Friday, January 15, 2016

Botched French drug trial leaves 1 brain dead, 5 in hospital; firm has ... and other top stories.

  • Botched French drug trial leaves 1 brain dead, 5 in hospital; firm has ...

    Botched French drug trial leaves 1 brain dead, 5 in hospital; firm has  ...
    David VincentFrench Health Minister Marisol Touraine, left, and Professor Gilles Edan, the chief neuroscientist at Rennes Hospital, address the media during a press conference held in Rennes, western France, Friday, Jan. 15, 2016. Six previously healthy medical volunteers have been hospitalized - including one man who is now brain dead - after taking part in a botched drug test at the Biotrial lab in western France, the French Health Ministry said Friday. PARIS (AP) — One man is brain dead..
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  • Newark's Covenant House will miss Mama Gwen

    Newark's  Covenant House will miss Mama Gwen
    There was something about the woman's voice on the phone that made Janice Salazar call back for the help she was seeking five years ago.If you ever metMama Gwen– the woman behind the voice – you'd know there's no doubt she was encouraging and comforting. Her reassuring motherly cadence was probably what Salazar needed to hear as her life was unraveling.She was 19 and homeless when she dialed the telephone number for Covenant House, an agency in Newark that helps homeless and runaway youth ge..
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  • Theft of 8 guns from parked car leads to Newark man's arrest, cops say

    Theft of 8 guns from parked car leads to  Newark  man's arrest, cops say
    (file photo)NEWARK— Police have arrested and charged a 20-year-old city man with burglary after he allegedly stole several firearms from a parked car, officials confirmed Friday.Christopher Brown Jr. now stands charged with seven counts of unlawful possession of a weapon, burglary and criminal mischief in connection with the alleged robbery, said a spokesman for Newark Police Department.According to police, Brown broke into a car parked in the 100 block of Clifton Avenue, stealing eight firear..
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  • Newark teen carrying 2 illegal guns arrested after anonymous tip ...

    Newark  teen carrying 2 illegal guns arrested after anonymous tip  ...
    Teen was arrested after an anonymous tip, police said. (File photo)NEWARK— A task force that has confiscated more than 30 illegal guns from city streets so far this year made its latest arrest of a teen carrying two handguns thanks to an anonymous tip, authorities announced in a release Thursday night.A 17-year-old boy was arrested early Thursday morning after the Newark Police Division's Gang Enforcement Unit received a tip about illegal activities happening in the area of Raymond Plaza and W..
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  • NYPD seeks dismissal of surveillance suit by N.J. Muslims

    NYPD seeks dismissal of surveillance suit by N.J. Muslims
    NEWARK— A proposed settlement creating civilian oversight of the New York City Police Department's surveillance activities should nix a federal lawsuit filed by New Jersey Muslims that they too were subject to allegedly illegal surveillance, the department said in a legal filing Friday.The filing in federal court argues that the settlement, announced Jan. 7 in a separate but related lawsuit in New York, should render the New Jersey complaint moot, the latest filing says.In the Jan. 7 action, the..
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  • Controversial Rutgers college fair for unauthorized immigrants returns

    Controversial Rutgers college fair for unauthorized immigrants returns
    NEWARK— A controversial college fair for immigrants living in the country illegally is returning to Rutgers-Newark later this month, organizers said.The fair, called undocuRutgers, wasfirst held last year on the Newark campusto provide information for students who want to take advantage of a change in state law that allows "undocumented" immigrants to attend New Jersey colleges at in-state tuition rates."This event will explain the different process undocumented students face when applying to ..
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  • Newark Tech vs. Middletown South girls basketball preview

    Newark  Tech vs. Middletown South girls basketball preview
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  • New Jersey wants lawsuit from Ebola-quarantined nurse tossed

    New Jersey wants lawsuit from Ebola-quarantined nurse tossed
    Lawyers for Gov. Chris Christie and state health officials asked a judge Friday to throw out a lawsuit from a nurse who was quarantined because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa in 2014.FILE – In a Friday, Oct. 31, 2014 file photo, Kaci Hickox comes out of her house to speak to reporters, in Fort Kent, Maine. Hickox’s plans for the end of the deadly disease’s 21-day incubation period on Monday, Nov. 11 include a dinner out with her boyfriend, but she told The Associated Press sh..
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  • Getaway driver gets probation for police chase after fatal shooting

    Getaway driver gets probation for police chase after fatal shooting
    NEWARK— A South Carolina man was sentenced on Friday to time served and three years of probation foracting as the getaway driverand leading police on a chase in 2013 after his two co-defendants were involved in a fatal shooting.Rondell Riddell, 28, formerly of Newark, received the sentence after pleading guilty on Nov. 20 to an eluding charge in connection with theMarch 29, 2013 shooting of Craig Pinckney, Jr. in East Orange.After his co-defendants – Rashi Finch, 21, formerly of Irvington, and T..
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  • Fatal shooting of Newark father may have been caught on video ...

    Fatal shooting of  Newark  father may have been caught on video  ...
    NEWARK — The shooting death of a 43-year-old city man early Wednesday morning may have been captured on video, according to police reports obtained by ...
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Oscars 2016: Six things we learned from the nominations .43-year-old city man killed in overnight Newark shooting, officials say .
WATCH: Drone video shows new view of Newark .Ambrose Predicts Changes in Newark PD Where Morale is 'Low' .

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