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UPDATE: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico UPDATE: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico
Update: Aging Career Criminal Gets 16 Years In Bizarre Murder-For-Hire Of NJ Politico An aging Connecticut ex-con would have to turn 90 to taste freedom again after he was sentenced for stabbing a political consultant to death and then torching his Jersey City apartment in a murder-for-hire hit with a longtime crony from Philadelphia. The odds are stacked against George Bratsenis, 74, of Monroe, who reportedly has chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and cancer. There's also no parole in the federal prison system. Unless he’s granted a compassionate release for health reasons, Bratsenis will have to serve just about all of the plea-bargained 16-year sentence approved by …

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Artillery Shells Found In Vacant Wyckoff Home Artillery Shells Found In Vacant Wyckoff Home
Artillery Shells Found In Vacant Wyckoff Home Two investors who bought a vacant home in Wyckoff got a surprise when they found a safe inside containing a pair of decades-old artillery shells. Members of the Bergen County Sheriff's Bomb Squad collected the projectiles from the Sunset Boulevard home just after noon on Thursday, Jan. 12. Over the years, home buyers and families of aging or deceased war veterans have unexpectedly found the souvenirs, authorities say. Service members either brought ordnance home after overseas combat or bought them later for sentimental reasons. Most come from World Wars I and II, as well as from the Kore…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Army Vet Struck Dead By Lighting While Playing Golf In Pennsylvania Army Vet Struck Dead By Lighting While Playing Golf In Pennsylvania
Army Vet Struck Dead By Lighting While Playing Golf In Pennsylvania Severe weather has claimed the life of a Pennsylvania man, who was struck by lightning during a round of golf. Joseph Slivinski, 71, of Lackawanna County, was struck by lightning while playing golf on Friday at Pine Hills Golf Course, according to the county coroner. Slivinski was attempting to find shelter when he was fatally injured, he died at the golf course around 1:30 p.m. A South Jersey golfer was struck and killed by lightning last month. Born in Scranton, Slivinski spent 33 years his life in Peckville with his of 44 years the late Christine M. Klonoski, according to the Times-Tri…

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by Jillian Pikora
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US Supreme Court Rules In Favor Pennsylvania Cheerleader In First Amendment Case US Supreme Court Rules In Favor Pennsylvania Cheerleader In First Amendment Case
US Supreme Court Rules In Favor Pennsylvania Cheerleader In First Amendment Case The Supreme Court overturned a lower court's ruling in the case of a cheerleader who took to SnapChat to vent her frustrations for not making the cheer squad. When Brandi Levy, of Mahanoy City, Schuylkill County was 14 she posted on SnapChat after she did not make the school’s junior varsity cheerleading squad by posting, “F——— school f——— softball f——— cheer f——— everything,” in a post over a photo of her and a friend giving the middle finger, as the Daily Voice previously reported. The Supreme Court ruled in her favor in this first amendment case, in an 8 to 1 ruling, with Justice Cl…

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by Jillian Pikora
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American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97
American Hero Aviator Chuck Yeager Dies At 97 He was born in an Appalachian hollow and went on to become a real-life American hero who was considered the country's greatest pilot. Retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Charles “Chuck” Yeager, the World War II fighter ace who displayed “the right stuff” when he became the first aviator to break the sound barrier nearly three quarters of a century ago, died Monday night in a Los Angeles hospital. He was 97. “My life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9 pm ET,” his widow, Victoria, tweeted. “An incredible life well lived, America’s greatest pilot & a legacy of strength, adventure” N…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas, Onetime Drug Kingpin, Dead At 88: Report ‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas, Onetime Drug Kingpin, Dead At 88: Report
‘American Gangster’ Frank Lucas, Onetime Drug Kingpin, Dead At 88: Report Frank Lucas, a notorious drug dealer who became something of a folk hero after he was portrayed by Denzel Washington in the blockbuster mob movie “American Gangster,” died Thursday, TMZ reported. Lucas, 88, passed away while being transported to a medical facility in New Jersey, where he lived, TMZ also reported. Lucas rose to underworld fame in the late 1960s after spending years as a protege to Ellsworth “Bumpy” Johnson, an African-American gangster based in Harlem. Lucas soon began importing pure heroin from Southeast Asia in the caskets of soldiers killed in the Vietnam War. He was a…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
Integrity And A Warm Smile: Longtime Hudson/Bergen Responder, Navy Vet James Brierty III, 74 Integrity And A Warm Smile: Longtime Hudson/Bergen Responder, Navy Vet James Brierty III, 74
Integrity And A Warm Smile: Longtime Hudson/Bergen Responder, Navy Vet James Brierty III, 74 Jim Brierty had a lion’s heart – at once huge and comforting, yet fiercely protective. It’s how many have remembered him since news came that the Navy veteran, longtime police officer, firefighter and high school security guard from Ridgefield died last week at 74. Brierty “was a man of honor, respect and dignity,” said former Ridgefield Fire Chief Mike Kees. “He was a man who brought talent and dedication not only to our company but to the entire department.” "Jim's purpose in life was to serve and show how you treat people," former firefighter Steve Rosone added. "That ultimately tells …

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by Jerry DeMarco