NJ Transit Service Back to Normal After Train Derailment
NEW YORK (AP) — New Jersey Transit says trains are operating on or close to schedule after an earlier train derailment at Penn Station. NJ Transit says one of its trains was involved in a “minor,”...
View ArticleVictoria Police Search for Missing Man Triantafilos Panagopoulos
VICTORIA, Australia – Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate missing 77-year-old man Triantafilos Panagopoulos. Triantafilos was last seen about 2pm leaving his residential address...
View ArticleGreek-American Nick Economos Passes Away at 91
WARREN, Ohio – Nick Economos, 91 passed away July 6, 2017 at home surrounded by his family. Nick was born September 24, 1925 in Warren, Ohio, he was the son of the late Zaharias and Ourania Economos,...
View ArticleAHEPA Statement on Closure of Conference on Cyprus without Agreement
WASHINGTON – Supreme President Andrew C. Zachariades has issued a statement on the closure of the Conference on Cyprus without an agreement being reached to reunify Cyprus: “The Conference on Cyprus in...
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PBS Series This is America Visits Greece Highlights NHS Heritage Program
NEW YORK – This is America & The World is a series hosted by Dennis Wholey, a journalist and best-selling author with over 40 years of broadcast experience. The weekly series covers international...
View ArticleSculpture of the Greek Immigrant Unveiled in Montreal (Video)
By Zois Marinos MONTREAL – Hundreds of Greeks and many Canadian nationals attended the unveiling of the bronze Sculpture of the Greek Immigrant on June 30 at the corner of Jean Talon Street and Park...
View ArticleBishop Sevastianos of Zela New Metropolitan of Chicago
NEW YORK – His Grace Bishop Sevastianos of Zela was elected Metropolitan of Chicago during the process of the selection of the three person ballot (triprospon) by the Holy Eparchial Synod of the Greek...
View ArticleUSC Professor Soll, President Nikias Present Book to PM Tsipras
USC Professor Jacob Soll’s master work, The Reckoning: Financial Accountability and the Rise and Fall of Nations (Basic Books, 2014), cast a stark light on the financial world as national economies...
View ArticleOur Everyday Greek: This Summer we Speak Greek at the Hotel’s Reception
Maria (M), Petros (P) and Maria’s mother, Εleni (E) are at their hotel’s reception and talk with the receptionist (R) about the rooms they are going to get. Greek phrase Pronunciation...
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A Road Full of Greek Monuments in the Heart of Montreal
By Zois Marinos MONTREAL – It is, perhaps, the only place in the whole world – outside of Greece – adorned by three different Greek monuments in about one kilometer (less than 2/3 of a mile). The...
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The Youngest MP in the Greek Diaspora
By Zois Marinos MONTREAL – Born on September 12, 1990 and with parents from Naxos and Tripoli, Emmanuella Lambropoulos is the youngest MP of the Greek diaspora. She was elected on April 3 in the...
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Ellopia Films USA Celebrates an Award-Winning Year
NEW YORK – Friends and colleagues gathered to celebrate an award-winning year for Ellopia Films USA whose documentary film series on Mount Olympus has garnered 12 international film festival awards in...
View ArticleAn Interview with Dr. Jacobs on Genocide in the Ottoman Empire
By George N. Shirinian Dr. Steven Leonard Jacobs holds the Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies and is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa. An...
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A Tribute to Elias Pantelaros – Shipping Expert and Community Supporter
NEW YORK – Elias Pantelaros has been a naval architect and marine engineer, involved in maritime shipping in Greece and throughout the world for approximately five decades. Manager of the Engineering...
View ArticleFr. Nicholas L. Vieron Still Teaching Greek at Age 91
MEMPHIS, TN – Father Nicholas L. Vieron, son of Leonidas and Ellas (nee Metaxas) Vieron, was born in New Orleans on November 13, 1925 and lived across the street from the first Greek Orthodox Church in...
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Alek Skarlatos, California Men who Stopped Train Attack to Star in Clint...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The three California men who thwarted a terror attack on a French train in 2015 will make the rare move of playing themselves in a Clint Eastwood-directed film about their...
View ArticleTeacher Ekatherine Pappas Pleads Guilty to Misdemeanors in Sexual Offense...
BALTIMORE – A former Spanish teacher at Franklin High in Reisterstown has pleaded guilty to three misdemeanors in a sexual offense against a student, The Baltimore Sun reports. “Ekatherine Pappas, 25,...
View ArticleMalliotakis Renews Calls for Cost of Mayor’s Trips
NEW YORK – Assemblywoman Nicole Malliotakis, the presumptive Republican nominee in the race for mayor, renewed on Wednesday her call that Mayor Bill de Blasio should release information on the cost to...
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AHEPA Members Meet with Vice Admiral Pavlopoulos
ATHENS – During an informative and inspiring morning and afternoon visit on July 10, members of the Order of AHEPA from the United States hosted by the Commander-In-Chief of the Hellenic Fleet...
View ArticleMaloney and Bilirakis Lead Effort to Stop Arms Sale to Turkish Security Forces
WASHINGTON, DC – Representatives Carolyn B. Maloney (NY-12) and Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), co-chairs of the Congressional Caucus on Hellenic Issues led a bipartisan effort urging Secretary of State Rex...
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