Saturday, June 15, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Glen Rock High School student charged with heroin distribution and a Parsippany Hills High School teacher accused of having sex with a 16-year-old male student.
Maryland State Police say Joseph Walker, an officer with the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office, fatally shot a man who approached his vehicle on the shoulder of a Maryland highway following a road rage encounter last Saturday. Walker, who claims self defense, was released from a Maryland jail on $1 million bond Thursday. A Woodbridge Superior Court Judge who was arrested Tuesday had been harboring a "live-in companion" wanted for an alleged armed robbery, the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office said. An 18-year-old Glen Rock High School senior was arrested Tuesday at the school on charges of heroin distribution, according to borough police. A Parsippany Hills High School teacher was charged with criminal sexual contact Saturday after …
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Other top stories this week include the closing of a legendary New Jersey rock venue and a cop killer pleading guilty to another murder.
Five-term U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg, the last World War II veteran in the senate, died Monday morning. He was 89. New Jersey Attorney General Jeffrey Chiesa, a Republican, was appointed Thursday to fill his senate seat until a special election can be held in October. Mahwah Police are investigating the alleged robbery and sexual assault of a 20-year-old Fair Lawn man whom police said drunkenly encountered two teens on a train from New York City last week who forced him to perform sexual acts on them. The renowned Washington Street restaurant and epicenter of Hudson County's indie rock scene that was recently named the No. 3 rock club in the United States by Rolling Stone will close at the end of July. A man who is already serving a life …
Sunday, June 2, 2013
Other top stories this week include two New York Rangers fans who allegedly attacked an Englewood boy they mistook for a playoff ticket scammer and a Massachusetts woman who pleaded guilty in a murder plot.
Online auction site eBay nixed a Teaneck man's effort to sell his spot in Jewish Heaven after bids reached nearly $100,000, according to the Jewish Forward. Incoming Rutgers Athletic Director Julie Hermann came under fire this week after volleyball players she coached at the University of Tennessee alleged she emotionally abused them and the New York Times reported she was the target of a sexual discrimination lawsuit while at Louisville. A 17-year-old Englewood boy was assaulted by two enraged New York Rangers fans who mistook him for a man they claimed sold them bogus playoff tickets a week earlier, according to Englewood police. Nearly two years after a woman was shot dead on a Boonton street one summer night while walking with her …
Sunday, May 26, 2013
Other top stories this week include first responders suing for injuries suffered while responding to a Paulsboro chemical spill and a middle school bullying case in Ridgewood.
More than 1,000 bottles of booze were seized from 29 New Jersey bars Wednesday at the conclusion of a year-long investigation that found those bars and restaurants — a dozen TGI Friday's among them — filled premium alcoholic beverage bottles with cheaper alcohol in an attempt to fool customers and increase profits, authorities said. Scotch Plains residents Brian and Meghan Wilson have made headlines this week for their fight to enroll their 2-year-old daughter Vivian in the state's medical marijuana program. Months after a train derailment in Paulsboro released more than 100,000 pounds of vinyl chloride monomer into the air, forcing residents to shelter in their homes and displacing several others, first responders to the scene are suing …
Sunday, May 19, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Newark High School student shot and killed on his way home from school and a man busted on pot-growing charges after he called police to report his wife's death.
A homeless hitchhiker who gained internet fame earlier this year was arrested at a Philadelphia bus station and charged with the murder of a Clark lawyer last Sunday. Englewood police are stepping up their presence at a public senior housing complex after complaints led authorities to arrest two residents on drug and prostitution charges, authorities said. An 18-year-old Newark High School student was shot and killed Wednesday afternoon minutes after leaving school grounds, officials said. A Rockaway Township man was charged with maintaining a drug production facility Tuesday when he called police to his Sanders Road home after finding his wife dead inside, authorities said A Delaware man has been arrested and charged in connection with a…
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Other top stories this week include a former middle school vice principal who pleaded guilty to videotaping boys in the school showers and an Iraq War veteran re-invited to speak at a Teaneck Memorial Day event.
Lacey Township's schools superintendent was indicted Monday morning on charges she failed to immediately report a teacher's possible sexual assault of a 4-year-old special needs student while she was Wall Township's assistant superintendent, according to an indictment. On Friday, she was suspended without pay. The family of Paige Aiello has confirmed that a body discovered Wednesday in the Hudson River is the missing Hillsborough woman, according to the Find Paige Aiello Facebook page. Patrick Lott, assistant principal at Bernardsville Middle School prior to his arrest in December 2011, pleaded guilty Wednesday to videotaping boys in the showers at Immaculata High School where he was a volunteer basketball coach. The Teaneck Township …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Other top stories this week include a couple accused of abusing their foster children by breaking their bones and denying them medical attention and a convicted police shooter sentenced to 45 years in prison.
A Toms River man impersonated a police officer to enter a township school where he committed aggravated sexual contact on a teacher, an indictment charges. A Newark man pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter in the shooting death of an off-duty Newark police detective outside a Paterson strip club in 2011, NorthJersey.com reported . A U.S. Army major stationed at the Picatinny Arsenal surrendered to federal agents Tuesday following his wife's arrest on charges the couple abused their adopted children by breaking their bones, witholding water from them, force-feeding them hot sauce and denying them medical attention. The police officer who arrested state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty on a drunken-driving charge last year may himself end up …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Other top stories this week include a man claiming to be Jesus Christ who was involved in a long standoff with police and a couple who allegedly scammed hundreds of vacationers with fake vacation deals.
A 27-year-old Jersey City man carried fireworks containing black powder onto a New Jersey Transit train at the Hoboken Terminal earlier this month, a Jersey City Police spokesman said Thursday night. Fair Lawn resident John Katsigiannis was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-month-old girl five years ago, a Bergen County law clerk said. A man claiming to be Jesus Christ who barricaded himself inside a Brighton Avenue home and got involved in a long standoff with the Long Branch Police on Monday is facing several charges, police said. A Marlton couple allegedly scammed hundreds of travel customers out of thousands of dollars by selling fake vacation packages and collecting fees on what they claimed were free…
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Other top stories this week include a missing college student and a student protest of budget cuts in Newark.
A Toms River 6-year-old who was shot in the head by a 4-year-old died Tuesday, according to Toms River police. The manager of the iconic Tick Tock Diner in Clifton tried to have his uncle killed in an elaborate murder-for-hire plot, state police said at a news conference Wednesday. Paige Aiello, a student at The College of New Jersey, was last seen on Tuesday; her car was found a day later in a New Brunswick parking deck, authorities said. Hundreds of Newark youth marched out of their high school classrooms at noon Tuesday to protest proposed cuts to the school district’s nearly $1 billion budget. An Englewood doctor was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison in a murder-for-hire plot targeting his lover and ex-business partner, …
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Galloway man who was murdered Thursday at the end of his driveway and a series of potato gun attacks in multiple Essex County towns.
Rutgers mens basketball coach Mike Rice lost his job after a video of him yelling offensive language and shoving and kicking players during basketball practice surfaced Tuesday. Assistant coach Jimmy Martelli and athletic director Tim Pernetti were also forced out as part of the scandal. Two cast members of the Real Housewives of New Jersey are accused of assaulting a man at the grand opening of a Ridgewood business on Saturday. Residents of multiple Essex towns have reported property damaged by potatoes police believe were launched using a homemade cannon, according to officials. A Galloway Township man was shot and killed at the end of his driveway in what Galloway Police called an isolated incident at 2 a.m. Thursday. A Gloucester …
MrDoughnut
11:59 pm on Monday, June 17, 2013
You never know depending how this story goes the NRA might make a commercial about carrying. The Travon story in Florida has already brought out activists opposed to guns not that all the recent stories of gun stories has faired any better. Too many other people in the way especially with the population so dense to be using firearms. more ›