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1. Bayonne welfare employee pleads guilty to attempted extortion of clients
(N.J./State)

BY ALICIA CRUZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM A Bayonne man working for the Hudson County Department of Family Services pleaded guilty Tuesday to using his position as a food stamp, Medicaid, and cash assistance ...

2. N.J. commuters are the patsies for Christie’s no tax vow
(Opinion/Commentary)

... million who rode over the Bayonne Bridge and the 14 million who hopped on the Outer Bridge Crossing. By the way, all numbers are for those heading eastbound. PATH had an average of 246,000 weekday ...

3. New Jersey's ‘Live Where You Work’ home loan program comes to Camden
(N.J./State)

... program include: Trenton, Jersey City, Woodbridge, Elizabeth, Atlantic City, Rahway, Morristown, Evesham, Neptune Township, Bayonne, Carteret, New Brunswick, Paterson, Glassboro, Orange, Keyport, Newark, ...

4. More New Jersey jobs expected for import-export industry
(Money/Economy)

... including last week’s symposium, as well as a 75-member delegation with China’s Vice Minister of Commerce last fall. The state has invested $1 billion into modernizing the Bayonne Bridge to enable larger ...

5. ‘A Dance with Dragons’ by George R.R. Martin book review
(Entertainment/Movies)

... of Esteros, the Bayonne-born author reinvigorates his tale. By the end of "A Dance with Dragons," though, it seems that like a dead thing come to life, the saga threatens to escape its master. While ...

6. ‘A Dance with Dragons’ is hit novel for summer of 2011
(Entertainment/Movies)

... was born in Bayonne and attended Marist High School, said daily deadlines of a newspaper would have killed him at age 35. “I’ve never been very good with deadlines,” he said to alibi.com. “I have them ...

7. Tennessee Titans' Kenny Britt gets court date during NFL season
(Sports/Professional)

... car wash. Britt, 22, entered a not guilty plea to three counts of disorderly persons, and received a September 20 trial date. The Bayonne native, who attended Rutgers University before joining the 2009 ...

8. EPA to try ‘innovative approach’ to clean up Pedricktown Superfund site
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... a $17.2 million net profit for the first quarter of 2011, is one of New Jersey's leading Superfund polluters, also bearing some responsibility for sites in Bayonne, Hightstown, Sayreville and the seawall ...

9. N.J. Consumer Affairs sting bags 25 unlicensed movers
(Money/Economy)

... of Guttenburg Best Movers of New York, N.Y. Fedaa Elabed, advertising as “Mike” of Cliffside Park Frank Wood Transportation of Bordentown Helping 2 Move of Bayonne House Movers of Jersey City ...

10. N.J. horse racing privatized with deal for Monmouth Park, Meadowlands
(N.J./State)

... facility in Bayonne, which he is also building. NorthJersey.com reported that standardbred and thoroughbred owners both were told by aides to Governor Christie that a deal had to be in place by Tuesday ...

11. Kenny Britt's latest legal woe involved Hoboken narcotics officers
(Sports/Professional)

... the gridiron star in prison for three to five years if he is convicted. Britt, who did not appear at Bayonne Municipal Court on the felony eluding police, hindering apprehension and obstruction charges, ...

12. Tennessee Titans' Kenny Britt continues run-ins with law
(Sports/Professional)

... who did not appear in Bayonne Municipal Court, pleaded guilty via affidavit. He originally faced a felony charge for eluding the officer, hindering apprehension and obstructing governmental function. The ...

13. Alaa El Saadawi of Edison admits he lied on U.S. naturalization form
(N.J./State)

... Immigration and Customs Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Protection, New Jersey State Police, Jersey City Police Department, Bayonne Police Department, Port Authority ...

14. Christie concedes he would consider hiking Hudson River bridge and tunnel tolls to $10
(N.J./State)

... is pushing ahead with billions of dollars in projects including redevelopment of the World Trade Center site, raising the Bayonne Bridge and replacing the Goethals Bridge. The agency, according to the ...

15. 2011 N.J. primary rundown
(N.J./State)

... map during redistricting (i.e. they insisted on sending Bayonne into a district with Newark in order to protect Stack, even though tie-breaker Alan Rosenthal made it clear that he wouldn’t agree to any ...

16. Governor's office releases breakdown of Christie's use of State Police helicopters
(N.J./State)

... - Announcement of Bayonne Bridge improvement in Bayonne 12/3/2010 - Speaker at JP Morgan Executives Conference in New York City 1/5/2011 - Barnegat Bay Bill signing in Waretown 1/12/2011 -Early morning ...

17. Melissa Gorga: A look at newest star on ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... signed her Housewives contract that morning because she was mad that we were on the show." According to NJ.com, Melissa Gorga is a Toms River native. She moved to Bayonne in 2001 and landed a job as ...

18. Private operators to run Meadowlands, Monmouth Park racetracks
(Sports/Professional)

... of an off-track wagering facility in Bayonne. He has also worked with the harness racing industry on a reduced slate of racing days for 2011. In addition, Gural plans to invest more than $90 million ...

19. Review: ‘Game of Thrones’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the TV adaptation of the first book of Bayonne-born George R.R. Martin's gigantic ongoing saga, "A Song of Ice and Fire." Even in an imaginary world, New Jersey is not far away. Although based in Sante ...

20. Neo-Nazi rally at N.J. Statehouse this weekend moves state senators to honor WWII veterans
(N.J./State)

... Oresko of Cresskill and formerly of Bayonne, is the nation's oldest living recipient of the Medal of Honor, earned for heroic action at Tettingen, German on Jan. 23, 1945. "Though the law protects the ...