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Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim
Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal Covid-19 Victim A fourth member of a New Jersey family connected to the state's first coronavirus fatality died Thursday. Vincent Fusco passed away at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, the same hospital where his mother, 73-year-old family matriarch Grace Fusco, died of the virus a day earlier. His brother, Carmine Fusco, died hours before their mother at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Pennsylvania near his home in Bath -- becoming that state's first COVID-19 fatality. Their sister, Rita Fusco-Jackson, died last Friday and later tested positive for the virus. Rita Fusco-Jackson became …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Coronavirus Kills 3 Members Of Same NJ Family, Three More Critical Coronavirus Kills 3 Members Of Same NJ Family, Three More Critical
Coronavirus Kills 3 Members Of Same NJ Family, Three More Critical A New Jersey mother of 11 and grandmother of 27 became the third member of her family to die after contracting the coronavirus. The infections were connected to New Jersey's first coronavirus fatality because of horse racing. Grave Fusco, the 73-year-old family matriarch from Freehold, didn't know that one of her sons died hours earlier, or that her daughter, Rita Fusco-Jackson, had died five days earlier. She'd been treated at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold Township along with other family members, The New York Times reported. Four other children in the family who contracted …

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by Jon Craig
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COVID-19: State Coronavirus Cases Rise To 742 including 9 Deaths COVID-19: State Coronavirus Cases Rise To 742 including 9 Deaths
Covid-19: State Coronavirus Cases Rise To 742 including 9 Deaths New Jersey reported 318 new presumptive positive cases of coronavirus on Thursday, bringing the statewide total to 742. "We have expected these numbers,'' Gov. Phil Murphy said at a noon news conference. "These numbers will go into the many thousands."  Murphy attributed the increase to more testing around the state as well as community spread of the deadly virus. "There are sadly four additional casualties," Murphy said, bringing the total state fatalities to nine.  Eighty of the new positive cases came in Bergen County, bringing its COVID-19 total to 195. Middlesex County has …

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by Jon Craig
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Morris Couple Admit $152,820 Superstorm Sandy Scam Morris Couple Admit $152,820 Superstorm Sandy Scam
Morris Couple Admit $152,820 Superstorm Sandy Scam A Morris County couple admitted pocketing $152,820 in taxpayer-funded Superstorm Sandy relief by claiming their damaged Jersey Shore home as their primary residence, state authorities charged. The home that Carmine Fusco and Lauri Fusco, 50, own on West End Drive in Point Pleasant that was damaged by the historic storm is actually a summer/weekend property, state Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said Wednesday. Their primary residence at the time of the storm was, and continues to be, in East Hanover, he said. By lying on applications, the Fuscos received $2,280 from FEMA and $150,000 in …

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by Cecilia Levine