Sunday, May 12, 2013
Other top stories this week include a former middle school vice principal who pleaded guilty to videotaping boys in the school showers and an Iraq War veteran re-invited to speak at a Teaneck Memorial Day event.
Lacey Township's schools superintendent was indicted Monday morning on charges she failed to immediately report a teacher's possible sexual assault of a 4-year-old special needs student while she was Wall Township's assistant superintendent, according to an indictment. On Friday, she was suspended without pay. The family of Paige Aiello has confirmed that a body discovered Wednesday in the Hudson River is the missing Hillsborough woman, according to the Find Paige Aiello Facebook page. Patrick Lott, assistant principal at Bernardsville Middle School prior to his arrest in December 2011, pleaded guilty Wednesday to videotaping boys in the showers at Immaculata High School where he was a volunteer basketball coach. The Teaneck Township …
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Other top stories this week include a couple accused of abusing their foster children by breaking their bones and denying them medical attention and a convicted police shooter sentenced to 45 years in prison.
A Toms River man impersonated a police officer to enter a township school where he committed aggravated sexual contact on a teacher, an indictment charges. A Newark man pleaded guilty Wednesday to manslaughter in the shooting death of an off-duty Newark police detective outside a Paterson strip club in 2011, NorthJersey.com reported . A U.S. Army major stationed at the Picatinny Arsenal surrendered to federal agents Tuesday following his wife's arrest on charges the couple abused their adopted children by breaking their bones, witholding water from them, force-feeding them hot sauce and denying them medical attention. The police officer who arrested state Assemblyman Paul Moriarty on a drunken-driving charge last year may himself end up …
Sunday, April 28, 2013
Other top stories this week include a man claiming to be Jesus Christ who was involved in a long standoff with police and a couple who allegedly scammed hundreds of vacationers with fake vacation deals.
A 27-year-old Jersey City man carried fireworks containing black powder onto a New Jersey Transit train at the Hoboken Terminal earlier this month, a Jersey City Police spokesman said Thursday night. Fair Lawn resident John Katsigiannis was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison for sexually assaulting a 15-month-old girl five years ago, a Bergen County law clerk said. A man claiming to be Jesus Christ who barricaded himself inside a Brighton Avenue home and got involved in a long standoff with the Long Branch Police on Monday is facing several charges, police said. A Marlton couple allegedly scammed hundreds of travel customers out of thousands of dollars by selling fake vacation packages and collecting fees on what they claimed were free…
Sunday, April 21, 2013
Other top stories this week include the arrest of a prolific bank robber who graced the FBI's Most Wanted List in the 1980s and a man who admitted leading the largest indoor marijuana growing operation ever shut down by police in New Jersey.
The suspect in a 2010 murder who was freed from jail Tuesday due to a paperwork snafu voluntarily returned to custody Wednesday, NJ.com reported. A former Ocean City police officer has been indicted on charges of sexual assault on a minor, according to the chief county detective for the Cape May Prosecutor's Office. A prolific bank robber who graced the FBI's top ten most wanted list in the 1980s was captured by Waldwick police in Ridgewood following an Oakland bank heist Monday morning, according to police. A Piscataway High School gym teacher and coach has been arrested and charged with having sexual relations with an 18-year-old student. A man who formerly lived in Port Monmouth pleaded guilty today to leading a narcotics network that …
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Other top stories this week include a missing college student and a student protest of budget cuts in Newark.
A Toms River 6-year-old who was shot in the head by a 4-year-old died Tuesday, according to Toms River police. The manager of the iconic Tick Tock Diner in Clifton tried to have his uncle killed in an elaborate murder-for-hire plot, state police said at a news conference Wednesday. Paige Aiello, a student at The College of New Jersey, was last seen on Tuesday; her car was found a day later in a New Brunswick parking deck, authorities said. Hundreds of Newark youth marched out of their high school classrooms at noon Tuesday to protest proposed cuts to the school district’s nearly $1 billion budget. An Englewood doctor was sentenced Friday to nine years in state prison in a murder-for-hire plot targeting his lover and ex-business partner, …
Saturday, April 6, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Galloway man who was murdered Thursday at the end of his driveway and a series of potato gun attacks in multiple Essex County towns.
Rutgers mens basketball coach Mike Rice lost his job after a video of him yelling offensive language and shoving and kicking players during basketball practice surfaced Tuesday. Assistant coach Jimmy Martelli and athletic director Tim Pernetti were also forced out as part of the scandal. Two cast members of the Real Housewives of New Jersey are accused of assaulting a man at the grand opening of a Ridgewood business on Saturday. Residents of multiple Essex towns have reported property damaged by potatoes police believe were launched using a homemade cannon, according to officials. A Galloway Township man was shot and killed at the end of his driveway in what Galloway Police called an isolated incident at 2 a.m. Thursday. A Gloucester …
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Other top stories this week include a hit-and-run suspect whom cops allege arrived at the police station for questioning with weapons to "deal with police," and a man charged in the death of his girlfriend's 1-year-old girl foster daughter.
The Bridgwater school district is investigating a recently published Facebook page that is filled with videos of recorded fights both inside and outside of the Bridgewater-Raritan High School building. Saddle Brook Police uncovered a 21-ton shipment of stolen Muenster cheese inside a refrigerated trailer at an NJ Turnpike rest area Tuesday, Police Chief Robert Kugler said. A Shamong man killed a 1-year-old Cinnaminson girl who was in his girlfriend’s foster care, according to authorities. A suspect in a hit-and-run crash involving his ex-wife arrived for questioning at Gloucester Township Police headquarters carrying a retractable baton and two knives, saying he brought the weapons to "deal with police," authorities allege. A Hoboken nanny…
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Cherry Hill East teacher whom parents allege bullies and racially discriminates against students and a Perth Amboy sub charged with sexually assaulting a female student on multiple occasions.
Paul Bergrin, a Newark defense attorney who prosecutors say urged the 2004 murder of a witness against one of his clients, was convicted on 23 criminal counts, according to a report in the Star Ledger. U.S. Army Specialist Derek McConnell, who lived in Parsippany, died Monday, according to posts by his mother and fiance on the Facebook page “Team Derek.” McConnell grew up in West Essex, where this week the community remembered him as an "American hero." An English teacher’s allegedly racially inappropriate comments, discrimination and bullying led a group of a half-dozen Cherry Hill East parents to take their case before the school board. A substitute teacher at Perth Amboy High School is being held on $100,000 bail after being charged …
Sunday, March 17, 2013
Other top stories this week include three North Jersey men who pleaded guilty to a 2009 armed robbery and attempted murder and a man who allegedly brought a concealed handgun into a police station.
A Brick Township couple have been charged with animal cruelty after police said a dog they reported to have found covered in feces in a garbage bag on the side of the road was actually their own animal, authorities said. Ridgewood Superintendent Daniel Fishbein held a news conference Thursday to address a scandal that rocked the high school this week involving the distribution through social media of nude photos of high school girls. Three men from North Jersey who in 2009 robbed a bank in Franklin Township and then led police on a chase through North Brunswick and New Brunswick pleaded guilty this week to armed robbery and attempted murder, authorities say. A 20-year-old city man was arrested Monday after walking into a police station …
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Other top stories this week include a Cherry Hill East teacher accused of exposing himself to a child in a Walmart and a former corrections officer indicted on prisoner sex assault charges.
Butler Councilman Sean McNear was indicted on child endangerment charges Thursday after authorities said he pointed a loaded BB gun at and threatened to shoot his 5-year-old son. A Columbia High School student was arrested Tuesday and will be charged with making a terroristic threat after he allegedly placed an envelope filled with white powder under a dean's office door, Capt. John M. Perna of the Maplewood Police Department said. A local high school Spanish teacher was arrested and charged with lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child last week after he allegedly exposed his genitals to a preteen at a Walmart Auto Care Center, the Camden County Prosecutor announced Monday. A corrections officer and the former assistant head of the…
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