Frontier Airlines hits milestone at N.J. airport as summer flights resume
EWING — Frontier Airlines reached a milestone this week when it passed the one-million-passenger mark at Trenton-Mercer Airport, a sign of its continuing success and of good things to come, a Frontier executive said Friday. "There was understandably some skepticism when we started service four years ago about commercial viability given the history of other airlines in this airport, but we've proven that we have a service that works," said Daniel Shurz, senior vice president of commercial. Sh..>> view originalJury to hear man choked woman in front of child weeks before murder
NEWARK — At Andre Higgs's murder trial on charges of fatally shooting the mother of his daughter, jurors will be able to hear evidence that he allegedly choked her during a domestic dispute about five weeks before the killing, a judge has ruled. Superior Court Judge Ronald Wigler on Friday granted a motion by prosecutors to permit evidence at Higgs's trial about that March 25, 2015 incident between Higgs and Latrena May. The incident allegedly occurred in front of their then-four-year-old da..>> view originalN.J. mortgage company to pay feds $113M to settle false claims ...
NEWARK — A Mount Laurel mortgage company will pay $113 million to resolve allegations that it violated the federal False Claims Act by originating and underwriting mortgages to secure Federal Housing Administration insurance for loans that were at a high risk to default. Federal prosecutors alleged that Freedom Mortgage Corp. in the period before and after the 'Great Recession certified single-family mortgage loans that did not meet the Department of Housing and Urban Development's underwritin..>> view originalMajor Newark power outage almost fixed, PSE&G says
NEWARK — Power has been restored to most Newark buildings as of 8:15 a.m. Friday, after an all-day power outage in several city buildings followed an early Thursday morning manhole fire, according to PSE&G. Classes in five buildings on Rutgers University's Newark campus were canceled Thursday, as well as classes in several New Jersey Institute of Technology buildings, officials said. St. Michael's Medical Center was also forced to run on generator power, but no patient services were impacted,..>> view originalHere's why Uber belongs in Newark, and here's why it doesn't ...
It looks like an open war between Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and corporate officials at Uber with both parties campaigning to get what they want. Baraka is demanding Uber to "pay their fair share" by acquiring licenses to operate in the city and the airport. Uber officials are forcing the mayor's hand by saying it will stop its operations in the city if regulations are implemented. On Thursday, Uber introduced the "Baraka Ban" feature on its app, which when clicked explains why future Newark cus..>> view original2 arrested in unrelated Newark shootings
NEWARK — Two men were arrested Friday in connection to unrelated city shootings last week, Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose announced in a release. In connection to a shooting on April 5 at 1:10 a.m. in the 100 block of Renner Avenue, police have arrested Wazir Davis, 21, in an Irvington home, he said. Although police did not find a victim or property damage in the shooting, there was evidence that shots had been fired, police said. Two days later, a 30-year-old man was injured in an u..>> view originalJersey City says it will move forward with property revaluation
Jersey City, here comes the reval. One day after the city lost a breach-of-contract case related to the long-stalled property revaluation, and nearly two weeks after New Jersey tax officials ordered the city to get a reval done by November 2017, the city announced it is moving ahead with the process. It will be the first citywide revaluation of properties since 1988. The city said it will soon begin the search for a firm to perform the work and expects to have chosen a company by the fall. The..>> view originalChristie Supreme Court pick scrutinized over political favor
TRENTON — In 2003, Gov. Chris Christie's state Supreme Court nominee Walter Timpone was an attorney in private practice who occasionally did work for Essex County. Walter Timpone has been nominated to New Jersey's Supreme Court. His nephew had just graduated from college and, interested in politics, needed a job. So Timpone asked Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo, Jr. for help, and the powerful Democratic leader came through: Timpone's nephew became a field representative in the Essex ..>> view originalWhy did NJIT give men's basketball job to an assistant?
NEWARK — NJIT athletic director Lenny Kaplan sat in Houston's NRG Stadium during the Final Four two weekends ago interviewing candidates over the phone to replace Jim Engles, the most successful coach in program history who had just left for Columbia. But the more people Kaplan talked to, the more he realized the man for the job was back in Newark — Brian Kennedy. Kennedy, who spent the past four years as an assistant on Engles' staff, was officially introduced as the 11th head coach in progra..>> view originalN.J. teachers charged in sex cases involving students (PHOTOS)
The recently announced investigation into Thad Alton, a teacher at the Pingry School in the 1970s, last month over allegations of sexual abuse of students at the prep school four decades ago was just the latest in a series of similar cases in New Jersey. In the past few years, dozens of teachers in the Garden State have been accused of similar impropriety. Listed below are many of the state's teachers who have recently faced charges involving sexual relationships with students. All of these te..>> view original
Friday, April 15, 2016
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