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Obituaries
Former Somerville Resident Jessica Schroth Dies, 48 Former Somerville Resident Jessica Schroth Dies, 48
Former Somerville Resident Jessica Schroth Dies, 48 Alexandria resident Jessica "Jessy" Schroth died Tuesday, Aug. 8, after a recent illness, according to her obituary. She was 48 years old. Born in Peru, Jessy earned her doctor of dental surgery in Brazil, before her MBA in healthcare from George Washington University in May 2022. At GWU, she was accepted into the golden Key Hnor Society, and then the Presidential Management Fellows Program at HUD, her obit says. Jessy previously lived in Somerville, NJ; Madison and Green Bay, WI; Virginia Beach, VA; and Tampa, BL. Jessy is survived by her loving husband, John Schroth; her son, T…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Dating Profile Of NJ 'Werewolf Killer' Has Prosecutors Worried For Single Women Dating Profile Of NJ 'Werewolf Killer' Has Prosecutors Worried For Single Women
Dating Profile Of NJ 'Werewolf Killer' Has Prosecutors Worried For Single Women Pankaj Bhasin's dating profile says he's an easygoing adventurer who just got back from two years of traveling.  What it doesn't say is that he's nicknamed the "Werewolf Killer" and that his vacation was actually a three-year stint in a Northern Virginia mental institution. Bhasin, 37 — who has ties to Blackwood and East Brunswick, NJ — was found not guilty by reason of insanity a year after he drove from his Central Jersey home to Alexandria, VA and fatally stabbed 65-year-old Bradford Jackson, a complete stranger to him.   Bhasin was released from the N…

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by AJ Goldbloom & Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
NJ 'Werewolf' Killer To Be Released From VA Mental Institution NJ 'Werewolf' Killer To Be Released From VA Mental Institution
NJ 'Werewolf' Killer To Be Released From VA Mental Institution A New Jersey man who thought he was killing a werewolf when he attacked an Alexandria store manager is set to be released from a mental institution soon, a report says.  Pankaj Bhasin, 37, killed Bradford Jackson, a stranger to him, in 2018. A year later, a Virginia court determined that Bhasin was legally insane at the time of the killing, the Washington Post reported at the time.  Doctors at the Northern Virginia Mental Health Institute now say he's well enough to leave the facility after two years of treatment, and a judge has agreed to allow him a conditional release, NBC…

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by Josh Lanier
Lifestyle
TikToker Going Viral For Asking People How Much Money They Make TikToker Going Viral For Asking People How Much Money They Make
TikToker Going Viral For Asking People How Much Money They Make “What do you do and how much do you make?” If you’ve ever been asked that on the streets of Washington DC, or any other surrounding city, odds are you encountered Hannah Williams. The 25-year-old data analyst is changing the business game by opening up the dialogue about wage transparency in the job market – and she’s doing it one TikTok at a time. “I think that people just weren't having these conversations before because of the taboo around it,” she said. “I think that what we're doing is very ballsy and it's something that people have never seen.” While documenting her own job-hunti…

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by David Cifarelli
News
NYC Chef Wins Spicy $2 Million Playing Virginia Lottery Scratcher NYC Chef Wins Spicy $2 Million Playing Virginia Lottery Scratcher
NYC Chef Wins Spicy $2 Million Playing Virginia Lottery Scratcher A New York City chef is a one-in-a-million winner after trying his luck on a Virginia Lottery scratcher game. Lin Wheng Zheng was visiting friends in Alexandria when he decided to a Colossal Cash ticket at High Up Food Market on Little River Turnpike in Alexandria, according to the Virginia Lottery. As Zheng scratched off his ticket, he was excited to see what he thought was a $20,000 prize, but quickly realized it was much more than that. Zheng’s ticket was actually worth $2 million. Zheng was given the choice of receiving the full $2 million prize through payments over the course of 30 …

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by Annie DeVoe
News
NJ Woman In Wheelchair, 74, Among Group Charged By Feds Following DC Anti-Abortion Protest NJ Woman In Wheelchair, 74, Among Group Charged By Feds Following DC Anti-Abortion Protest
NJ Woman In Wheelchair, 74, Among Group Charged By Feds Following DC Anti-Abortion Protest A 74-year-old North Jersey woman in a wheelchair was among a group of anti-abortion activists charged with federal civil rights violations for blocking access to a reproductive health clinic in Washington, D.C. The arrest of Joan Andrews-Bell of Montague and eight other demonstrators was originally live-streamed on Facebook during an October 2020 protest that they dubbed “The Pink Rose Rescue” and federal authorities called an “invasion." Justice Department officials on Wednesday, March 30 announced the return of an indictment charging the defendants with criminally conspiring to “injure, …

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by Jerry DeMarco