The explosion in online shopping has led to porch pirates and stoop surfers swiping holiday packages from unsuspecting residents. The cops in one New Jersey city are trying to catch the thieves with some trickery of their own. Police in Jersey City, across the Hudson River from New York, are teaming up with Amazon to […]
MONTVILLE, N.J. (AP) — School officials say a substitute teacher who told first-grade students in New Jersey that Santa Claus isn’t real will not be returning to the school. NJ.com reports Montville Schools Superintendent Rene Rovtar confirmed Tuesday the teacher will no longer work in the district after the incident Thursday at Cedar Hill School. Rovtar declined […]
A South Jersey woman claims a funeral home let her brother’s body “decompose” in their facility before the service was set to take place. Ashkeya Pratt-Williams has filed a lawsuit against Carl Miller Funeral Home in Camden for allowing the body of her recently deceased brother, John Ross Pratt, to decompose in a garage. Pratt died in his home […]
A severe viral outbreak at a New Jersey rehabilitation center for “medically fragile children” has left seven youngsters dead and 12 others sick, the state Health Department said Tuesday. There have been 18 cases of adenovirus at the Wanaque Center for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Haskell, about 30 miles (50 kilometers) northwest of New York, […]
Ronnie Martin just got a whole lot richer, thanks to his fortune cookie. Martin used numbers from a fortune cookie to win the cash in July’s massive $543 million Powerball drawing according to a press release. He drives from his home in Pennsylvania to work in New Jersey every day, and he usually stops at the […]
FLORENCE, N.J. (AP) — A homeless good Samaritan who claims a New Jersey couple mismanaged the $400,000 they raised for him online will receive all of the funds he’s due while the couple is now under criminal investigation. In a joint statement issued late Thursday, GoFundMe and the law firm representing Johnny Bobbitt said he […]
An educator from Newark, New Jersey is doing all that he can to protect his students from becoming victims of bullying. Akbar Cook—the principal of West Side High School—transformed one of the spaces at the school into a laundry room so that students who were teased for wearing dirty garments would be able to wash their […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Two New Jersey radio hosts are receiving heavy criticism for repeatedly referring to the state’s attorney general as “turban man” on air. The Record reports WKXW-FM hosts Dennis Malloy and Judi Franco made the comments Wednesday while discussing Gurbir Grewal’s recent order to suspend marijuana prosecutions in the state. Grewal […]
ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Many sweet rides have pulled up to Atlantic City casinos over the years, but this one was the King. Joe Emanuele, whose vast portfolio at Hard Rock International includes finding and securing music memorabilia, had located Elvis Presley‘s Rolls Royce, bought it at an auction and drove it to the […]
LEICESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts police department says a fingerprint left in a hunk of Play-Doh led them to a shoplifting suspect. Leicester (LESS’-tuhr) police responded to Walmart on Dec. 11 after an employee found several electronic anti-theft devices that had been covered in the malleable clay-like toy in an apparent attempt to neutralize […]
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The winner of a $533 million lottery jackpot wasn’t sure he could believe his eyes. So, when his mother called to say someone in his new home state had won it, his response was: It wasn’t me Forty-seven-year-old Richard Wahl, of Vernon, New Jersey, was introduced Friday during a news conference […]
The state of New Jersey has now joined the ranks of states that have legalized the use of medical marijuana. NJ.com reports that doctors are now allowed to prescribe their patients marijuana for medicinal use. They can use it for problems with anxiety, chronic pain, migraines and Tourette’s Syndrome. These ailments were added under Gov. […]
