Saturday, November 17, 2012
West Orange Council president arrested for DWI, Bloomfield man killed in Parkway crash.
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Saturday, November 17, 2012
The West Orange Police Department is investigating an attempted luring, which happened Thursday morning at around 8 a.m. Police responded to the corner of Valley Road and Pillot Place where multiple teenage girls, waiting for the bus to West Orange High School, were approached by a man, according to a West Orange Police Department desk sergeant. A student told police the man, driving a silver convertible, stopped at the bus stop and asked the students to come into the car. The membership of the Newark Teachers Union Wednesday night voted to accept a new contract that will make the city the first school district in the state to offer teachers bonus pay based on student performance. A West Orange council member was arrested in Verona and …
Saturday, November 10, 2012
Homicide in West Orange, Newark weapon, drug arrest, Belleville church steeple braced.
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Saturday, November 10, 2012
Authorities are investigating a bank robbery Tuesday at the Valley National Bank on Bloomfield Avenue. Just before 1 p.m. Tuesday, the suspect entered the bank at 22 Bloomfield Ave. and passed a note to the teller reading "Have gun. Give me money," according to Deputy Chief Mark Minichini of the Belleville Police Department. The suspect made off with the contents of the teller's drawer and fled north on foot on Belmont Avenue. Exact proceeds have not been determined, Minichini said. The Essex County Prosecutor's Office is investigating the death of a West Orange woman on Oct. 31. Lelia Whatley, 22, was found unresponsive at her Washington Street residence early last Wednesday and was pronounced dead at the scene, said Katherine Carter, …
Saturday, October 27, 2012
Columbia High grad killed, residents in uproar over NJ Transit's new schedule.
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
A Newark man has been charged with attempted murder after stabbing another man with a knife last month in Bloomfield, police said. Charles Taylor, 24, is accused of attacking a 30-year-old Bloomfield man Sept. 13 and stabbing him in the neck and shoulder, according to Bloomfield Police Department spokesperson Sgt. Anthony Servedio. The Bloomfield man's name was not released. A New Providence man was arrested following a series of thefts from employees at The Children’s Institute’s Verona campus, police said. In the most recent incident, police were called to the campus, located at 1 Sunset Ave., after money was stolen from a purse on Oct. 15. Police reviewed the school’s video security tapes and said Joshua Martinez was involved in the …
Saturday, October 20, 2012
State senator urges investigation of Bloomfield travel agency, pit bull deal proposed.
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Saturday, October 20, 2012
An historic pact, the first in New Jersey to include merit pay for Newark teachers based on student performance, is close to being signed, Newark Teachers Union President Joseph Del Grosso told the Associated Press Thursday. The deal would make the district's high-performing teachers eligible for up to $12,500, Del Grosso said. He said the merit pay will be funded by the $100 million donation to the state's largest school district by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. The Montclair Parking Authority may have $100,000 in missing uiltity bills, according to a report released this week. A study of 10 years of records of the Montclair Parking Authority showed an agency in disarray – suffering from a lack of order in everything from its rules …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Graffiti arrest in Cedar Grove, tougher grading in Nutley schools.
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Friday, October 12, 2012
On Monday, the Newark Bears announced pop sensation Justin Bieber was set to perform at the Newark Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium for the team's second annual "Stadium of Screams." Bieber was scheduled to perform acoustic Oct. 28 and meet with season ticket holders afterward. But now, it seems a performance by the "Boyfriend" crooner is a no go. Bieber's publicist Melissa Victor told The Star Ledger Tuesday that word of the star's appearance is "pure fiction." "No such appearance was ever confirmed," Victor told the Ledger in an e-mail. Authorities have arrested a suspect in the murder of a 24-year-old city woman who was shot and killed in her car Oct. 1. Bronique McLeod was waiting in a vehicle in the 300 block of Hawthorne Avenue …
Saturday, October 6, 2012
Dentist impersonates dead colleague, robberies, burglaries, drug arrests around county.
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Saturday, October 6, 2012
A mother and her five children were forced to jump out of a third-floor window when a fire broke out early Wednesday morning in their Newark apartment. The blaze, which began at 12:24 a.m. in the bathroom of the apartment at 224 S. Orange Ave., apparently blocked the front door exit, leaving the family with no choice but to jump out the window, according to Capt. John Brown, spokesperson for the Newark Fire Department. A 16-year-old Bloomfield High School soccer player died Saturday night in car crash that left four others injured. Christina Lembo was seated in the back of a 2007 Honda Civic when it was involved in a car crash with a 2000 Chevrolet Camaro at about 11:10 p.m. Saturday at the intersection of Broughton Avenue and Walter …
Brian Hurrel
5:40 pm on Saturday, October 20, 2012
I hate to be a cynic here as much as anyone, but I have a feeling that a good portion of the merit pay will go to teacher's favored by administrators or those with family and connections. They'll throw a handful of truly deserving teachers a bone just to make it look legitimate. more ›