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5-Year-Old Girl Dead In Newark Crash: Prosecutor 5-Year-Old Girl Dead In Newark Crash: Prosecutor
5-Year-Old Girl Dead In Newark Crash: Prosecutor A 5-year-old girl was struck and killed while her father and younger sister were hospitalized in a Newark crash Tuesday, Jan. 31, authorities said. The girl was struck at the intersection of 6th Avenue and North 9th Street around 6:45 p.m., Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens II and Newark Public Safety Director Fritz Fragé said. Sources with direct knowledge of the incident say the vehicle flee the scene. The girl was pronounced dead at 6:30 p.m. Her father and younger sister were taken to University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said. The Essex …

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by Zak Failla & Cecilia Levine
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Authorities: Georgia Dad Who Fled To Alpine With Kidnapped Son, 6, Expected To Surrender Authorities: Georgia Dad Who Fled To Alpine With Kidnapped Son, 6, Expected To Surrender
Authorities: Georgia Dad Who Fled To Alpine With Kidnapped Son, 6, Expected To Surrender A father who fled to Bergen County from Georgia with his 6-year-old son earlier this year was expected to surrender on Thursday, following a police search Wednesday night that ended with the boy safe at a relative’s home in Alpine, authorities said. The DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office pinged the father’s cellphone Wednesday night at first to Closter Plaza, then to Closter Dock Road and Anderson Avenue in Alpine and, finally, to Hemlock Drive, responders said. The dad -- whose identity was temporarily being withheld pending his surrender -- told the boy’s mother that he was taking him to visi…

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by Jerry DeMarco