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TRENTON, N.J. - The mayor of Passaic City resigned Friday after he pleaded guilty to attempted extortion and admitted he accepted $5,000 in cash to influence government contracts. Samuel Rivera, a former police officer, is the latest of about 130 public officials to be found guilty of corruption in New Jersey since 2002 in a federal probe. "By his own conduct, Mr. Rivera added himself to the growing roster of corrupt public officials in New Jersey," U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said. "The citizens of Passaic deserved better."

ELIZABETH, N.J. -- The nation's first openly gay governor was back in court Thursday, testifying for a second day as he tries to convince a judge he is too poor to pay alimony to his estranged wife. Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey testified Wednesday that he has limited income, few assets and significant debts. He said he is all but unemployable because of the gay sex scandal that toppled his administration and ongoing publicity in his messy divorce. "Because of this case, I have been financially crippled," McGreevey told the judge. McGreevey, 50, stepped down 13 months before his...

"Bearzilla" is real and living somewhere in West Milford. A 726-pound male black bear, the heaviest ever handled by New Jersey wildlife officials, was captured over the weekend in the northern Passaic County township. It was treated for a nose injury, marked with identifying tags and set free. "That is just its spring weight. It only recently left a winter den ... Wait until it feeds all summer to fatten up for denning this fall. It could get over 900 pounds," said Len Wolgast, a member of the state Fish and Game Council and former wildlife biology professor. The bear...

Suspected Pedophile Nabbed Police arrested a suspected pedophile in New Jersey after launching a public appeal in the wake of a two-year international manhunt. Chip Reid reportshttp://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4081758n (AP) A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen." Wayne Nelson Corliss told authorities he had sex with three boys in Thailand six years ago, an experience he described as "euphoria," a prosecutor said Thursday at Corliss' first court...

http://www.philly.com/philly/polls/18765614.html One week ago Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski was shot at least 5 times with an AK-47 by a trio of bank robbers fleeing the scene of their crime. One of the three was later killed by Police gunfire; the other two have been apprehended. Sgt. Liczbinski was laid to rest yesterday. http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/20080509_Sgt__Liczbinski_mourned_at_Cathedral.html

ASBURY PARK Gannett Co. Inc. on Friday said it was offering buyouts to a total of 160 workers at five of its six newspapers in the state of New Jersey, as advertising revenues decline. The buyouts were offered to employees over age 55 who have at least 15 years of service with the company, said Judi Dorsey, vice president for human resources at the Asbury Park Press, Gannett's flagship paper in the state. The 160 employees targeted were asked to respond to the offer by the end of next week. Layoffs are possible if not enough buyouts are accepted, Dorsey...

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NEWARK, N.J. - A rare international alert seeking a man shown in dozens of raw child porn images quickly led to the arrest of a small-time actor, who painted faces at children's parties and performed as "the best Santa Claus anyone has ever seen." Wayne Nelson Corliss told authorities he had sex with three boys in Thailand six years ago, an experience he described as "euphoria," a prosecutor said Thursday at Corliss' first court appearance. The arrest of the bespectacled, gray-haired 58-year-old at his Union City apartment late Wednesday capped a two-day global manhunt, just the second time Interpol has...

PARIS - Police detained a suspected pedophile in New Jersey Thursday, just two days after Interpol made a rare appeal for public help in the international manhunt to catch him, the police agency said. Wayne Nelson Corliss, 58, was detained in Union City, N.J., Interpol said. He is suspected of sexually abusing at least three boys from Southeast Asia thought to have been as young as 6 to 10 years old, the international police agency said. Interpol had asked for the public's help because two years of police investigations had failed to determine the man's identity, nationality and whereabouts. It...

Murray Sabrin, a professor of finance, says his background should be enough to help the country if he is elected to the U.S. Senate seat. The Bergen County Republican is seeking the party's nomination in the upcoming primary. The winner will challenge the Democrat who is victorious in their bid for the seat currently held by U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg. "I can offer something that other people can't offer," Sabrin said during a meeting with the Gloucester County Times editorial board on Tuesday. "A broad perspective of how the world works." Sabrin, who teaches at Ramapo College of New Jersey,...

May 5th, 2008; Washington Township, NJ FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Media Contact: Robert Kreisler In a stunning first-of-its-kind announcement, the New Jersey Coalition for Self Defense (NJCSD) predicts that the Supreme Court Of The United States (SCOTUS) will confirm an individual right interpretation of the 2nd Amendment in Heller vs. DC, foreshadowing an end to decades of acrimonious debate over the meaning of what is widely considered to be a core principle for many Americans. Using an advanced market research method known as a KJ analysis (named after its creator, Kawakita Jiro) a team of five analysts independently reviewed the statements...

A 14-year-old Bridgeton teenager was charged Wednesday with murder for allegedly drowning her newborn child in a public toilet last weekend. According to Cumberland County Prosecutor Ron Casella, the teenager, identified in a complaint by the initials "I.S.," was charged with purposely causing the death of her newborn baby boy during a Cinco de Mayo celebration Sunday at the Cumberland County Fairgrounds, in Millville. "She was served with a complaint alleging murder. Specifically, she gave birth to the baby in a public toilet, then removed him from the working toilet bowl and placed him in the tank," Casella said Wednesday....

New Jersey's gay ex-governor Jim McGreevey and his estranged wife Dina Matos McGreevey showed up for court Tuesday morning to begin the process of ending their marriage. The first three days of the trial will be closed to the media as Union County Superior Court Judge Karen Cassidy considers custody issues surrounding the couple's 6-year-old daughter. The issues to be decided in the divorce settlement involve custody, alimony and child support, and whether McGreevey, now openly gay, committed fraud by marrying a woman. Matos McGreevey, 41, is seeking $600,000 for time she would have spent at the governor's mansion had...

OCEAN TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) ― Ocean Township has denied a pregnant patrolwoman's request for light duty. Officer Sonia Henriques is concerned about putting her unborn child at risk and her doctor agrees. She is two months pregnant.

As the reward for the third suspect in the weekend slaying of Philadelphia Police Sgt. Stephen Liczbinski grew yesterday to more than $123,000, authorities intensified their wide-reaching dragnet for a man they called "armed and dangerous." Police pursued leads from Lancaster, Pa., to Newark, N.J., in search of 33-year-old Eric DeShann Floyd, who they say was the "muscle" in a trio that on Saturday robbed a Port Richmond bank and then killed the pursuing sergeant. But investigators believed Floyd, a convicted armed robber who in February escaped from a Reading halfway house, most likely was still hiding in Philadelphia. Police...

Here is the video you wanted to see....GOE meets Code Pink in NJ

An army of volunteers built a magnificent mansion in six days for an impoverished family on the outskirts of Camden... *snip* This morning the Associated Press and Courier Post reported the slate-blue 5-bedroom home was up for sale. Asking price: $499,900... *snip* A big house is expensive to keep up. Marrero, who has suffered numerous heart attacks, lives on a small pension. He has had to shut off power to parts of the house to pay the bills, the friend said.

The fallout from losing its New Jersey casino license will force the owner of Tropicana casinos in Atlantic City and Las Vegas to seek Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the company said Monday. --- The bankruptcy filing would cover nine properties: The Tropicana Casino & Resort in Las Vegas; Bayou Caddy's Jubilee Casino in Greenville, Miss.; Casino Aztar in Evansville, Ind.; Horizon Casino Hotel in Vicksburg, Miss.; Horizon Casino Resort and the MontBleu Resort Casino & Spa, both in Lake Tahoe, Nev.; the Tropicana Express Hotel & Casino in Laughlin, Nev.; River Palms Resort & Casino in Laughlin, Nev.; and the...

Bob Parks will appear on Loud & Clear (1450 WCTC in New Jersey) to discuss the recession obsession, energy policy and the presidential campaign. Mr. Parks produces, writes, and edits Outside The Wire and is a weekly contributor to FamilySecurityMatters.Org and Mensnewsdaily.com and is also a weekly radio commentator for Black & Right on WJDF FM 97.3 in Orange, MA. He will be the guest of Keith Rasmussen who hosts Loud & Clear on 1450 WCTC - 3 pm to 6 pm (Eastern). He will join Loud & Clear at 3:15 pm. Outside The Wire , syndicated on Conservative Talk...

New Jersey Gov. Jon S. Corzine signed paid family leave legislation into law on Friday afternoon, making the state the third in the country with such provisions. The legislation, which has been strongly opposed by state business groups, provides up to six weeks of paid leave for an employee to care for a newborn, newly adopted child or a seriously ill family member during any 12-month period. In a statement released after the signing Friday, the New Jersey Business and Industry Association said the law "will force businesses to pay for temporary workers, overtime, or lost productivity in their workplaces,"...

·11250 Waples Mill Road ·   Fairfax, Virginia 22030    ·800-392-8683   Renewed Attack on Privacy of Gun Buyers   Friday, May 02, 2008   This week, anti-gun U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) introduced National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) registration legislation that would invade the privacy rights of law-abiding gun owners.Cosponsored by like-minded Sens. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), Carl Levin (D-MI), Joseph Lieberman (I-CT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Jack Reed (D-RI), and Charles Schumer (D-NY), S. 2935 would, among other things, require the FBI to retain records of cleared firearm transactions for at least 180 days.  Current law requires...

So it is a conservative canard that government aid means government control? Liberal New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is out to prove the conservatives right. He recently announced in his state budget message that he would drastically cut or eliminate state aid to its 323 towns with populations of fewer than 10,000 if they did not consolidate themselves into larger, more “efficient� units. There is not much greater control than elimination. Gov. Corzine won his reputation as a mergers and acquisitions chairman of the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs. He was into cutthroat capitalism and its engine of “creative destruction�...

NEWARK, N.J. -- Comedian Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of community associations Thursday to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans and ignore those he called "intellectual panhandlers." Characterizing his own words as "blunt, but not harsh," Cosby criticized a culture in which "babies are wearing $40 sneakers while their mothers are feeding them Oodles of Noodles" and in which pimps and murderers are seen as heroes. During a speech that lasted nearly an hour, he began by comparing current attitudes to a patient who ignores a toothache until it requires major surgery. Several...

The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food. Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it's not settling well with many residents. "They're taxing everything. Now you're gonna tax fast food? That's crazy," said Newark resident Miriam Robertson. Added Livingston resident Tina Abrahamian: "No one wants to be taxed. I mean, it's...

New Jersey Lawmakers Consider Tax On Fast Food 'Sin' Tax Could Help Fund Struggling Hospitals Reporting Christine Sloan WINDSOR, N.J. (CBS) ― The sputtering economy has caused an increase in prices of many staples including gasoline, rice, ice cream, even beer. Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food. Yes, the idea of marking up your favorite fast food burger or pack of fries is actually being tossed around, and it's not settling well with many residents. "They're taxing everything. Now you're gonna tax fast...

As I traveled the country for my brother John Kerry, speaking with Jewish groups and other communities in 2004, I learned that the most powerful way to show you have listened and understood is to bring the stories you have heard to wider audiences. As one African-American woman in Seattle put it, “I want to hear you call my name.” When Barack Obama delivered his remarkable speech on race in Philadelphia, I felt as a member of the Jewish community that he was calling my name. Speaking with moral clarity about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, he said a view “that...

N.J. Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against LifeLock Alleging Deceptive Marketing Regarding Limited Level of Protection Against Identity Theft NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., March 31, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- A class action lawsuit was filed on Friday, March 28 against LifeLock, Inc. and its CEO Richard "Todd" Davis by Dr. Warren Pasternack and his wife, Susan Pasternack, on behalf of themselves as well as all other New Jersey LifeLock subscribers. The Pasternacks allege that LifeLock misled them about the limited level of identity protection the company provides, and failed to warn them about the potential adverse impact those services could have...

Christie clarifies: 'Illegal' immigrants are in civil violation by Brian Donohue/ Star-Ledger staff Tuesday April 29, 2008, 12:03 PM The office of U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie on Monday issued a statement addressing criticism of remarks he made regarding illegal immigration at a church forum in Dover Sunday. In response to a question from an audience member, Christie said that immigrants are not committing a crime by being in the country illegally.Monday, Christie said that while entering the country illegally is considered a federal misdemeanor, simply lacking legal immigration status is a civil violation.

BURLINGTON COUNTY, N.J. - In South Jersey, the discovery of unexploded artillery shells from World War II has stalled plans to develop a new expo center. The sheer number of artillery shells staggered the mayor. It was found at the now closed Palmyra Drive-In Theater on Route 73. "We were hoping, hoping to only find one or two or three maybe. We're now up to nearly 200, or 181 as reported to the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, but there's since been another 20," Palmyra Mayor John Gural, Jr. said. The Army was anxious to develop new anti-tank rounds...

IN the State of New Jersey, it is illegal for anyone under 19 to buy tobacco products. Smoking in public, however, is not a crime no matter how young the lighted-cigarette holder, as long as it doesn’t take place in areas off-limits to smoking like restaurants and bars and certain buildings. But it may soon be illegal for anyone under 19 to puff away, thanks to a group of seniors in Steve DiGregorio’s Advanced Placement government and politics class at Nutley High School. The class of 19 students came up with the proposed bill, as part of a class assignment....

PEQUANNOCK — Protesters bearing placards deriding anti-war "hippies" and "murderers" picketed New Jersey Peace Action's annual gathering at The Regency House Hotel on Sunday, while a former U.S. State Department official and a war dissenter spoke inside. About 20 people from a coalition of groups that support the Iraq war, including Gathering of Eagles and The Band of Mothers, stood by the hotel driveway on Route 23 and shouted "victory" to passing motorists. They were there to protest the presence of Ann Wright, a Foreign Service official who quit to protest the Iraq war, and Medea Benjamin, the founder of...

'Smart Gun' Still Hasn't Hit Mark By RICK HEPP   Lt. Carol Ellis, of the New Jersey Institute of Technology Police, demonstrates a gun programmed only to fire when she pulls the trigger. (Photo by John Munson)     [Newark, NJ] -- Five years ago, New Jersey became the first state to limit the sale of handguns to weapons equipped with technology that prevents all but the gun's owner from firing a shot.The controversial law, aimed at reducing the number of children killed by handguns through accidents, suicide or acts of violence, had one very big caveat: It would not...

DOVER, N.J. - New Jersey's top federal prosecutor told a Latino group that it is a civil offense — not a crime — for immigrants to live in the country without proper documentation. In response to a question on illegal immigration at an open forum Sunday that grew heated, U.S. Attorney Christopher Christie said living in the United States without immigration paperwork is "an administrative matter" that federal immigration officials are supposed to address. "Don't let people make you believe that that's a crime that the U.S. Attorney's Office should be doing something about," Christie was quoted as saying in...

Victory in New Jersey In solidarity with our friends in Berkeley , on Sunday, April 27th, The Gathering of Eagles told Susie Benjamin and her friends from Code Pink that they were not welcome in New Jersey . What a great day for Eagles and Freepers!

Former Sen. Robert G. Torricelli, a top fundraiser for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, is sending hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations from his 2002 Senate campaign to a private foundation registered in his name and based out of his New Jersey lobbying office — an arrangement that troubles campaign-finance and tax experts. Federal election rules allow former elected officials to use surplus campaign money on charitable causes, though Mr. Torricelli's Rosemont Foundation, which received $1.5 million in campaign cash last year, has not yet been granted tax-exempt status. Angelo Genova, an attorney for Mr. Torricelli, said the foundation's application...

Immigrants and their advocates today found an unlikely ally: the top law enforcement officer in New Jersey. "Being in this country without proper documentation is not a crime," Christie told more than 60 residents and town officials. "The whole phrase of 'illegal immigrant' connotes that the person, by just being here, is committing a crime." Being undocumented may be a civil wrong, but it's not a criminal act, Christie said. "Don't let people make you believe that that's a crime that the U.S. Attorney's Office should be doing something about," he added of entering the country illegally. "It is not."...

Killing Local America by Donald Devine Issue 106 - April 23, 2008 So it is a conservative canard that government aid means government control? Liberal New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine is out to prove the conservatives right. He recently announced in his state budget message that he would drastically cut or eliminate state aid to its 323 towns with populations of fewer than 10,000 if they did not consolidate themselves into larger, more “efficient” units. There is not much greater control than elimination. Gov. Corzine won his reputation as a mergers and acquisitions chairman of the investment banking firm Goldman...

Oscar Flores-Chicas, 32, pleaded guilty to shooting Miguel Gonzales-Euceda in the mouth Feb. 4, 2007, in Gonzales-Euceda's Mercer Street home. Flores-Chicas, an illegal Honduran immigrant living in the 200 block of High Street in Alpha, said through an interpreter that the two men had been drinking heavily, and that Gonzales-Euceda had threatened him earlier. They got into an argument and, he said, "...I got mad and I shot him." Flores-Chicas pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter and second-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose. The recommended sentence is 15 years in prison. He would be ineligible for parole...

Defense seeking to question agent When the FBI's right to keep secrets clashed with a murder defendant's right to a fair trial, which right prevails? A state court judge and prosecution, defense and federal attorneys grappled with that conflict on Wednesday in Superior Court in Paterson and they might have an answer, though not a simple one. "There is a public image of what happens in the courts. It has to make sense. It has to be fair. This man is on trial for his life," Judge Ronald Marmo told a federal attorney, in urging him to allow an FBI...

Capping a battle that lasted more than a year, the Atlantic City Council voted 9-0 today to end the last major loophole to a tough statewide ban on smoking in public buildings that had conspicuously exempted gambling halls. As a result, smoking will be prohibited on the gambling floor at all 11 Atlantic City casinos as of Oct. 15. But patrons will still be able to light up in unstaffed smoking lounges away from the table games and slot machines, if the individual casinos choose to build them. Casino workers -- many wearing T-shirts with the slogan "Nobody deserves to...

NEW YORK (AP) — A former U.S. Army mechanical engineer used his job at a military research center to fetch dozens of classified defense documents for an Israeli agent, prosecutors say. The agent — who was at the center of another, infamous 1980s espionage scandal — provided Ben-ami Kadish with wish lists of secret records, according to prosecutors. Over six years, Kadish took home information about nuclear weapons, a modified version of an F-15 fighter jet and the U.S. Patriot missile air defense system, and he let the unidentified Israeli consulate worker photograph the documents in his basement, prosecutors say....

TRENTON, NJ, April 22, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Planned Parenthood Affiliates of New Jersey continued their attack on Crisis Pregnancy Centers (CPC) last week when it exhorted its supporters to back the Stop Deceptive Advertising for Women's Services Act (SDAWS). That act that calls for the Federal Trade Commission to enforce truth-in-advertising standards so as to make it illegal for CPCs to present themselves in such a way as to lead individuals into believing that they perform abortions.Rep. Carolyn Maloney and 11 other sponsors introduced SDAWS to the NJ House of Representatives in May 2007.  On April 1, Sen. Robert...

NEW YORK -- The FBI arrested a New Jersey man for allegedly spying for Israel by stealing military secrets including technology for the "Patriot Defense" system as well as fighter jet technology, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. Ben-Ami Kadish is set to be arraigned on the espionage charges in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Investigators said Kadish stole secrets from the Picatinny Arsenal in Dover from 1970 through 1985. Kadish allegedly smuggled documents from the base to his home. Court documents said an Israeli agent would then travel to the residence and "take photographs of the classified documents in the basement...

Good Morning! I would like to ask for some direction, if there is anyone here who could help with a "write-in" campaign. There is a council seat available in my town, Franklin, NJ and I would like to run as a write-in. Has anyone ever done this before? Any direction would be welcome! Thank you in advance! Suzanne Weeks Weeks for Council

Court ruling goes against coach who 'respected' student prayersA federal appeals court ruled a New Jersey high school football coach who bowed his head while students on his team led prayer broke the law. The decision against coach Marcus Borden of East Brunswick High School, however, will be appealed, said John Whitehead, president of the Virginia-based civil-liberties group the Rutherford Institute. "If this ruling is allowed to stand, it will mean that high school teachers across the United States will have no free speech or academic freedom rights at all," he said. "This undermines a time-honored tradition that has less...

MANNINGTON, N.J. — A teenager in a stolen car led police Saturday on a high-speed chase and later shot at two troopers, who returned fire and killed him, authorities said. The two troopers were wounded, but their injuries were not considered life-threatening, said state police Sgt. Stephen Jones. The chase began at about 3:40 a.m. when the troopers tried to pull over two cars speeding at high speeds in South Jersey. The chase lasted for several miles. One of the cars, a Chevy Malibu, then rolled to a stop in front of a farmhouse along the highway in Mannington, about...

A former member of Bear Education and Resource, an anti-hunting organization that blames people and their unsecured garbage for New Jersey's bruin troubles, was charged today with deliberately feeding the animals. Susan Kehoe, 57, was videotaped providing bags of sunflower seeds to bears in the backyard of her Vernon Township home... conservation officers watched her repeatedly feed bears ... BEAR protested public hunts that were held in 2003 and 2005 in the northwest corner of the state, and continues to oppose state efforts to trap nuisance bears. Kehoe and BEAR contend humans and their improperly stored trash are the problem,...

Corzine Eyes New Nuclear Energy PlantWNYC Newsroom NEW YORK, NY April 18, 2008 — Governor Corzine continues his efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in New Jersey. But his latest proposal to help reach that goal is sparking much debate. Corzine's office has released a proposal that calls for a review of the siting, permitting, financing, and waste disposal issues involved with bringing a new nuclear power plant to the state. The administration will also look at other technologies with minimal or no carbon dioxide emissions. But environmentalists pan the governor's plan, saying nuclear power is dangerous and creates hazardous...

For indepth coverage of all aspects of the Holy Father's visit to the United States, click the following link.  Television Coverage ARRIVALPope Benedict XVI arrives at Andrews Air Force Base and is greeted by President and Mrs. Bush,  local dignitaries of the Church, and the apostolic nuncio. Tuesday, April 15, 3:30PM Eastern Encore April 15, 8PM; April 16, 4AM.   THE WHITE HOUSEPope Benedict XVI is received by President and Mrs. Bush at a White House welcoming ceremony, followed by a private meeting between the President and the Pope, and the dignitaries of the two states. Wednesday, April 16, 10:00...

The campaign of Democratic rabbi and psychologist Dennis Shulman for New Jersey’s 5th District is beginning to gain steam, capturing local and national support as well as attention as he seeks to become the first blind member of Congress in generations. In his bid to unseat three-term Republican Rep. Scott Garrett , Shulman reported more than $300,000 raised through March 31, including donations from Majority Leader Steny H. Hoyer ’s political action committee, Washington state Rep. Brian Baird ’s campaign committee, and members of the psychology and religious communities. Shulman also invested $52,000 in personal funds into his campaign. He...