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Manville residents endure flood-prone area (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Mark DiIonno: Somerset County town is window into what happens when heavy rains hit low-lying N.J. sectors -- WORST EVER N.J. WINTER?
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Wall Street sees higher start, awaits Fed language (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
APNEW YORK -- U.S. stock futures inched higher today ahead of what could be the final time that the Federal Reserve promises to keep interest rates at low levels for an "extended period" of time. S&P 500 futures rose 1...
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N.J. utilities say 50K remain without power after storms (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Patti Sapone/The Star LedgerEwing police block off Cresent Ave. after a tree branch and live wires went down during the storm Saturday.Utility crews around New Jersey are making progress restoring electricity knocked out during the weekend nor'easter. About 50,000 customers...
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Old Bridge woman wants to weigh 1,000 pounds (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
MyFoxNY.comDonna SimpsonOLD BRIDGE -- A 42-year-old woman who weighs 604 pounds said she has a "fantasy" of surpassing 1,000 pounds, according to a report in The New York Post. The report said Donna Simpson holds the world record as the...
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National Park Service gets 1,700 comments on proposed N.J. power line (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The Star-LedgerThe proposed 130-mile, 500-kilovolt Susquehanna-Roseland power line from Berwick, Pa., to Roseland, N.J.The National Park Service has received 1,700 public comments on the proposed $1.3 billion 147-mile power line through Morris and Sussex counties, according to a report in...
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N.J. appeals court to rule on effort to recall Sen. Robert Menendez (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The Star-LedgerSen. Robert MenendezConservative Tea Party activists in New Jersey will learn today whether they can to try to recall a Democratic U.S. senator. NJ Tea Parties United and the Sussex County Tea Party are targeting Sen. Robert Menendez, (D-N.J.)...
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N.J. finds extensive beach erosion after storms (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The Star-LedgerA truck braves the brackish flood waters while driving down North Bayview Ave. in Seaside Park. New Jersey environmental officials said the weekend's fierce rain and wind storm caused extensive erosion to beaches in Ocean and Monmouth counties. The...
>> read more
Gov. Chris Christie prepares to give N.J. Legislature his budget message (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The RecordGov. Chris ChristieTRENTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will make his case today for scrapping property tax rebates this year and cutting state aid to towns and schools by more than $1 billion in his first budget address...
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Police launch homicide probe after Maplewoood man is found dead in bed (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Jennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerInvestigators from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Crime Scene Unit remove evidence from the scene in Maplwood.MAPLEWOOD -- Local police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office were investigating the possible homicide of a man found dead in his...
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Newark man charged in fatal shooting seeks to be own attorney in murder trial (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Courtesy of Newark PoliceVincent Trevino, 21, of Newark, is charged with the fatal shooting of Nicolas Roldan, 18, outside Crown Fried Chicken on Bloomfield Avenue.NEWARK -- Vincent Trevino never finished high school but wants to serve as his own attorney...
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Foreign stocks gain as traders await U.S. Fed's interest-rate stance (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Getty ImagesA board displaying Germany's share index DAX at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt.European stocks opened higher today with markets awaiting euro zone inflation and the German ZEW survey of investor confidence, along with a...
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Charles Cullen lawsuit plaintiffs won't get $95 million in damages, but lawyers say award still matters (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Kelly Rambo and Mark Altemose (pictured), the attorneys representing the families of the former nurse's victims, cannot comment on the case due to a gag order. So Express-Times reporter JD Malone asked other lawyers to discuss the significance of the hefty damages the families don't expect to collect.
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Lehigh Valley unemployment drops to 9.6 percent (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
But there were fewer jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis.
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Officials urge Fairfield residents to evacuate as river continues to rise (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerThis is what it looked like in Lincoln Park today as flood waters continued to rise. Officials are warning residents of Fairfield to evacuate, as the Passaic River continues to rise in their Essex County community. The brutal...
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Power outages and rainfall amounts in New Jersey (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerDalides Sanchez, left, and her husband, Salome, wait and watch the flood waters around their home in the Hoffman Grove section of town as flood waters began to recede in the aftermath of flooding in Wayne. NEW JERSEY...
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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie's budget is expected to slash school funds by $820M (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
GOP chief's proposal to cut 5 percent of each district's budget spurred school officials to say they're planning layoffs, program cuts
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Latest flood-related road closings in New Jersey (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerAn ice cream truck didn't get out in time and sits in deep flood water in the aftermath of flooding in Wayne. Here are the latest flood and weather-related road closings from 511NJ, a free phone and web...
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Former inmate to testify that N.J. woman said she killed Dover man in gang initiation (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerJade Michele Ransom in a Star-Ledger file photo. A judge ruled today that a former jail inmate is allowed to testify that Ransom admitted killing a Dover man as part of a gang initiation. DOVER -- A former...
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Unfinished N.J. flood control project could not protect flood-prone Somerset County (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Completed work, including Talmage Avenue Bridge, saved neighborhoods east of Route 287 from serious flooding
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Fire damages vacant home in Newark's West Ward (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
NEWARK -- A fire today caused serious damage to a vacant West Ward home that had already been struck by a fallen tree during the weekend storm, authorities said. Fifty firefighters responded to the blaze at 227 Brookdale Ave. at...
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Man accused in sex assault, robbery in Newark park (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
NEWARK -- A 37-year-old Newark man was arrested in connection with a sexual assault and robbery that took place last month in the city’s Ivy Hill section, authorities said. Damion Fantroy was arrested over the weekend and faces first-degree aggravated...
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Mark DiIonno: Somerset County town is window into what happens when heavy rains hit low-lying N.J. sectors -- WORST EVER N.J. WINTER?
>> read more
Wall Street sees higher start, awaits Fed language (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
APNEW YORK -- U.S. stock futures inched higher today ahead of what could be the final time that the Federal Reserve promises to keep interest rates at low levels for an "extended period" of time. S&P 500 futures rose 1...
>> read more
N.J. utilities say 50K remain without power after storms (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Patti Sapone/The Star LedgerEwing police block off Cresent Ave. after a tree branch and live wires went down during the storm Saturday.Utility crews around New Jersey are making progress restoring electricity knocked out during the weekend nor'easter. About 50,000 customers...
>> read more
Old Bridge woman wants to weigh 1,000 pounds (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
MyFoxNY.comDonna SimpsonOLD BRIDGE -- A 42-year-old woman who weighs 604 pounds said she has a "fantasy" of surpassing 1,000 pounds, according to a report in The New York Post. The report said Donna Simpson holds the world record as the...
>> read more
National Park Service gets 1,700 comments on proposed N.J. power line (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The Star-LedgerThe proposed 130-mile, 500-kilovolt Susquehanna-Roseland power line from Berwick, Pa., to Roseland, N.J.The National Park Service has received 1,700 public comments on the proposed $1.3 billion 147-mile power line through Morris and Sussex counties, according to a report in...
>> read more
N.J. appeals court to rule on effort to recall Sen. Robert Menendez (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The Star-LedgerSen. Robert MenendezConservative Tea Party activists in New Jersey will learn today whether they can to try to recall a Democratic U.S. senator. NJ Tea Parties United and the Sussex County Tea Party are targeting Sen. Robert Menendez, (D-N.J.)...
>> read more
N.J. finds extensive beach erosion after storms (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The Star-LedgerA truck braves the brackish flood waters while driving down North Bayview Ave. in Seaside Park. New Jersey environmental officials said the weekend's fierce rain and wind storm caused extensive erosion to beaches in Ocean and Monmouth counties. The...
>> read more
Gov. Chris Christie prepares to give N.J. Legislature his budget message (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
The RecordGov. Chris ChristieTRENTON -- New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will make his case today for scrapping property tax rebates this year and cutting state aid to towns and schools by more than $1 billion in his first budget address...
>> read more
Police launch homicide probe after Maplewoood man is found dead in bed (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Jennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerInvestigators from the Essex County Prosecutor's Office Crime Scene Unit remove evidence from the scene in Maplwood.MAPLEWOOD -- Local police and the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office were investigating the possible homicide of a man found dead in his...
>> read more
Newark man charged in fatal shooting seeks to be own attorney in murder trial (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Courtesy of Newark PoliceVincent Trevino, 21, of Newark, is charged with the fatal shooting of Nicolas Roldan, 18, outside Crown Fried Chicken on Bloomfield Avenue.NEWARK -- Vincent Trevino never finished high school but wants to serve as his own attorney...
>> read more
Foreign stocks gain as traders await U.S. Fed's interest-rate stance (Tue, 16 Mar 2010)
Getty ImagesA board displaying Germany's share index DAX at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt.European stocks opened higher today with markets awaiting euro zone inflation and the German ZEW survey of investor confidence, along with a...
>> read more
Charles Cullen lawsuit plaintiffs won't get $95 million in damages, but lawyers say award still matters (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Kelly Rambo and Mark Altemose (pictured), the attorneys representing the families of the former nurse's victims, cannot comment on the case due to a gag order. So Express-Times reporter JD Malone asked other lawyers to discuss the significance of the hefty damages the families don't expect to collect.
>> read more
Lehigh Valley unemployment drops to 9.6 percent (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
But there were fewer jobs on a seasonally adjusted basis.
>> read more
Officials urge Fairfield residents to evacuate as river continues to rise (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerThis is what it looked like in Lincoln Park today as flood waters continued to rise. Officials are warning residents of Fairfield to evacuate, as the Passaic River continues to rise in their Essex County community. The brutal...
>> read more
Power outages and rainfall amounts in New Jersey (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerDalides Sanchez, left, and her husband, Salome, wait and watch the flood waters around their home in the Hoffman Grove section of town as flood waters began to recede in the aftermath of flooding in Wayne. NEW JERSEY...
>> read more
N.J. Gov. Chris Christie's budget is expected to slash school funds by $820M (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
GOP chief's proposal to cut 5 percent of each district's budget spurred school officials to say they're planning layoffs, program cuts
>> read more
Latest flood-related road closings in New Jersey (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Jerry McCrea/The Star-LedgerAn ice cream truck didn't get out in time and sits in deep flood water in the aftermath of flooding in Wayne. Here are the latest flood and weather-related road closings from 511NJ, a free phone and web...
>> read more
Former inmate to testify that N.J. woman said she killed Dover man in gang initiation (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerJade Michele Ransom in a Star-Ledger file photo. A judge ruled today that a former jail inmate is allowed to testify that Ransom admitted killing a Dover man as part of a gang initiation. DOVER -- A former...
>> read more
Unfinished N.J. flood control project could not protect flood-prone Somerset County (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
Completed work, including Talmage Avenue Bridge, saved neighborhoods east of Route 287 from serious flooding
>> read more
Fire damages vacant home in Newark's West Ward (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
NEWARK -- A fire today caused serious damage to a vacant West Ward home that had already been struck by a fallen tree during the weekend storm, authorities said. Fifty firefighters responded to the blaze at 227 Brookdale Ave. at...
>> read more
Man accused in sex assault, robbery in Newark park (Mon, 15 Mar 2010)
NEWARK -- A 37-year-old Newark man was arrested in connection with a sexual assault and robbery that took place last month in the city’s Ivy Hill section, authorities said. Damion Fantroy was arrested over the weekend and faces first-degree aggravated...
>> read more
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