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America's Most Dangerous Cities List Cites Paterson, Trenton, Camden
Among the abundance of hyperlocal real estate sites that look to lure customers by rating locations is one that includes Camden, Trenton and Paterson among the 100 most dangerous cities in the United States.
NeighborhoodScout.com uses the violent crime rate per 1,000 residents as its criteria to determine how likely you are to become a victim in each particular city.
It then shows the safest neighborhoods around those urban areas.
The worst for this year, it says, is Monroe, LA, with a crime rate of 29.4 per 1,000 residents, giving citizens a 1 in 34 chance of becoming a victim.
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Your Town: How Many Postal Workers Were Attacked By Dogs Last Year?
MAHWAH, N.J. -- Mahwah, Paramus and Wayne each had two postal carriers attacked by dogs last year, the U.S Postal Service announced Monday in its annual roundup. Several Bergen and Passaic county towns had one each.
Of the 6,244 total attacks nationwide -- more than 500 less than in 2016 -- one each occurred in Clifton, East Rutherford, Hackensack, Passaic, Paterson, Ridgewood and South Hackensack and Teaneck, the postal service reported.
The figures were released as part of National Dog Bite Prevention Week (Apr. 8 – 14).
The most attacks -- 71 -- were reported in Houston, followed by Los…
J.C. Penney To Close More Stores, Lay Off Hundreds Of Employees
J.C. Penney says it will close eight stores in 2018, resulting in 480 job cuts.
This comes after the department store chain shuttered 140 stores in 2017.
The eight stores scheduled for closure this year are:
Hampton Village Plaza in St. Louis, Missouri
Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey
Sandburg Mall in Galesburg, Illinois
Viking Plaza in Alexandria, Minnesota
Washington Park Mall in Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Cascade Mall in Burlington, Washington
Calexico Store in Calexico, California
Knox Village Square in Mt. Vernon, Ohio
J.C. Penney had announced earlier this week, 600 jobs would …