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ASBURY PARK, N.J. -- As President Barack Obama was set to depart on an overseas trip Friday, he faced some sobering news back home -- a school bearing his name was to be shuttered because of low enrollment. The Barack H. Obama Elementary School in Asbury Park, N.J., will close its doors this summer as part of a school district consolidation plan resulting from a declining number of students there, the Asbury Park Press reported. Students at the school, previously known as the Bangs Avenue School until it was renamed for Obama two years ago, will be reassigned to two...

ASBURY PARK, N.J. Postal workers in Asbury Park have intercepted several letters that contained the word ``anthrax'' on a single sheet of paper inside. The F-B-I in Newark says the letters were mailed to schools, government agencies and private businesses. None of the letters tested positive for the biological agent. The F-B-I isn't saying to whom the letters were addressed for fear of causing a copycat situation.

Social Security Rejects Heterosexual Marriage Documents From Communities That Performed Gay Marriages The Associated Press NEW PALTZ, N.Y. (AP) - The Social Security Administration is rejecting marriage documents issued for heterosexual couples in four communities that performed weddings for gay couples earlier this year. The agency is rejecting all marriage certificates issued in New Paltz, N.Y., after Feb. 27, when the town's mayor began marrying gay couples, according to town officials. Certificates issued during the brief periods when Asbury Park, N.J., Multnomah County, Ore., and Sandoval County, N.M., recognized gay marriages are also being rejected. Susie Kilpatrick, 30, of New...

<p>The order came on the third day Asbury Park officials were granting marriage license applications to gay couples. The city on Monday conducted New Jersey's first same-sex marriage.</p> <p>Attorney General Peter Harvey said he hoped the letters he sent to Asbury Park officials would halt gay marriages in the city, sparing him the need to seek a court injunction.</p>

<p>ASBURY PARK, N.J. (AP) — A gay couple were married in City Hall on Monday after being issued a license by city officials who say New Jersey law does not explicitly ban such unions.</p> <p>In a short 3:30 p.m. ceremony attended by about 10 people, Louis Navarrete and Ric Best, both of Asbury Park, tied the knot in City Council chambers.</p>

ASBURY PARK — The owner of the Stone Pony, who once said waterfront developers would get control of it only “over my dead body,” has agreed to sell to them, putting the famed shore nightclub’s future in jeopardy — again. Domenic Santana will sell the building and transfer its liquor license to Asbury Partners, a company overseeing a $1.2 billion makeover of the city’s decrepit waterfront. Under the sale agreement, Asbury Partners could demolish the building, build a new club elsewhere in the city and call it the Stone Pony, while Santana would be allowed to use the name to...

<p>Muscle-bound men dressed head-to-toe in leather. Drag queens at their most fabulous in false eyelashes, glittery dresses and platform heels. Glamour boys flashing well-toned physiques.</p> <p>They were all in their glory at the 12th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade in Asbury Park yesterday.</p>

Justified Right - The Conservative Alternative to triCity Roe v Wade and the rights of the FatherI propose a "Father's Abortion." Let a Father petition the Court to terminate his own parental rights to his child after the child's birth.The emphasis must not be on the right to abortion but on the right to privacy and reproductive control. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (speaking of a woman's right).This January 22 marks the 30th anniversary of Roe v Wade, the Supreme Court decision which overturned all State laws that would stop a woman from having an abortion in the first trimester. While...