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Princeton Grad Students Arrested At Pro-Palestinian Protest (
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Two Princeton University graduate students were arrested and barred from campus during a pro-Palestinian protest on Thursday, April 25, authorities said. The arrests came as pro-Palestinian student encampments are being set up on multiple university campuses nationwide. Various pro-Palestinian Princeton groups shared footage to social media. View this post on Instagram A post shared by PSL New Jersey (@pslnewjersey) View this post on Instagram A post shared by Princeton Israeli Apartheid Divest …
Weather
Split Storms Combine: Brace For 4 Inches Of Rain This Weekend In NJ, PA, Forecasters Say
All of New Jersey and Greater Philadelphia are under a flood watch ahead of one big rain storm, or a combination of two different storms that will combine and head to the region this weekend. Between two and four inches of rain are expected to fall between late Friday night, March 22 and Saturday evening, March 23 before tapering off, according to the National Weather Service. "A soaking rainstorm will cause problems along the I-95 corridor as the weekend gets started, with waves of rain moving in late Friday night through Saturday," AccuWeather Meteorologist Dean DeVore said. "Expect slow …
Weather
Thunderstorms With Hail, 65 MPH Winds Threaten Northeast As Temps Soar Mid-Week: Forecasters
Following a stretch of seasonably chilly weather, temps will trend upward unleashing a surge of powerful storms along the East Coast, forecasters say. Sunday, Feb. 25 could be the last day of winter chill for several days with temps in the low 40s and sunny skies, the National Weather Service says. Monday will be warm and sunny as temperatures rise to the mid-50s. Tuesday will reach near 60 degrees and will be partly sunny with a chance of rain in the afternoon and evening. Wednesday is when things could get dangerous, as the threat of severe thunderstorms loom. The AccuWeather map …
Sports
Netflix To Follow Red Sox For Docuseries Airing In 2025
Netflix is shipping up to Boston. The popular streaming service has announced two projects with the Boston Red Sox, one of Major League Baseball's most storied franchises. Netflix will follow the Red Sox throughout the entire season, providing viewers a window into the ups and downs in one of the most rabid sports environments, Netflix said in a news release. The docuseries is set to debut in 2025. The second project, which is coming to Netflix later this year, is an untitled documentary looking back at the historic 2004 Red Sox season, which culminated with one of the greatest…
Sports
2026 World Cup Final Heading To MetLife Stadium In New Jersey
The world's biggest sporting event is coming to the East Rutherford. According to multiple reports, the 2026 men's World Cup final is set to be staged at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, after FIFA spurned bids from those representing Dallas' AT&T Stadium and Stan Kroenke's palace in LA. The majority of the action will still take place in Texas, with action shared across venues in Mexico and Canada. But the Garden State drew the big straw, bringing the big event back to the area after Giants Stadium played host during the 1994 event. "While this stadium has been more used to hosti…
Business
TGI Fridays Closing 7 NJ Restaurants, 30 Total Locations Across Northeast
TGI Fridays is closing nearly 30 "underperforming" locations across the northeast and will sell eight restaurants to the chain's former CEO, the chain said in a news release. The 27 closures include restaurants in Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia. In total, 36 TGI Fridays locations are shutting down nationwide. The company says about 1,000 employees, which represent more than 80% of those impacted, will be offered transfer opportunities. "As we continue along our path of transformation to revitalize the Fridays brand and …
Weather
Powerful Storm Could Disrupt Travel In New Jersey This Weekend: Here's The Timing
A powerful storm is set to bring heavy rain and travel disruptions to New Jersey this weekend. The week will be clear with temps in the mid-40s through Friday, Dec. 8, when we'll see a bit of a warmup, according to the National Weather Service. We will have a cool next couple of days before a warm-up to finish off the week! The next chance for rain will arrive late Saturday night into Sunday. Look up your local forecast at weather.gov/phi/ Posted by US National Weather Service Philadelphia/Mount Holly on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 Friday will be sunny with a high of 55, with Saturda…
News
Maine Mass Shooting Manhunt Ends After Suspect Found Dead: 'Threat To Public Is Over'
An urgent manhunt that began after 18 people were killed and 14 injured in a mass shooting at two locations in Lewiston, Maine, ended overnight with the discovery of the 40-year-old suspect's body. Robert Card was found dead in Lisbon, Maine, about a mile from where a white Subaru Outback he was believed to be driving was located at a boat launch. Lisbon is located about 7 miles southeast of Lewiston. Card died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a box trailer in an overflow parking lot at the Maine Recycling Corporation, which is where he once worked, according to authoriti…
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UMass Dartmouth Student Charged In Death Of Manahawkin Peer In On-Campus Crash: DA
A 22-year-old Boston woman will face charges after she fatally struck 19-year-old University of Massachusetts Dartmouth student Frank Petillo Jr. earlier this year, authorities said. Danasia Sampson, of Mattapan, MA, was charged last week with motor vehicle homicide by negligent operation, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said. Sampson is also a student at the university. Petillo, a Manahawkin, NJ, native, was crossing Ring Road with a friend on April 6 near his dorm when police say Sampson crashed into him with her Honda Accord around 5:30 p.m., the Bristol prosecutor said.…
Weather
Tropical Storm To Bring Drenching Downpours, Gusty Winds To East Coast (
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We're in for a rainy one. A tropical storm expected to make landfall this weekend in North Carolina will bring heavy rain and gusty winds to the East Coast. The storm, which is expected to make landfall in North Carolina Saturday, Sept. 23, is largely expected to hug the mid-Atlantic coast, but one scenario has it "hooking to the left and over eastern Virginia or the Delmarva Peninsula," AccuWeather says. Several outdoor events had already been canceled Friday morning, Sept. 22, in anticipation of torrential rain on Saturday and Sunday. Storm pathAccuWeather Strong gusty winds are…
News
Mercer County Engineer, 25, Killed In Wrong-Way Massachusetts Crash
A 25-year-old engineer from Mercer County was killed this week by a wrong-way driver in Massachusetts, where she lived and worked, police said. Geetika Guruprasad, of West Windsor, died just after 12:45 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 17, in Littleton, a suburb of Boston. Guruprasad was driving her Mazda CX-5 on Route 2 when an SUV traveling on the wrong side of the road collided with her, Massachusetts State Police said. Paramedics rushed her to Emerson Hospital in Concord, Massachusetts, where doctors pronounced her dead. The 22-year-old driver of the Chevrolet SUV was also se…
News
Viral Video Captures NJ's Nick Jonas Falling Mid-Performance
He's "Only Human." Nick Jonas, a Wyckoff native, fell into a hole while singing "Sail Away" during a Jonas Brothers concert this week in Boston. Of course, there's video footage. And yes, it's gone viral. CALL TMZ!!!!! NICK FELL!!!!! pic.twitter.com/RY6Drl5dwU — h 🍒🪩 (@x0heathyyy) August 16, 2023 Not to worry, as Jonas appeared to be okay and continued singing the song like a champ as a horrified security guard and photographers looked on and his two brothers and bandmates, Kevin and Joe, cracked up. OMG, the guard was so stressed trying to stop him 😭 but why opened the hole with…
Police & Fire
UPenn Grad, Doctor Masturbated On Flight In Front Of 14-Year-Old Girl: Feds
A doctor who graduated from the University of Pennsylvania was placed on leave from the hospital where he works following news that federal authorities had charged him with lewd, indecent, and obscene acts. Sudipta Mohanty, who according to Healthgrades graduated from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 2014, is accused of masturbating and exposing himself on the flight from Hawaii while sitting next to a 14-year-old girl, federal authorities said. "This individual is on leave and not currently practicing at BIDMC," Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medica…
Police & Fire
NJ Man Gets 12 Years For Scouting Landmarks As Hezbollah Terror Targets
UPDATE: A convicted New Jersey “sleeper agent” for Hezbollah who scoped out potential terrorism targets in New York, Boston, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere was sentenced to 12 years in federal prison. Alexei Saab, a 45-year-old software developer who lived in Morristown, must serve just about all of the sentence delivered in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday, May 23, because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Saab kept up appearances as an ordinary American citizen while working for Hezbollah’s Islamic Jihad Organization (IJO) from 2000 to 2005, federal prosecutors said. Dur…
Events
Tina Fey, Amy Poehler Making Atlantic City Stop On Upcoming Comedy Tour
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have announced a comedy tour together, with an Atlantic City stop on the calendar. The gal pals and "Saturday Night Live" icons took to Instagram to announce their "Restless Leg" comedy tour, which begins April 28 in Washington DC. The pair will make stops in Chicago in May, Boston on June 9 and in Atlantic City on June 10. Pre-sale began with code RESTLESS on Wednesday, Feb. 15 at with general on sale Friday, Feb. 17. Click here for tickets.
Events
Beyoncé Heading To New Jersey
Beyoncé is heading to New Jersey during a stop on her highly-anticipated world tour. The superstar will be performing at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford on Saturday, July 29 as a part of her Renaissance World Tour, the singer announced on Wednesday, Feb. 1, the start of Black History Month. Queen Bey made the announcement on Instagram dressed in some of her iconic Renaissance-era imagery, sitting on a glittering mosaic horse. Beyoncé will stop at more than three dozen locations across the globe during the nearly four-month-long tour, which begins in Stockholm, Sweden in May and en…
Business
Santander Bank Plans To Shutter 4 Locations In Central, South Jersey: Report
Four Central and South Jersey branches of Santander Bank are set to shutter, NJ.com reports. Based in Boston, the agency is closing its locations on Route 33 in Robbinsville, Nassau Street in Princeton, Nottingham Way in Hamilton, and Berlin Road in Clementon, the outlet says citing a company spokesperson. It wasn’t immediately clear when the branches were shutting down operations, the report says. Click here for more from NJ.com.
News
2,500 Southwest Flight Cancellations Leave Stranded Passengers Seething In Post-Christmas Mess
More than 2,500 Southwest Airlines flights were cancelled and 8,3072 delayed as of Wednesday, Dec. 28 leaving even more passengers across the US stranded and seething. Processes and computer systems that haven't changed since the 1990s are to blame, Captain Casey Murray, the president of the Southwest Airlines Pilots Association, tells CNN. “It’s phones, it’s computers, it’s processing power, it’s the programs used to connect us to airplanes," he said, "that’s where the problem lies, and it’s systemic throughout the whole airline." The federal government said it plans on investigating. Cu…
Obituaries
'Human Jukebox' Pilot Killed In Massachusetts Crash Was NJ Native
A New Jersey native has been identified as the pilot who crashed his gyrocopter and died north of Boston. The Somerville native died while attempting to take off in his gyrocopter at an airport on the North Shore, Daily Voice reported. The Dec. 4 incident led to 66-year-old Muller's hospitalization and death. He was being remembered for his gentle nature and ability to juggle many passions. Muller moved to Boston from New Jersey, where he met and married his wife Sari. While working as an independent application developer for small businesses, Muller was able to find time …
Police & Fire
Florida Man, 76, Admits Masturbating, Touching Woman On Flight From Newark: Feds
A 76-year-old Florida man faces 90 days in jail after he pleaded guilty this week to masturbating on a flight from Newark to Boston earlier this year, federal authorities said. Donald Edward Robinson of Bonita Springs was accused of exposing himself and masturbating at a 21-year-old woman aboard the April 8 flight, the FBI reported. The woman recorded a 24-second video on her phone of Robinson fondling himself through his pants shortly after takeoff, authorities said. Later in the hour-long flight, he exposed himself to her and touched her thigh without consent. The woman…
News
'So Unfair': Shock, Anger Spread After NJ Man Is Killed By Driver In Apple Store Crash
Shock, grief and anger continued to spread with the news that a construction worker who died when a driver crashed his SUV into an Apple store in a Boston suburb was from Passaic County, NJ. Kevin Bradley, 65, of Wayne was apparently moving a barrier outside the store with co-worker Vince Ruotolo of Maywood when Ruotolo said his pal’s life “was cut short” on Monday, Nov. 21. “Life is so unfair,” Ruotolo wrote, noting that Bradley had a wife, children and grandchildren. “It's getting real now,” Michelle Filippone of Clifton noted on Tuesday. “A reporter from NBC Boston just emailed me and …
Police & Fire
NJ Man Dead, 16 Hurt In Massachusetts Apple Store Crash
A 65-year-old man from New Jersey was killed and 16 were injured when a car crashed into an Apple Store in Massachusetts, authorities confirmed. Kevin Bradley was among multiple people pinned against walls and shaken up in the Hingham incident around 10:45 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 21, Plymouth County District Attorney Tim Cruz and Hingham Fire Chief Steve Murphy said. BREAKING: One person is dead and 16 others have been hurt after a car crashes into the Apple Store at the Hingham Derby Street Shops, the DA says.Four people are in critical condition, sources tell @7News. The driver of the ca…
Business
Mini Crumb Cakes Sold At Whole Foods Market Recalled
A company recalled packages of crumb cake snacks that were sold at Whole Foods Market stores. Boston Baking Inc. recalled three-ounce packages of "Boston Baking Mini Cinnamon Crumb Cakes" snacks because they may contain undeclared pecans, an allergen. The recalled products were sold exclusively at Whole Foods markets in: Connecticut Massachusetts New Hampshire Rhode Island New Jersey New York The recalled products are marked with "Packed On" dates of 10/17/22 through 11/10/22, “Sell By” dates of 10/22/22 through 11/15/22, UPC (01)00238543000007(3904)0019900 printed on the …
Police & Fire
Accountant Busted Boarding Plane At Newark Airport Admits Stealing $3.5M From Clients: Feds
A Massachusetts money manager who police arrested last month at Newark International Airport trying to escape prosecution admitted to stealing $3.5 million from his clients, including the entire life savings of an elderly couple, federal authorities said. Steven Xigoros, 55, pleaded guilty in a Boston court this week to two counts of wire fraud, one count of aggravated identity theft, and one count of filing a false tax return, the US Attorney for Massachusetts said. Xigoros worked as an accountant, tax preparer, and investment advisor who federal investigators said used th…
Weather
Tropical Rainstorm Could Bring Heavy Rain, Strong Winds To Region
A tropical rainstorm developing off the East Coast will put a damper on the region's second half of the weekend. The system is on track to arrive in this region during the day on Sunday, Oct. 23, with potentially heavy rainfall and damaging winds Sunday night into Monday morning, Oct. 24, according to the National Weather Service. “If the storm hugs the coast, it would push rain into the Philadelphia area Sunday morning and into New York City and Boston by Sunday afternoon," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dean DeVore said. "But, if the storm develops to its full potential, it…
Sports
Suspension Of Ime Udoka Is '100 Times Uglier' Than Public Knows, Analyst Says
Former NBA star and current basketball analyst Matt Barnes says the details of what led to Ime Udoka's season-long suspension are a lot worse than people realize. The Boston Celtics suspended their coach, who coached the Philadelphia 76ers in 2019-20, after it came to light that he had an improper relationship with a female staffer and made inappropriate comments to her following the end of that relationship, ESPN reports. Team officials refused to go into details about what happened between the two during a press conference Friday morning. Meanwhile, Barnes said he spoke with someone w…
News
Inmate Convicted In Major Child Porn Ring At NJ Federal Prison Gets Mandatory 40-Year Sentence
A convicted child-porn trafficker who was about to be paroled was sentenced to another 40 years behind bars for sharing thousands of child sex-abuse images with fellow inmates in the federal prison at Fort Dix, NJ. William H. Noble, of Lowell, MA, will have to live into his late 90s in order to see freedom again. Noble, 57, originally was imprisoned for 81 months following a guilty plea to federal child-porn trafficking charges in Boston in 2012. He was only a month from being paroled from the Federal Correctional Institution at Fort Dix in Lakehurst when he was charged by the FBI in Febru…
News
Lufthansa Flight From Newark Makes Emergency Landing In Boston: Report
A flight out of Newark made an emergency landing at Logan Airport on Monday night after the pilot saw smoke in the cockpit, NBC Boston reports. Lufthansa Flight 403 landed just before 10:30 p.m. after the pilot declared an emergency. The plane diverted to Boston after a "technical irregularity" caused smoke in the plane, the report said. There were no injuries reported from the 326 people aboard the Boeing 747, NBC reported. Passengers told the news station that the plane descended rapidly after the pilot announced the emergency landing, causing a panic in the cabin. …
News
American Airlines Cuts 31,000 Flights From November Schedule
American Airlines is cutting 31,000 — nearly 16 percent — of its flights from its November schedule, aviation analytics company Cirium data shows. The largest cuts are in Boston, Chicago O'Hare, Dallas-Fort Worth and Philadelphia, data shows. The cuts are based on forecasts and staffing, industry commenter and Cirium spokesperson Mike Arnot tells CNN. The airline said the cuts are "in line with our approach to network and schedule planning throughout the year."
News
NJ City Is America's Most Expensive Place For Renters, Website Says
How much would you pay to wake up to views of the New York City skyline every day? Hopefully your answer is around $5,500, because that's how much you'd need just to rent in Jersey City. According to Rent.com, Jersey City is the most expensive city for renters in America. That's about $500 more than the average Manhattan rental. "Jersey City, just across the Hudson from Manhattan, logged the highest rent in the U.S for this survey period," the website said. The average monthly rent in Jersey City shot up from $3,308 in 2021 to $5,500 this year — that's a 66.25 percent increase, …
Police & Fire
Philadelphia Murder Suspect Nabbed In Massachusetts
A man wanted for a Philadelphia murder could was arrested in Massachusetts, authorities said. Wagner Ernesto Tejeda-Pena was wanted for fatally shooting Loi Nguyen, age 77, while he was on a walk in Philadelphia on the morning of June 21, CBS Philadelphia reports. Tejeda-Pena also tried shooting two other victims fifteen minutes before shooting Nguyen but his gun malfunctioned, Boston Police said. Tejeda-Pena was also wanted in connection with two stabbings in Boston, including a homicide in West Roxbury, and has also threatened family members, police added. He was arrested in the are…
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