The notification emails that are routinely sent when a student dies began arriving soon after the semester started. “Our condolences,” they each begin, followed by the student’s name and a hauntingly vague explanation. “It is with great sadness that we share news of the sudden passing.” At Rowan University, a state school in southwest New […]
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A man who was the instigator behind a false feel-good story that raised more than $400,000 as part of a GoFundMe scam plead guilty Friday in New Jersey court, according to prosecutors. Mark D’Amico, 29, pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree misapplication of entrusted property in Burlington County. “We are pleased that this defendant accepted responsibility […]
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The City of Newark, New Jersey, filed a federal lawsuit Monday against the city of New York to stop their program of relocating homeless residents to the Newark area. **Embargo: New York, NY**This image, from CNN affiliate WCBS, shows conditions in one of the Newark apartments it says was part of the homeless relocation program. […]
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With more rain and snow expected on Monday night, officials in and around New York City were cautioning that the worst effects of a winter storm could be yet to come. “It’s going to be a really sloppy rush hour this evening,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said at a news conference. At around 2:30 p.m., […]
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There’s a home movie — an old one, on actual film — that I like to watch around the holidays. It features my two siblings and me in front of our childhood home after a huge snowstorm. We’re toddlers. There’s a favorite red sled and the three of us in matching snow gear: puffy blue […]
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Bundle up, New Yorkers, because it’s official: Winter has arrived. A storm delivering up to a foot of snow to parts of New York, Connecticut and New Jersey is expected to land in the region on Sunday morning and continue through Monday night. New York City officials have warned that the storm will affect people’s […]
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Renovations at Montclair State University in New Jersey uncovered a 112-year-old letter from the workers who built one of the original buildings on campus, the university said. Robert Kanaby, a demolition worker, found the letter inside a beer bottle while taking down a wall in the College Hall building in February. “It’s a very old […]
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A patient at a southern New Jersey hospital inadvertently got a transplanted kidney that was intended for another patient, officials confirmed to CNN Tuesday. The 51-year-old patient was on the transplant list at Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, but a day after the transplant someone on the clinical team realized the patient “was inadvertently transplanted out […]
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Commuters trying to reach New York City by boat on Monday morning encountered long lines and delays after the United States Coast Guard found safety problems with more than 20 ferries that ply the Hudson River and sidelined them. The Coast Guard said on Sunday that it had found 23 ferries operated by New York […]
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A new museum memorializing the legacy of abolitionist Harriet Tubman is slated to open in New Jersey in 2020, ABC News reported. Daily News | Cape May is banding together to build a museum for Harriet Tubman, who used the island as an Underground Railroad headquarters https://t.co/5gP8bhOnsI — Philly Daily News (@PhillyDailyNews) November 9, 2019 […]
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ATCO, N.J. (WHTM) — A New Jersey woman posted a video of her kids getting scared by the Grinch during a holiday photo shoot, and it’s going viral. Instagram user @ashleymariemua posted the video Tuesday and said, “My kids couldn’t wait to meet the grinch this weekend! I’d say it went well.” In the video, […]
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Weather: Cool and cloudy, with showers possible midday. The high could reach the mid-50s. Saturday may be chillier, and expect some rain overnight into Sunday. Alternate-side parking: In effect until Thursday (Thanksgiving). ImageCredit…Stefano Ukmar for The New York Times When biking along Manhattan’s West Side, with the New Jersey skyline in sight, Mitchel Loring often […]
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Police have charged five men in connection with a shooting at a New Jersey high school football game that injured one adult and two minors. The shooting happened Friday during a game between Camden and Pleasantville high schools in Pleasantville, CNN affiliate WPVI-TV reported. It started at the end of the third quarter. At a Saturday afternoon press conference, […]
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Five men were charged on Saturday in connection with a shooting at a high school football game in New Jersey on Friday night that injured three people, including a 10-year-old child, the authorities said. The shooting occurred at 8:29 p.m. in the third quarter of a playoff game at Pleasantville High School, which is just […]
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Richard Tobin is an 18-year-old white man who was sitting in his car in the parking lot of Menlo Park Mall in Edison, New Jersey. He had a machete in his hand and planned to kill African-Americans there were so many around him, which “enraged” him. Thankfully, he did not do it and is now […]
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New Jersey has demanded that Uber pay $649 million for years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, arguing that the ride-hailing company has misclassified the workers as independent contractors and not as employees. The state’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development issued the request this week to Uber and a subsidiary, Raiser, after an […]
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Milton Wingert, 81, had been to several physicians to see the tumor over the past six months, but most were concerned about what it would take to remove the growth. The New Jersey man had just one option to get rid of the massive tumor that had been growing on his neck and was now […]
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Two people died Sunday in New Jersey after their speeding car lost control, launched off an embankment and flew into the second story of a building, police said. The car, a red Porsche Boxster convertible, was “traveling at a high rate of speed” when it hit a median and eventually crash-landed into the second-story offices […]
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NORFOLK, Va. – A New Jersey man was sentenced today to 34 months in prison for conspiring to purchase firearms in Virginia and traffic them to New Jersey for resale on the streets. Clifton K. Walston Court documents say that 32-year-old Clifton K. Walston, aka “Moosky,” of Jersey City, arranged for Virginia residents to obtain and traffic firearms from Virginia to New Jersey and sell the firearms in New Jersey to New Jersey residents for a profit. None of the […]
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William J. Hughes, who served 20 years in Congress representing the Second District of New Jersey and then was United States ambassador to Panama during the years leading up to the transfer of control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama, died on Oct. 30 at his home in Ocean City, N.J. […]
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A referendum on Tuesday’s ballot in New Jersey’s northernmost county asked whether voters wanted local officials to cooperate with federal immigration agents. It passed by a lopsided 2-to-1 margin. Nearly 200 miles away, along the state’s southern swath, a directive by the state attorney general that in part bars county sheriff officers from doing the […]
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Weather: We’re definitely now in scarf season. Today will be dry, sunny and breezy, with a high in the mid-50s. Alternate-side parking: In effect today. Suspended tomorrow for Election Day. ImageBob Andrzejczak, a Democratic state senator in New Jersey.Credit…Hannah Yoon for The New York Times Off-year elections are typically local affairs. But as voters prepare […]
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In a legislative district in southern New Jersey, where Trump bumper stickers are nearly as common as American flags, the polarizing national battle over impeachment is playing out in real time. A Democrat trying to hold on to his seat in the state’s sole Senate contest on Tuesday was pressed into saying that he would […]
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