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Documents For $100 Million Facebook Pledge Ordered Public

AP | By DAVID PORTER | Posted 01.30.2012

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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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Newark's West Ward: Living Amid Pervasive Poverty

westward.patch.com | Posted 12.12.2011

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"Even though it's not my own, it's something because there are people that live under the train station."

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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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Newark Not Friendly Over $100 Million Facebook Gift

Posted 08.22.2011

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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg's $100 million contribution to Newark, N.J. public schools has lately drawn a reaction very different from the standi...

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Newark Cop Killed In Drive-By, Suspect Arrested

West Ward, NJ Patch | Joshua Wilwohl and Lia Eustachewich | Email the Authors | 2:30pm | Posted 07.27.2011

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A 16-year veteran of the Newark police department, described as being "personable" and "well-liked," was killed late Thursday night in a drive-by shoo...

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Ridgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez remains on witness stand during corruption trial

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tyson Trish/The Star-LedgerRidgefield Mayor Anthony Suarez continues to testify on his own behalf during a corruption trial in Newark. RIDGEFIELD ...

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N.J. corrections officer charged with sexually assaulting woman at Newark prison is caught

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Essex County Prosecutro's OfficeDevere Hatchett NEWARK — A New Jersey corrections officer charged with sexually assaulting a woman at the pr...

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Newark man is charged in stabbing death of wife

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Google MapsNewark, N.J.. NEWARK - Yvette Pieters wanted her husband out of their Newark home late Wednesday night, but Frederick Pieters wouldn't ...

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Newark set to become tourism mecca

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andrew Mills/The Star-Ledger Devils owner Jeffrey Vanderbeek (left) shows New Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov (right) the view during a tour of Prude...

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DeFarra Gaymon and Why Black Homophobia Now Has a Body Count

Rob Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rob Smith

Recently, DeFarra Gaymon, the Black CEO of Credit Union of Atlanta, was shot and killed by an undercover cop in a known gay cruising area in what appears to be a botched sex-sting operation.

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DeFarra Gaymon, Georgia Bank CEO, Shot Fatally In New Jersey

Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK (AP) -- New Jersey prosecutors plan to release more information Tuesday about the fatal shooting of an unarmed Georgia banker by an undercover ...

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Cory Booker Is 41 Years Old

John R. Bohrer | Posted 05.25.2011

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John R. Bohrer

Cory Booker has become cliche: Newark's Savior-in-Progress. An image that's been marching in place for the better part of a decade.

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NJ attorney general taking over Williams case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. — The New Jersey attorney general's office will take over the manslaughter prosecution of former NBA star Jayson Williams.

An office spokesman said Wednesday that it would replace the Hunterdon County prosecutor's office for Williams' retrial on a reckless manslaughter count stemming from the shooting of a hired driver in 2002.

Current and former employees of the county office testified last week in a hearing to determine whether the case has been tainted by racial bias. It was disclosed two years ago that a county investigator used a racial slur to describe Williams, who is black.

Williams was convicted of covering up the shooting, but the jury deadlocked on a reckless manslaughter count.

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FBI charges Port Authority police officer from N.J. with fraud scheme

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK-- A veteran Port Authority police officer has been arrested and charged in a fraud scheme involving a cooperating witness for the governmen...

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John Brek Arrested: Newark Security Guard Accused Of Making Terrorist Threats Against Obama

AP | VICTOR EPSTEIN | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. — A private security guard at Newark Liberty International Airport was arrested on charges of threatening Barack Obama the night be...

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Haisong Jiang, N.J. man, arrested in Newark airport security breach

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Man who allegedly caused lockdown was taken into custody tonight at his Piscataway home -- Watch the video ...

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Paul Fishman, U.S. attorney for N.J., will be officially inducted in Newark

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mitsu Yasukawa/The Star-LedgerPaul FishmanNEWARK -- Paul Fishman, a prominent defense lawyer and former federal prosecutor, will be officially ind...

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Bergen County woman admits embezzling $100K from N.J. photo company

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK -- The former finance director of a photography company pleaded guilty today in federal court to helping embezzle more than $100,000 from t...

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Jon Bon Jovi on NBC Nightly News: Making A Difference Through Foundation

Posted 05.25.2011

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As previously mentioned on Impact, NBC Nightly News is devoting a week of "Make A Difference" segments to profiling celebrities and their charitable e...

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Newark man accused of faking N.J. teaching certificate

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK -- Rasheen Kornegay had been a teacher at Lady Liberty Academy Charter School for about six years, except that he hadn't, according to the ...

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Newark red-light cams go live

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Star-LedgerA red-light camera in Newark.NEWARK -- New Jersey's largest city will be seeing green when motorists run red lights. On Wednesday t...

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Former Secaucus Mayor Dennis Elwell is due in court in corruption case

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Star-LedgerDennis Elwell, 64, of Seacaucus leaves the Federal Courthouse in Newark.One of the politicians arrested in New Jersey's largest cor...

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N.J. attorney Paul Bergrin pleads not guilty to bribery, drug, prostitution charges

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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John O'Boyle/The Star-LedgerAttorney Paul Bergrin appears in court on behalf of a client in May before he was charged with murder and witness inti...

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Woman charged in NJ forced labor case convicted

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK, N.J. — A woman accused of forcing girls from Africa to work in New Jersey hair braiding salons for no pay has been convicted of human trafficking and visa fraud in a case her lawyer says highlighted African cultural norms that failed to translate in America.

Prosecutors argued that Akouavi Kpade Afolabi, called "Sister" by the women she oversaw, helped bring at least 20 girls between the ages of 10 and 19 from the West African nations of Togo and Ghana on fraudulent visas to New Jersey starting in 2002.

They said she manipulated the impoverished young women, who aspired to live better lives in America, and kept them in slavery-like conditions while stealing all their pay – even tips as meager as fifty cents.

Afolabi's lawyer, Bukie Adetula, countered that his client was considered a benevolent mother figure and revered community leader – both in her native Togo and New Jersey. He said she was known for lending people money and aiding young women to escape their poverty-stricken homeland to learn a marketable skill in America.

"I don't think the jury quite got it, the whole essence of the defense that this was cultural; the argument that they (Afolabi) brought Togo to America," Adetula said.

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Essex County elections chief charged with paying workers on days off taken for political campaigning

NJ.com | NJ.com | Posted 05.25.2011

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NEWARK -- Carmine Casciano, Essex County's longtime superintendent of elections who has been credited with sparking a far-reaching election-fraud ...

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