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'Nauseating' Booker Controversy Sparks Resignation

The Huffington Post | Paige Lavender | Posted 05.29.2012

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Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker's communications director Anne Torres has resigned in the wake of the mayor's controversial "Meet the Press" rema...

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Cory Booker Street

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Private Capital, Cory Booker, Obama Campaign, Newark, Political Cartoons, Politics News

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Bottom Line? Cory Booker Has Got It!

Erin Schrode | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Politics, Education, Chris Christie, Cory Booker, Superheroes, New Jersey, New Jersey Schools, Newark, Ryan Gosling, Role Models, Brick City, Urban America, Cities, Politics News

The power of Cory Booker entered my life and quickly spread to family, friends, classmates, teachers, you name it. Everyone seemed to have the same response upon discovering this new breed of political force... this guy is the real deal.

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A Homeless Bystander

Kevin M. Ryan | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Covenant House, Gun Violence, Youth Violence, Homeless Youth, Newark, Impact News

Homelessness, you see, puts a bull's eye on the backs of kids. And I am tired beyond words of the violence and the suffering that results.

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Woman Saved By Mayor Booker Speaks Out

Posted 04.17.2012

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The woman who was saved from her burning apartment by Newark Mayor Cory Booker has given her first interview. 48-year-old Zina Hodge, still recove...

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WATCH: Whitney Houston Funeral Costs Newark Taxpayers $187K

Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Taxpayer Money, Whitney Houston, Whitney Houston Funeral, Newark, Poll, Taxpayers, Black Voices News

Newark residents turned out by the hundreds when pop icon Whitney Houston was laid to rest in their hometown on February 18, but their show of support...

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Homeless Mom Of 5 Goes From Streets To Preschool Classroom

Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Video, Newark, Poverty, Unemployment, William Linder, New Jersey, Homelessness, Housing, Eviction, New Community Corporation, Teachers, Tracy Stapleton, Impact News

Once homeless, a New Jersey mom of five now has quite a few lessons to teach her preschool students. After losing her job, Tracy Stapleton's life q...

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Prime Minster Cameron's In Town

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY and CRISTIAN SALAZAR | Posted 05.15.2012

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NEW YORK — British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife visited the memorial at the World Trade Center on Thursday after touring businesses...

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FBI Head: NYPD Spying Hurting Terrorism Task Force

AP | SAMANTHA HENRY | Posted 05.07.2012

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NEWARK, N.J. — In a rare public criticism of the New York Police Department, the top FBI official in New Jersey said Wednesday that the departme...

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DOUBLING DOWN

AP | By DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 02.25.2012

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NEW YORK -- New York's mayor served notice Friday that his police department will do everything in its power to root out terrorists in the U.S., even ...

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NYPD Defends Tactics Over Muslim Spying

Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Newark, Cory Booker, Paul Browne, Video, Nypd, New York Crime, Ray Kelly, Ny News, Nypd Muslim, Mosque Surveillance, Nypd Muslim Spying, New York News

By ADAM GOLDMAN and MATT APUZZO, Associated Press NEW YORK -- The New York Police Department targeted Muslim mosques with tactics normally reserved...

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NYPD: Newark Police Knew We Were Spying On Muslims

AP | By COLLEEN LONG and TOM HAYS | Posted 02.24.2012

Read More: Newark Police Department, Newark, Paul Browne, Nypd, Rahm Emanuel, Ny News, Nypd Muslims, Nypd Scandals, New York News, Nypd Spying on Mosques, Corey Booker, Nypd-Demographics-Unit, New York News

NEW YORK -- Officials in three states traded accusations over who knew what about a secret 2007 New York Police Department operation that monitored an...

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A Superstar's Farewell: Whitney Houston's New Hope

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 04.18.2012

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Whitney Houston's funeral will be the antithesis of Michael Jackson's theatrical farewell. That is only fitting.

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My Friend Rev. Jesse Jackson on Whitney Houston

Lonna Saunders | Posted 04.13.2012

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Her death is a wake up call for all of us to reach out to those we know and love, whether they seek our help or not.

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Documents For $100 Million Facebook Pledge Ordered Public

AP | By DAVID PORTER | Posted 01.30.2012

Read More: Newark Schools, Aclu, American Civil Liberties Union, Cory Booker, Newark, Facebook Donation, Newark Facebook Donation, Chris Christie, Oprah Winfrey, Newark New Jersey, New Jersey Schools, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Facebook Donation to Newark, Aclu New Jersey, Education News

NEWARK, N.J. -- The state's largest city must produce a list of documents related to a $100 million pledge to its public schools from Facebook founder...

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PHOTOS: The Priciest Airports To Fly Out Of In The U.S.

Posted 12.15.2011

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Cost has largely replaced distance as the measure of how hard it is to get around. Sure, Indianapolis is closer to Philadelphia than Chicago is, but t...

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Astoria Characters: The Pane-Air Painter

Nancy Ruhling | Posted 12.25.2011

For three decades, Berch and his brushes have been beautifying Astoria, and for three decades, he's stayed pretty much behind the glass.

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New Jersey Shooting Leaves 6 Injured, Say Officials

West Ward, NJ Patch | Joshua Wilwohl and Karen Yi | Posted 12.10.2011

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At least six people have been wounded in a midday shooting in a courtyard outside Kemsco Village apartment building at Stone and Crane streets in Newa...

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Undercover Newark Cop Touched Himself And Fondled Masseuse During Sting Operation

Posted 12.07.2011

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Police in Newark, N.J., will implement a new protocol for sting operations after an undercover vice cop pleasured himself and fondled a masseuse durin...

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Black America's $100M investment experiment

Mike Green | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Public Schools, Black Entrepreneurs, Newark, Black Innovation, Zuckerberg, Black America, Investment, Innovation Ecosystem, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Founders, Entrepreneurship, STEM Education, Facebook, Black Voices News

What if Zuckerberg had challenged innovative Black entrepreneurs across the nation, rather than students, to compete for 1,000 cash prizes of $100000 each?

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Hoping for a Finer State of Internal Affairs for Newark's Police

Deborah Jacobs | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Police, Department of Justice, Aclu-Nj, Newark, Internal Affairs, Civil Rights, Cory Booker, Samuel Demaio, Sheilah Coley, Crime News

In the year since the ACLU of New Jersey sent a battery of grievances to the Department of Justice asking it to investigate the Newark Police Department, a few things have happened.

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Booker To Release 'Whatever We Can Find' On Facebook Donation Documents Cited In Suit

West Ward, N.J. Patch | Joshua Wilwohl | Posted 11.12.2011

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The mayor of New Jersey's largest city did an about-face Monday after saying he would release documents requested by the American Civil Liberties Unio...

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Zuckerberg's $100 Million To Newark Starts To Gain Some Traction

HuffingtonPost.com | Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.06.2011

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On their first day back at school today, the students of Newark, N.J., may be too focused on reconnecting with friends and meeting new teachers to not...

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Newark Mayor Cory Booker LiveTweets Hurricane Irene

Posted 10.30.2011

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Go ahead and complain about how New York City overreacted to Hurricane Irene. But Irene was a serious hurricane that has so far left 40 people dead, w...

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Guilty Plea In Murder Cold Case From '78

AP | By DAVID PORTER | Posted 10.30.2011

Read More: Melvin Pittman, Newark, 5 Teenagers Murdered in Newark, Alvin Turner, New Jersey, 1978 Newark Murders, New Jersey Crime, Cold Case, Randy Johnson, Philander Hampton, Ernest Taylor, Michael-Mcdowell, Crime News

NEWARK, N.J. -- A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering five teenagers in 1978 in what was one of the state's longest-running cold cases....

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