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1. Connecticut shooting carried out by worker who allegedly experienced racial harassment
(U.S./Nation)

... to resign, had been employed at Hartford Distributors "for a couple of years" and was facing a disciplinary hearing. After the shooting stopped, officers searching the building found the body of Thornton. ...

2. Summertime is no time to go on a diet
(Life/Style)

... money right out the door). These days a diet demands a starving-and-exercise regimen that maybe offers up two negligible pounds. And really, when was the last time someone stopped you on the street and ...

3. Charges upgraded to murder for teens involved in Summit beating death of Abelino Mazariego
(N.J./State)

... to commit robbery and robbery and aggravated assault. According to the investigation, on July 17, Mazariego had finished work at a local restaurant, stopped at a few local businesses and then settled ...

4. There was a time when the Canadian Football League was a serious threat to the NFL
(Sports/Professional)

...  When the CFL stopped competing, the owners had another problem. In 1956, an early form of the National Football League Players Association formed and started pushing for a minimum salary of $5,000 and ...

5. Survey finds use of front seat belts continues to rise in N.J.
(N.J./State)

... police to issue summonses to unbuckled back seat occupants, 18 years of age and older, when the vehicle they are riding in is stopped for another violation. Adult passengers who fail to buckle up when ...

6. N.J. woman jumps on hood but fails to stop car thief
(N.J./State)

... near the Holland Tunnel Saturday afternoon, The Jersey Journal reported. Police say the brave young woman stopped at a gas station on 18th Street and Jersey Avenue shortly before 3 p.m. and began pumping ...

7. Anger follows Rutgers’ decision not to grow marijuana
(Health/Healthquest)

... has stopped short, especially when the school could have been on the cutting edge of the issue," Gusciora said. "Perhaps if they used Seton Hall lawyers they would have reached a more favorable result." ...

8. Police find car involved in hit and run death of Newark 5-year-old girl
(N.J./State)

... "flying" down Columbia Avenue when it hit Vega, and the driver never stopped. VIDEO ABC News The Mercedes, which was unoccupied when it was found, was said to have been carrying at least four people ...

9. Woman arrested for stopping traffic and flashing motorists on Garden State Parkway
(N.J./State)

... stopped her car near exit 109, mile marker 109.5 and parked the car horizontally across three northbound lanes, stepped out of her car and began exposing herself to other drivers. As officers approached ...

10. Navigating New Jersey’s interstates
(Life/Style)

... to ponder this while waiting behind an endless line of cars en-route to my daughter's school. We were all stopped in our tracks, idling on a thin lamina of wet ice, hoping the air temperature would climb ...

11. Gay marriage debate continues in New Jersey
(N.J./State)

... did not like being describe as prejudiced. Brown told The Star-Ledger the tour stopped in Trenton because he fears "judicial activism'' by the Supreme Court. "What if Martin Luther King Jr. would have ...

12. ‘Law and Order’ actor Tracy Marrow (Ice-T) arrested in NYC
(Entertainment/Movies)

... was stopped by the NYPD while driving his 2009 Cadillac near West 40th Street and 11th Avenue on Tuesday when officers noticed he was not wearing a seat belt. Upon running a check on Marrow's license, ...

13. Merging with Cherry Hill could save Merchantville
(Opinion/Commentary)

... value of a possible merger be so threatening that it should be stopped? Is there no value in weighing the benefits and downsides of connecting with Cherry Hill? Cherry Hill has given all indications ...

14. Leasing N.J. parks to private companies would be a violation of the public trust
(Opinion/Commentary)

... where Washington's army stopped turned into a fast food shop. There is low confidence that the state government can adequately manage these leases. An audit released this month by the nonpartisan Office ...

15. Former NJ Transit cop Barrington Williams sentenced to 5 years in prison
(N.J./State)

... Police detectives arrested Williams on July 10, 2008, when they stopped his vehicle in Irvington. They executed a search warrant for the vehicle and found approximately 3.7 pounds of marijuana in five ...

16. Rodney Tanzymore guilty of false report of gunmen at N.J. rest stop
(N.J./State)

... traffic stop ignited questions as to whether the force actually had stopped racial profiling. From early in the subsequent investigation, though, authorities suspected the phony 911 call might have come ...

17. Steve Jobs argues Apple’s iPhone 4 not only smart phone with reception problems
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... 200 — had called Apple support hotlines to complain about antenna or reception issues. "To customers that are having problems, I apologize to them," said Jobs, though he stopped short of saying that ...

18. Car crash during sex leads to fake carjacking story by woman
(N.J./State)

... 2003 Kia Sorento when she supposedly stopped to ask him for directions. Blasse said she broke her arm and hurt her head in the fall, according to police. During the interview, police received a report ...

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

... legally bound to do by ANY law) then they should allow their citizens to exercise their FUNDAMENTAL HUMAN RIGHT of self-defense. Buy gun. Train with it. Only dial 911 AFTER the "bad guy" has been stopped. ...

20. N.J. drivers’ license suspensions addressed by state Supreme Court
(N.J./State)

... driving, improperly displaying a license plate and obstruction of the windshield. According to a report in the Daily Record, Moran was stopped at 2 a.m. on Aug. 3, 2007, after she passed two vehicles while ...