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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.
Sweet viral video shows little girl hugging NYC ‘pretzel man’ after week away
Heartwarming footage captures a little girl running into the arms of a local pretzel vendor outside her New York City preschool after she returned from vacation. The child’s mom, Tina Mangan, told The Post on Sunday that she was uneasy at first watching 4-year-old daughter Madison recently sprinting down the sidewalk along busy Canal Street in Manhattan after school — until she saw the little girl head straight into the arms of the pretzel-cart seller, a sweet scene captured in a TikTok video that has gone viral since the mother posted it last week. “I was like nervous at first because she was running, and it’s like on the busiest street ever,” Mangan said. Then “he just put his arms out … and I was like, ‘Oh my God, what’s happening?’ And I...
Tractor trailer crashes into North Jersey pharmacy
An Essex County pharmacy is closed after a tractor trailer slammed into the building, fire department officials said. The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy on Route 23 in Cedar Grove was seriously damaged in the Friday morning crash, Fire Department Chief Chris Donlon said. The crash involved two cars in addition to the tractor trailer.
VOTE: North Jersey Student of the Week April 29-May 3
The Student of the Week poll is open and ready for you to vote. Each week during the school year, we are soliciting nominations from staff and faculty of high schools (sorry parents!) across North Jersey of students who are doing something special in their schools and their communities. Like...
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.”
‘Midtown Jane Doe’ finally ID’d — thanks partly to eerie twist — 20 years after remains found in cement at former NYC hot spot
NYPD detectives have finally ID’d the remains of a woman found mysteriously entombed in cement at a former famed Hell’s Kitchen hot spot 20 years ago — and they were eerily helped along by a 9/11 victim. Cops believe that the woman — who had only been known as “Midtown Jane Doe” after her skeleton was found by construction workers at 301 W. 46th St. in Manhattan in February 2003 — is Patricia Kathleen McGlone, a teen girl from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, who was last seen in the late 1960s. Detective Ryan Glas of the NYPD’s Cold Case Squad finally got a...
DoorDasher Delivering Dessert Escapes Horrific Fate When Kia Catches Fire In Ho-Ho-Kus
A DoorDash driver delivering ice cream in Ho-Ho-Kus escaped a horrific fate when she bailed out of her burning car.The 2016 Kia Sorento went up in flames at the intersection of Timberline Road and Powderhorn Drive shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, April 27.Ho-Ho-Kus police and firefighters responded.…
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