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Emotional Clip Shows NJ Woman Meeting 9-Year-Old Girl She Saved With Bone Marrow Donation Emotional Clip Shows NJ Woman Meeting 9-Year-Old Girl She Saved With Bone Marrow Donation
Emotional Clip Shows NJ Woman Meeting 9-Year-Old Girl She Saved With Bone Marrow Donation A New Jersey woman met the young girl whose life she saved during a heartwarming reunion at the Gift of Life Marrow Registry’s One Huge Night Miami Gala this week. Sara Wells, a 25-year-old retail worker from Roselle Park shared an emotional first meeting with her transplant recipient, 9-year-old Natalie Hughes of Greenville, MS, at the annual event hosted by Gift of Life Marrow Registry on Monday, Nov. 18 (click here for video). Natalie was diagnosed with aplastic anemia at just five years old after her parents noticed unusual bruising. Her condition required a stem cell transplant to…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Ex-BF Swindled Bergen County Realtor Out Of $71K: Lawsuit Ex-BF Swindled Bergen County Realtor Out Of $71K: Lawsuit
Ex-BF Swindled Bergen County Realtor Out Of $71K: Lawsuit Christina LaBarbiera remembers watching the hit Netflix show "Tinder Swindler" and thinking what happened to those women could never happen to her. Until it did, she says. The show follows a group of women who say they met a man on the popular dating app Tinder, who swindled them out of millions of dollars collectively. And they want justice. LaBarbiera, a 35-year-old realtor with Christie's International from Bergen County, says her story isn't all that different.  UPDATE: Robert Harris was lodged in the Bergen County Jail on Monday, March 18, records show. Last November, she …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Tan Mom, North Jersey Native, Running For US Senate Tan Mom, North Jersey Native, Running For US Senate
Tan Mom, North Jersey Native, Running For US Senate From the tanning salon to the US Capitol: Patricia Krentcil a.k.a. "Tan Mom" is trying to make it happen. Krentcil, an Essex County native, who went viral 2012 after being accused of bringing her five-year-old daughter to a tanning salon in her native Nutley, announced she is running for the Republican nomination for US Senate in Florida next year. "Patricia went out in the streets of Florida and came face to face with the heartbreaking issues affecting so many here," her campaign website reads.  "From the attacks on LGBTQ+ rights, equality, diversity, and beyond, Patricia is a champi…

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by Sam Barron
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Former Bergen Pilates Entrepreneur, Hospital Philanthropist Dies In Florida Former Bergen Pilates Entrepreneur, Hospital Philanthropist Dies In Florida
Former Bergen Pilates Entrepreneur, Hospital Philanthropist Dies In Florida A funeral service is scheduled this weekend for a former Bergen County fitness entrepreneur and hospital philanthropist who died suddenly at her Florida home. The circumstances surrounding the death of Nanci Perle Kushner on Monday, March 21, haven’t been made public. Previously from Cresskill, the 56-year-old New York native had been living in Boca Raton, FL, records show. Kusher received a bachelor’s degree in retail and marketing from Syracuse University and a master's in education from Fordham Graduate School before cultivating a love of exercise into the founding of NPK Pilates in Cr…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Drunken Florida Realtor Flips SUV In Hoboken, Slams 2 Cars Hospitalizing Pedestrian: Police Drunken Florida Realtor Flips SUV In Hoboken, Slams 2 Cars Hospitalizing Pedestrian: Police
Drunken Florida Realtor Flips SUV In Hoboken, Slams 2 Cars Hospitalizing Pedestrian: Police A real estate agent from Florida was charged with assault by auto and DWI after crashing into two parked vehicles and flipping her own, sending a victim to the hospital Sunday evening, authorities in Hoboken said. Raissa Restivo, 34, of Boca Raton, struck two parked vehicles and flipped her Chevy Cruze near 6th to 7th on Bloomfield Street around 6:50 p.m., Hoboken Police Detective Sgt. Jonathan Mecka said Monday. Right now on Bloomfield between 6th and 7th. How does this even happen in a 25mph zone? #hoboken #nyc #gooddriving pic.twitter.com/dHMEmJVYbO — HobokenWeather.com (@HbknWx) Dec…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Husband-Wife Owners Of Bayonne Telemedicine Company Indicted In $56M Medicare Fraud Husband-Wife Owners Of Bayonne Telemedicine Company Indicted In $56M Medicare Fraud
Husband-Wife Owners Of Bayonne Telemedicine Company Indicted In $56M Medicare Fraud A husband and wife who own two telemedicine companies with a location in Bayonne were indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for defrauding Medicare in a $56 million bribe and kickback scheme involving orthotic braces, authorities said. Reinaldo Wilson, 51, and Jean Wilson, 49, of Richmond Hill, Ga., are accused of using their companies to solicit kickbacks and bribes from patient recruiters, pharmacies and brace supplies – then hiring providers to order medically unnecessary braces for Medicare recipients, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Both were arrested Wednesday morning and la…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Florida Man Tried To Board Plane In Newark With Loaded Gun: TSA Florida Man Tried To Board Plane In Newark With Loaded Gun: TSA
Florida Man Tried To Board Plane In Newark With Loaded Gun: TSA Port Authority police arrested a man Thursday for trying to bring a gun loaded with a hollow-point bullet onto a plane at Newark Liberty International Airport, the Transportation Security Administration said in a statement.  The man, identified only as a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, packed the weapon in a carry-on, authorities said. It was detected by an X-ray machine at a security checkpoint at Terminal A.  Fliers can bring a firearm onto an aircraft,  the TSA said, but must declare it. The weapon must also be unloaded and packed separately from ammunition in a locked, h…

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by Paul Milo
Police & Fire
'Operation Brace Yourself': Feds Smash $1B Medical Fraud Scheme Targeting Elderly, Disabled 'Operation Brace Yourself': Feds Smash $1B Medical Fraud Scheme Targeting Elderly, Disabled
'Operation Brace Yourself': Feds Smash $1B Medical Fraud Scheme Targeting Elderly, Disabled Federal authorities charged 24 people in connection with a $1.2 billion health-care kickback scheme that used a network of foreign call centers to sell hundreds of thousands of seniors and disabled patients orthopedic braces that they didn't need -- on the government's dime. Those charged in "Operation Brace Yourself" – seven of them in New Jersey – included the CEOs, COOs and others associated with five telemedicine companies, the owners of dozens of durable medical equipment (DME) companies and three licensed medical professionals, U.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito said. Some of them controll…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
6 Years Later: Jurors Convict Former Fort Lee Man Of Killing Infant Son 6 Years Later: Jurors Convict Former Fort Lee Man Of Killing Infant Son
6 Years Later: Jurors Convict Former Fort Lee Man Of Killing Infant Son Jurors in Hackensack on Monday convicted a former Fort Lee man of killing his 10-week-old son. A judge ordered bail revoked and Michael Marrara, 37, held in the Bergen County Jail until a scheduled June 15 sentencing, when he could be sent to state prison for more than 30 years. The jury convicted Marrara, a former volunteer firefighter, of aggravated manslaughter, aggravated assault, child endangerment and hindering apprehension after deliberating for about six hours over two days following a month-long trial. Family members at the time said that little Andrew Jeremy Marrara died of SIDS …

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by Jerry DeMarco