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Elijah Brown Garcia Of Newark Dies Playing Football, Family Says Elijah Brown Garcia Of Newark Dies Playing Football, Family Says
Elijah Brown Garcia Of Newark Dies Playing Football, Family Says The Newark community is mourning the loss of 12-year-old Elijah Jordan Brown Garcia.  According to a GoFundMe page launched by his mom, Elijah died doing what he loved: Playing football. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Essex County Predators (@jerseypredatorfootball) Posted by A’Dorian Murray-Thomas Newark Public Schools Board Member on Friday, February 17, 2023 "Elijah was an outgoing, loving young kid," the campaign reads. "He loved dancing and football and loved his family.  "He made sure everyone was comfortable with hi…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Sniper Kendall Howard Accused Of Shooting 2 Newark Officers Captured After Manhunt: Sources Sniper Kendall Howard Accused Of Shooting 2 Newark Officers Captured After Manhunt: Sources
Sniper Kendall Howard Accused Of Shooting 2 Newark Officers Captured After Manhunt: Sources UPDATE: Kendall Howard, the accused East Orange sniper wanted for shooting two Newark police officers, has been captured after a massive search, sources tell Daily Voice. Howard was arrested Wednesday morning by Newark police on two attempted murder charges, sources with direct knowledge of the incident say. Details surrounding his arrest were not immediately clear. Howard had been wanted in connection with another shooting from last Friday when police received a 911 call from a civilian who reported seeing him in the area of an apartment building at 25 Van Velsor Place, authorities said. …

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by Jerry DeMarco & Cecilia Levine
Schools
Newark Schools All-Remote Until 2021 Newark Schools All-Remote Until 2021
Newark Schools All-Remote Until 2021 Newark public school students will have to wait until next year for in-person learning due to COVID-19. Superintendent Roger Leon announced that all schools will be holding classes remotely until at least Jan. 25, 2021. "This decision was not made lightly and was made with the best interests of all NPS students and staff," the BOE said in a press release.  "Given all of the factors and guidance regarding this global pandemic, the next few days and months are intended to build confidence in our healthy and safe return to school.  "We will get through this, because we will do it t…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Cause Of Death Revealed For Newark Education Advocate, 1 Charged With Murder Cause Of Death Revealed For Newark Education Advocate, 1 Charged With Murder
Cause Of Death Revealed For Newark Education Advocate, 1 Charged With Murder A Newark man has been charged with murder after a Newark education activist was found dead in his home last month, authorities said. Johnnie Lattner, 55 -- the co-founder of PULSE (Parents Unified for Local School Education) -- was found unresponsive at a Mount Pleasant Avenue home Aug. 17,  Acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II, and Newark Public Safety Director Anthony F. Ambrose said. The death was considered suspicious and ruled a homicide following an autopsy, Ambrose and Stephens said. The cause of death was sharp force injuries, an ECPO spokeswoman said. …

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by Cecilia Levine
Schools
HISTORIC: Newark Regains Control Of Public Schools 25 Years Later HISTORIC: Newark Regains Control Of Public Schools 25 Years Later
Historic: Newark Regains Control Of Public Schools 25 Years Later Nearly 25 years to the day the state assumed control of operations in the Newark School District, state officials announced the local board will regain control. "This is a historic day for Newark, and a day for celebration," Gov. Phil Murphy said. "Today, full local control of the public schools has been restored to the people of Newark so that the local school board can address the unique needs of the school community." The Newark BOE had been struggling for years with management and academic issues when the New Jersey BOE revoked its authority over the district in 1995. A decade later, t…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Former Valley Hospital, North Bergen Priest Named In Abuse List Shot Dead In Nevada Former Valley Hospital, North Bergen Priest Named In Abuse List Shot Dead In Nevada
Former Valley Hospital, North Bergen Priest Named In Abuse List Shot Dead In Nevada Authorities in Nevada were searching for the killer of an accused sex-abusing priest who once served at a parish in North Bergen and as a chaplain at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood. Police said they found the body of 70-year-old John Capparelli during a pre-dawn welfare check Saturday at his home in the city of Henderson, just outside Las Vegas. He'd been shot once in the neck, they said. Capparelli's name was included on a list that the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark (RCAN) released last month of 200 or so New Jersey priests "credibly accused of sexual abuse." SEE: Dozens Of…

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by Jerry DeMarco & Kathy Reakes