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Quick thinking saved stroke victim's life
Found: 1 Week 2 Days 3 Hours 44 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - A carpenter back swinging his hammer isn't much of a news item ?unless he's doing it a week after doctors say his life was threatened by a massive stroke....
Cops: drug store employee stole $3,300 of medication
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 2 Hours 21 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - A Walgreens employee was arrested Thursday after she admitted to stealing more than $3,300 in medication from the pharmacy, police said....
E-ZPass tags on sale at select tollway rest stops
Found: 1 Week 3 Days 7 Hours 4 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - Ever get stuck waiting to pay a toll in the cash lane and wish you had E-ZPass? The answer could be at the next service area....
Ex-Woodbridge cop convicted of sexual assault to get new trial
Found: 2 Weeks 20 Hours 6 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - A former Woodbridge police officer convicted of sexually assaulting a teenage boy for three years and taking lurid pictures of a 15-year-old girl in a separate case will get a new trial.A state appeals court ruled Friday, Aug. 15, that Douglas Karlson, 48, was denied a fair trial because the two crimes were not separated in his indictment."In our view, the prejudice in this case was overwhelming,''the court wrote. "The charges relating to (the girl), while no doubt serious, were not as inflammatory as the ones relating to (the boy.) (The boy's) testimony clearly had the effect of inflaming the jury.''The two cases were distinct enough to be dealt with separately, the three-judge panel ruled.Karlson was sentenced to 17 years in February 2007.He was convicted in July 2006 of official misconduct and endangering the welfare of a child for taking topless photographs of the 15-year-old girl. That same jury could not agree on the charges involving the sexual assault of the boy, now in his 20s.During a December 2006 retrial, Karlson was convicted of the sexual attacks that allegedly occurred between 1994 and 1997 when the boy was 14 to 17 years old.The victim of his sexual assaults told Superior Court Judge Frederick DeVesa, sitting in New Brunswick, during the sentencing about the legacy of those attacks."To this day, I still have nightmares,''the man said. "I was too scared (as a child) to press charges.''...
Linden man admits to 13 bank robberies
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Asbury Park Press - One of the two principal members of the so-called "Route 35 Crew'pleaded guiltytoday to committing 11 armed bank robberies and two other robberies between November 2006 and August 2007, U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie announced.Michael Green, 30, of Linden pleaded guilty to a three-count Information charging him with one count of bank robbery, as well as one count of conspiracy to commit bank robbery and Hobbs Act Robbery, and one count of possessing a firearm during the commission of a violent offense, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph Mack.Following the guilty plea, U.S. District Judge Joel A. Pisano ordered Green returned to custody, where he has been since his arrest on Nov. 10, 2007. Sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 18.The defendant faces a mandatory minimum sentence of seven years in prison and up to life in prison, and a $250,000 fine. In addition, Judge Pisano must order that Green make restitution to the victims of his crimes.During the plea hearing today, Green admitted his participation in the following robberies, in which more than $288,000 was taken:Nov. 27, 2006 robbery of CardSmart, LLC - Garwood;Dec. 27, 2006 robbery of Speedy Check Cashing - Linden;Jan. 10, 2007 robbery of Rahway Savings Bank - Rahway;Feb. 8, 2007 robbery of Wachovia Bank - Colonia;March 10, 2007 robbery of Unity Bank - Colonia;April 24, 2007 robbery of Unity Bank - Colonia;June 25, 2007 robbery of Bank of America - Iselin;July 20, 2007 robbery of Columbia Savings Bank - Edison;Sept. 4, 2007 robbery of PNC Bank - Fords;Sept. 15, 2007 robbery of Wachovia Bank - Metuchen;Sept. 25, 2007 robbery of PNC Bank - East Brunswick;Oct. 12, 2007 robbery of Bank of America - Edison;Nov. 10, 2007 robbery of Investors Savings Bank - Piscataway....
Trooper stops out-of-control vehicle on parkway
Found: 2 Weeks 1 Day 15 Hours 40 Minutes ago
SFMZ 69 News - NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- State Police say a trooper averted a serious accident when he managed to stop a vehicle driven by a motorist in diabetic shock on the Garden State Parkway.......
A nearly $10 million roads project will begin in Barnegat
Found: 2 Weeks 2 Days 17 Hours 36 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - In a matter of days, work will begin on a $9.91 million construction project to widen West Bay Avenue and realign Lighthouse Drive in Barnegat, officials said during a preconstruction meeting hosted by the Ocean County Engineering Department on Tuesday....
Repairs have begun on N.J. Turnpike
Found: 3 Weeks 5 Days 48 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - WOODBRIDGE: Repairs have begun on the Interchange 9 ramp on the New Jersey Turnpike in New Brunswick....
8-year-old girl dies from injuries suffered in Woodbridge crash
Found: 3 Weeks 5 Days 9 Hours 29 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - An 8-year-old girl has died as a result of injuries she suffered last week after the Ford Expedition in which she was a passenger was clipped by a passing semitrailer near milepost 95 in the township.The girl, identified as being from Fair Lawn, had been airlifted to a Newark hospital after the crash July 18. No other information was available from the state police, who investigated the accident and its aftermath.The accident also claimed the life of the driver of a FedEx semitrailer, Paul Kelly, 41, of Manahawkin, who was pronounced dead shortly after the 11:30 p.m. accident.The semi clipped three vehicles that had been involved in a previous accident and were parked near the highway's shoulder. The semi then ran up against the guardrail and rolled onto its side.Before that, a 2003 Honda Civic being driven northbound in the left center lane of the outer roadway of the turnpike was cut off by an unknown sport utility vehicle. The driver of the Honda swerved into a UPS semitrailer in the adjacent lane, and and the car wedged under the rear of the truck.The UPS truck came to a stop off the right shoulder, dragging the Honda with it but leaving it partially in the right lane of traffic.The driver of a 1998 Ford Expedition pulled onto the shoulder in front of the UPS truck to offer assistance. The FedEx truck hit all three of the stopped vehicles.Two others passengers in the Ford, believed to be the girl's sisters, were taken to UMDMJ by ambulance....
Sewaren man, corrections officer arrested in cocaine trafficking ring
Found: 3 Weeks 5 Days 9 Hours 50 Minutes ago
Asbury Park Press - A Sewaren man was arrested Thursday in connection with a cocaine trafficking network operating in Newark and East Orange, the state Attorney General's Office announced.Antwan K. Jones, 36, was among six people, including a veteran corrections officer, arrested.Jones, arrested at his residence, was charged with intent to distribute, distribution of a controlled substance, money laundering and conspiracy. Bail was set at $500,000.The arrests culminated an 11-month investigation by state law-enforcement officials.A Newark killing, for which the corrections officer, Eugene W. Braswell of Newark, has been implicated, set off the probe.In the course of the investigation, law-enforcement investigators said they uncovered a drug trafficking network extending from either Texas or Florida and into New Jersey, where $500,000 of cocaine was distributed, the state office said in a release....
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