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1. Taylor Swift invites leukemia fighter to Country Music Awards as date
(Entertainment/Movies)

... event in his life for his display of courage and says nothing brightens Kevin's day more than Taylor Swift, who spent summers at the New Jersey shore in her "younger" years. According to Yahoo! Music, ...

2. Giant Maine lobster 'Rocky' escapes usual fate
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Although the 27-pound lobster caught off Maine last week was named “Rocky,” the Crustacean could more aptly have been named “Lucky.” He wasn’t dissected, eaten ...

3. N.Y. Rangers find division rival in Pittsburgh Penguins
(Sports/Professional)

... free agents this summer). With a team that has not conceded more than four goals in any game this season, has the soon-to-be 2012 Vezina winning goaltender, and is led by a coach who already has won ...

4. NBA 2012 All-Star Game in Orlando: Amnesia, arena schemes and handouts for billionaires
(Sports/Professional)

... and just took a bit of a hiatus (a summer league, pre-season and 16 game vacation). The writers will swoon over the great arena and ask why does Dwight Howard want to leave a good team and that great arena? ...

5. Oscars: We want Sacha Baron Cohen, not ‘The Dictator’
(Entertainment/Movies)

... the upcoming summer comedy, ‘The Dictator.’ There has been no confirmation whether Cohen will follow through with the alleged plans, but a spokesperson with the Academy told CNN that it “would love to ...

6. N.Y. Knicks' Jeremy Lin goes Tim Tebow: Opens up about Christianity, Bible
(Sports/Professional)

... me to play for his summer league team," Lin told the Post. After playing in the Summer League, Lin was dropped by two teams within a year before landing with the Knicks. According to the Herald, it ...

7. Cost of U.S. gas gallon could spike as Iran cuts oil exports
(World/International)

BY ANGELA DAIDONE NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Here we go again, and it’s not even summer. Gas prices are predicted to rise – perhaps even closing in on the $5 per gallon mark – in part because Iran cut ...

8. Activist Elizabeth Smart begins married life in Hawaii
(U.S./Nation)

... and reception were attended by family members. The couple announced their engagement last month. According to People magazine, the wedding was originally planned for this summer, but the date was changed ...

9. Sex in the news: Quanitta Underwood gets tip of the hat, Rick Santorum wag of the finger
(Life/Style)

... this trauma to become a successful lightweight boxer and possible candidate for a gold medal at next summer’s Olympics. The story shows that the “abuse is still an albatross” around her neck, even as the ...

10. Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney and sports spending: From Olympics to the WWF
(Sports/Professional)

...  The whole business of the International Olympic Committee and the awarding of either a winter or summer festival is at best an inexact science to be polite. But Romney was not involved in the Salt Lake ...

11. N.J. Devils at Montreal Canadiens preview: Kovy and crew are playoff 'villains'
(Sports/Professional)

... happen again this summer with Dwight Howard. When Kovy signed that monster deal with New Jersey, it was a dream come true for the hockey media. The selfish goalscorer who let his free agency become a national ...

12. Dave Matthews Band plans N.J. stops on 2012 summer tour
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY BOB HOLT NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM The biggest ticket-selling band of the past decade, the Dave Matthews Band, will be returning to New Jersey during their first summer tour since 2010. The tour kicks ...

13. Apple OS X Mountain Lion features iCloud, Twitter, AirPlay Mirroring, and more
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... for download in late summer of 2012.  ...

14. Seton Hall's Brandon Mobley more effective after overcoming re-injury fears
(Sports/Professional)

... put the start to his college career on hold. He had a perpetual fear that the shoulder would pop out just like it did in the Jersey Shore Basketball League over the summer. So the first thing Mobley ...

15. Golf come ons seduce the winter weary
(Opinion/Commentary)

... about this assignment. I said something about how here are about 26 million golfers in the United States, most of them who are playing on New Jersey courses at any one time in the summer. And at this time ...

16. 2012 N.J. Hall of Fame inductees include Michael Douglas and Christopher Reeves
(N.J./State)

BY PAT SUMMERS NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM With the votes counted, 11 high-achieving people connected with New Jersey will be inducted into the state’s Hall of Fame this spring. They represent the 2012 “class” ...

17. Christie turning Port Authority into 'Patronage' Authority
(Opinion/Commentary)

... summer as house cleaners and baby sitters, all in order to absorb the blows from the economic recession. Proving even further that Christie is using the PA as his personal patronage mill is a document ...

18. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Would be So Proud
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

... two summers (she "had no skills" a member of the press staff recalled. "She couldn't type.") How many errors of fact can one historian make in one paragraph? In order... Exner's story has been ...

19. JFK intern Mimi Alford, a Rumson, N.J. native, describes affair in graphic detail
(U.S./Nation)

... said Alford. “Everyone was very friendly, then we all dried off and went back to work.” RELATED White House intern Mimi Alford: JFK made his move in summer '62 That same day she received another ...

20. Obama relieves New Jersey of No Child Left Behind education standards
(N.J./State)

... schools will be identified during the summer, and interventions will begin in the 2012-13 school year: Priority Schools: The NJDOE will identify the lowest-performing five percent of Title I schools ...