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NYC vigil to honor woman stabbed to death in Manhattan apartment
EAST HARLEM, N.Y. (PIX11) — A vigil will be held Monday for a woman whose boyfriend allegedly stabbed her to death in the bathtub of her Manhattan apartment last week. The candlelight ceremony for Melanie Woods will be at 2272 Second Ave. near 117th Street in East Harlem at 5 p.m., according to organizers. Authorities […]
High-Rise Fire Displaces 40, Injures One In Newark: Cops
At 12:04 a.m., firefighters responded to a fire in an occupied 5-story building at 502 Market St., Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. Additional units were needed to contain the blaze and a second alarm was called, Fragé said. A tenant was taken to University Hospital for...
New Jersey mayor alleges political payback behind funding cut
(The Center Square) — A New Jersey mayor is suggesting a state agency's move to pull funding for a museum project was in retaliation for his refusal to endorse First Lady Tammy Murphy's U.S. Senate candidacy. On Friday, the New Jersey Economic Development Authority threatened to pull funding for the controversial Pompidou Museum project unless the Jersey City Redevelopment Agency "rectifies" a $19 million shortfall on its books. But an...
New York Students Find Hacked-up Remains Of Hudson Valley Couple
A group of New York students made a gruesome discovery. This story has more twists. Human remains of a couple from the Hudson Valley were found. Remains Of Hudson Valley, New York Residents Found On Long Island. Hudson Valley Post previously reported the dismembered remains of a man and woman...
Ex-Con Formerly Of Paterson Convicted Of Selling Fentanyl To Federal Operative At Jersey Shore
Jurors in U.S. District Court in Trenton found former Paterson resident Djavon Holland, 37, guilty of possession with the intent to sell the deadly drug, U.S. Attorney Philip Sellinger said. As an ex-con with multiple convictions on his record, Holland, currently of Virginia, could be sentenced to more than a...
A child’s horrific death drove NJ to reform welfare system
Two decades later, foster care system a national model following dramatic restructuring. In January 2003, police found the mummified body of 7-year-old Faheem Williams in a locked basement in Newark, alongside two brothers who were starving but still alive. Faheem and his family were known to New Jersey’s child welfare system, but with more than 100 children on his caseworker’s docket, no one was checking on the boys regularly.
How Columbia University's complex history with the student protest movement echoes into today
NEW YORK (AP) — College students taking up space and making demands for change. University administrators facing pressure to get things back under control. Police brought in to make arrests. At other schools: students taking note, and sometimes taking action. Columbia University, 2024. And Columbia University, 1968. The pro-Palestinian demonstration and subsequent arrests at Columbia that have set off similar protests at campuses nationwide these days and even internationally aren’t new ground for students at the Ivy League school. They’re the latest in a Columbia tradition that dates back more than five decades — one that also helped provide inspiration for the anti-apartheid protest of the 1980s, the Iraq war protests, and more. “When you’re going to Columbia, you know you’re going to an institution which has an honored place in the history of American protest,” said Mark Naison, professor of history and African & African American Studies at Fordham University and himself a participant in the 1968 demonstrations. “Whenever there is a movement, you know Columbia is going to be right there.”
Driver Who Fled Cops At 100 MPH Captured In Secaucus Hotel: Fairfield PD
Police originally attempted to stop Deyah Shaabneh on Wednesday, April 24, when officers saw his vehicle had a fake license plate, Fairfield police said. Shaabneh failed to stop and instead, sped down Sand Road going 100 mph, police said. Officers did not pursue him out of concern for public safety, police said.
MTA's Manhattan congestion pricing program is launching prematurely
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is set to launch its congestion pricing program on June 30. The first of its kind in the U.S., the congestion pricing program appears set to begin even as lawsuits — including one filed by Rockland County Executive Ed Day — play out. The rush to start congestion pricing violates an open public participation process.
Kingsbridge Vicinity: Police Appeal to Public for Help Identifying Two in Bronx Robbery Pattern
The NYPD is asking for the public’s assistance identifying the person seen in the attached photos who they say is sought in connection to a robbery pattern identified across the 50th Precinct, which covers the neighborhoods of Riverdale, Fieldston, Kingsbridge, Marble Hill, and Spuyten Duyvil. They said the first...
Westwood school board eases limits on classroom debate, restricts recordings of teachers
The new Westwood Regional School District board has reversed more of the policies adopted last year by "parental rights" advocates, with a vote to scrap rules that limited the opinions teachers could give on "controversial issues." At a meeting last week, the board also approved a “right to privacy” policy that restricts the recording...
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