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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Amanda Zkiab visits The Citadel Mall four or five times a week, but the 25-year-old isn't there to scour the sale racks, stuff herself with food-court goodies or cruise for a date. Zkiab bypasses the shops and goes straight to the Catholic Center, which offers Mass, confession and spiritual guidance in a place where people normally worship couture and pray they haven't reached their credit limit. Even the rosaries are free. "It's so convenient, there's no excuse," Zkiab said one afternoon after Mass. "When I'm done, it's like, 'Oh, I can shop.'" What started as an...

A remake of the old TV show "Bewitched" will be in theaters Friday, a Hollywood version of that lovable sitcom from the '60s and '70s, where Elizabeth Montgomery's Samantha cast spells and twitched her nose to get her husband, Darren, out of jams. Ever wonder if witches really exist? Ever wonder if one lives next door? Pearl Essence and Syren Star are two suburban witches who have come out of the broom closet. A year ago, the pair started Gypsy Wagon, a pagan-friendly online group. "We do not worship any sort of god or goddess, we focus on the elemental...

Father Paul Sretenovic, a priest of the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey, who was ordained to the priesthood in 2002, has abandoned the Novus Ordo in order to embrace Catholic Tradition without compromise. Father Sretenovic (pronounced Stre-ten-o-vich) informed his ordinary, the Most Reverend John Myers, the Archbishop of Newark, of his decision in a letter mailed to his Excellency’s home address on the Feast of the Holy Innocents, Wednesday, December 28, 2004: “Your Excellency: I am writing to inform you of my decision to leave the Archdiocese of Newark. It is a decision that is eighteen months in the making,...

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LODI, N.J. -- Public schools in this Bergen County community of 24,000 canceled classes for Thursday after more than two dozen youngsters were taken to the hospital with a mysterious skin rash. The outbreak was discovered Wednesday afternoon among youngsters and adults attending an after-school program at the Boys and Girls Club of Lodi. Twenty-nine people were taken to Hackensack University Medical Center, where they were released after being evaluated and taking showers, said hospital spokeswoman Ann Marie Campbell. "There have been no severe reactions or respiratory problems of any kind," Campbell said. State and local health officials could not...

SADDLE RIVER, N.J. - The wife of hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons faces drug and motor vehicle charges after police said she was driving erratically and ignored the flashing lights of a cruiser for nearly two miles. Kimora Lee Simmons was arrested just after midnight Monday outside the couple's estate in Saddle River, according to published reports. Saddle River police and a spokeswoman for Ms. Simmons did not immediately return messages left Thursday. Simmons, 29, was charged with eluding an officer, possessing marijuana, careless driving and operating a vehicle while possessing a drug. The former model, who helps design clothes for...

Either click here or hit the link in the thread's header but the basic story is that in northwest New Jersey, the Democrat's guy running for state senate TWICE won the "Pretty Penis" contest at an East Village gay bar. I'm thinking, Stand Up For Morrison is a good starting suggestion. He could run with Gore under the slogan, "Stiff and Stiffer", a take off on "Dumb and Dumber".

Fair Lawn officer killed in shootout     Play the video (04/18/03) BERGEN - A manhunt involving numerous law enforcement agencies was launched on Thursday night after a shootout in Bergen County ended with one police officer dead and another wounded.Fair Lawn Police Officer Maryann Collura was helping a Clifton officer who was involved in a car chase on Thursday night. The Clifton officer was chasing a red sports car that was eventually stopped on a church's front lawn.Authorities say when the officers tried to arrest the people in the car, at least one of the suspects and the Clifton...

(1010 WINS) (Hackensack) -- Bergen County school officials are apologizing to the parents of special education students. That's because the students names and addresses were inadvertently given to the campaign of County Executive-elect Dennis McNerney a few days before the November fifth election.Deputy Superintendent Leonard Margolis says a secretary mistakenly provided the information when a McNerney staff member asked for the names of students in the county's technical school district. State and federal laws prohibits the release of information regarding special education students without their parents consent. Some parents and Republican officials have called for an investigation into the matter...

PoliticsNJ.com  Updated on 06/12/02 12:01 AM Sheehan, declaring Marshal Law in Bergen, cancels election... The reorganization meeting of the Bergen County Republican Organization was abruptly cancelled tonight when a group of Republicans led by State Sen. Gerald Cardinale surprised GOP County Committee members b nominating Bogota Mayor Steven Lonegan for County Chairman.  Sources say that the incumbent, James Sheehan, may not have had the votes to win and decided he'd be better off postponing the election until next Tuesday.  Sheehan said that he wanted to set up election machines.Cardinale reportedly blames Sheehan for his defeat at the Bergen GOP convention...