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Ex-Perth Amboy official Vas to begin trial for alleged illegal campaign...
PERTH AMBOY — During his decades in politics, Joseph Vas rarely ducked a fight. The ex-Democratic power broker began his 18-year run as mayor of Perth Amboy in 1990 after a scrappy recall effort to...
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Pa. woman found dead in Camden lot was not victim of foul play, officials say
CAMDEN — Autopsy results can't determine how a young mother from Pennsylvania died in an empty lot in Camden. The medical examiner says Jenna Lord's body sustained significant decay while exposed to...
View ArticleJury selection begins for Paterson man accused of assaulting, impregnating...
PATERSON — Jury selection began today for the trial of Aswad Ayinde, accused of raping five of his daughters and impregnating one, according to a report on NorthJersey.com Ayinde, who prosecutors say...
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N.J. man charged with throwing his baby off bridge pleads not guilty
Abdur-Raheem allegedly drove to the Driscoll Bridge in Woodbridge where he threw or dropped his infant daughter into the river Amanda Brown/The Star-LedgerShamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem appeared before...
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Trial for alleged ringleader of Operation Stop Payment may be delayed after...
SOMERSET COUNTY — The trial for an alleged family-run racketeering, money laundering and conspiracy scam that spanned multiple states could be delayed, if the attorney for the alleged ringleader is...
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Ex-Jersey City councilman pleads guilty in FBI corruption sting
JERSEY CITY — Mariano Vega Jr., the former president of the city council in Jersey City, admitted in federal court in Newark today that he accepted $30,000 in bribes from an FBI informant, marking the...
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South Jersey woman admits killing newborn found in plastic bag
GALLOWAY TOWNSHIP — A southern New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in the death of her newborn daughter whose body was found in a plastic bag in the bathroom of the woman's...
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N.J. officials arrest more than 1,000 fugitives, parole absconders in summer...
TRENTON — The hunt for fugitives conjures images of police officers searching the shadows for those who want to stay hidden. But when New Jersey law enforcement officials recently began rounding up...
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N.J. Supreme Court considers allowing man to sue ex-state senator over...
HUDSON COUNTY — A man whose expunged drug conviction wound up on Hudson County campaign fliers is asking the state Supreme Court to let him sue for defamation. The case is tricky because while the...
View ArticleDutch police arrest, fine intoxicated pilot from N.J.
AMSTERDAM — Dutch police say they have arrested and fined an intoxicated American pilot who was preparing to take off with a passenger jet. The National Police Corps has not identified the pilot or...
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Sentencing postponed for Millburn teen who killed South Orange man while...
SOUTH ORANGE — The sentencing of a Millburn teenager who admitted to driving drunk in the death of a South Orange man was postponed today, following a disagreement over terms of the plea deal worked...
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N.J. man gets probation for falsifying credentials to work in military bases
Donald Breese oversaw sensitive areas of safety, explosive operations, passed himself off as a combat veteran, trained to disarm and dispose of bombs Robert Sciarrino/The Star-LedgerDonald Breese,...
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Grand jury indicts ex-Chatham church custodian accused of killing priest
CHATHAM BOROUGH — A Morris County grand jury today handed up a revised indictment against the former custodian of a Chatham church accused of murdering a parish priest. The superseding indictment is...
View ArticleFlorida man accused of running $880M Ponzi scheme faces N.J. plea hearing
A Florida man accused of running a $880 million Ponzi scheme faces a plea agreement hearing in New Jersey today. Nevin Shapiro is accused of using Florida-based company Capitol Investments USA Inc. to...
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Lawyer's surgery could hold up trial of family charged with running forgery scam
SOMERSET COUNTY — More than two years after a family was accused of running an interstate payroll and forgery scam that reaped more than $600,000, they were finally slated to be tried Oct. 4 in...
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East Orange man is stabbed outside Bloomfield restaurant
BLOOMFIELD — An altercation outside a Bloomfield restaurant Tuesday morning left a 25-year-old East Orange man with several stab wounds, according to a report on NorthJersey.com. The stabbing...
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Opening arguments scheduled in corruption trial for ex-Perth Amboy mayor
PERTH AMBOY — Lawyers will present opening arguments Wednesday in the federal corruption trial of former Assemblyman and Perth Amboy Mayor Joseph Vas who faces charges of accepting illegal campaign...
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Five men accused of fatally beating N.J. inmate appear in court
CLINTON TOWNSHIP — The five men who are accused of fatally beating a fellow inmate at Mountainview Youth Correctional Facility last month made their first appearances this morning in state Superior...
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Bayonne man admits lying about knowledge of two N.J. men accused in terror plot
BAYONNE — In a proceeding the U.S. Attorney’s office did not disclose until it was over, a Bayonne man connected with two alleged wannabe jihadists pleaded guilty yesterday to lying to investigators....
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Trial begins in Camden for man who allegedly attacked websites that unveiled...
Jury selection began in Camden today in the trial of a computer programmer charged with trying to cripple websites that published the bizarre tale of him being duped by a vigilante group into leaving...
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