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NBA Star Just Opened Weed Shop In New Jersey
One of New Jersey's newest marijuana shops is owned by a former NBA star. Village Brands is a multi-state cannabis operator founded by industry pioneers, Al Harrington, and Dan Pettigrew. It's officially opening its first East Coast location in Hoboken. Harrington is an Orange, NJ native who played for the Indiana Pacers, New York Knicks, and more. After helping his grandmother find treatment for her glaucoma with cannabis, Harrington teamed up with Pettigrew to start Viola to help others in her honor. The duo then founded Village Brands in an effort to expand their footprint and ope…
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Hall Versus Oates: What Went Wrong?
No one thought much of it when Daryl Hall and John Oates set out on separate tours this year. They'd done it before only to reunite for arena shows. So maybe some but not others were surprised by the news that the pair is embroiled in a legal battle, one that led Hall to obtain a temporary restraining order against his now-former music partner. A judge has sealed a lawsuit that Hall filed last week in Nashville, where Oates lives, according to multiple news outlets. So little is known about the dispute -- other than maybe that it's gone too far (but you know it don't matter anyway). Penn…
Police & Fire
NY Man Who Assaulted Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Gets 2 Years, No Parole
UPDATE: An upstate New York man who admitted assaulting a fellow passenger on a flight from Denver to Newark must spend two plea-bargained years in federal prison. Ryan Manuella, 30, of Erie County, “moved to a vacant center seat next to a female passenger, who was sitting in a window seat” on the April 16, 2021 flight, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Manuella, who didn't know the woman, then "touched the passenger without her consent," Sellinger said. "The victim then yelled at him and left the row of seats," the U.S. attorney said. Defense attorney Andrew Olesnyck…
Lifestyle
These NJ Zip Codes Rank Among Top 80 Most Expensive In US, New Report Says
Four zip codes in New Jersey rank in the Top 100 for most expensive in the United States, according to a brand-new report. The findings by RealtyHop were determined by real estate listings so far this year. The majority of the wealthiest Americans live in California and New York. The four New Jersey zip codes are: No. 32 Deal (07723) with a median home listing price of $3.05 million No. 46 Alpine (07620), median home listing price of $2.75 million No. 60 Avalon (08202) median home listing price of $2.45 million No. 81 Short Hills (07078) median home listing price of $2.18 million&nb…
Police & Fire
Victim Escapes Cinderblock Cell Made By NJ Abductor Posing As Police Officer: FBI (
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A 29-year-old former New Jersey man named Negasi Zuberi is in custody after police say he kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman he kept locked in a cinderblock room. Zuberi was posing as a police officer when he kidnapped his victim, a sex worker, then drove her 450 miles to his home in Klamath Falls, Oregon, the FBI's Portland Field Office said. CINDER BLOCK CELL KIDNAPPING The @FBI says 29-year-old Negasi Zuberi kidnapped a prostitute off Aurora Ave in Seattle and held her captive in a cinder-block cell at his home in Oregon. FBI believes there may be more victims. INFO: https://t…
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$550M Sought From New Jersey Thieves In Federal Catalytic Converter Crackdown
Catalytic converter thieves across the US could soon have to cough up $550 million as part of a federal, state and local crackdown on the thefts and resales that turned a massive profit, authorities announced. The Department of Justice announced on Wednesday, Nov. 2 that it will be seeking forfeiture from those responsible for the trend of vehicle parts being stolen and resold for massive profits. In total, 21 people in five states have been charged following busts, searches, and seizures in the following states, according to the DOJ: California; Oklahoma; Wyoming; Minnesota; New Jersey;…
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'Real Housewives' Star Admits To Running Decade-Long Telemarketing Fraud Scheme
“Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” star Jennifer Shah has admitted to running a decade-long telemarketing scheme that tricked thousands of victims, including some from New Jersey, into bogus investment opportunities. Shah, age 48, of Utah, appeared in a federal courtroom in Manhattan on Monday, July 11, where she pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud in connection with telemarketing. Federal prosecutors said between 2012 and March 2021, Shah trafficked “lead lists” of potential victims that her co-conspirators used to convince victims to pay thousands of dollars f…
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NJ Kids Among 80+ Groomed By California Man To Make Child Porn: Authorities
Over 80 children worldwide— between the ages of six and 13-years-old— were groomed by a California man to produce child porn— including five children from New Jersey, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office said. Demetrius Carl Davis, 24, posed as an 11-year-old girl called “Lizzy” to form online relationships with the children and convince them to perform and record sexual acts on other children in their lives, according to a report released by the sheriff’s Internet Crimes Against Children task force. VIDEO PRESS RELEASE: Child Sexual Predator Suspect "Lizzy" Arrested Po…
Business
Recall Issued For Organic Popcorn Sold At Regional Supermarkets
A company has recalled packages of popcorn that were sold at supermarkets across the region. Snak King announced on Tuesday, April 12, that it is recalling some of its five-ounce packages of "O Organics Sea Salt Organic Popcorn" because the products may be cross-contaminated with an undeclared milk allergen. The recalled products have "Best if Used By" dates of 9/24/2022 and 9/25/2022. The producets come in a flexible package with a "Best if Used By" date located on the front, upper right=hand side of the package, the company reported. The UPC number is 079893 403038. Snak …
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Feds: Newark Ex-Con Wanted On Gun Charge Caught Carrying Another
A Newark police detective who frisked an ex-con suspected of firing and then tossing a gun found him carrying another one, federal authorities said. Kevin Hills, 21, had been seen on surveillance video shooting what turned out to be a 9mm Jiminez semiautomatic pistol after he got out of a sedan on Chadwick Avenue near Clinton Avenue last June, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger said. Officers in the area found the gun after one of them reported hearing the shots, he said. A warranted search of the Lincoln LS that Hills had gotten out of turned up 64 rounds of various ammunition, according t…
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Russian Invasion Of Ukraine Means Higher NJ Gas Prices
“Pain at the pump,” was a concern reporters pushed President Biden on during a press conference about the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Thursday. Although Biden urged the energy sector to not move prices, experts say the US is already feeling the pinch since tensions began to escalate between the two nations. “Any disruptions to oil flows from Russia in a context of low spare capacity in other regions could easily send oil prices to $120 (a barrel),” Natasha Kaneva, JPMorgan’s head of global commodities strategy, wrote in a report published earlier in February. Gas prices had already t…
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Rhino Head Found By Couple Walking Dog In Pennsylvania
People leave weird things on the sidewalk -- but this one in Pennsylvania certainly takes the cake. A couple walking their dog found a rhinoceros head in the Aspinwall neighborhood outside of Pittsburgh, on Saturday night, as WTAE reports. Police were called to the area and later obtained a CCTV video of a man wheeling a dollie, leaving the head in the location where the couple found it. The police currently have the head in their possession and they believe the head is real. This taxidermied head of an African rhinoceros is potentially more than 50 years old. In 2020, a Nevada man was s…
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NJ, NY, PA Among States Sharing Historic $4.3B Purdue Pharma Settlement
Oxycontin-maker Purdue Pharma has reached an historic $4.3 billion settlement with New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania and a dozen other states that one attorney general said involved the “most that individuals have ever paid for breaking the law.” New Jersey expects to receive more than $110 million from the deal, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Thursday. As part of the settlement, the Sackler family must surrender ownership of the bankrupt drug company. They also must release more than 30 million family and Purdue Pharma documents that outline their roles in an opioid epidemi…
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Female Passenger On Flight To Newark Groped By NY Man With Criminal History, Feds Charge
An upstate New York man groped a fellow passenger on a flight from Denver to Newark, federal authorities charged. Ryan Manuella, 28, of Erie County “moved to a vacant center seat next to a female passenger, who was sitting in a window seat” late last week, Acting U.S. Attorney Rachael A. Honig said Monday. Honig said Manuella, who didn't know the woman, then “touched her on the groin and inner thigh without her permission,” Honig said. Manuella was charged in Nevada last year with a domestic violence assault, record show. The Cheektowaga resident also got into a struggle in 2017 with…
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Biden Projected 46th President After Pennsylvania Win
Democrat Joe Biden won Pennsylvania Saturday morning, putting him on the path to becoming the 46th president of the United States. Biden surpassed the 270 electoral votes needed to take the presidency, the Associated Press reported at 11:25 a.m. The former vice president holds narrow leads over incumbent President Donald Trump in key swing states, including Wisconsin and Michigan, as well as Nevada, Arizona and Georgia. Biden is expected to address the nation later in the day Saturday, along with his running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, who will become the first female and first p…
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Biden Overtakes Trump In Pennsylvania
Joe Biden cruised ahead of President Donald Trump in Pennsylvania Friday morning, a state crucial in determining the outcome of the 2020 Election -- days after polls closed. While the count is ongoing, an additional 5,500 votes put the former vice president on track to win his native state, where he had been trailing Trump by nearly 18,000 votes just before 9 a.m. The Keystone state's 20 electoral votes would put Biden well past the 270 needed to win, despite votes still being counted in Nevada, Arizona and Georgia (where Biden was inching ahead of the Trump Friday morning). President Trum…
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Almost There: Ballot Counting Continues In PA
Vote counting continued Friday morning in Pennsylvania, where Joe Biden has been inching ahead of Donald Trump largely in part due to mail-in ballots. UPDATE: Biden Pulls Ahead Of Trump In Pennsylvania Workers at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia had approximately 50,000 mail-in votes remaining as of Friday morning -- four days after polls closed, CBS reports. Counting was expected to end Friday afternoon, with workers processing approximately 10,000 ballots an hour. Pennsylvania was among several key states the results hinge on, including Georgia (where Biden beat Tr…
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Trump Sues Pennsylvania Where Uncounted Ballots Could Tip Presidential Race In Biden's Favor
U.S. President Donald Trump's campaign filed lawsuits in Michigan -- where Joe Biden won -- and Pennsylvania, where thousands of votes still hadn't been counted in the 2020 Election. Pennsylvania was among six states that had yet to be called including Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, North Carolina and Nevada. Expect more fireworks as Trump's personal lawyer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, has joined the election fray. Giuliani tweeted: "En route to Philadelphia with legal team. Massive cheating. @realDonaldTrump up by 550,000 with 75% counted. Will not let Ph…
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Covid-
19: One State Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from one state have been added to the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The new state added on Tuesday, Oct. 6 is New Mexico. No areas have been removed from the advisory list of 33 states and two territories. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average. Data indicates that new cases per 100,000 residents in New Mexico now average close to 11. T…
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Feds Charge More Than 300 In U.S. With Violent Crimes ‘Under Guise’ Of Peaceful Protests
More than 300 “violent opportunists” nationwide are being prosecuted federally for crimes committed “under the guise of peaceful demonstrations” against racial injustice, the U.S. Justice Department announced Thursday. They include a saboteur who inadvertently engulfed himself in flames when he poured liquid from a gas can onto three U.S. Supreme Court vehicles in Washington, D.C., the department said in a release. Several defendants “leveraged social media platforms to incite destruction and assaults against law enforcement officers,” the release says. Nearly three dozen defendants are ch…
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Covid-
19: Five States Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from five states have been added to the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The new states added on Tuesday, Sept. 22 are Arizona, Minnesota, Nevada, Rhode Island, and Wyoming. No states or territories have been removed. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average. Those who have traveled to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from those area…
Business
NJ Casinos, Racetracks Score Nationwide Sports Betting Record
New Jersey sports gamblers bet a nationwide record $668 million last month, officials said. That smashed the previous one-month record of $614 million bet in Nevada in November 2019, according to the state Division of Gaming Enforcement. The Garden State's previous one-month record for sports betting was $562 million set in November 2019. August was the first full month of professional baseball this year, and gamblers also had hockey and basketball playoffs to bet on. Casinos were closed earlier this year due to coronavirus, and were capped at 25% capacity. Even so, internet gambling at r…
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Covid-
19: Six States Removed From NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List, Puerto Rico Added
Travelers from six states have been removed from the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. California, Hawaii, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, and Ohio were removed from the Travel Advisory List on Tuesday, Sept. 15. Puerto Rico was added to the list. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average. Those who have traveled to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from …
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Covid-
19: Travelers From Four States Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from four more states have been added to the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The new states added on Tuesday, Sept. 8 are Delaware, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia. Puerto Rico and the United States Virgin Islands have been removed. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher positivity rate over a seven-day rolling average. Those who have traveled to New York, New Jersey and Conne…
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Covid-
19: Five States Removed From NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List, One Territory Added
Travelers from five states have been removed from the COVID-19 joint quarantine list of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. This marks the first week since the list was started on Thursday, June 25, when eight states were initially named, that no new states with high COVID positivity testing rates have been added. However, one new territory has been added: Guam. The five states removed on Tuesday, Aug. 25 are Alaska, Arizona, Delaware, Maryland and Montana. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents …
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19: Travelers From More States, Virgin Islands Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from two more states, as well as the Virgin Islands, with high positive testing rates for COVID-19 have now been added to the joint quarantine order for out-of-state travelers to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The new states as of Tuesday, Aug. 11 are Hawaii and South Dakota. The Virgin Islands have also been added. Alaska, New Mexico, Ohio and Rhode Island have been removed. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent or higher p…
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Covid-
19: Travelers From Rhode Island Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers coming into New York, New Jersey and Connecticut from Rhode Island will now be subject to a mandatory 14-day quarantine as the region continues combating the spread of novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Officials in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey announced on Tuesday, Aug. 4 that Rhode Island has been added to the quarantine list, while Delaware and Washington, D.C. have recovered enough from the virus to be removed from the list. States subject to a 14-day quarantine have a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a 7-day rolling average or an area with a 10…
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19: Travelers From More States, Puerto Rico, DC Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from three more states, as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, DC, with high positive testing rates for COVID-19 have now been added to the joint quarantine order for out-of-state travelers to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The newly added states as of Tuesday, July 28, are Illinois, Kentucky, and Minnesota, bringing the number to 34 states, in addition to Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 per…
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Paramus Neiman Marcus Among 17 Closing Across U.S.
Neiman Marcus has announced the closure of four department stores and 17 of its "Last Call" locations across the U.S. including one in Paramus. The luxury department store chain filed for bankruptcy in May. The Paramus store at Bergen Town Center, the 16 other markdown stores and the four department stores are expected to close by the fall of this year. The other "Last Call" locations closing are in New York, Florida, Washington, California, Texas, Georgia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland and Nevada. “As part of our Chapter 11 proceedings, we provided to the court a list of Neiman Marcus st…
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19: Travelers From 10 More States Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List, Bringing Total To 31
Travelers from 10 more states with high positive testing rates for COVID-19 have now been added to the joint quarantine order for out-of-state travelers to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Alaska, Delaware, Indiana, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Virginia and Washington were added to the list on Tuesday, July 21, bringing the total number of states to 31. Minnesota came off the list. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven-day rolling average or a state with a 10 percent…
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Covid-
19: Travelers From Four More States Added To NY/NJ/CT Quarantine List
Travelers from four more states with high positive testing rates for COVID-19 have now been added to the joint quarantine order for out-of-state travelers to New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. The newly-added states as of Tuesday, July 14 are Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio and Wisconsin, bringing the total number of states on the list to 22. Delaware, which had been added to the list a week ago along with Kansas and Oklahoma, has now been removed. The quarantine applies to any person arriving from a state with a positive test rate higher than 10 per 100,000 residents over a seven…
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