A bill that would help boards of education hire drivers for small school vehicles and end the competition with package delivery companies looking to hire van drivers has cleared a major step. The legislation, A2180 would create a “Type S” vehicle certificate for drivers of cars or minivans that weigh less than 3,000 pounds and carry 9 or less students. It would relieve those drivers from having to get the same commercial drivers license required for larger school buses and trucks. It was unanimously passed by the state assembly on Monday. A companion bill was introduced in the state senate las...
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A bomb threat in Marlboro Township that closed schools Thursday was emailed to a district staffer and claimed four bombs were located in various buildings around the district, police said Thursday afternoon. The email that contained the bomb threat was received by a Marlboro Memorial Middle School staff member who alerted the Marlboro police department at approximately 6:30 a.m., police said. The email detailed four locations that bombs were placed including two locations in Marlboro Township, authorities said. One bomb was alleged to be in the middle school and another at the board of educati...
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A former elementary school teacher who posed as a woman on the internet to obtain pornographic photos from children has been sentenced to 17 years in prison. Steven Brooks, 37, of Morristown, was sentenced in Newark federal court on Thursday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of New Jersey said. He pleaded guilty to production and possession of child pornography in April of last year. Authorities received a tip in January 2021 about possible child pornography files on an external hard drive belonging to Brooks. At the time, he was a teacher at Washington Elementary School in Summit and also ...
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A man was found dead inside a home in South Jersey on Wednesday with multiple wounds to his body, officials said. Police located the body of 42-year-old Shawn P. O’Neill at a home in Galloway, the Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office said in a news release on Thursday. Officers responded to the home at 2:49 p.m. on Wednesday after receiving a call reporting that there was a dead body inside, officials said. Prosecutors did not specify the types of wounds that O’Neill had sustained. An autopsy is still pending. The Atlantic County Prosecutor’s Office is asking anyone with information to call its...
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A resident’s effort to protect a building full of rent-controlled tenants through an appeal of a Zoning Board decision failed Wednesday, with the City Council voting 5-1 to uphold the Zoning Board decision. But the rare appeal, which forced the council to deliberate on a matter typically handled by another board,sparked at least an initial discussion among council members about a need to better protect longtime tenants from displacement. The Zoning Board appeal concerned 325-329 Grand St., where the property owner applied and was approved to receive zoning variances for a new 22-unitbuilding. ...
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High lead levels were found at three Trenton parks — prompting some areas to be closed and for officials to caution parents to not let children eat or play in the dirt. This comes roughly three months after high lead counts were found at a school in the city. The latest elevated lead levels were found at Sony Vereen Playground, Breunig Avenue Park, and Grant Avenue Playground. All are located in the East Trenton neighborhood. City officials said some sections of the parks will be closed and others will remain open as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) crews work “to cover areas of soil and ...
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One ofthree Passaic County corrections officers accused of organizing an assault on a detainee at the Passaic County Jail plead guilty Thursday to conspiring to cover up the incident, U.S. District Attorney Phillip R. Sellinger said. Lorenzo Bowden, 39, pleaded guilty in Newark federal court Thursday to one count of conspiring to obstruct justice, Sellinger said. “Lorenzo Bowden, a correctional officer, admitted today that he helped transport a detainee to an area where there were no video cameras and stood by while other officers repeatedly hit and assaulted the handcuffed detainee who posed ...
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The sitting United States president is, in the end, a federal employee when it comes to receiving a paycheck. The president’s salary is currently $400,000 a year, per a 2001 monetary upgrade from Congress. Joe Biden, meanwhile, is doing a bit better than that, according to a Forbes report on his latest tax returns. “Biden and First Lady Jill Biden earned $620,000 before taxes last year, according to their 2023 tax return, which the White House released on Monday. That’s a 7% increase from the $580,000 the couple reported making in 2022, a difference that mostly came from a jump in their intere...
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Jersey City is set to begin the revitalization of the “unsafe” Cole Street underpass, including adding a skate park. The project, which stretches from 10th Street to 14th Street and Coles Street to Monmouth Street, is expected to make the dark underpass a safer public space. Along with a permanent skate park, the city will reconstruct the sidewalk, replace the street, and make utility upgrades and significant lighting improvements. Mayor Steve Fulop and Infrastructure Director Barka Patel said the project will safely connect neighborhoods like Holland Gardens and Hamilton Park. City officials ...
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A former bank employee pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking over $105,000 in federal retirement benefits from a deceased customer’s account, U.S. Attorney Phillip R. Sellinger said Thursday. Jorge Nova, 35, of Passaic, admitted to one count of wire fraud in federal court and faces sentencing scheduled for Oct. 18. Nova was an employee at a commercial bank in Nutley between 2011 and April 2015. He began withdrawing money from the customer’s account soon after the man’s death in August 2014, federal authorities said. The Social Security Administration was never notified of the customer’s death and...
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