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Body Of Suicidal Woman Recovered From North Jersey Dam, Police Say Body Of Suicidal Woman Recovered From North Jersey Dam, Police Say
Body Of Suicidal Woman Recovered From North Jersey Dam, Police Say The body of an 18-year-old woman was recovered from the Monksville Dam in what authorities have deemed a suicide. The woman's backpack was initially called in as a suspicious package on Oct. 29 around 7:45 p.m., Ringwood police said. Further investigation revealed that the backpack was left by a woman who had jumped over the barrier on the south side of the dam.  The Pompton Lakes resident's body was recovered Nov. 3 around 6 p.m., and turned over to the New Jersey Regional Medical Examiner's Office, local police said. Her identity was not released. The recovery effort was thanks to …

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by Cecilia Levine
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UPS Employee Heading To Work Struck, Killed In Bridgewater Hit-Run Crash, Authorities Say UPS Employee Heading To Work Struck, Killed In Bridgewater Hit-Run Crash, Authorities Say
UPS Employee Heading To Work Struck, Killed In Bridgewater Hit-Run Crash, Authorities Say A 28-year-old Plainfield man was on his way to work at UPS when he was struck and killed by a tractor trailer that fled the scene around 2 a.n. in Bridgewater, authorities announced. Robert C. Cepeda had gotten off an NJ Transit commuter bus on the westbound side of Route 28 with two co-workers when he was struck near Chimney Rock Road while walking across an intersection toward a nearby convenience store, Somerset County Prosecutor Michael H. Robertson said. The trailer was brown or red and heading eastbound, and slowed down but failed to stop at the scene, Robertson said alongside lo…

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by Cecilia Levine