Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Report: Dueling immigration reform measures in the U.S. Senate could affect future numbers depending on status of U.S. economy. Tell us what you think.
The most recent figures from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security show New Jersey companies have hired more skilled immigrant workers than any other state in the union, a published report said Sunday. The 2012 figures, according to a NJ.com report, reveal New Jersey approved or extended nearly 46,000 H-1B visas for highly skilled employees, easily topping the visa requests of California (40,589), Texas (28,196) or New York (20,140). The visas are good for three years and may be renewed one time. A majority of the immigrants were from India, China, Southeast Asia and Europe. While a bi-partisan group in the U.S. Senate continues work on immigration reform, two Republican senators have introduced opposing legislation concerning the use …
Sunday, February 17, 2013
Other top stories include an unborn baby killed in a car accident and a woman who admitted to a fatal scissor stabbing.
Two top officials of the East Orange Water Commission (EOWC), which serves South Orange, have been charged with manipulating water test results, according to Attorney General Jeffrey S. Chiesa. An expectant mother lost her baby after she was struck while driving on Route 206 in Chester Township Tuesday afternoon, the Morris County Prosecutor's Office said. Manuel Rodriguez, 50, of New Brunswick and Bennie Haynes, 53, of Dayton, a former U.S. Postal Service mail carrier, pleaded guilty for their roles in one of the nation’s largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes, U.S. Attorney Paul Fishman announced on Monday. A West Deptford woman pleaded guilty this week to stabbing a man in the neck with scissors and stealing …
Sunday, February 10, 2013
Other top stories this week include a dentist charged in a multi-million dollar Medicaid scam and a rough week for the commissioner of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority.
A Pine Hill Middle School teacher, soccer coach and former councilman was indicted on 92 counts of child abuse, including sexual assault and child pornography, authorities announced Wednesday. A fifth-grade West Orange teacher was arrested Thursday morning on charges of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to officials at the Essex County Prosecutor's Office. The tragic tale of a 22-year-old aspiring fashion designer who took her own life by jumping from the George Washington Bridge on Wednesday —allegedly a victim of bullying, according to the NY Post — has attracted widespread attention on social networking sites. A dentist from Livingston accused in a scam that bilked more than $5.5M from Medicaid over six…
Sunday, February 3, 2013
Other top stories this week include a man fatally shot by an arrow and an Indiana man who allegedly drove to Mahwah for sex with a 15-year-old he met online.
A Teaneck man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and smothering her 5-year-old daughter after the child witnessed her mother's murder Monday pleaded not guilty at a packed state Superior Court hearing in Hackensack Thursday. A husband and wife, both Fairleigh Dickinson University employees, were found dead Monday morning. Later that day, the deaths were ruled a murder and a suicide, respectively. A Berlin Borough resident is accused of killing another man by shooting him in the stomach with an arrow. An Indiana man is in prison Wednesday charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a minor after he drove more than 10 hours to Mahwah to have sexual relations with a 15-year-old township girl he met online, Police …
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Alleged armed kidnapping of 71-year-old woman, firefighter admits to arson and a Newark teen allegedly points shotgun at a police officer also among top headlines.
Tyrik S. Haynes, 19, of Middletown, is being held at the county jail on $1 million bail after being charged with first-degree attempted murder and weapons offenses by the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office. Haynes is accused of stabbing a Keansburg woman 12 times at the Middletown Bed, Bath and Beyond on Thursday. A reputed local mobster known as "Papa Smurf" could face nearly two centuries in prison after he was charged Wednesday with conspiring to grab control of the waste management industry in New York and New Jersey. The mob-targeted federal sweep netted a dozen others. Ramsey resident Carmine Franco, 77, is a known associate of the Genovese Crime Family, federal law enforcement officials said. Two East Rutherford residents are …
Friday, January 18, 2013
“To educate a person in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” -Theodore Roosevelt
School is about teaching more than English, math and science. It is also about building character, modeling behavior and nurturing all children. “What we do today and what we do after today honors the children of Newtown, but more importantly it honors the children in our schools today,” said Dr. Maurice Elias, director of clinical training at the Rutgers University Department of Psychology, a nationally recognized expert in community and preventive psychology and school intervention. Elias was the keynote speaker at a New Jersey School Boards Association forum, “Safe and Secure Schools: Perspectives after Newtown,” at The College of New Jersey on Friday morning. Hundreds of parents, educators, school board members and law enforcement …
Sunday, January 13, 2013
Other top stories include a Summit man charged with sexually assaulting a 'physically and mentally incapacitated' woman and parents plead guilty to giving their teething baby heroin.
Deptford police officer James Stuart, 29, is now facing first-degree murder charges after the man he allegedly shot in the head was pulled off life support. Gloucester County prosecutors said the incident occurred in the officer's home and "was not random," but have released few details of the shooting. Dr. Roberto Rivera had the materials and know-how to create homemade bombs and automatic weapons, the attorney general's office said Wednesday. Authorities say a November raid yielded nitric acid, thermite, a cache of weapons, and how-to manuals in folders marked "Revolution" and "Anarchism." Rivera has been connected to the 'Occupy' movement. Summit's Cyrus Fakroddin, best known as the owner of pizza-devouring goat Cocoa, was charged …
Sunday, December 9, 2012
Other top stories this week include a popular Red Bank Regional High basketball player who collapsed during a game and died and a youth soccer coach contrite over allegedly embezzling nearly $60,000 in league funds.
A North Caldwell man was arrested Wednesday morning and charged with transporting a PVC pipe stuffed with explosives without a permit, according to U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman. According to the complaint, Anthony Nicholas Gallo, 20, traveled into Pennsylvania on Jan. 8, 2012 with a pipe containing potassium chlorate and magnesium with the plan of causing an explosion. A nursing home worker and her friend accused of posting a Facebook photo of an elderly patient's genitalia were indicted Monday, the Attorney General's office announced. Greenleaf Compassion Center in Montclair, the first medical marijuana dispensary in New Jersey, opened on Dec. 6. A Red Bank Regional basketball player collapsed and died after being rushed to the hospital…
Sunday, December 2, 2012
Other top stories this week include a New Jersey marine killed in Afghanistan, five heroic Freehold Borough police officers and a Toms River teacher charged with having sexual contact with a student.
A Toms River babysitter is being held on $250,000 bail with no 10 percent option after being charged with the murder of a 14-month-old child, the Monmouth County Prosecutor's Office said Tuesday. A Blackwood man was arrested Wednesday along with his son and daughter as conspirators in a drug ring that distributed multi-kilogram quantities of Colombian cocaine, as well as other narcotics, according to authorities. An emergency room worker at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro was arrested on Saturday and charged with forcing a female patient to improperly touch him, and in a separate incident, was charged with sexually assaulting a female patient. Marine Cpl. Christopher M. Monahan Jr., 25, was killed on Nov. 26, …
Sunday, November 18, 2012
State senator's lawsuit against hometown and car crash death on Garden State Parkway also make headlines.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012
Bomb-Making Materials Found in Home of 'Occupy Wall Street' Activist Assault rifles and a large quantity of materials used to make bombs were found in the Ridgewood home of Roberto Rivera, 60, Saturday. Rivera, a New York doctor, was charged with recklessly creating a risk of widespread injury or damage. FBI agents said he was active in the Occupy Wall Street movement. Heroin Ring Role Leads to 30-Year Sentence for Elizabeth Man Johnel Dunlap, 41, was sentenced to 30 years in state prison for operating a drug trafficking ring in which $400,000 worth of heroin was planned to be distributed. State Senator Sues West Deptford Over 'Unlawful Quid Pro Quo' State Sen. Stephen M. Sweeney is suing his hometown municipality over what he labeled an …
MrDoughnut
5:15 pm on Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Lets not forget many things were predicted at the Woodbridge Township Council Meetings by the public during the public portion of the meetings. Luckly I taped many of the meetings in the mid 1990's so all is not lost however there are so many tapes holding several hours it is hard to pin point any one segment. How many people can say something is going on before even the government can figure it … more ›