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Registration Now Open For 5K In Newark Benefiting Integrity House Registration Now Open For 5K In Newark Benefiting Integrity House
Registration Now Open For 5K In Newark Benefiting Integrity House Runners can now register for the annual Newark Corporate and Individual 5K, which will be held Oct. 2 in downtown Newark.  The run will benefit Integrity House, the nonprofit substance-abuse treatment organization that runs programs in Newark, Jersey City, Kearny, Secaucus, Morris Plains and Toms River.  This year's run is intended to help raise awareness of the nation's growing substance abuse epidemic.  The run starts at Washington Park at 12:15 p.m. and participants can run individually or in teams. Individuals can register up until race day but teams must register by Sep…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Irvington Drug Mill Sold ‘Branded’ Heroin That Killed Dozens: AG Irvington Drug Mill Sold ‘Branded’ Heroin That Killed Dozens: AG
Irvington Drug Mill Sold ‘Branded’ Heroin That Killed Dozens: AG Authorities raided an Irvington apartment Tuesday that was used to prepare heroin for sale on the street, with doses stamped with “brand names” like Dunkin Donuts and American Greed, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Also on Tuesday, four people were arrested for their alleged involvement with the operation, which sold drugs believed to be responsible for 33 overdose deaths and more than 90 overdoses in total. Numerous law enforcement agencies from across North Jersey assisted in the investigation that led to Tuesday’s raid on a second-floor apartment at 214 Eastern Parkway, where au…

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by Paul Milo
Obituaries
Morris County Dad, Dumont Native Greg Gibson Dies After Battle With Leukemia Morris County Dad, Dumont Native Greg Gibson Dies After Battle With Leukemia
Morris County Dad, Dumont Native Greg Gibson Dies After Battle With Leukemia Gregory Gibson of Morris Plains died Tuesday, June 25 after a year-long battle with leukemia. He was 53 years old. A Dumont native, Gibson leaves behind his wife, Melissa, and three children, Jeremy, Kyle and Kelly. More than $11,700 had been raised for the family on a GoFundMe as of Saturday morning. "We will all miss Greg's kindness, generosity, and his amazing sense of humor," campaign founder Jeff Axelrad wrote on the page.  Greg worked as a managing director at BNY Mellon, and previously as the director of business solutions at Pershing LLC. He was with Lockheed Martin Spa…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Morris County Mom Held Daughter Above Her Head As Fox Bit Her Own Leg 3 Times Morris County Mom Held Daughter Above Her Head As Fox Bit Her Own Leg 3 Times
Morris County Mom Held Daughter Above Her Head As Fox Bit Her Own Leg 3 Times A Morris Plains mother working in her garden with her 2-year-old daughter was bitten by a fox. Sally Deeney of Brook Drive South said she thought a cat or dog was behind her Wednesday before she realized it was a fox covered in dirt, the DailyRecord reports. The mom held her daughter over her head as the fox bit her three times on the leg. Deeney's screams brought neighbors to the scene, who also screamed in an attempt to scare the animal. Once police responded, the animal was gone. Deeney's daughter was unharmed. She was taken to the hospital for rabies shots. Last week, an Essex …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Fast-Acting Morris County Police Officers (One Off-Duty) Save Life Of Unresponsive Driver Fast-Acting Morris County Police Officers (One Off-Duty) Save Life Of Unresponsive Driver
Fast-Acting Morris County Police Officers (One Off-Duty) Save Life Of Unresponsive Driver A man suffering a medical episode has fast-acting Morris County police officers to thank for saving his life with CPR. Morris Plains Officer Nicholas Grawehr flagged down Morris Township Officer Saul Gutierrez when he noticed an unresponsive driver with his car pulled up onto the sidewalk on East Hanover Avenue around 3:40 p.m. Wednesday, Morris Township police said. Grawehr got into the car as Gutierrez removed the unconscious man and brought him to the front of his car, police said. Gutierrez found the man did not have a pulse and directed an off-duty corrections officer to behin CPR, as…

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
STORM: North Jersey Schools Announce Early Dismissals Wednesday STORM: North Jersey Schools Announce Early Dismissals Wednesday
Storm: North Jersey Schools Announce Early Dismissals Wednesday North Jersey is expecting three to five inches of snow on Wednesday. Several school districts have already announced early dismissals. Check with your school district for details and more information. The districts that have already announced early dismissals are: BERGEN COUNTY Bergenfield Bogota Dumont Edgewater Little Ferry Mahwah Midland School (Rochelle Park) Oradell Palisades Park Paramus Ridgefield Park River Edge Teaneck MORRIS COUNTY Butler Craig High, Boonton Craig School, Mountain Lakes Denville Dover Madison Mendham Morris Morris Plains Mount Arlington Parsippany-Troy Hills Ra…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Ex-Morris County Scout Master Who Sexually Assaulted 3 Troop Members Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen Ex-Morris County Scout Master Who Sexually Assaulted 3 Troop Members Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen
Ex-Morris County Scout Master Who Sexually Assaulted 3 Troop Members Gets 10 Years In Fed Pen A former Boy Scout leader from Morris County who admitted to sexually assaulting his Parsippany scouts in the 1990s was sentenced to a decade in federal prison. Stephen Corcoran, 51 of Morris Plains, pled guilty to four counts of sexual assault in August 2018 for separate acts of penetration committed between 1997 and 1999, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office announced. “The Defendant held a trusted leadership role in his community and chose to abuse his power by hurting innocent children," Prosecutor Fredric M. Knapp said. "The past cannot be changed, however we hope that this …

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by Cecilia Levine
Obituaries
'Smart, Sassy' Ringwood Stylist Farrah Shokouhi Dies, 24 'Smart, Sassy' Ringwood Stylist Farrah Shokouhi Dies, 24
'Smart, Sassy' Ringwood Stylist Farrah Shokouhi Dies, 24 She was smart. She was sassy. She was special. This is how friends, clients and loved ones remembered Farrah Shokouhi, a Ringwood native who died Oct. 9. She was 24. Shokouhi graduated from Kinnelon High School in 2012 and later Artistic Academy in Morris Plains. She worked at several area salons and beauty parlors, and was remembered in her obituary for her good heart, sense of humor and love for animals -- especially cats. "Farrah was a uniquely vibrant young woman," Wendy Fox-Warner wrote on social media, "and will be remembered fondly by us and those of you who may have …

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Police: Ex-Con Was Masked Gunman Who Robbed Clifton QuickChek Police: Ex-Con Was Masked Gunman Who Robbed Clifton QuickChek
Police: Ex-Con Was Masked Gunman Who Robbed Clifton QuickChek CLIFTON, N.J. -- An Essex County ex-con was the armed robber who held up a QuickChek in Clifton's Allwood section last December, said authorities who charged him with the crime. Wearing a covering over his face, Tione Davis, 35, of East Orange, fled with an undetermined amount of cash from the register after the 4 a.m. robbery of the Market Street convenience store on Dec. 11, Detective Lt. Robert Bracken said. No one was injured, he said. Morris Plains police arrested Davis on Dec. 20, a day after a chase stemming from another crime. They took him to the Morris County Jail, where he remai…

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by Jerry DeMarco