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1. Christie’s making medical marijuana unworkable for New Jersey’s patients
(Opinion/Commentary)

... challenge with the DEA — which it won — to gain permission to grow pot. Yet in 2009 the DEA's acting director overruled the determination of the agency's own administrative law judge in order to prohibit ...

2. Robert Trocolor II of Bergen County charged with stealing hundreds of thousands from his mother
(N.J./State)

... Robert Contillo ruled the document had not been written by Mildred Trocolor, saying the handwriting was different. He accused Trocolor of forgery and ordered him to re-pay $349,302, according to the prosecutor's ...

3. Video of freeholder’s brother Genarro Mirabella ruled a public record by Superior Court judge
(N.J./State)

... clerk's office while on duty is a public record under common law, a Superior Court judge has ruled. After that August incident and one involving a change machine, borough authorities initially filed ...

4. The Police are NOT your personal bodyguards...
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... AFTER they commit crimes. The Federal Courts have ruled on this in over a dozen cases. Personal safety is a PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY. If the state of NJ can't protect it's citizens (which, BTW, it's not ...

5. Oh, Bristol and Levi are getting married, but should we really care?
(Life/Style)

... and angered by rapid social change, intervened and ruled that Ravinder and Shilpa were members of the same clan, making them brother and sister to each other, although they were not related by blood. The ...

6. N.J. police may have to learn 150 languages as a result of state Supreme Court ruling
(N.J./State)

Conviction overturned because Spanish speaking suspect didn't understand officer The New Jersey Supreme Court ruled Monday that police in must explain the state's implied-consent law to motorists in ...

7. History shows that attacks on civil liberties persist through the generations
(Opinion/Commentary)

... from three eating clubs that were exclusively for men. The lawsuit spanned 13 years before the state Supreme Court ruled in her favor, ending the discriminatory practice. Over the last five decades, ...

8. Judge orders Sea Bright Beach Club to provide public access to beach
(N.J./State)

A state Superior Court judge has ruled in favor of the state and ordered a Sea Bright beach club to provide public access to the beach in front of the club. Judge Thomas W. Cavanagh in Freehold issued ...

9. N.J. judge rules lenders must prove they hold note before they can foreclose on a property
(Money/Economy)

... they can foreclose on a property, a Superior Court judge has ruled. In Atlantic City, Judge William C. Todd dismissed The Bank of New York's attempt to foreclose on a Brigantine house, saying the bank ...

10. Bret Michaels keeps adding chapters as life unfolds
(Entertainment/Movies)

...  The new inductees bring the total number of recordings in the Registry to 300. The complete list can be found at billboard.com. Slipknot Bassist Death Ruled 'Accidental' An autopsy by the Polk County, ...

11. Arturo Gatti’s family still believes boxer’s death was murder and not suicide
(Sports/Professional)

... was dead. But on July 30, authorities ruled Gatti's death a suicide and Rodrigues was cleared. The family, unsatisfied with the findings of the Brazilian police, hired an independent pathologist to perform ...

12. Hamas rejects Israeli offer of 1,000 Palestinian prisoners for Gilad Shalit
(World/International)

... captivity in Hamas-ruled Gaza. But Mr. Netanyahu ruled out releasing dozens of top militants responsible for the deadliest terrorist attacks, describing them as "mass murderers." He said releasing such ...

13. Russian spies had major stash of cash
(N.J./State)

... found a train ticket with a name that matches one Richard Murphy used on an Irish passport when he traveled abroad. U.S. Magistrate Ronald L. Ellis ruled that the couple would be denied bail because there ...

14. NBA free agency is here, but where would LeBron James be without their help?
(Sports/Professional)

... to ABA's Carolina Cougars and left the NBA's Atlanta Hawks. He went to court challenging the NBA's option clause and won as the a court ruled that he did not have to sit out because the Hawks' offer was ...

15. Chris Henry’s brain injury puts spotlight back on dangers of football
(Sports/Professional)

... University in its ongoing attempts to learn more about the issue. Henry's death was ruled an accident by Charlotte police, but it is still not clear whether Henry jumped or fell from the truck, which ...

16. Anthony Johnson of Linden charged with murder after Albany arrest
(N.J./State)

... series on ongoing disputes that led up to the shooting, said Romankow. The county medical examiners office ruled the cause of death to be homicide. Prosecutor Romankow thanked Det. Frank Leporino and ...

17. N.J. State Trooper Scott Graham's death ruled a suicide
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

People will say why did he kill himself. Perhaps he suffered from undiagnosed clinical depression. That is an insidious disease. It almost claimed my father. Despite this being the 21st century ...

18. N.J. State Trooper Scott Graham's death ruled a suicide
(N.J./State)

... gunshot wound the Middlesex County medical examiner's office has ruled. The State Police announced the finding in the death of Trooper Scott Graham, 35, of Monmouth County late Wednesday afternoon. "The ...

19. Congressional races need greater transparency after Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision
(Opinion/Commentary)

... rendered in the 1990 decision, Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, was unconstitutional. Moreover, the blackout period in McCain-Feingold was ruled an abridgement of free speech, thereby allowing ...

20. World’s use of secret prisons discussed in U.N. report
(World/International)

... several paragraphs to the main forerunner of the current phenomenon of secret detentions: Operation Condor, a coordinated plan among the military governments that ruled Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, ...