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Crowds fill Jenks early for Summer Blast-Off concert
Point Pleasant Beach, NJ - Concert goers file into Jenkinson's on the Point Pleasant Beach boardwalk, some got in line as early as 7pm Thursday to enjoy the WPLJ Memorial Day Weekend kick off concert. 052413 / Staff Photo by Tom ...
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Religious items must be removed from Jackson site by Thursday
2/28/13 Lakewood, NJ - A personal prayer book rests in front of broken bags of religious articles, shaimos, unearthed off Vermont Avenue on Thursday, February 28. Rabbi Chaim Abadi buried tons and tons of religious articles illegally off a dirt road that extends off Vermont Avenue. He also buried bags in Jackson and other places. / Staff photo Tanya ...
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New Jersey cop reportedly firebombs supervisors home charged with attempted murder
A New Jersey police officer with a history of disciplinary issues reportedly firebombed the home of his supervisor, authorities said. Michael Dotro, 35, a 10-year veteran of the Edison Police Department, allegedly used an incendiary device to set fire to the Monroe Township home of Edison Police Department Capt. Mark Anderko while Anderko and his family slept at around 4 a.m. Monday, NJ.com ...
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NJ man pleads guilty to cashing stolen checks
Thirty-five-year-old Michael Ingalls pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court on Thursday to conspiracy to commit bank fraud and possessing stolen ...
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New Jersey officials say bar sold rubbing alcohol instead of scotch
TRENTON, N.J. – At one bar, a mixture that included rubbing alcohol and caramel coloring was sold as scotch. In another, premium liquor bottles were refilled with water -- and apparently not even clean water at that. State officials provided those new details Thursday on raids they conducted a day earlier as part of a yearlong investigation dubbed Operation Swill. Twenty-nine New Jersey ...
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Christie co-hosting Today from Seaside Heights to promote Jersey Shore
Governor Christie's trip to the boardwalk: Governor Christie visits Belmar to see how a promise to the area residents turned out. STAFF VIDEO BY BRIAN ...
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Expert Hurricane threat in N.J. doubled
BELMAR — As construction workers put the finishing touches on the new boardwalk in Belmar, a coastal expert across the street casually announced that the threat of a major storm touching down in New Jersey is double what it was last year. Suddenly the ...
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NJ man who sued on gay ban says change falls short
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The New Jersey man who first challenged the Boy Scouts' ban on gay members says a new policy allowing gay scouts but barring "open or avowed" homosexual adult leaders is ...
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Hurricane center Beware of the storm surge
By JENNIFER KAYAssociated Press MIAMI (AP) - The National Hurricane Center is changing the way it talks about storm surge in hopes that emergency officials, the media and the public can better understand the dangerous phenomenon. Storm surge is the hurricane hazard that poses the greatest threat to life and property. It is the abnormal rise in sea water during a hurricane, and it can happen ...
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I-5 bridge collapses in NW Wash. no fatalities reported
An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol ...
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New Jersey Doctor Convicted in Drug Distribution Conspiracy www.privateofficer.com
--An internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was convicted today by a federal jury in New Jersey for his role in a conspiracy that put tens of thousands of prescription pills on the streets for resale, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Michael Durante, 59, of Montclair, New Jersey, was convicted of 16 of the 17 counts in the superseding indictment ...
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New Jersey lawmakers offer early support for Oklahoma tornado aid
Lauren Matthews, 7, stands on the rubble of her home taking a photo of the damage in her neighborhood in Moore, Okla., Wednesday, May 22, 2013. A huge tornado roared through the Oklahoma City suburb on Monday, flattening everything in its path. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams) / ...
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Edison police officer charged in firebombing of fellow officers house
An Edison police officer who lives in Manalapan and is charged with five counts of attempted murder is to be arraigned Friday on charges that he allegedly set fire to a fellow ...
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NJ cop accused of setting fire to captains home
The Middlesex County prosecutor and Monroe Township police say Officer Michael Dotro was charged Thursday with aggravated arson and five counts of attempted murder for a Monday fire at the Monroe Township home of Edison Police Capt. Mark ...
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Boy Scouts vote to allow gay Scouts but not gay leaders
Boy Scouts salute early Saturday morning, May 21, 2011 during New Jersey's Boy Scouts Camporee in Sea Girt, N.J. The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts, Thursday, May 23, 2013. Of the local Scout leaders voting at their annual meeting in Texas, more than 60 percent supported the proposal. (AP ...
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Twitter coverage Bay Head meeting on construction easements
Follow live Twitter coverage by staff writer Kirk Moore (@KirkMooreAPP) from Bay Head's first public meeting on construction easements for the Army Corps beach replenishment, beginning at 6 p.m. ...
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Tax relief proposed for victims of Hurricane Sandy
Congressional lawmakers from the Northeast want to offer tax relief to victims of Superstorm Sandy, a proposal they may try to attach to a possible bill aimed at helping tornado victims in ...
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Sons of rap label founders sentenced in tax case
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Two sons of the founders of the Sugar Hill Records hip-hop recording label have been sentenced to probation for failing to file ...
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UPDATE 2-Phillips to increase shale oil use at New Jersey refinery
Thu May 23, 2013 7:39pm EDT (Adds option of Canadian crude by rail, background on Bayway) By Sabina Zawadzki LINDEN, N.J. May 23 (Reuters) - Phillips 66 said on Thursday it would use more domestic shale oil at its New Jersey Bayway refinery and could consider exporting gasoline from the facility thanks to lower costs and as U.S. fuel demand wanes. The 238,000 barrel-per-day (bpd) Bayway refinery ...
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Obama to travel to New Jersey Shore
Obama to Sandy Victims: 'We Will Do Everything We ...: US President Barack Obama orders federal agencies to 'lean forward' to help restore power to millions of people impacted by ...
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Majority of Superstorm Sandy deaths were from drowning
A wall is removed from the house that was washed into the Barnegat Bay from Lyman Avenue in Mantoloking during Superstorm Sandy. / NJ PRESS MEDIA FILE ...
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One flown to hospital following Rumson crash
RUMSON — One person was airlifted to the hospital after a passenger van rear-ended a dump truck, police said. The passenger from the van was flown to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, Chief Scott Paterson said. He declined to comment on the extent of the ...
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Coast Guard evacuates man from tanker off Maryland
OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) -- The Coast Guard rescued a member of an oil tanker's crew Thursday after the man suffered a head injury while the ship was about 60 miles east of Ocean ...
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Driver in Ill. van wreck had license suspension
Emergency personnel gather at the scene near Vandalia, Ill., Monday, May 20,2 013, where a van veered off a southern Illinois highway and overturned several times, killing five people and sending six others to hospitals. Details about what caused the crash or who owned the white 2002 Dodge van, which had no decals or displayed markings, were not immediately ...
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Mary J. Blige Faces $3.4M Federal Tax Lien In NJ
-- Mary J. Blige and her husband have been hit with a $3.4 million tax lien in New Jersey. Court documents show the Internal Revenue Service filed a notice of a lien on the nine-time Grammy Award winner Feb. 7. That was two days before the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul was honored at a pre-Grammy party in Los ...
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