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Passengers aboard flight from Hong Kong to New Jersey bound paranoid mans hands feet after poison claims

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Cara McCollum is crowned Miss New Jersey 2013 in Ocean City NJ

As McCollum stood on stage in tears, the out-going Miss New Jersey 2012, Lindsey Petrosh, of Egg Harbor City, first placed the sash and then the crown on McCollum's head as the audience on the pier stood, applauded and cheered. The new Miss New Jersey, McCollum will compete for the title of Miss America 2014 at Boardwalk Hall on Sept. ...
Six Ocean County residents arrested in child porn probe

TOMS RIVER — A month-long high-tech sweep has netted six people on child pornography charges in five Ocean County townships, authorities said. The dual agency investigation made its first arrest in mid-May and its fifth arrest Thursday. Authorities withheld news of the arrests until Monday to maximize the number of suspects caught, Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. Coronato said in a ...
Crash closes Route 530 in South Toms River

SOUTH TOMS RIVER — Route 530 in the borough is closed after a car crashed into a utility pole near Cornell Road earlier this evening, according to the Breaking News Network. The ...

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Lawyers NJ gov overreaches with election schedule

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- Lawyers who argue that Republican Gov. Chris Christie doesn't have the discretion to schedule a special U.S. Senate election three weeks before his own re-election contest filed briefs Monday asking the state Supreme Court to intervene ...
Witness Man who disrupted flight ranted about CIA

Jacques Roizen of New York says the man aboard United Airlines Flight 116 on Monday was clearly unstable and "very paranoid." Roizen says he and other passengers and a flight attendant jumped on the man and subdued him when he started reaching for his pockets about six hours from the flight's destination in Newark, ...
FBI rushes to Newark airport after passenger says poison on plane

NEWARK, New Jersey (Reuters) - A passenger who screamed that he had poison aboard a plane that was headed for New Jersey's Newark airport on Monday was taken into custody by FBI agents when the plane landed, law enforcement officials ...
New Jersey to New York bus delayed 2 hours due to lost driver

Passengers on a NJ Transit bus from Dunellen, N.J., to New York said they were 2 hours late for work because the driver became lost. Aileen Iosso, a passenger on Thursday's No. 113 Express bus, said she boarded the vehicle in Cranford about 7 a.m. expecting to arrive at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York's Manhattan borough by 7:39 a.m., The (Newark, N.J.) Star-Ledger ...
Plane where man claimed wide poisoning lands in NJ

NEWARK, N.J. -; A flight from Hong Kong on which a man claimed everyone was poisoned landed safely Monday at Newark Liberty Airport, and the man was taken off the plane under a heavy police ...

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Our nuclear programmes are completely transparent. But we are ready to show greater transparency and make clear for the whole world that the steps of the Islamic Republic of Iran are completely within international frameworks. The sanctions are unfair, the Iranian people are suffering, and our (nuclear) activities are legal. These sanctions are illegal and only benefit Israel.

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Padma Khanna: From Bollywood dancer to classical dance guru

Padma Khanna, a popular name in Hindi and Bhojpuri films in the 1970s, who currently resides in New Jersey and runs the Indianica Dance Academy, says she never really gave up acting. And she says she still gets offers from Mumbai and is ready to return to celluloid if given a "very special role".

Still remembered for her dance in the song "Husn ke lakhon rang", the actress took life the way it came. "I never really gave it up; however, life brought me to a precipice. I was at a point in life where I had a choice and chose to start anew - to share the art and culture that drives me till this day."

At the young age of 7, she started learning Kathak from Guru Kishen Maharaj of Varanasi. At the age of 12, she started performing on stage to the accompaniment of tabla wizard Pundit Shamta Prasad. She learnt advanced Kathak from Gopi Krishna.

Currently, she is busy with the upcoming 17th annual cultural show of her academy - Chamakte Sitare 2013 - which will be held June 22 at Plainfield High School, New Jersey.

She debuted as an actress in the 1961 Bhojpuri film "Bhaiyya" at the age of 12. Her big break came in 1970 when she played a cabaret dancer in "Johnny Mera Naam". She acted in more than 400 movies of all Indian languages, among them "Saaz Aur Awaaz", "Biwi Aur Makaan", "Baharon Ke Sapne", "Sangharsh", "Dastaan", "Hindustan Ki Kasam", "Rampur Ka Lakshman" and "Saudagar". ...