North Hunterdon, NJ
News
'We Will Work Tirelessly:' Family Of Warren County Woman Killed In Dump Truck Crash Gets Lawyer 'We Will Work Tirelessly:' Family Of Warren County Woman Killed In Dump Truck Crash Gets Lawyer
'We Will Work Tirelessly:' Family Of Warren County Woman Killed In Dump Truck Crash Gets Lawyer The family of a Warren County woman who was killed in a crash with a dump truck earlier this month has retained a lawyer. Mary Ann Boatman, 69, of Great Meadows, was killed in a head-on crash with a dump truck on Route 521 in Hope Township on Thursday, Aug. 4, DailyVoice.com reported. A Kenworth dump truck was heading northbound when it crossed the double-yellow line and sideswiped a Grumman Allied LLV U.S. Mail vehicle heading southbound at milepost .68 near Dogwood Drive before continuing north and hitting Boatman’s Honda CRV head-on, authorities said. A 1970 graduate of Hackettstown Hi…

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by Valerie Musson
Paterson, NJ
News
Concerns Emerge For Paterson Homeless Outreach Program After Founder's Arrest Concerns Emerge For Paterson Homeless Outreach Program After Founder's Arrest
Concerns Emerge For Paterson Homeless Outreach Program After Founder's Arrest A man charged in a stabbing during a dispute over a parking spot outside his Clifton home operates a Paterson outreach program that's received more than $300,000 in grants this month and boasts partnerships with New Jersey State Police, among others. The ”lead-up to the incident” last weekend involving Roger Lester, 42, “is still unclear and has become a legal matter,” a publicist for his organization said Thursday. Brennan Jenkins of Ruthleess Marketing contended that Lester -- the founder and CEO of NJ PAAIN (Preparing Adolescent & Adult Ideologies Now) -- had been “caught […

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by Jerry DeMarco
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
Police & Fire
Philly Woman Who Killed Mom's Fiance Surrenders: DA Philly Woman Who Killed Mom's Fiance Surrenders: DA
Philly Woman Who Killed Mom's Fiance Surrenders: DA A Philadelphia woman has turned herself in to police as being the person who killed her mom's 49-year-old fiance during a fight on New Year's Eve in Montgomery County, authorities said. Samiyah Williams, 24, was arraigned Monday morning on charges of first-degree murder, third-degree murder, and possessing an instrument of crime in the shooting death of Adrionne Reaves in the Bala Cynwyd section of Lower Merion just before 10 p.m. at the Delwyn Apartments, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. She was remanded to the Montgomery County Correctional Fac…

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by Nicole Acosta
Allentown, PA
Police & Fire
Lehigh County Man Charged With Raping Bethlehem Child Lehigh County Man Charged With Raping Bethlehem Child
Lehigh County Man Charged With Raping Bethlehem Child A Lehigh County man was arraigned Thursday on charges that he raped a child in Bethlehem, according to news reports and court records. Eldis Javier Rivera-Rodriguez, 40, of Fountain Hill, was arrested after the child, whom he knew, told a camp counselor about the sexual assaults which began in 2019, LehighValleyLive reports. The child also told investigating officers of a May 2020 rape at Rivera-Rodriguez's then Bethlehem basement apartment, the outlet says. He was charged with rape, statutory sexual assault (11 years older), involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, aggravated indecent assa…

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by Nicole Acosta
Brookfield, CT
Police & Fire
Man Nabbed For Using Bank Cards Stolen Out Of Vehicle In Fairfield County, Police Day Man Nabbed For Using Bank Cards Stolen Out Of Vehicle In Fairfield County, Police Day
Man Nabbed For Using Bank Cards Stolen Out Of Vehicle In Fairfield County, Police Day A Fairfield County man has been arrested for allegedly stealing a wallet out of an unlocked vehicle and using bank cards inside to make purchases. Kalil Walls, age 18, of Bridgeport, was arrested by Darien Police for a motor vehicle burglary in which a wallet was stolen from an unlocked vehicle, said Sgt. James Palmieri. The victim informed officers that the bank cards from the wallet had been used that morning in Waterbury, in New Haven County.  Based on security camera footage at the establishments where the victim’s cards were used, Walls was identified as a suspect.…

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by Kathy Reakes
Franklin Township, NJ
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LAWSUIT: NJ Actress 'Won't Be The Same' After Doc Used Dirty Needles, Botched Her Breasts LAWSUIT: NJ Actress 'Won't Be The Same' After Doc Used Dirty Needles, Botched Her Breasts
Lawsuit: NJ Actress 'Won't Be The Same' After Doc Used Dirty Needles, Botched Her Breasts Three years have passed since Christina Castellanos' breast reduction surgery at Hunterdon Healthcare -- and life hasn't been the same since. The 37-year-old Bound Brook resident was not only left with botched breasts following the May 2018 procedure, but later received a letter from the hospital saying that her doctor -- Andrea L. Strauss -- breached safety protocols and may have exposed her to blood born pathogens due to unsanitary needles. To put it simply, life since the procedure has been hell, said Castellanos. Represented by Scott Leonard of the Leonard Legal Group in Morristown, th…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lower Merion-Narberth, PA
Police & Fire
DA: Philly Man Selling Heroin, Fentanyl Cocktails Caused 4 ODs Including 2 Deaths DA: Philly Man Selling Heroin, Fentanyl Cocktails Caused 4 ODs Including 2 Deaths
DA: Philly Man Selling Heroin, Fentanyl Cocktails Caused 4 ODs Including 2 Deaths A Philadelphia drug dealer was arrested after selling bags of heroin and fentanyl to two people who both survived overdoses on it months before they overdosed and died on it, authorities said. Bags of drugs labeled "BAD BUNNY" sold by Derrick Jackson, 58, were found at the scene of the overdose deaths of Jason Evans last September and Rebecca Ennis in December 2019, according to Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Hatfield Township Police Chief William Tierney. Jackson was recently charged with drug delivery resulting in death in connection with Evans' fatal overdos…

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by Nicole Acosta
Cliffside Park-Edgewater, NJ
Police & Fire
Edgewater Ex-Con Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money Edgewater Ex-Con Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money
Edgewater Ex-Con Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen For Laundering $850,000 In Drug Money An ex-con from Edgewater is headed to federal prison for 10 years for laundering more than $850,000 in drug money. Bobbie L. Henderson III, 36, was living in the St. Moritz high-rise off Gorge Road when he conspired with others to launder what he thought were proceeds from drug sales, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Henderson was charged in Pennsylvania five years ago with fighting with police who took him into custody after he crashed his car in the middle of a highway and left it there. Rather than go to trial on the money laundering charge, he accepted a deal from the government, wh…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Middletown, NJ
News
Hardcore Feelings Stirred Over $2 Million Settlement In Asbury Park Stage-Diving Injury Hardcore Feelings Stirred Over $2 Million Settlement In Asbury Park Stage-Diving Injury
Hardcore Feelings Stirred Over $2 Million Settlement In Asbury Park Stage-Diving Injury A lawsuit won $2 million in damages for a hardcore punk fan who was injured by a stage diver at a benefit concert in Asbury Park – and brought an angry response from the event’s chief organizer. Jason Kooken of New Hampshire had thanked members of Asbury Audio, Inc. after he was injured during an April 2, 2017 concert in memory of Vision lead singer Dave Franklin of Bridgewater, who'd died suddenly three months earlier. More than 2,500 fans packed the famed Convention Hall for the tribute show, headlined by one of hardcore’s founding and most prominent bands, Agnostic Front of New York City…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Hackensack, NJ
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LAWSUIT: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Abused Boy At Hackensack Church In 1990s LAWSUIT: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Abused Boy At Hackensack Church In 1990s
Lawsuit: Ex-Cardinal McCarrick Abused Boy At Hackensack Church In 1990s A man is accusing former Roman Catholic Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of assaulting him as a teen at a Hackensack church in a lawsuit filed Monday under newly-enacted New Jersey law. John Bellocchio was a 14-year-old altar boy at the St. Francis of Assisi when the alleged incident occurred, NJTV News reports. Now 37, Bellocchio claims the church covered up his case and others. "He never would have been able to do the things he did and rise up the ranks the way he did without their complicity or consent, implied or otherwise," Bellocchio said at a news conference. A law that was passed in Ne…

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by Cecilia Levine
Mount Pleasant, NY
Real Estate
'Legally Haunted' Area Manor Up For Sale 'Legally Haunted' Area Manor Up For Sale
'Legally Haunted' Area Manor Up For Sale Just in time for fall and the upcoming "spooky" season, a legally haunted house in Rockland County has hit the market for a mere $1.9 million. The home is known across the region as being deemed "legally haunted," by the New York Supreme Court. The court made the decision favoring the buyer who sued to have his money returned after learning of the home's history as being haunted by poltergeists from the Revolutionary War era. News of the home's unwanted residents, located at 1 Laveta Place in Nyack, came to light in the 1980s after the owner, Helen Ackley, had told people for years about t…

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by Kathy Reakes