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1. Insurance broker Brian Foley of Summit and father-in-law accused of stealing $2.5M from Perth Amboy schools
(Money/Economy)

... conspired to steal more than $2.5 million from the Perth Amboy Board of Education by submitting fraudulent bills. The state Division of Criminal Justice obtained a prior indictment in June charging Gartland, ...

2. N.J. DEP orders cleanup of harmful pesticides used to treat bedbugs
(Health/Healthquest)

... or the DEP to ensure proper cleaning. A DEP investigation has determined residences in Newark, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Harrison, Kearny, Perth Amboy and Linden, South River and Avenel were treated by ...

3. A guide to New Jersey's lighthouses
(Life/Style)

... in Delaware Bay southwest of the mouth of the Maurice River. The Great Beds Light, a sparkplug lighthouse which sits in Raritan Bay in South Amboy, has become the symbol for the city of South Amboy. ...

4. The only signer of the Declaration of Independence who recanted was from New Jersey
(Life/Style)

... 30, 1776, Stockton and a friend, John Covenhoven, a member of the state legislature, were captured by Tories. He was thrown into jail in Perth Amboy, then moved to a prison in New York. He was treated ...

5. Former Perth Amboy official Jeffrey D. Grumbs gets jail time in Vas corruption case
(N.J./State)

Raymond Geneske, former city Dem. chairman, gets probation A high-ranking Perth Amboy official under former mayor Joseph Vas was sentenced to a year in the Middlesex County Jail Friday and a second man ...

6. 40 accused of drug dealing in Newark, smuggling at Northern State Prison
(N.J./State)

... Bishop of Newark, Richard Rogers of Newark, Idris Dent of Newark, Yah Y Terry of Newark, Shawn Black of Paterson, Siraaj Vickers of Tobyhanna, Pa., Louis Lisboa of Perth Amboy, Jason Lovejoy of Woodbridge, ...

7. New Jersey’s Carl Lewis using Olympic fame to fight hunger
(Sports/Professional)

... best silver medal that I've ever received." The former track star remains fit and trim but has exchanged his trademark flamboyant Lycra track gear for an elegant black suit. On his first day at this ...

8. Christie’s 2.5 percent cap supported by 201 N.J. mayors
(N.J./State)

... to the public for a sixth time in the past month at a public meeting Tuesday in Perth Amboy. "Legislative committee approval for the Cap 2.5 constitutional amendment is needed before the first week ...

9. N.J. Assemblyman Paul Moriarty proposes bill to cap property tax hikes at 2.5 percent
(N.J./State)

... Tuesday in Perth Amboy to urge support for his version of a 2.5 percent cap on property tax hikes and state government spending. "Building on the success of legislation (setting a 4 percent cap) sponsored ...

10. Court upholds Christie's power to cut $475M in school aid
(N.J./State)

Perth Amboy unsuccessful in challenging governor's power BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM UPDATED A state appeals court Monday upheld Gov. Chris Christie's executive order that forced school ...

11. Md. insurance brokers charged with stealing from Perth Amboy government
(N.J./State)

Three insurance brokers from Maryland and their two companies were indicted Thursday on charges that they conspired to steal $216,495 from the Perth Amboy government by collecting payments for a non-existent ...

12. Police searching for Brooke Peder — babysitter who disappeared after child endangerment conviction
(N.J./State)

A South Amboy woman charged with child endangerment in November after police say she took a baby girl she was babysitting for stroll in it's carriage while she was sloshed to the gills is on the run. Police ...

13. Child death at daycare in Perth Amboy under investigation
(N.J./State)

Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a 17-month-old boy who was under the supervision of a day care center located in Perth Amboy. The child, a Carteret resident whose ...

14. N.J. Gov. Chris Christie: Public school enemy No. 1
(Opinion/Commentary)

... that we should give up on them when the going gets tough. Never, never, never has a chief executive of New Jersey so flamboyantly turned his back on the 1.3 million public school students and their parents. ...

15. Suburban Police Officer Duties
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Suburb: Perth Amboy, NJ Police Officer Thomas Emil Raji Killed by a drunk driver while transporting a prisoner on August 22, 2008 Suburb: Fair Lawn, NJ Police Officer Mary Ann Collura Killed by ...

16. Bill to help supermarkets sell more beer, wine and liquor opposed by N.J. Liquor Store Association
(N.J./State)

... owner of Perth Amboy-based Garden State Liquors, and a 18-year member of the state Division of Alcoholic Beverage Control advisory board, said his organization has repeatedly argued against the proposal, ...

17. Robert Hayes of Perth Amboy charged with sexual assault, murder
(N.J./State)

A Perth Amboy man has been charged with breaking into the home of a township woman, sexually assaulting her, killing her and setting a fire in her bedroom last week. Robert L. Hayes Jr., 32, of Perth ...

18. Christie’s raid on urban enterprise zones to be discussed
(N.J./State)

... Orange, Paterson, Irvington, Jersey city, Perth Amboy, Phillipsburg, Plainfield, Trenton, Union City, Long Branch, and Wildwood. The hearing is set for 3 p.m. in the Statehouse Annex in Trenton. — ...

19. Christie panel recommends larger role for towns in determining need for affordable housing
(N.J./State)

... Marcia A. Karrow (R-Hunterdon) and included Perth Amboy Mayor Wilda Diaz, Morris Plains Mayor Frank Dreetzler, Rutgers University Prof. James Hughes and Ira Oskowsky, a former state Housing and Mortgage ...

20. 98-year-old N.J. woman to receive her high school diploma
(Life/Style)

Nursing home resident erasing a lifelong regret In the spring of 2009, the Adult High School of the Perth Amboy Adult Education Center was contacted by the Alameda Nursing facility in Perth Amboy regarding ...