Leading motorcade through port, Newark mayor demands local ...
NEWARK — After leading a motorcade intended to disrupt traffic at Port Newark, Mayor Ras Baraka called on the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to adopt a policy mandating that the private firms who sub-let space from the agency at Port Newark hire more minorities and Newark residents. "We are tired of everybody who comes here and makes a whole lot of money and leaves everybody else in squalor," Baraka said in an interview outside City Hall Monday afternoon, after the motorcade arriv..>> view originalDeveloper avoids prison time in karaoke club bribery case
NEWARK — U.S. District Judge Susan D. Wigenton looked at Chung Kho Monday in her courtroom and said she saw two men. One, 69 years old, was a successful real estate developer and commercial property landlord who raised a loving, successful family and gave back to Korean communities in the metropolitan area. The other was an admitted felon who facilitated a $50,000 bribe for another prospective business owner to get approval for a karaoke bar. Considering those two lives and Kho's frail health..>> view originalMorris prosecutor wants motorcycle used in videotaped eluding case
Gavel(Photo: Getty Images)MORRISTOWN - The Morris County Prosecutor's Office has filed a lawsuit to take possession of a Honda B60 motorcycle that a Haskell resident allegedly used to elude Pequannock and Riverdale police at high speeds while filming his flight with a video camera affixed to his helmet.The prosecutor's office recently filed in state Superior Court, Morristown, a complaint for forfeiture of a 2005 Honda B60 motorcycle registered to Anthony Darrigo, 20, of Haskell. Darrigo had esc..>> view originalDental health important to overall wellness of individual
In recognition of good oral health and hygiene practices, students at the Conerly School in the Somerset section of Franklin participated in the New Jersey Department of Health Children’s Oral Health Program Sugar-Less Day to Prevent Tooth Decay event on Feb. 10. All fourth-graders at the school participated in an interactive oral health education program conducted by dental hygiene staff. Students also participated in a Sugar-Less Day to Prevent Tooth Decay-themed poster contest. First- and sec..>> view originalLawyer's softball tournament is a hit for Newark Fresh Air Fund
The rules seemed kind of quirky for a softball tournament – and costly, too. If your team gave up a home run, or got caught up in a double play, that was $125. A strike out was the same price and so was hitting a foul ball with a two-strike count. And if the pitcher let the ball come off the bat for a grand slam? That was $500 big ones. Then again, it all made perfect sense because this was a tournament to raise money to send city kids to camp. MORE: Recent Barry Carter columns Everything ..>> view original26-year-old woman electrocuted by downed wires in Fanwood
FANWOOD — A 26-year-old Plainfield woman was electrocuted after downed wires fell on her car and she attempted to exit the vehicle, police confirmed. Fanwood Police Chief Richard Trigo said the wires fell on the car, a white sedan, causing sparks, around 4:30 p.m. on the 100 block of Midway Avenue. The woman then attempted to exit the car from the passenger side when she was electrocuted by the live current, Trigo said. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Patrol officers arriving on the ..>> view originalPolice Blotter: Several injured in Linden car crash
Lt. Michael McLaughlin, was recently promoted to captain in the Piscataway Police Department. McLaughlin was joined by Piscataway Mayor Brian C. Wahler and Piscataway Police Captain Scott Cartmell at the event.(Photo: ~Courtesy of Piscataway)LINDEN THREE CAR CRASH, 10:21 p.m. July 16. Police responded to a report of a multi-vehicle accident with injuries at McCandless Street and E. Henry Street, police said. A 22-year-old Roselle man, who was driving a 2000 Toyota Camry, complained of head pain ..>> view original27 weeks of protests: Activists demand investigation into police ...
NEWARK — As People's Organization for Progess Chairman Lawrence Hamm's voice got louder, the car horns and honks follow suit. Over a microphone, Hamm spoke to passersby and cars in front of the Rodino Federal Building in Newark. "If there is no struggle, there is no progress," he boomed. A small group of dedicated protesters from the People's Organization for Progress held its 27th consecutive weekly rally Monday in a series designed to demand justice for police shooting victims like Alton..>> view originalSquatters jumped from burning Newark building, authorities say
NEWARK — Squatters were seen jumping from the windows of an abandoned building that caught fire early Monday morning, according to authorities at the scene of the blaze. The three-alarm fire broke out at around 6 a.m. in a multi-family home at 51 Cypress Avenue, Newark Department of Public Safety Director Anthony Ambrose said. "When the first fire apparatus pulled up, they saw people jumping out the windows," Ambrose said. Those people, who authorities said were likely squatters in the aband..>> view originalAppeals court shaves 56 days off killer's 20-year term
TRENTON — A Trenton man serving a 20-year prison term for conspiring to kill gangsters in 2005 will have his sentenced reduced 56 days, a state appeals panel decided Monday. Bruce Duette pleaded guilty in March 2013 to the conspiracy charge and was sentenced to 20 years behind bars two months later while already in state prison for another crime - a 2005 gang slaying in Trenton. Bruce Duette During the sentencing, prosecutors offered Duette a plea bargain that included 56 days of jail credi..>> view original
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