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NEW YORK (AP) — When dozens of former police officers and firefighters sought disability benefits, advisers provided a playbook for faking mental illness — how to describe daily routines of languishing dysfunction, flunk simple concentration tests convincingly, dress down for benefits interviews, even how to link their supposed symptoms to 9/11, prosecutors say. The decades-long […]
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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday apologized to his constituents and said he was “embarrassed and humiliated” by his staff but had no idea his aides may have closed highway lanes to exact political retribution. Christie also said he was firing Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, “because she lied to […]
Half of all Black males in the United States have been behind bars by age 23, according to a new study published by academic journal…
CINCINNATI (AP) — Macy’s Inc. is cutting 2,500 jobs as part of a reorganization to sustain its profitability. The announcement comes on the heels of a strong holiday shopping season for the department store chain. Macy’s said Wednesday that it will reassign or transfer some workers and add some positions, leaving its workforce level at […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio says the nation needs a new reform agenda to help the poorest Americans find work and help their families climb out of poverty. The Florida Republican says in a speech Wednesday that money from the federal government to address poverty should be shifted to the states and Congress should […]
BRISTOL, Conn. (AP) — Police believe former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez was in an SUV when someone inside shot two people to death in Boston in 2012, according to a search warrant filed in Connecticut. The warrant does not indicate who investigators believe pulled the trigger or suggest a motive in the shooting of […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Emails and text messages released Wednesday link a top aide to Gov. Chris Christie to traffic jams in a New Jersey town in September that appear to have been engineered as political payback against its mayor. “Time for some traffic problems in Fort Lee,” Christie aide Bridget Anne Kelly wrote in […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House is bristling over former Defense Secretary Robert Gates‘ new memoir accusing President Barack Obama of showing too little enthusiasm for the U.S. war mission in Afghanistan and sharply criticizing Vice President Joe Biden’s foreign policy instincts. In a book set for release next week by the publishing house Knopf, […]
LONDON, Ohio (AP) — A man stopped for speeding in Ohio was charged with illegally making or possessing an explosive device after nearly 50 bombs and four guns were found in his vehicle. Andrew Scott Boguslawski, 43, was arrested late New Year’s Day on Interstate 70 west of Columbus. Investigators found two pistols, two rifles, […]
I guess people will never learn from “A Christmas Story.” A 12-year-old New Hampshire girl Maddie Gilmartin got her tongue stuck to a pole for 15 minutes after she licked the pole during a blizzard. Her parents tried to pour hot water on her tongue to remove it from the pole but after that failed, […]
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man has sued the National Football League, accusing it of pricing average football fans out of Super Bowl XLVIII. Josh Finkelman, of New Brunswick, says the NFL only made 1 percent of all tickets available to the public for purchase at face value. He says that means most […]
