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Paterson Council Prez, Wife, Campaign Chief Charged In Hare-Brained Scheme To Steal Election Paterson Council Prez, Wife, Campaign Chief Charged In Hare-Brained Scheme To Steal Election
Paterson Council Prez, Wife, Campaign Chief Charged In Hare-Brained Scheme To Steal Election State authorities announced a bunch of new election fraud charges on Wednesday against Paterson’s council president along with allegations against his wife and campaign manager, as well. Alex Mendez, 48, has been awaiting trial in a case, stemming from 2020 council races, that has undergone a series of one delay after another. The contests were conducted entirely by mail-in ballots as COVID was spreading. The new charges involved what the attorney general described on Oct. 25 as a hare-brained plot to steal ballots from mailboxes outside people’s homes, toss out those that didn’t vote for…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pedestrian, 32, Struck, Killed In South Jersey Crash: Police Pedestrian, 32, Struck, Killed In South Jersey Crash: Police
Pedestrian, 32, Struck, Killed In South Jersey Crash: Police A 32-year-old pedestrian from Mays Landing was killed in a crash, authorities said. On Tuesday, Aug. 15, at 1:18 a.m., the Township of Hamilton Police Department responded to Route 50 in the area of Spruce Street for a pedestrian-motor vehicle crash. Preliminary investigation revealed a 2013 Honda Pilot, operated by Michael Jackson, 65, of Egg Harbor City, was traveling northbound on Rt 50 when pedestrian Jessica Lavin entered the lane of travel and was struck by the Honda, police said. She was transported to Atlanticare City Division Hospital where she was later pronounced deceased. Assi…

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by Jon Craig
Lifestyle
NJ's Brooke Shields Details Life As Sexualized Child Star In Hollywood NJ's Brooke Shields Details Life As Sexualized Child Star In Hollywood
NJ's Brooke Shields Details Life As Sexualized Child Star In Hollywood Brooke Shields, a Bergen County native, is baring all about her life growing up in front of the cameras.  Shields is the subject of "Pretty Baby," a two-part documentary premiering on Hulu on Monday, April 3, that discusses her life growing up in the spotlight.  The documentary is named after a 1978 movie where Shields played a child sex worker and did two nude scenes, even though she was only 12.  The model/actress lived in Haworth and graduated from Dwight-Englewood School in Englewood.  The documentary also features Shields' relationship with her late mother, who ba…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
'I Killed My Partner,' PA Man Tells Detectives, DA Says 'I Killed My Partner,' PA Man Tells Detectives, DA Says
'I Killed My Partner,' PA Man Tells Detectives, DA Says A Montgomery County man violated a protection of abuse order and stabbed his ex-girlfriend, whose body was found earlier this week near the Schuylkill River Trail, authorities announced Friday. The investigation began on Thursday, when Freddy Remingio Mendieta Pando, 23, walked into Upper Darby police headquarters and told detectives through his cellphone translation application that he killed his partner -- Karina Torres, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele said. Mendieta Pando showed the detectives on a map where Torres' body could be found: Adjace…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Wood-Ridge Officers Clear Way For Newborn's Arrival Wood-Ridge Officers Clear Way For Newborn's Arrival
Wood-Ridge Officers Clear Way For Newborn's Arrival The sound of a newborn baby’s cry was music to the ears of two Wood-Ridge police officers who arrived moments after he did. Directed by new dad Michael Jackson to a second-floor bathroom where his wife had just given birth shortly before 3 a.m., Officers Roberto Cangialosi and Michael Mueller detected a heartbeat. Aleksandra "Sasha" Jackson had told them she “woke up with some pain in her back and abdomen” and “went into the bathroom thinking she was possibly suffering from minor intestinal pains,” Cangialosi said. Then the baby’s head crowned. Cangialosi said he and Mueller “began cleani…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud
Paterson Councilman, Councilman-Elect, Two Others Charged With Election Fraud State authorities on Thursday charged a sitting Paterson councilman, a councilman-elect and two other men with rigging a May 12 special election. Paterson City Councilman Michael Jackson and Councilman-Elect Alex Mendez conspired with Shelim Khalique of Wayne, and Abu Razyen of Prospect Park to play fast and loose with mail-in ballots made necessary for all voting in the special election due to the coronavirus pandemic, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. It began, he said, when the U.S. Postal Inspection Service alerted the Attorney General’s Office that hundreds of mail-in ballots wer…

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by Jerry DeMarco