Sunday, August 19, 2012
Other top stories include a lawsuit Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan filed to stop the dissolution of the county police and the arrest of an alleged major player in a prescription drug ring.
A former Marine and Iraq war veteran allegedly gave heroin to a fellow veteran who would then die of an overdose at the VA Medical Center in Lyons in early July. A soda bottle bomb was detonated in Republican freeholder Larry Wallace's mailbox some time before 8 a.m. Thursday, when it was reported to Woolwich Township police, who are currently investigating the incident along with the Gloucester County prosecutor's office. Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan filed a lawsuit Thursday against the county freeholders to block a second reading of an ordinance that would dissolve the county police, and prevent a ballot question on merging the department with the sheriff's office. A Staten Island woman accused of stealing Oxycodone pills …
Sunday, August 12, 2012
Other top stories include gold medals for multiple New Jersey Olympians and Mitt Romney's choice of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan over Gov. Chris Christie for his VP nominee.
A former councilman and police officer who owns a local storage business placed a monkey statue dressed in an anti-Obama t-shirt in front of his Cedar Grove business on Tuesday. He removed the statue after receiving complaints. Two New Brunswick boys who vanished Sunday night, were found dead Monday afternoon in the Raritan River. The medical examiner ruled the cause of death for both boys -- Francisco Pereira-Rodas, 10, and Devine Nicholas, 11, -- an accidental drowning A Fair Lawn mother is suing the producer of an instructional breastfeeding video she appeared in with her infant daughter after the video was posted to YouTube and spliced into a pornographic film by a third party. Following months of rumors that New Jersey Gov. Chris …
Sunday, July 22, 2012
Other top stories include a former Paramus High School valedictorian killed while jogging and a boy who died after a sand tunnel he was digging at the beach collapsed on him.
A 3-year-old girl, 4-year-old boy, believed to be siblings, died in a rear apartment on the third floor, while a 6-year-old girl, a teenager and a man died in the front apartment on the same floor of the building, fire officials said. The mother of the two children who died in the front apartment was giving birth at a nearby hospital on the day of the fire, officials told NJ.com A 23-year-old Sussex County woman was among the 70 injured when a gunman opened fire and killed 12 people early Friday morning at a movie theater screening of the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colo. Gabrielle Reuveni, a rising junior and track and cross-country athlete at Washington University in St. Louis, was struck by a vehicle while running near her family's …
Sunday, May 13, 2012
A weekly look at news in New Jersey.
Christie Vetoes Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange in New Jersey After months of mulling his options, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed state legislation Thursday that would have established a health insurance exchange in New Jersey, a fundamental step in implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — known colloquially as "Obamacare" — in the state. Christie had until Thursday to make a decision on Assembly bill 2171, passed by the legislature in March, or the bill would have become law, with or without his signature. Woman Found In River With Gunshot Wound to Head The body of a 37-year-old New Milford woman was found by a close relative Tuesday morning with a fatal gunshot wound to the head in the Hackensack River, police said…
Bernard Lyons
9:45 pm on Friday, August 24, 2012
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