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1. Rutgers center Gregory Echenique to transfer
(Sports/Professional)

... points per game and 7.7 rebounds per game in seven games this season before being ruled out for the year due to an eye injury. The native of Venezuela was the 50th ranked recruit in the class of 2008 ...

2. NFC Wild Card Preview: Philadelphia Eagles at Dallas Cowboys
(Sports/Professional)

... media and labeled a choker. But he has shown great resilience and rebounded, positioning his team for a possible Super Bowl run. That being said, will the Cowboys have enough to beat a team that ...

3. AFC Wild Card Preview: New York Jets at Cincinnati Bengals
(Sports/Professional)

... Bengals lost three of their last four going into the playoffs, with their only win coming against the non-playoff-bound Chiefs. Also, the Jets sneakily have the best rush offense in the entire NFL. This ...

4. Gangster spoof ‘Bugsy Malone Jr.’ comes to Mercer County Community College
(Entertainment/Movies)

Song, dance and silliness abound as a cast of talented young actors play all the roles in the Kelsey Players' adaptation of "Bugsy Malone Jr." This spoof of 1920s gangster films comes to Mercer County ...

5. Technology on the slopes: the iPhone is turning snowsports enthusiasts into iSkiers
(Sports/Professional)

... chatting on a cell phone can be annoying during a gondola ride, the omnipresent device has become an invaluable emergency link. Two skiers who ducked out of bounds at Steamboat last January were found ...

6. Pinelands preservation protects nature and all who rely on it
(Opinion/Commentary)

BY JOHN C. STOKES COMMENTARY When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. Naturalist ...

7. Manufacturing up and real estate down for U.S. economy
(Money/Economy)

... appear to signal that overall business activity in the United States is on the rebound after the longest and deepest economic recession since World War II. But Tuesday's economic data was not uniformly ...

8. Obama faults U.S. intelligence community for not stopping Christmas Day terrorist attack
(U.S./Nation)

BY PAULA WOLFSON VOA NEWS WHITE HOUSE — U.S. President Barack Obama says the United States had enough information to uncover the plot to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Christmas Day, but failed ...

9. Seton Hall (9-4, 0-2) at No. 13 Connecticut (10-3, 1-1)
(Sports/Professional)

... were led by Jeremy Hazell with 24 points. Hazell is second in the BIG EAST in scoring with 23.3 points per game while sophomore Herb Pope leads the conference with 11.7 rebounds per game. The Pirates ...

10. New Jersey transportation: Taking a look at the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(N.J./State)

... than 10-cent gas tax increase. In existing funds. VMT Rebound? When the economic climate slightly improved in the second half of 2009, motorists returned to the road, recording 2,459 billion Vehicle ...

11. Hillary Clinton says problems in Yemen threaten global security
(World/International)

... up a U.S. bound airliner on December 25. Britain and the United States are supporting counter-terrorism operations in Yemen and London is hosting a conference on the country at the end of the month. ...

12. N.J. Assembly panel approves bill requiring analysis of tax breaks granted by state
(N.J./State)

... how much the state spends through its tax code. Although this bill won’t solve the state’s budget problems, it is bound to lead to better choices, more appropriate spending and more accountability.” “The ...

13. losing FOOD NETWORK AND HGTV - A DISGRACE!!!
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

for all of the money Cablevision charges for all of the "extras" ??? ....how about taking into consideration your customers??? my mother, is 90 years old, housebound in the winter weather and only watches ...

14. Rutgers success tied to Hamady N’diaye and Mike Rosario
(Sports/Professional)

... three blocks and two rebounds and for the second straight game, four fouls. Understandably he was upset. "It's hard, it's hard," N'diaye said. "Getting into foul trouble, I gotta learn how to deal ...

15. Preview: New York Giants at Minnesota Vikings
(Sports/Professional)

... to move up the draft board so they can grab Tennessee stud safety Eric Berry, they have one more game, against the playoff-bound Minnesota Vikings (11-4). The Minnesota Vikings are suffering a collective ...

16. Debate begins over use of full body scanners at U.S. airports
(U.S./Nation)

... is a bomb on the body," said Hawley. Dutch officials have ordered detailed, full body scans of all U.S.-bound air travelers. Terrorism expert M.J. Gohel of the London-based Asia Pacific Foundation ...

17. Seton Hall not satisfied with losing close games to ranked teams
(Sports/Professional)

... get over the hump," he said. "We didn't get the stop, we didn't get the rebound, we didn't get the free throws. It's just us. When we do those things we'll be fine." By now "when" has become the operative ...

18. Herb Pope to try filling leadership vacuum plaguing Seton Hall
(Sports/Professional)

... that, he made some strides to appoint a guy like that. So now I got to try to accept my role and try to step up more so, make some more free throws, make some bigger rebounds, be more of an enforcer, lead ...

19. Helping the needy: Santa’s sleigh delivered joy to 2,000 in Asbury Park community
(Life/Style)

... his jolly ole self. An abundance of volunteers served food and helped Santa distribute his goodies. They also packed an estimated 1,000 to-go dinners that were delivered to homebound residents. In ...

20. President Obama points to 'systemic failure' for allowing Christmas Day attack
(U.S./Nation)

... plot. His latest statement focused on the need to correct flaws in the aviation security system that allowed the would-be bomber to board the Detroit-bound flight in the first place. Mr. Obama again ...