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Jersey City, NJ
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Prosecutor: Man, 21, Who Raised Handgun Before Being Shot By Jersey City Officer ID'd
Authorities have identified and charged a 21-year-old man who they say raised a handgun during a brief pursuit with police, prompting a Jersey City officer to shoot him Tuesday evening. Members of the police department's street crimes unit were conducting an investigation near Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Oak Street when they saw a man later identified as Korron Bethall with a handgun around 8 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. When approached by the officers who identified themselves as police, Benthall fled across the parking lot of the Salem Lafayette Publi…
Lyndhurst, NJ
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$18.5M Contract Approved For Replacement Of 107-Year Old Lyndhurst Train Station
A contract for $18.5 million was approved for the construction of a new Lyndhurst NJ Transit train station replacing the current 107-year-old facility. Located at the corner of Delafield and Court avenues, the station will be closer to the commuter parking lot and will be designed to replicate the historic style of the Lyndhurst neighborhood. It will include ADA accessible platforms, new stairs, four elevators, new lighting, canopies, communications and a closed-circuit TV, NJ Transit officials said. The contract is going to Anselmi & Decicco, Inc. of Maplewood, after six fi…
Paterson, NJ
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'Speak English Or Pay $10': Clifton Shop Owner's Sign Causes Controversy
"Speak English or pay $10 extra," read the sign that Dave Feinberg hung in his Clifton storefront. Feinberg owns Cutter's Edge, a knife and blade-sharpening shop on Lakeview Avenue, in a largely Spanish- and Arabic-speaking area. He hung the hand-written note in the window out of frustration over the weekend -- and never intended to actually charge customers extra, according to NorthJersey.com. What ensued was a near-war against him. Feinberg was accused of racism by Twitter users calling for a shutdown of his store. He answered countless phone calls from people saying they wish he lost …
Bergenfield, NJ
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Winning Lottery Tickets Sold In Bergen, Essex Counties
A pair of lottery tickets each good for $10,000 were sold in Bergen and Essex counties. The tickets from Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing matched four of the five white balls and the Gold Mega Ball drawn. The tickets were sold at the 7-Eleven on Palisades Avenue in Bogota and Lou's Corner Liquor Mart in Newark. The winning numbers were 07, 10, 15, 31, and 57. The Gold Mega Ball was 21, and the Megaplier Multiplier was 02. In addition to the third-tier prizes won, 22 players matched four of the five white balls drawn making each ticket worth $500. Three of those tickets wer…
Jersey City, NJ
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Prosecutor: Man, 21, Who Raised Handgun Before Being Shot By Jersey City Officer ID'd
Authorities have identified and charged a 21-year-old man who they say pointed a handgun at police prompting a Jersey City police officer to shoot him Tuesday evening. Members of the police department's street crimes unit were conducting an investigation near Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive and Oak Street when they saw a man later identified as Korron Bethall with a handgun around 8 p.m., Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said Wednesday. When approached by the officers who identified themselves as police, Benthall fled across the parking lot of the Salem Lafayette Public Housing Complex,…
Edison, NJ
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Did You Feel It? Small Earthquake Rattles Central Jersey
A small earthquake was detected in New Jersey early Wednesday morning, the United States Geological Survey reports. The 3.1 magnitude earthquake occurred about a mile southeast of East Freehold just after 2 a.m., and was felt in "much of central New Jersey," the USGS and National Weather Service’s Mount Holly office said. Did you feel it? Click here to report what you felt. Some locals were woken up by the rumbling and others slept right through it. "There wasn't much shaking," one person wrote on an earthquake-tracking website. "It was very quick and ended with a very loud…
Jersey City, NJ
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: Man Getting Gun From Car Shot Three Times By Jersey City Officer, Authorities Say
A 21-year-old man seen getting a gun out of his car was shot in the wrist Tuesday evening by a Jersey City police officer in his eighth year in the department, officials said. Police were conducting a routine, electronic surveillance of a southwestern neighborhood when they saw a suspect get a firearm from a car and put it in his pocket around 7:50 p.m., Jersey City Police Director John Shea and Mayor Steven Fulop said during a press conference. The officer trying to catch up with the suspect fired three shots at him near MLK Drive and Union Street, Fulop and Shea said. The suspect wa…
Parsippany-Troy Hills, NJ
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Mount Olive PD: Florida BMW Driver Busted With Heroin
Police responding to reports of a woman sleeping in a BMW busted the Florida driver with heroin. in Mount Olive, authorities said. Alexa R. Montanaro, 29, of Grand Island, FL, was on her phone and struggling to stay in her lane on Main Street in Flanders when officers were responding to the call around 7:20 a.m. Sept. 3, Mount Olive Police Chief Stephen Beecher said. Police stopped Montanaro after she failed to use her turn signal, and subsequently spotted hypodermic syringe caps and other drug paraphernalia in her car, authorities said. A search of Montanaro's vehicle turned up heroi…
Newark, NJ
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Police Seek Help Identifying Man In Newark Shooting
Police in Newark are seeking the public's help identifying a man wanted in a shooting. The man is wanted for questioning in last Wednesday's incident at Chancellor Avenue and Schley Street, Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. The suspect is described as a man with a medium complexion and long dark dreadlocks, wearing a dark colored baseball style hat backwards, long-sleeve white shirt, blue jeans, and light colored sneakers. Anyone with information can call the Division's 24-hour Crime Stopper tip line at 1-877-NWK-TIPS (1-877-695-8477). All anonymous Crime St…
Highland Lakes-Vernon, NJ
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Fire Guts Popular Sussex County Restaurant... Again
A popular Sussex County restaurant gutted by a fire 12 years ago was destroyed by another blaze Labor Day Weekend. Flames and plumes of smoke could be seen from the windows of Tony's Pizza Restaurant and Pub on the southbound side of Route 23 in Stockholm, as firefighters arrived around 12:30 p.m. Monday. Firefighters put out the fire in the back of the building before overhauling and ventilating the facility. Firefighters from the Hardyston, Franklin, Ogdensburg, West Milford and Jefferson responded. The Milton First Aid Squad, Saint Claire's EMS and the Sussex County Fire Marshall were a…
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