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1. Gov. Christie signs law to bring banks to underserved communities
(Money/Economy)

... (D-Essex) said. “Promoting sound financial practices requires people to have a neighborhood bank they can trust.” Assembly members Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer), Jack Conners (D-Burlington) and Annette ...

2. WWOR-TV Ch. 9 investigated for not serving N.J. viewers
(Entertainment/Movies)

... over 80 percent of the station's news coverage covered New York; New Jersey received less than 20 percent. Lautenberg reiterated his complaint on February 17. He said, "Channel 9 is required by law to ...

3. Patients are released from hospital too soon and still sick
(Health/Healthquest)

... discharge planner. You and your loved one have a right to have your questions answered in a respectful manner. Question: My mother, 93, moved in with us last year. She is basically healthy, but becomes ...

4. Gov. Christie could channel Andrew Jackson when it comes to dealing with courts
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY CARL GOLDEN NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM COMMENTARY Legend has it that in 1832, a miffed President Andrew Jackson, upset over a United States Supreme Court ruling, responded: "(Chief Justice) John ...

5. Actor Len Lesser, Uncle Leo of 'Seinfeld', remembered
(Entertainment/Movies)

Career spanned decades but best remembered for role on hit sitcom BY SHARON HARRIS-ZLOTNICK NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Actor Len Lesser, 88, perhaps known best for portraying meddling "Uncle Leo" on ...

6. Cable TV
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

I live in an area that only gets cable TV. (The Oregon Coast) All cable channels put MSNBC and the Tru TV on the more expensive group of cable. If you can only afford the minnimum package....you only get ...

7. ‘Cedar Rapids’ movie review: Won fans at Sundance
(Entertainment/Movies)

... party-girl agent played with comic gusto — and later with some charming sensitivity — by a red-haired Anne Heche. As for those roommates — clearly this is not a convention of big spenders — Isiah Whitlock ...

8. N.J. Supreme Court Justice Rivera-Soto pressured to resign by Senate Democrats
(N.J./State)

... the only one of 17 upper house Republicans to cast a vote. Christie nominated attorney and close friend Republican Anne Patterson to fill Democrat Wallace's seat, but Senate President Stephen Sweeney ...

9. Assembly approves bill to roll back turnpike, parkway tolls levied to fund now-defunct Hudson rail tunnel
(N.J./State)

... for the financing of the tunnel that was planned to run from North Bergen to Manhattan. In 2008, the Turnpike Authority approved a two-phase toll increase, a portion of which was dedicated to raise $1.25 ...

10. Nancy Kerrigan’s brother Mark says failed alcohol test caused by cough syrup
(U.S./Nation)

... Skating Championships in the Cobo Arena in Detroit, Shane Stant assaulted Nancy Kerrigan with a club to her right knee. An investigation revealed fellow skater, Tonya Harding knew of the assault planned ...

11. Tonya Harding pregnant with first child
(U.S./Nation)

... stripped Harding of her title and banned her for life from participating in USFSA-run events as either a skater or a coach. Since her embarrassing departure from figure skating, Harding has made news ...

12. REVIEW: ‘Compulsion’ fictionalizes Meyer Levin’s life
(Entertainment/Movies)

Mandy Patinkin plus puppets depict an Anne Frank addict's controversial times BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM OFF BROADWAY REVIEW Spending over two hours in the company of a raging monomaniac ...

13. Vermont's Mad River Glen ski cooperative puts needs of its members first
(Sports/Professional)

... began to alienate traditional skiers, their presence didn't seem to fit in with Mad River's original mission – to keep things as they were, according to Friedman. So in 1991 Mad River banned snowboarders ...

14. New Jersey environmentalists appeal decision on Delaware River deepening
(N.J./State)

... of Engineers, in partnership with the Philadelphia Regional Port Authority, to deepen the Delaware River's main navigation channel from 40 to 45 feet for 102 miles from Delaware Bay to north of Camden. ...

15. Poll: New Jerseyans unmoved by police layoffs
(N.J./State)

... to a Monmouth University, Gannett New Jersey Press Media poll released Wednesday. As officials in Somerset and Camden counties discuss merging police departments into a countywide force, and cities like ...

16. President Donald Trump buying New York Mets?
(Sports/Professional)

... According to Carl Peterson, who ran the Philadelphia-Baltimore Stars franchise for Myles Tannenbaum, the NFL wanted to avoid a court case and offered to take two unnamed USFL franchises, presumably Baltimore ...

17. A&P bankruptcy fallout leading to more job losses
(N.J./State)

... banners as well as the flagship A&P. Slated for closure in New Jersey are Super Fresh stores in Mount Holly, Hammonton, Cape May Court House, Hamilton Township and Hightstown and a Pathmark in ...

18. Suit challenges new nuclear plant waste storage rights
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... deaths within a 500 mile radius, according to the NRC's study. The U.S. Government was supposed to take charge of the nation's spent fuel by 2010, but the planned repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada ...

19. Dr. Clifton Howell of West Orange, Amir Tadros of Jersey City, Louis Lisi of Union City indicted in Medicaid scheme
(N.J./State)

... Control Unit Analysts Mitzi Gross and Anne Howell, as well as these members of the Jersey City police Special Investigation Unit: Capt. Gary Lallo, Lt. Frederick Younger, Sgt. Anthony Musante, Sgt. Wally ...

20. Christie approves release of aid after shaking up Schools Development Authority
(N.J./State)

... principles. He said that for the first time, the changes will allow the SDA to responsibly advance each project in the most efficient and cost-conscious manner. Since taking office the governor has held ...