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1. Anne Milgram: Victims and New Jersey deserve a better law to combat witness intimidation
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY ANNE MILGRAM COMMENTARY Witness intimidation is a pervasive threat to public safety. It erodes public confidence in the ability of law enforcement to protect its citizens. It chills witnesses ...

2. N.J. Senate postpones vote on same sex marriage bill
(N.J./State)

... hearings in which either of us has ever participated, the committee spent seven (over eight) hours hearing from scores of New Jerseyans. We had to turn away another 150 witnesses for want of time. In ...

3. Newark's Mumeen Starks gets life for murder of Irvington's Theo Stewart
(N.J./State)

... a short time later. Four days later, Newark Police arrested Starks for an unrelated aggravated assault and eluding offense. During his murder trial, three witnesses testified that Starks fatally shot ...

4. Psychiatrist warns of more internal violence without radical changes in soldier care
(U.S./Nation)

... given what I've witnessed and personally experienced, I think that, beyond the immediate issue of my firing and my patients' care, it's vital that these flaws be named and examined." IPS NEWS AGENCY  ...

5. Darien Weston gets life plus 35 years in prison for the murder of a Jehovah Witness
(N.J./State)

Darien Weston, 19, of Irvington, was sentenced Friday by Essex County Superior Court Judge Michael Ravin to life plus 35 years in prison for carjacking and murdering a Jehovah Witness in Newark two years ...

6. Tiger Woods foolishly following lawyer/agent PR playbook
(Opinion/Commentary)

... in his view at least, to stonewall the cops and the media, hope the entire episode blows over, and the product endorsement contracts remain solid. There are but two witnesses – Woods and his wife – to ...

7. Retired U.S. auto worker John Demjanjuk goes on trial for Nazi-era war crimes
(World/International)

... at the Sobibor camp. One of the court witnesses, camp survivor Thomas Blatt, spoke to reporters as he arrived at the courthouse. Blatt said he would tell the court how things were at the camp. He said ...

8. The Jersey Devil makes an appearance in Asbury Park
(Entertainment/Movies)

... in the Barrens to test cannonballs at a firing range, where he allegedly witnessed a strange, pale white creature winging overhead. Using cannon fire, Decatur purportedly punctured the wing membrane of ...

9. Edelmiro Gonzalez kills son, shoots family in Paterson
(N.J./State)

... and killed by an off-duty police officer in Paterson Saturday morning, city police said. Police and witnesses said Johanna Gonzalez, 31, was dropping her sons Adrian and Edryn off at their grandmother's ...

10. Hezbollah gunrunners caught in New Jersey's backyard
(U.S./Nation)

... a related criminal complaint that was also unsealed two days ago, Moussa Ali Hamdan began purchasing purportedly stolen cellular telephones from a cooperating witness acting as an agent of the government ...

11. Coca-Cola in spotlight for negative treatment of workers and environment
(U.S./Nation)

... DC. Groups like Witness for Peace and School of the Americas Watch were also represented. Martha Giraldo, 31, of Colombia, charged Coca-Cola's bottling plants with "using temp [temporary] workers on ...

12. Acquitted of murder earlier this year, Asher Conn of Roselle charged with attempted murder
(N.J./State)

... with the November 24, 2006 shooting death of Maurice Barkley in Roselle, but after a lengthy trial, a jury found him not guilty of the murder. This came after several witnesses the trial recanted previous ...

13. Afrobeat music drives Broadway’s new 'Fela!'
(Entertainment/Movies)

Songs by rebel musician Fela Anikulapo-Kuti tune up a wild bio-show BY MICHAEL SOMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM BROADWAY REVIEW Broadway has never before witnessed a musical quite like "Fela!" — an ...

14. Watch out! The IRS plans to turn up heat and go after tax cheats
(Money/Economy)

... witnessing is an increase in use of 'bounty hunters' to go after people the IRS deems as being tax evaders or lawbreakers," warns Baker. Although IRS officials indicated that the purpose of the limited ...

15. ‘Wintuk’ returns to Madison Square Garden for holidays
(Entertainment/Movies)

... upon the audience who seemed to be as pleased by that effect as anything else they witnessed. Anyone escorting youngsters to "Wintuk" should be warned that the MSG concession prices, while not as outrageous ...

16. As usual Steven Goldstein is lying
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... domain. He then manipulated, with his gay friend Frank Vespa Papaleo, the most despicable travesty of a commission where he choreographed the commissioners, the witnesses and the so called experts. This ...

17. Abdul “Weem” Mitchell wanted for allegedly punching man to death
(N.J./State)

... the next day at University Hospital and the medical examiner ruled the cause of death as blunt force trauma, according to the prosecutor's office. Witnesses told investigators an argument over ...

18. ‘America’s Most Wanted’ pitching in to help capture fugitive Luqman Abdullah
(N.J./State)

... and where he is believed to have traveled immediately after his escape. When no leads materialized there, it appeared that Abdullah returned to the Newark area, where various witnesses and informants ...

19. Eugene Harvey looks to end Seton Hall career a winner
(Sports/Professional)

... like he's never witnessed before. "Eugene, I know it's really early and we haven't played a game yet, but this is the best I've ever seen him play on a consistent basis," said Gonzalez. "I think he knows ...

20. Tom Hanks opens ‘Beyond All Boundaries’ at expanded National World War II Museum
(Entertainment/Movies)

... former U.S. Marine Bert Stolier, who witnessed the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. "It was two hours of bombings, torpedo runs, ships exploding, ships sinking, sailors and marines floating in the water," ...