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  • East Brunswick Coach Borden Resigns (Pre-game Prayer)

    10/10/2005 3:03:06 PM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 39 replies · 1,200+ views
    NJ.com and The Star-Ledger ^ | October 9, 2005 | Guy Kipp
    Marcus Borden, the head football coach at East Brunswick for the last 23 seasons, has submitted his resignation. Borden, who could not be reached for comment, was summoned to a meeting with Dr. Jo Ann Magistro, the East Brunswick Public Schools superintendent, on Friday after the issue of pre-game team prayer had been brought to the administration's attention. Trish LaDuca, the coordinator of community relations and programs for East Brunswick Public Schools, said the superintendent's office was informed early in the week that there was prayer activity taking place at the team's pre-game dinners.
  • N.J. Insurance Fraud Unit Itself Target of Probe Over Employee Payroll

    06/02/2005 7:55:43 AM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 13 replies · 357+ views
    Insurance Journal ^ | May 31, 2005 | Insurance Journal and AP
    New Jersey's award-winning office created to root out insurance fraud is under scrutiny itself, with the state auditor probing allegations the insurance industry was billed about $4 million for employees who never worked on fraud cases. The probe stems from a letter to a ranking state senator by a retired investigator from the state Division of Criminal Justice who said 43 employees had their salaries paid with insurance industry money but did little or no work on fraud cases. "We investigate doctors for submitting false bills to insurance companies, and we put doctors in jail for that. What's the difference...
  • ABC passes on Miss America (Network won't carry the show in 2005 after record low ratings this year)

    10/21/2004 3:09:25 PM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 33 replies · 957+ views
    CNN Money ^ | 10/20/2004 | Reuters
    ABC television, which has hosted the annual beauty pageant telecast from Atlantic City, New Jersey, since 1997, has decided not to renew its option to carry the show in 2005, a network spokesman said. No further details were immediately available, including whether another television network would pick up the event.
  • Limbless Woman Says Air France Wouldn't Allow Her On Board

    08/13/2004 9:22:10 PM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 90 replies · 1,663+ views
    WNBC - News 4 NYC ^ | 08/13/2004 | Associated Press
    NEW YORK -- A limbless woman sued Air France Friday, saying she was prevented from boarding a flight four years ago by an airline employee who insulted her, saying "a head, one bottom and a torso cannot possibly fly on its own." Adele Price, 42, of Mansfield, England, filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, seeking unspecified damages and including the quote in her claim. Price said she suffered emotionally, psychologically and endured large expenses as she tried to complete a trip from Manchester, England to New York on Aug. 8, 2000. She said she paid someone else...
  • FoxNews: Elementary school student and crossing guard shot in Philadelphia.

    02/11/2004 7:05:52 AM PST · by Unknown Freeper · 53 replies · 186+ views
    Fox News Alert. A student was shot in the face. Crossing guard shot in the foot. Early reports gunman in a silver jeep. Elementary school in North Philadelphia.
  • Democratic Candidates Debate on CNN 11/4/03

    11/04/2003 4:16:27 PM PST · by Unknown Freeper · 125 replies · 150+ views
    CNN ^ | 11/4/03 | CNN
    Debate is on CNN Now. Watch Dem candidates self-destruct. (They are attacking Dean.)
  • Police Storm Wrong Apartment, Resident Dies of Heart Attack

    05/16/2003 2:55:01 PM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 574 replies · 331+ views
    WABC News NYC ^ | May 16, 2003 | Art McFarland
    (Harlem-WABC, May 16, 2003) — Police smashed down an apartment door and used a flash grenade in their search for a potentially dangerous suspect. But it was the wrong apartment, and the woman who lived inside is now dead after suffering a heart attack. Police smashed down an apartment door and used a flash grenade in their search for a potentially dangerous suspect. But it was the wrong apartment, and the woman who lived inside is now dead after suffering a heart attack. What happened at 310 W. 143rd Street was meant to be the end result of a drug...
  • Police: Homeowner Shoots Burglar

    03/27/2003 3:43:49 AM PST · by Unknown Freeper · 9 replies · 174+ views
    NBC4 News ^ | 3/23/03 | AP
    Suspect Receives Non-Life-Threatening Injuries SPRINGFIELD, Va. -- A man who authorities describe as a would-be burglar got a lot more than he bargained for this morning when he broke into a Springfield, Va., house. According to Fairfax County Police, the suspect got into a house in the 8100 block of Ainsworth Avenue around 6:45 this morning. Once inside, the homeowner, who was holding a shotgun, confronted him. Police said there was a struggle, but the lady of the house managed to grab hold of the shotgun and open fire on the suspect, hitting him in the lower body. Authorities said...
  • NJ Senate Debate on WNBC4 Saturday 7:00 pm

    11/02/2002 4:10:46 PM PST · by Unknown Freeper · 81 replies · 392+ views
    WNBC TV in New York, Channel 4
    http://www.wnbc.com/politics/
  • Boy's Penis Stitched Back After Donkey Bite

    07/29/2002 4:28:57 PM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 14 replies · 1,449+ views
    Yahoo ^ | July 25, 2001 | Reuters
    RABAT (Reuters) - Surgeons have managed to stitch back a Moroccan boy's penis after it was bitten off by a donkey, the official MAP news agency reported Thursday. Professor Mouaad Mounir, chief urologist at Ibnou Toufail hospital in the southern city of Marrakesh, was quoted as saying the operation on the seven-year-old boy was carried out last week. He said the operation had taken 45 minutes and was successful. MAP did not say how the donkey managed to bite off the boy's penis. A source at the hospital confirmed the agency's report, but declined to give further details. Donkeys in...
  • Deal to end Nigeria oil protest

    07/16/2002 3:12:08 PM PDT · by Unknown Freeper · 6 replies · 210+ views
    CNN ^ | July 16, 2002 | AP
    <p>ESCRAVOS, Nigeria (AP) -- An oil company has agreed to build schools and electrical and water systems to satisfy a group of women who had taken 700 workers hostage in a southeast Nigeria oil terminal.</p> <p>Monday's deal signaled an end to the weeklong takeover, which featured a typical tactic with a new twist: Young men frequently resort to kidnapping in the oil-rich Niger Delta, but the peaceful, all-women protest was unprecedented.</p>