take it off? what happens with that? >> that's a question that will be determined once the investigators get here with the fire investigators and b-cad. whether they'll offload the fuel or not. that's something that tahey'll decide on at that time. >> what's happened to the passengers evacuated. >> greg meyer, i'll jump in for a second. just while we're standing here, i just got a call that the ai...