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1. Passaic River to drop below flood stage by Friday morning
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... System in West Orange, Short Hills, Millburn, Maplewood, Irvington, Summit, Springfield, and Florham Park; Livingston Water Department in Essex County; Forest Lakes Water Company in Andover Township and ...

2. Kelly Whitney, a former Seton Hall basketball star player, gets 3 years in prison
(N.J./State)

... Seton Hall at the time of the robbery, entered the 240 Irving Avenue apartment, duct-taped the eight residents before ransacking the apartment stealing money and other valuables. The victims testified ...

3. Residents in 11 N.J. towns warned to boil water for drinking and cooking
(Health/Healthquest)

... their water before drinking or cooking with it. The municipalities are Florham Park, Irvington, Maplewood, Millburn, Short Hills, Springfield, Summit, West Orange, Hightstown, Rockaway Township and South ...

4. Christie names his six appointees to new state public employees' health benefits committees
(N.J./State)

... of Irvington, and John Hutchison of Lawrence. Christie also named Kobylowski, McDermott, and Egea to the School Employees' Health Benefits Plan Design Committee. – TOM HESTER SR., NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM ...

5. No arrests yet in three Newark area shootings over weekend
(N.J./State)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Newark and Irvington police were inundated over the Independence Day holiday weekend with four shootings that left three people dead. Acting Essex County Prosecutor ...

6. Tough love led Kyrie Irving to the NBA
(Sports/Professional)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Kyrie Irving hugged his father Drederick, who raised him when his mother died, when he was announced as the number one pick in this year’s NBA draft by the Cleveland ...

7. Nine Trey gang leader Robert Christie of Trenton pleads guilty to weapons possession by a convicted felon
(N.J./State)

... Guido, Det. Gary Britton, Det. Nathan Bolognini, and former police director Irving Bradley. For the State Police, it was the Electronic Surveillance Unit and from the Organized Crime Control Central Bureau, ...

8. Alrashim Chamber of Newark indicted for murder of transgender victim
(N.J./State)

... Irvington before heading to an apartment on Jacoby Street and Boyden Avenue in Maplewood with two other people. At some point, an altercation ensued and White was shot to death. Statements made by the ...

9. Irvington High School teacher Sharonda Wilson indicted for murder
(N.J./State)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM An Essex County Grand Jury returned an indictment charging Sharonda Wilson, 32, of Irvington with the September 30, 2010 murder of Erik Stubblefield, Acting Essex ...

10. Danny Stiles: The ‘Vicar of Vintage’ endures even after his passing
(Entertainment/Movies)

... Frank Sinatra, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice, Eddie Cantor and Irving Berlin. And towards the end, he was just about the only one playing this type of music on the radio. A sound of the night, Stiles ...

11. Non-fatal Irvington police shooting still under investigation
(N.J./State)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The Essex County Prosecutor’s Office Homicide/Major Crimes Task Force, the Professional Standards Bureau, and the Irvington Police Department Internal Affairs Unit, ...

12. Yvonne Walker arrested for murder in Irvington
(N.J./State)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Irvington police arrested a 45-year-old woman in connection with the murder of Casetta Blunt, Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced Friday. ...

13. Irvington woman, 88, stabbed to death
(N.J./State)

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced Thursday that the preliminary autopsy results indicate 88-year-old Casetta Blunt was fatally stabbed in her Irvington home. At approximately ...

14. Casetta Blunt, 88, killed in Irvington
(N.J./State)

Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn A. Murray announced Thursday that an 88-year-old Irvington woman was killed in her home. The victim has been identified as Casetta Blunt, 88, of Campfield Street. ...

15. Assembly panels to consider bills to toughen child abuse reporting, oppose end of greehouse gas initiative
(N.J./State)

... (A-4109) on child welfare concerns following the recent starvation death of an 8-year-old Irvington girl. The State Government Committee will meet to consider legislation sponsored to establish a pilot ...

16. Starvation death of Irvington girl, 8, prompts changes to DYFS
(N.J./State)

State Senate panel approves bill setting tougher rules on investigating child abuse in New Jersey In the aftermath of the death of Christiana Glenn, a 8-year-old Irvington girl who died of starvation ...

17. Christie proposes that for-profit companies run failing public schools
(N.J./State)

... East Orange, Irvington, Orange, Jersey City, Trenton, New Brunswick, Perth Amboy and Asbury Park. This pilot program would authorize public “Transformation Schools” operated by school management organizations ...

18. Terrence Simonson of Newark sentenced for role in multi-state auto theft ring
(N.J./State)

... lot of a fast food restaurant in Irvington, the two men fled and attempted to serious harm the officers by ramming their police vehicles. The sentencing was part of an investigation into a multi-county ...

19. N.J. State Trooper fatally shoots Willie Gibbons of Seabrook after he pulls a gun, authorities say
(N.J./State)

... with a gun. A law enforcement alert was broadcast for Gibbons, who was quickly located walking on Burlington Road near Irving Avenue in Bridgeton. Three uniformed troopers responded to the location. ...

20. Anquan Clark, an alleged member of a crack-cocaine ring, arrested by ICE agents in Irvington
(N.J./State)

... Irvington Police Department and Homeland Security Investigators after federal charges were unsealed accusing the individuals of distributing crack throughout the Irvington area, said U.S. Attorney Paul ...