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NFL 2012 Draft: Socialism at its finest

BY EVAN WEINER

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

THE BUSINESS AND POLITICS OF SPORTS

In 1987, Bill Daughtry and I hosted a one-off cable television show called "Between the Lines." It was a sports business conversation, the kind of dialogue that cable TV, sports talk radio and newspapers don't like touching. SportsChannel New York's Michael Lardner passed on the program because of the content.

As far as Lardner a...

Atlantic City Fugitive Safe Surrender event draws over 3K

13,276 have done so in New Jersey since 2008

BY TOM HESTER SR.

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

A total of 3027 people sought by authorities voluntarily turned themselves in at four-day Fugitive Safe Surrender event that ended Wednesday in Atlantic City. The state attorney general’s office announced Thursday.

The number of people who have turned themselves in at five surrender events in New Jersey since 2008 tot...

New Jerseyans to share over $106.4M in federal health insurance rebates

Checks to arrive by Aug. 1

BY TOM HESTER SR.

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

President Obama’s health care law provides New Jerseyans with up to $106.4 million in health care premium rebates, the White House announced Thursday.

The White House stated a new report from the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 1,473,527 New Jerseyans will receive the rebates. The figure includes 62 percent of enrollees in the ...

Video surfaces of third State Police-escorted exoctic car racing on Garden State Parkway

A video obtained by NBC-TV New York shows a pack of luxury exotic cars racing north on the Garden State Parkway on March 31, the day after some 25 to 30 of the vehicles sped south on the tool road to Atlantic City at over 100 miles per hour while under the escort of at least two marked State Police cars, endangering and enraging other motorists.

In the video, a State Police car is seen speeding in ...

Teen birth rates drop in U.S. but more work to do worldwide

BY SUSIE WILSON

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

SEX MATTERS

"Teenage Birth Rates Continue to Drop." When I read this headline last week, I pumped my fist in the air and let out a big cheer that could be heard around the neighborhood, if only my house didn’t have pretty thick walls.

Why? Because this is most rewarding news for anyone concerned with the serious problems of teenage pregnancies and births, which hav...

Curb prescription drug use with National Take Back Day set for April 28

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

New Jersey’s first Prescription Drug Summit conference was held in Edison on Tuesday with a strong message.

Brian Crowell of the Drug Enforcement Administration in New Jersey called prescription drugs the fastest-growing drug problem in the nation.

“Every 19 minutes somebody is dying from a painkiller overdose,” said Crowell, according to NorthJersey.com. U.S. Attorney ...

N.J. weather forecast: Scattered showers, variable clouds

BY STEVEN DiMARTINO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

A disturbance over the Upper Mid West and a warm front over the Ohio River Valley and southern Mid Atlantic has been producing waves of showers and thunderstorms over Virginia and Maryland this morning. The good news is the bulk of the thunderstorms will remain well to the south of the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan areas. The bad news is that s...

Teen drinking trends: Hand sanitizer joins Listerine, Robitussin

BY ADELE SAMMARCO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

It’s a cheap and easy high for some teenagers.

Drinking hand sanitizer is the latest fad among young and reckless thrill seekers looking for a quick high because it contains more than half ethyl alcohol.

Most liquid sanitizers contain 62 percent ethanol or 120 proof liquid some young people have been using to get inebriated.

The Los Angeles Times reports at least 1...

REVIEW: ‘The Columnist’ lacks detail

John Lithgow stars as mighty scribe Joseph Alsop at Manhattan Theatre Club

BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

BROADWAY REVIEW

Quick – who remembers Joseph Alsop?

I sure don’t, since Alsop retired as a syndicated political columnist back in 1974 when I was still a school boy.

But my elders tell me, and certainly playwright David Auburn assures the audience in his new drama “The Columnist,” that the...

Vermin Supreme brings Rutgers promises of toothbrushes, ponies

BY ANASTASIA MILLICKER

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Democratic primary challenger Vermin Supreme was welcomed, with his 17 and a half inch boot hat, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick today this time with open arms from students celebrating he arrival.

In 1991 during his run for mayor of the Eastern Seaboard, Supreme and his manager, Ed, were arrested on the College Avenue campus for trespassing into th...