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, December 9, 2012
Other top stories this week include a popular Red Bank Regional High basketball player who collapsed during a game and died and a youth soccer coach contrite over allegedly embezzling nearly $60,000 in league funds.
A North Caldwell man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with transporting a PVC pipe stuffed with explosives without a permit, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. According to the complaint, Anthony Nicholas Gallo, 20, traveled into Pennsylvania on Jan. 8, 2012 with a pipe containing potassium chlorate and magnesium with the plan of causing an explosion. A nursing home worker and her friend accused of posting a Facebook photo of an elderly patient's genitalia were indicted Monday, the Attorney General's office announced. Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair, the first medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey, opened on Dec. 6. A Red Bank Regional basketball player collapsed and died after being rushed to the hospital…
Sunday, November 18, 2012
State senator's lawsuit against hometown and car crash death on Garden State Parkway also make headlines.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Bomb-Making Materials Found in Home of 'Occupy Wall Street' Activist Assault rifles and a large quantity of materials used to make bombs were found in the Ridgewood home of Roberto Rivera, 60, Saturday. Rivera, a New York doctor, was charged with recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury or damage. FBI agents said he was active in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Heroin Ring Role Leads to 30-Year Sentence for Elizabeth Man Johnel Dunlap, 41, was sentenced to 30 years in state prison for operating a drug trafficking ring in which $400,000 worth of heroin was planned to be distributed. State Senator Sues West Deptford Over 'Unlawful Quid Pro Quo' State Sen. Stephen M. Sweeney is suing his hometown municipality over what he labeled an …
Sunday, October 14, 2012
Other top stories this week include charges stemming from the discovery of a 9-year-old's remains in Upper Freehold and a McDonald's customer upset that his young daughter was subjected to Fox News during their visit to the fast food restaurant.
A Moorestown police officer and his ex-girlfriend/accomplice will spend the next 20 to 30 years behind bars after being sentenced this week. The pair was convicted in April on a slew of charges stemming from the sexual assault of multiple teenage victims between 2000 and 2007. One damning video showed one of the female victims blindfolded and shackled, and forced to perform sexual acts on one of her captors. Students and faculty at the Marine Academy of Technology and Environmental Sciences in Manahawkin and Jackson Memorial High School were grieving this week after learning of the loss of two friends and classmates. Some seven years after the discovery of a child’s skeleton in the Clayton Park area of Upper Freehold, the Monmouth County …
Saturday, September 22, 2012
Other top stories this week include an armed robbery in Toms River and the shutdown of a major tax fraud scheme.
A Burlington City cop shot and killed a man who fired at the officer during a foot chase late Monday night, authorities said. A 27-year-old Clifton High School teacher who grew up in Fair Lawn was indicted this week on sexual assault charges stemming from two sexual encounters she allegedly had this April with one of her male students. A self-service farm stand in Montville that has had problems this year with people taking fruits and vegetables without paying has hung a "Wall of Shame" poster, revealing surveilance images of people caught stealing from the stand. A Toms River couple was tied up by three men in ski masks armed with handguns who ransacked their Rivercrest Manor home before midnight, police said. One of the nation’s largest …
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Other top stories this week include the arrest of Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, TLC's Cake Boss opening a bakery in Ridgewood and a concert promoter reportedly suing rapper Nas.
A federal judge sentenced the disgraced former superintendent of Toms River Regional, Michael J. Ritacco, to 135 months – just over 11 years – in prison for his role in a complex kickback and bribery scheme. A man was killed Saturday afternoon after the small helicopter he was piloting crashed in a cornfield in West Windsor, police said. Mayor Tony F. Mack, Raphiel Mack and Joseph A. "JoJo" Giorgianni were charged in connection with a plan to extort payments of more than $100,000. The Morris Plains concert promoter who was trapped in Angola for 49 days on fraud accusations after rapper Nas didn't appear for a series of New Year's Eve shows is planning to sue the performer, according to a report. Famed "Cake Boss" Buddy Valastro will be …
Sunday, September 9, 2012
Other top stories this week include the filing of charges in a fatal attack at a Jimmy Buffet concert and a man who allegedly tried to push two children in front of a moving train.
A Galloway man accused of murder for throwing his three-month old daughter off a bridge on the Garden State Parkway has been found guilty, Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa announced Friday afternoon. Both occupants of a twin-engine plane that crashed while attempting to land at Hillsborough's Central Jersey Regional Airport suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said. A fire broke out at Hoboken Charter School Thursday morning, injuring six firefighters and prompting the evacuation of 200 students and faculty in the school and at a next-door day care center, authorities said. A man whom police said defiantly gave officers the finger as he sped down Route 9 during rush hour at speeds of more than 100 miles per hour is facing "…
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…
Saturday, June 30, 2012
Boardwalk bikinis and the closing of a pharmaceutical giant's campus also make the cut.
The Union County Homicide Task Force is investigationg the drowning deaths of a 5-year-old and a 3-year-old who apparently climbing into a neighbor's yard Thursday night and were found in the swimming pool. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie branded state Democratic lawmakers liars on Tuesday -- even calling one Bergen County legislator an "S.O.B." -- in the wake of a partisan state budget battle. Six men – including two from Newark and one from Montclair – have been arrested in connection with the shooting death of a Jersey City woman whose body was found in a vacant townhouse in Newark a week ago. A former Bernardsville Middle School assistant principal has been indicted on 91 counts in connection with allegedly videotaping nude boys in the …
Deb Conway
1:27 pm on Monday, December 10, 2012
Hi there, I usually click into the 'happening around Union County' link so I can stay updated on what's happening locally. The stories are often about events in towns outside of UC though! Could there possible be an additional category/link for 'around the state' then one that is true 'around the county?' Like the site btw, visit often! Thanks, Deb in Summit :O) more ›