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1. 'The Bachelorette' season premiere: Can Emily Maynard finally find love?
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY SAMANTHA NEGRAVAL NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM It’s all about second chances for this season’s Bachelorette, Emily Maynard. You may remember the 26-year-old, hospital event planner and Morgantown, W.V. ...

2. 'Dark Shadows' movie review, trailer: Johnny Depp gets support in Tim Burton dark comedy
(Entertainment/Movies)

... or, apparently, out of town. And that's not to mention the current clan matriarch, Elizabeth Collins Stoddard, a very sharp Michelle Pfeiffer. She's happy for the breath of fresh air, or non-breath ...

3. Report: N.J. taxpayers contributed $30M over 5 years for government-paid leave
(Money/Economy)

... he says have contributed to New Jersey’s budget issues. “You can go into any town or school district, compare city workers to school district employees to county employees, and you’ll find some that ...

4. April Kauffman, Atlantic City radio host, found murdered in her Linwood home
(N.J./State)

... who called 911. Kauffman lived with her husband, Dr. James Kauffman, an Egg Harbor Township-based endocrinologist. Neighbors told KYW-TV in Philadelphia that when Kauffman left her in the early morning ...

5. Implications
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

Health exchanges have implications for benefits, especially cost and utilization. http://www.healthcaretownhall.com/?p=4018 ...

6. Mother’s Day dining: Jersey Shore offers scenic treats for Mom
(Life/Style)

... gift to guests who purchase $150 gift cards between May 1st and May 11th.  Scarduzio’s-Steak-Sushi-Lounge, home to one of the most indulgent brunches in town with a full buffet and made to order options ...

7. 2012 Drama Desk Award nominees: The newbies and the vets
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... midtown. (The Awards will take place Sunday, June 3 at 8 p.m. at Town Hall.) We hustled past pushy photographers and protective publicists to get to some of the brightest stars on Broadway, including newbies ...

8. Controversy as Brazil prepares for 2014 FIFA World Cup and 2016 Summer Olympics
(Sports/Professional)

... have been displaced. South Africa relocated nearly 20,000 people from the Joe Slovo settlement in Cape Town to create rental housing and beautify the city for the 2010 World Cup. For the 2008 Olympics ...

9. Gov. Chris Christie dodges reelection question at Freehold Town Hall
(N.J./State)

BY CAROL ABAYA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Asked whether he will run for reelection as Governor next year, Governor Christie dodged the question at a Town Meeting on Tuesday in Freehold. The question was ...

10. N.J. honeybees need wildflowers and pesticide alternatives to survive
(Sci/Tech/Science updates)

... of New Jersey and Grow It Green Morristown, says some colonies actually starved. While a lot of folks may be more apprehensive than appreciative of honeybees, everyone should be concerned about their ...

11. Christie bashes teachers’ union and tenure at Freehold Town Hall meeting
(N.J./State)

BY CAROL ABAYA NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Governor Chris Christie, talking more than he listened, bashed the teachers’ union and tenure at a Town Hall meeting in Freehold, Monmouth County, on Tuesday.  ...

12. CIA had leg up on al Qaeda underwear bomb plot
(U.S./Nation)

... Over the past decade, AQAP has grown in size and influence in Yemen and has been at war with the government, seizing towns and parcels of tribal territorial regions. "It is our assessment that the threat ...

13. Sacha Baron Cohen's 'The Dictator' storms midtown Manhattan
(Entertainment/Movies)

BY PAULA SCHWARTZ NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM You can call Sacha Baron Cohen many things, including vulgar, hilarious and annoying. But what you can’t call him is lazy. Mr. Cohen has been relentlessly ...

14. Christie administration proposes housing policy changes to help homelessness
(N.J./State)

... to locate developments proximate to areas of high job growth and good schools. In the over 25 years that suburban towns have been confronted with the issue of providing affordable housing, similar proposals ...

15. New Jerseyans give state highest quality of life rating in 9 years
(N.J./State)

... steady, including positive ratings of a New Jerseyan’s town as a place to live (76 percent), the local environment (75 percent), local schools (63 percent) and neighborhood safety (64 percent). Compared ...

16. 'Why I run': New Jersey Marathon participants tell their stories
(Sports/Professional)

BY JERRY MILANI NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Sunday marks the 16th running of The New Jersey Marathon through eight Shore towns.  But the impact of the race extends well beyond the picturesque streets ...

17. Steven Lonegan and Americans for Prosperity are wrong to fight N.J. Residential Foreclosure Transformation Act
(Opinion/Commentary)

... towns do not get credit for affordable housing if they are transition homes like half-way houses for people out of jails or mental institutions. This legislation does not promote that, like he says. Affordable ...

18. REVIEW: ‘Don’t Dress for Dinner' dishes out some mirth
(Entertainment/New York Theater)

... the fluffy comedy. It’s nice to see Kayden finally back again on Broadway, which she last graced as Little Sally in “Urinetown.” Surprisingly not so delightful is the cavernous setting for a 1960s French ...

19. The UFC's and Georges St-Pierre's amazing, viral power
(Sports/Professional)

... all over the outside of the World’s Largest Department store in midtown, GSP had his twitter and Facebook followers, the followers of the UFC, and some help from marketing and The Sports Authority to come ...

20. Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of N.J. goes retail: Moorestown storefront will be state's first
(Health/Healthquest)

...  Their new retail store will open in the East Gate Square Shopping Center on Route 38 in Moorestown. Robert A. Marino, Horizon’s chairman and CEO said that the store will enable customers to take on ...