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 …
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Cherry Hill East teacher whom parents allege bullies and racially discriminates against students and a Perth Amboy sub charged with sexually assaulting a female student on multiple occasions.
Paul Bergrin, a Newark defense attorney who prosecutors say urged the 2004 murder of a witness against one of his clients, was convicted on 23 criminal counts, according to a report in the Star Ledger. U.S. Army Specialist Derek McConnell, who lived in Parsippany, died Monday, according to posts by his mother and fiance on the Facebook page “Team Derek.” McConnell grew up in West Essex, where this week the community remembered him as an "American hero." An English teacher’s allegedly racially inappropriate comments, discrimination and bullying led a group of a half-dozen Cherry Hill East parents to take their case before the school board. A substitute teacher at Perth Amboy High School is being held on $100,000 bail after being charged …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Other top stories this week include three North Jersey men who pleaded guilty to a 2009 armed robbery and attempted murder and a man who allegedly brought a concealed handgun into a police station.
A Brick Township couple have been charged with animal cruelty after police said a dog they reported to have found covered in feces in a garbage bag on the side of the road was actually their own animal, authorities said. Ridgewood Superintendent Daniel Fishbein held a news conference Thursday to address a scandal that rocked the high school this week involving the distribution through social media of nude photos of high school girls. Three men from North Jersey who in 2009 robbed a bank in Franklin Township and then led police on a chase through North Brunswick and New Brunswick pleaded guilty this week to armed robbery and attempted murder, authorities say. A 20-year-old city man was arrested Monday after walking into a police station …
Sunday, January 6, 2013
Other top stories include man charged with making terroristic threats directed at his child's school and firing of Jets general manager and Basking Ridge resident Mike Tannenbaum.
Authorites have charged a Woodbury man in the slaying of a missing woman whose body was found in a clothing-collection bin early Monday morning. A Metuchen man was charged Wednesday with sexual assault and criminal sexual contact after he allegedly touched two different women “in a sexual manner” at a medical office in Fort Lee, Bergen County Prosecutor John Molinelli announced. The father of a student at the Atlantic County Special Services School was arrested last week and charged with making terroristic threats directed at the school, Atlantic County Sheriff Frank X. Balles announced Wednesday. The body of missing 26-year-old North Plainfield resident Manuel Antonio Guevara was recovered after the lake was partially drained. Basking …
Sunday, December 30, 2012
Other top stories include a home health aide charged with sexually abusing a teen while employed in her family's residence and a pizzeria waitress accused of aiding the alleged attempted armed robbery of her boss.
Three police officers were shot early Friday morning when a prisoner grabbed the firearm from a police officer's holster and opened fire inside the Gloucester Township police station, authorities said. A server at the Grand Lux Cafe at the Cherry Hill Mall has filed a lawsuit against the restaurant and its parent company, alleging sexual harassment by a trainer who she claims raped her, then shared a nude photo of her with other restaurant employees this summer. A home health aide from Paterson was charged Friday for allegedly sexually abusing a 15-year-old River Edge girl while being employed in the family's residence. Three individuals, including one of the restaurant's waitresses, have been charged in connection with the attempted …
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