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1. Public warned about toxic mothballs from China
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

U.S. officials discover illegal pesticide product during inspection of Kearny warehouse U.S. environmental officials are warning the public about an illegal pesticide product, mothballs imported from ...

2. Rutgers helping transform prison inmates into honor students
(Life/Style)

... finds potential students through several sources: county college coordinators who teach classes in prison; correction officers; and an assessment center, Talbot Hall in Kearny, where inmates go near the ...

3. New Jersey's long legacy of canals
(Life/Style)

... remnants and artifacts of the canal can be seen along its former course. For example, on the South Kearny peninsula, where the canal ran just south of and parallel to the Lincoln Highway, now U.S. Route ...

4. Trenton was not always the capital city of New Jersey
(Life/Style)

... the last Royal Governor of New Jersey and estranged son of Benjamin Franklin, still stands in the waterfront area of the city. Other early architectural examples include the Kearny Cottage (moved from ...

5. Bed bugs finding New Jersey a great place to live
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... and in the past year have been discovered in Eatontown, Newark, Jersey City, Elizabeth, Perth Amboy, Harrison, Kearny, Linden and South River. The DEP is advising the hiring of licensed pest control ...

6. Jenicar Builders of Newark and Kearny pleads guilty to role in Perth Amboy corruption scandal
(N.J./State)

... Thursday to performing $25,000 worth of free masonry and paving work at the mayor's house. Jenicar Builders Contractors Co. Inc. of Newark and Kearny pleaded guilty through its president to a charge ...

7. N.J. nurse Dr. Mary Norton tackles global health
(Health/Healthquest)

... health issues. As a young woman growing up in Kearny, New Jersey, Norton's parents instilled in her a desire to use her gifts and talents to "give back" to her community. Her training as an RN with ...

8. Nuno J. Sousa of Elizabeth charged in multi-million home loan scheme
(Money/Economy)

A Union County mortgage loan solicitor has been charged with conspiring with others — including a Kearny woman who has already been charged — in a scheme to steal millions of dollars by obtaining mortgage ...

9. N.J. bridges and tunnels honor people of Jersey's history
(Life/Style)

... construction of the Panama Canal and was the first consulting engineer of the Port Authority. The Wittpenn Bridge, a vertical lift bridge, carries NJ-7 over the Hackensack River connecting Kearny and ...

10. Christie’s proposal is good for sports complex — And the entire Meadowlands
(Opinion/Commentary)

... and four municipalities in Hudson County (Jersey City, Kearny, North Bergen, and Secaucus). The Meadowlands was for centuries an area of magnificent natural resources. Its beautiful open space, waterways, ...

11. 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 ...

12. Genilza Nunes of Kearny charged in multi-million dollar mortgage loan scheme
(N.J./State)

Allegedly part of group that scammed banks in four North Jersey counties A Kearny woman was charged Wednesday with allegedly orchestrated a scheme that netted at least $2.1 million by obtaining mortgage ...

13. World Cup 2010: Tony Meola provides insight on the buzz it will create and the state of N.J. soccer
(Sports/Professional)

... with the MetroStars and Red Bulls throughout his many MLS stops, and even indoors with the defunct New Jersey Ironmen. The Kearny High School grad represented New Jersey and the United States in the World ...

14. N.J. DOT commissioner vows to no gas tax hike
(N.J./State)

... as construction priorities for the 2010-11 year the Route 3 Passaic River Crossing Bridge, a major commuter route, the replace of the Route 7 Wittpenn Bridge, a key truck route between Kearny and Jersey ...

15. Bergen's Bill Tierney remembered with scholarship fund for N.J. students
(Sports/Professional)

... fundraisers such as this Saturday's Irish Night Beefsteak Dinner at 7 p.m. at the Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center (Boys town), located at 499 Belgrove Drive in Kearny. Tickets cost $50 and include ...

16. State moving 150 sex offenders to Woodbridge
(N.J./State)

Changes also made at prisons in Newark, Trenton BY TOM HESTER SR. NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The state Department of Corrections will move 150 sex offenders from its Special Treatment prison in Kearny ...

17. How to buy stocks really, really cheap through DRIPs
(Money/Economy)

... Johnson (JNJ) Kearny Financial Corp. (KRNY) Lakeland Bancorp Inc. (LBAI) Liz Claiborne, Inc. (LIZ) Mack-Cali Realty Corp. (CLI) Merck & Company, Inc. (MRK) Middlesex Water Company (MSEX) ...

18. Bedminster No. 1 in New Jersey Monthly's 2010 Top Towns list
(Life/Style)

... 566 municipalities; just crossing into Princeton Township improves your neighborhood to number 43. The "brainy borough" of Metuchen, 347, is no match for Kearny, 285. Upper Saddle River looks up from ...

19. U.S. team looking strong at 2010 Vancouver Olympics
(Sports/Professional)

... First Olympiad in Vancouver, Canada on Sunday. The Star Spangled Banner played for the first time at the medal ceremony Sunday for Hannah Kearny and Shannon Bahrke who won gold and bronze respectively ...

20. Rutgers women’s soccer team ranked ninth in nation
(Sports/Professional)

... junior Karla Schacher (Tofield, Alberta) found the net in the 59th minute against the Orange, rebounding redshirt freshman Stefanee Pace's (Kearny, N.J.) shot on the SU netminder. Redshirt freshman April ...