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  • Ocean County ceremony honors police officers killed in the line of duty

    Fallen Heroes Honored: Ocean County held its 22nd Annual Law Enforcement Memorial Day Observance at Police Memorial in Ocean County Park. STAFF VIDEO BY PETER ...

  • Lakewood schools legal firm failed to pay $1 million in taxes

    LAKEWOOD — The law firm representing the distressed Lakewood School District has itself run into financial and legal trouble in recent years, after it failed to pay more than $1 million in federal payroll taxes. The missed payments led to a series of federal tax liens against the firm, Schwartz Simon Edelstein & Celso, based in Whippany, and a public reprimand of its managing director, ...

  • Christie Unveils Buyout Offer to New Jersey Flood Victims

    Some 350 homeowners in the central New Jersey towns of Sayreville and South River whose properties have flooded repeatedly will be eligible to sell their homes in the first phase of a new federally funded buyback program, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie announced on May ...

  • NH gets big sentence for Maine bank robberies

    PORTLAND, Maine (AP) - A New Hampshire man has been sentenced to more than 15 years in federal prison for bank robbery, interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle and interstate transportation of stolen ...

  • New Jersey Law Office Employee Indicted for Possessing Distributing Images of Child Sexual Abuse from Work Computer

    NEWARK, NJ-A registered sex offender employed at a law office in Paterson, New Jersey was indicted today by a federal grand jury in Newark for allegedly possessing and distributing images of child sex abuse over the Internet, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced. Kevin Rease, 33, of Hackettstown, New Jersey, was charged by complaint in April 2013 with one count of distributing images of ...

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Reservoir Dogs

"Reservoir Dogs," the exhilarating debut film of 29-year old writer/director Quentin Tarantino, is a ballet of macho posturing, gun-pointing, and the creative uses of every four-letter word imaginable. Its testosterone level is off every chart, and it happily wallows in its own juvenile love of criminals, violence, and vulgarity. Taking a note from Sam Peckinpah, Tarantino populated his film with ... ...

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  • Toms River man charged with punching dog

    WALL — A Toms River man has been charged with punching a dog while in the township, authorities said. James Andrewski is accused of punching a brown Labrador mix named Cinnamon on Wednesday, said Victor Amato, chief of the Monmouth County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to ...

  • Powerball hits $600 million drawing Saturday night

    Powerball website . Each ticket costs $2, and the six numbers will be drawn at 10:59 p.m. Saturday, and can be watched locally on WABC-TV Channel 7. The odds of winning the Powerball jackpot are about 1 in 175 ...

  • Prosecutor NJ couples deaths a murder-suicide

    Acting Essex County Prosecutor Carolyn Murray said Friday the regional medical examiner reached the conclusion in the deaths of 24-year-old Shanae Howard and 26-year-old Brandon ...

  • Cory Booker has made $1.3M for speeches since 2008

    NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker has made $1.3 million in fees for 90 speeches he's given around the country since 2008, including nearly $500,000 since the start of last year, according to campaign finance filings made ...

  • New Jersey Gay Activists Backpedaling on Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act

    On May 6, Citizens United Against the Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act in New Jersey, also known as Senate Bill 2278, held a press conference to blow the whistle on gay activists who are spreading false and misleading information about the nature of sexual orientation change effort (SOCE) therapy for minors. If passed, this legislation would take away the rights of young people with unwanted ...

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