Monday, April 15, 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, …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Other top stories this week include a dentist charged in a multi-million dollar Medicaid scam and a rough week for the commissioner of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority.
A Pine Hill Middle School teacher, soccer coach and former councilman was indicted on 92 counts of child abuse, including sexual assault and child pornography, authorities announced Wednesday. A fifth-grade West Orange teacher was arrested Thursday morning on charges of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to officials at the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The tragic tale of a 22-year-old aspiring fashion designer who took her own life by jumping from the George Washington Bridge on Wednesday —allegedly a victim of bullying, according to the NY Post — has attracted widespread attention on social networking sites. A dentist from Livingston accused in a scam that bilked more than $5.5M from Medicaid over six…
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Other top stories this week include a man fatally shot by an arrow and an Indiana man who allegedly drove to Mahwah for sex with a 15-year-old he met online.
A Teaneck man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and smothering her 5-year-old daughter after the child witnessed her mother's murder Monday pleaded not guilty at a packed state Superior Court hearing in Hackensack Thursday. A husband and wife, both Fairleigh Dickinson University employees, were found dead Monday morning. Later that day, the deaths were ruled a murder and a suicide, respectively. A Berlin Borough resident is accused of killing another man by shooting him in the stomach with an arrow. An Indiana man is in prison Wednesday charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a minor after he drove more than 10 hours to Mahwah to have sexual relations with a 15-year-old township girl he met online, Police …
Monday, December 24, 2012
Other top stories this week include a high school student arrested for allegedly possessing bomb-making materials and an ex-Boy Scout leader charged with sexually assaulting two teenage boys.
A Camden man who was released from prison earlier this year is accused of fatally stabbing a woman who testified against him during a 2006 trial in which he was ultimately convicted of aggravated manslaughter. A pair of men from Bergen County were charged in a scheme to sell guns believed to have belonged to the family of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced Thursday. A 16-year-old student at Cedar Creek High School was taken into custody Tuesday after Galloway Police and the Atlantic County Prosecutor's Office discovered several ingredients that when mixed together could cause an explosion, police said. The investigation and subsequent arrest came after a teacher observed pictures of weapons in…
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Other top stories this week include the takedown of an alleged organized crime syndicate that police say has solved a 2004 Englewood murder and more evidence that Newark mayor Cory Booker might take a run at governor in 2013.
A Brooklawn woman is accused of fatally poisoning her grandmother-in-law with antifreeze during a visit to the Deptford Center for Rehabilitation and Healthcare, where the victim had been recovering after a fall. The company that makes Louisville Slugger baseball bats, along with The Sports Authority and the New Jersey State Little League, have settled a lawsuit with a former little leaguer from Wayne for $14.5 million. Steven Domalewski, who suffered brain damage after he was struck in the chest between heartbeats by a line drive in 2006, will receive more than $9 million. Three members of a violent New York City organized crime ring were charged this week in the 2004 ambush killing of an Englewood father gunned down in his driveway, city…
Sunday, August 19, 2012
Other top stories include a lawsuit Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan filed to stop the dissolution of the county police and the arrest of an alleged major player in a prescription drug ring.
A former Marine and Iraq war veteran allegedly gave heroin to a fellow veteran who would then die of an overdose at the VA Medical Center in Lyons in early July. A soda bottle bomb was detonated in Republican freeholder Larry Wallace's mailbox some time before 8 a.m. Thursday, when it was reported to Woolwich Township police, who are currently investigating the incident along with the Gloucester County prosecutor's office. Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan filed a lawsuit Thursday against the county freeholders to block a second reading of an ordinance that would dissolve the county police, and prevent a ballot question on merging the department with the sheriff's office. A Staten Island woman accused of stealing Oxycodone pills …
Sunday, August 5, 2012
Other top stories include a truck that transported recovered Ground Zero wreckage is implicated in 9/11 scam and Snooki & JWoww pass on Morristown for their Jersey Shore spin-off.
A pair of 14-year-olds and a volunteer firefighter rescued an elderly woman trapped in a car submerged by floodwaters at a train underpass in Glen Rock, after the woman maneuvered around safety cones to prevent passage through the flooded area. Rebecca Soni won her first gold medal at the London Olympics and broke her world record time in the 200-meter breaststroke on Thursday. She had previously snagged her first medal from the London Olympics on Monday, with a silver in the 100-meter breaststroke. Related Olympic Coverage: Fans Watch as 2002 St. Benedict's of Newark Alum and Swimmer Cullen Jones Takes Silver New Jersey State Assemblyman Robert Schroeder was charged Friday with writing almost $400,000 worth of bogus checks to people who…
Monday, April 9, 2012
A weekly look at news in New Jersey
While a grand jury convenes over whether to hold a trial of the shooting death of Barry Deloatch by officers with the New Brunswick Police Department, another suit is quietly going on involving the two officers who were involved with the Deloatch case. The Union County Homicide Task Force arrested a 51-year-old man Monday in connection with the 1976 murder of Westfield resident Lena Triano. Triano, 57, was discovered hogtied inside her home on March 15, 1976, after having been stabbed, bludgeoned and raped. Hundreds of residents paid their last respects to fallen Marine Staff Sgt. Joseph D'Augustine Tuesday during a procession through his hometown of Waldwick. Newark Mayor Cory Booker on Wednesday unleashed a half-decade's worth of …
Bridgitte Engler
11:34 pm on Sunday, February 3, 2013
I completely agree with Helen! more ›