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EPA Making Progress on NJ Mystery Chemical Barrels That Sparked Potential Evac Warning
A toxic cleanup in a New Jersey community could be a ticking timebomb, and may force families to leave their homes. Schools and homeowners in one part of Monmouth County are being told to be ready to evacuate at a moment’s notice, as EPA crews intensely work to clean out barrels full of mysterious chemicals at an old industrial...
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Man Charged After Sister-in-Law, 9-Year-Old Niece Found Axed to Death in NJ Home: UCPO
A double homicide is under investigation in New Jersey, the Union County prosecutor’s office confirmed Thursday — and relatives of the victims say they include a 9-year-old girl and her mother.
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Eunice Dwumfour Died 3 Months Ago. Officials Have Still Not Released Details Into NJ Lawmaker's Killing
A New Jersey mayor made an announcement that no one saw coming, a decision she said she came to after talking with her daughters — and after the shooting death of a lawmaker friend that shook her city.
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Months After Teen's Suicide, New Lawsuit Alleges NJ District Ignored Bullying Claims
A New Jersey school district is facing another lawsuit of allegedly failing to investigate harassment and bullying, which comes just months after a 14-year-old student took her own life days after being tormented on social media and video showed her getting attacked by classmates in a school hallway.
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Mom, 9-Year-Old Daughter Axed to Death in NJ Home: Family
A double homicide is under investigation in New Jersey, the Union County prosecutor’s office confirmed Thursday — and relatives of the victims say they include a 9-year-old girl and her mother.
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Classes Resume at Rutgers But Instructor Unions Continue to Picket: What's Next?
Classes may be back on at Rutgers University campuses, but the picketing by instructor unions continues as negotiators try to turn a framework agreement into actual contracts with several unions. For students who are getting back to studies after a week’s strike interruption, they now know how their studies will be impacted this semester due to the strike. In...
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Rutgers Tentative Deal Suspends Historic Faculty Strike
A week of marathon bargaining at the New Jersey state capital has produced a “framework agreement,” suspending an historic faculty strike at Rutgers University. Gov. Phil Murphy, who brought both parties to the negotiating table Monday to resume stalled talks, announced the agreement early Saturday morning to pause the five-day strike, the first such faculty action in the university’s...
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Rutgers Strike Shows Sign of Progress as Student Rumors Fly
A week of bargaining at the New Jersey state capital seems to have finally clinched progress as the historic Rutgers strike entered its fifth day on Friday, offering a sign of hope for a speedy conclusion with only weeks to go before semester exams. Word of a tentative agreement on a key sticking point among negotiations came from the faculty…
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NJ Teacher Accused of Grabbing Child With Autism, Holding Him Upside Down by His Ankles
A New Jersey teacher was reportedly suspended last week, accused of holding a 4-year-old boy upside down by his ankles and leaving him with cuts and bruises across his body. Devena Wilkins has since pulled her son, Daylan, who has autism, from the South Orange-Maplewood school system amid the fallout of the March 27 incident at the Montrose pre-k school….
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Dump Truck Slams Into Jersey Shore Home
Dashcam video captured a landscaping dump truck driving along the Jersey Shore, when suddenly it swerves — right into a house on Route 35 North in Point Pleasant Beach. “I was in my living room here and I heard one big explosion and it shook the house,” Carol Kasyan, a neighbor, said. Kasyan heard a second explosion as the truck…
