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Homeless ‘good Samaritan’ gets probation in gas money scam
A homeless man was sentenced to five years’ probation Friday after admitting last month that he conspired with a couple to scam the public out of $400,000 in donations by concocting a feel-good story about him helping a motorist in distress.
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Man convicted of concealing toddler’s remains
A Virginia man whose toddler daughter’s body was found in a suitcase next to New Jersey railroad tracks has been convicted of unlawful concealment of human remains.
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Suspect arrested in murder of nanny whose body was found in New Jersey lake
Jorge Rios, 33, of Jersey City has been charged with the strangulation killing of a 45-year-old nanny, whose body was discovered a week ago in the lake of a New Jersey park where she went jogging.
3 weeks ago -
Correction: Mob Shooting story
A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday in the shooting death of the reputed boss of the Gambino crime family, New York City police said.
1 month ago -
New Jersey’s top court won’t hear ex-NFL star’s appeal
The New Jersey Supreme Court won’t hear a request from former NFL star Irving Fryar to overturn his conviction for his role in a mortgage scam.
3 months ago -
Chris Christie: Trump ‘blew it’ with shutdown
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said that President Donald Trump “blew it” when he shut down the government with “no plan on how to reopen it. “
3 months ago -
GoFundMe says donors in alleged homeless scam refunded
GoFundMe says it has refunded everyone who contributed to a campaign involving a homeless veteran from Philadelphia who prosecutors allege schemed with a New Jersey couple to scam donors out of more than $400,000.
4 months ago -
Racial bias investigation launched after high school wrestler forced to cut off dreadlocks
Accusations of racial bias are being made after a high school wrestler in New Jersey was forced by a referee to cut off his dreadlocks or forfeit his match.
4 months ago -
Bomb threat empties Sandy Hook school on attack anniversary
Sandy Hook Elementary School students have been sent home for the day after a bomb threat forced an evacuation on the sixth anniversary of the massacre that killed 20 first-graders and six educators.
4 months ago -
Trump resort worker: No regrets speaking out about abuse
A Guatemalan living in the U.S. illegally who says she faced abusive working conditions as a maid at Donald Trump’s New Jersey golf club doesn’t regret speaking out.
5 months ago -
A family massacre disguised as a massive fire in New Jersey
There was more than a brotherly bond between Paul and Keith Caneiro. They shared a business, vacationed together and settled about 11 miles from each other in the suburbs of New Jersey. But two days before Thanksgiving, a horrific chain of events would forever tear them apart.
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Rising sea levels threatening historic lighthouses
New Jersey’s East Point Lighthouse has been lighting up Delaware Bay for the better part of two centuries. But those same waters that the lighthouse helped illuminate might bring about its demise.
5 months ago -
This couple was married for 60 years. Or so they thought.
After raising three kids in Newark and more than half a century together, nobody can find their original marriage license. Not them. Not the small town of Elmer, New Jersey, where they married. Not Salem County, where Elmer is located. And not the state of New Jersey.
6 months ago -
Va. father arraigned in death of toddler found in suitcase
Authorities say Travis Plummer, 37, took 23-month-old Te’Myah Layauna Plummer from her mother in Virginia last fall and traveled to New Jersey with the decomposing body wrapped inside a suitcase.
7 months ago -
Man wins $1 million in lottery after playing numbers found in fortune cookie
Martin, who regularly stops at the gas station and buys lottery tickets on his way to work, purchased three Mega Millions tickets on July 24 using numbers he saw in a fortune cookie. Martin “liked the numbers and decided to stick with them,” according to the New Jersey Lottery.
7 months ago
