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Op-Ed An Open Letter to New Jersey Legislators

Dear New Jersey Legislators: We need your help. New Jersey's public schools are suffering under the weight of the teacher evaluation system we are compelled to implement in September 2013. The timeframe currently required by statute is neither realistic nor fair. Quite frankly, it is creating a crisis where none exists. There is an easy solution at hand. All you need to do is support ...
4 men arrested in Black Friday robbery

Officials say two of the men robbed store employees at gun point, another served as the getaway driver and the fourth posed as a shopper acting as a ...
Murder charge filed in NJ mobile home park slaying

MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- Murder charges have been filed against a neighbor of an elderly man found dead last month at an Ocean County mobile home ...
FBI hunt for ex-Teamster boss Hoffas remains ends

Wednesday, June 19, 2013 and announced the FBI was ending the search operations for the remains of Teamsters union president Jimmy Hoffa who disappeared from a Detroit-area restaurant in 1975. (AP Photo/Carlos ...
Beloved Pennsauken NJ doctor killed in murder-suicide

Patients react to Pennsauken doctor's office shoot...: A 47-year-old Pennsauken doctor was killed in her office by her 58-year-old husband, who then fatally shot himself, authorities ...

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Bigger Than Life [DVD]

Those like myself who have spent time thinking and writing about horror films routinely cite Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho (1960) as a crucial turning point in the genre when horror was firmly relocated from external monsters in safely distant and exotic lands to the heart of t ... ...

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2 convicted in terror plot ask judge to reconsider

CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) -- Two brothers convicted of planning to attack military personnel on installations in New Jersey and elsewhere are asking a judge to vacate their convictions, saying their lawyers made key mistakes in their ...
It’s time for the Annual Crabfest at the Atlantic City Country Club

Atlantic City Country Club . Bring your appetite on Thursday, June 20, for all-you-can-eat steamed Old Bay snow crabs, chicken jambalaya, corn on the cob, local specialties, mandarin summer salad, a chef's dessert display and much more. To wash down all those crabs, there will be happy hour drink pricing and $3 ...
OC Prosecutors special unit nabs 19 on heroin-related offenses

TOMS RIVER — Detectives arrested 19 people in separate incidents in Ocean County this week, charging them with various heroin-related offenses, authorities said Tuesday. The arrests happened in Bayville, Barnegat, Lacey, and Lakewood, according to Ocean County Prosecutor Joseph D. ...
Holmdel looks to hire landscaping company will deal with overgrown properties

HOLMDEL — The house on Candlelight Drive is easy to spot. Weeds and withered patches of grass sit next to immaculately manicured lawns. The township hired an outside vendor to care for overgrown lawns at foreclosed or abandoned homes after complaints from neighbors and negligent property owners poured in, said Mayor Patrick ...
Toms River man admits live streaming sexual abuse of baby boy

TRENTON — A 68-year-old Toms River man has pleaded guilty to live-streaming his sexual assault of a 15-month-old boy, authorities said. Rodford W. Brindley admitted to sexual exploitation of a child Tuesday in Trenton federal court, according to a prepared statement from the U.S. ...

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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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Iran's president-elect was speaking after his historic election victory.

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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". ...