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• 4 dead after shootings mar holiday weekend in Newark | NJ

  

  NEWARK –For the second straight year, the long holiday weekend around Thanksgiving was marred by a surge of violence in the state's largest city.A total of four men have been killed in Newark since the late hours of Wednesday, according to authorities. Several others were wounded in separate shootings, though an exact count was not immediately available.The first victim, 20-year-old Christopher Daniels, waspronounced dead around 9 p.m.after a shooting on Mapes Avenue in the South Ward. Less than..

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• Apartment building planned for abandoned Newark Boys & Girls Club | NJ

  NEWARK –The former home of the Boys & Girls Club in the city's North Ward is set to be demolished to make way for a new retail and apartment building.Last week, the Municipal Council approved a new financing agreement for the sale of the property at 416-426 Broadway to Carrino Plaza Apartments LLC for $800,000.The Ardsley, N.Y.-based developer will put an $80,000 down payment to secure the sale, and pay the balance off over a 42-year term, according to documents filed with the city. The co..

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• Court rejects appeal from killer who walked into bar and opened fire

  

  Shaheed ErvinNew Jersey Department of CorrectionsNEWARK— A state appellate panel on Monday upheld the conviction of a man serving an 18-year prison sentence for killing another man in a 2006 shooting at a Newark bar.The appellate judges rejected the argument made by Shaheed Ervin that he had received ineffective legal assistance before pleading guilty in 2008 in connection with the fatal shooting of Brian Hodges, 20, of Irvington.Ervin, 29, formerly of Newark, claimed his attorney "failed to p..

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• Federal transportation funding cut could jeopardize tunnel project...

  

  Federal lawmakers warned that money for the Gateway Tunnel project could be in jeopardy if an amendment cutting $50 million from New Jersey and other northeastern states isn't rolled back in a new federal transportation bill.U.S. Senator Robert Menendez, and U.S. Rep. Albio Sires, both D-NJ, were joined at Penn Station Newark by Veronica Vanterpool, executive director of the Tri-State Transportation Campaign, at a press conference Monday to talk about their efforts to restore the funding.Sires, ..

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• See which N.J. city bests Vegas and Phoenix on solar power

  

  Think of cities across the country where solar power is booming, and some obvious sunny spots come to mind: Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Antonio.There's another city, however, that beats them in solar energy production. Try sunny Newark, N.J.Newark, in fact, ranks eighth in a survey of 65 large U.S. cities in terms of solar energy produced per capita,according to a study released Monday by Environment New Jersey Research & Policy Center.The report, "Shining Cities," wasreleased to co..

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• Man admits to killing wife in front of her daughter

  NEWARK— A Newark man admitted on Monday to fatally shooting his wife in front of her young daughter more than three years ago inside their city home.Shazam Meighoo, 38, made that admission in a Newark courtroom when he pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter and related charges in the June 20, 2012 killing of 21-year-old Sanithia Jones-Meighoo."You shot her mother in front of her, right?" Essex County Assistant Prosecutor Naazneen Khan asked Meighoo during Monday's hearing.Meighoo replied, "..

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• After another water line break, Hoboken's mayor calls for bonding to...

  

  HOBOKEN— Asecond water line breakin eight days underscores the need to upgrade the city's aging infrastructure, Mayor Dawn Zimmer said Monday.Hoboken water main break repairs continue on Monroe StreetWork crews from Suez North Jersey closed Monroe Street between 1st and 2nd streets to repair a water main break in Hoboken. The break occurred at about 11:44 p.m. Sunday night, one week after a previous break on Newark and Harrison streets. (Video by Steve Strunsky and Andre Malok | NJ Advance Med..

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• Booker, Menendez: Keep tax credit that helps N.J.'s working poor

  

  TRENTON— New Jersey's U.S. senators are looking to make permanent a tax credit for low-income workers that's considered one of the most effective tools for fighting poverty.U.S. Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Monday that Republican lawmakers' efforts to make certain business tax credits permanent stoked Democrats' desire to do the same for the current version of a tax credit for working families, the Earned Income Tax Credit.Families receive up to about $3,500 a y..

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• New Rutgers athletic director among university's highest-paid...

  

  When Patrick Hobbs began his new job as Rutgers athletic director on Monday, he became one of the university's highest-paid employees, but his pay is far below two of the school's coaches and many of its medical school professors.More than three dozen employees of the Rutgers New Jersey Medical School make more than Hobbs, but some of their compensation comes through research grants and work with patients and is not paid by state money or tuition.Hobbs agreed to afive-year contract worth $560,00..

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• PSE&G plans Camden upgrades

  

  Buy PhotoA PSE&G substation in Camden's port district will be upgraded to serve new employers.(Photo: Jim Walsh/Staff photographer)Buy PhotoCAMDEN - The state's largest utility on Monday announced plans for $55 million in infrastructure upgrades in Camden — and also indicated an indoor-farming firm may come here.Public Service Electric and Gas Co. said its improvements, including higher capacity transformers and electric distribution lines, would support 30 large employers expected to move t..

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