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Rutgers Women's Basketball Players Win Appeal In Discrimination Case Rutgers Women's Basketball Players Win Appeal In Discrimination Case
Rutgers Women's Basketball Players Win Appeal In Discrimination Case Four former Rutgers-Newark basketball players will have another shot at what they say is justice. A New Jersey appeals court reinstated claims of race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination brought by Jasmine Daniels, Jade Howard, Sarah Schwartz and Arianna Williams as part of an existing lawsuit, NJ Advance Media reports. Those claims have been tacked on to the suit involving Sharee Gordon and Adayshia McKinnon. A local court previously ruled that the women hadn't suffered discrimination from longtime Athletic Director Mark Griffin and interim women's basketball head coach Wil…

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by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain
Pillar Of Little Ferry Community Becomes Its New Police Captain A Little Ferry police veteran who has remained ingrained in the community he’s always called home was sworn as his department’s new captain at Borough Hall Tuesday night. Ronald Klein Jr. lived on Garden Street with his parents, Ronald and Karen. He attended the Wilson School and Memorial Middle School before being graduated from Ridgefield Park High School in 1989 – and worked as a volunteer EMT with the Little Ferry First Aid Corps for 10 years. After receiving degrees from Bergen Community College and Rutgers-Newark, Klein joined the Little Ferry Police Department as a dispatcher in 1996…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Harrison Man Reportedly Sent Threatening Video To Rutgers-Newark Law Students Harrison Man Reportedly Sent Threatening Video To Rutgers-Newark Law Students
Harrison Man Reportedly Sent Threatening Video To Rutgers-Newark Law Students A Harrison man who once attended Rutgers-Newark was arrested after he sent an email and attached video to law students describing school shootings and mass violence, according to published reports. Rutgers police arrested Patrick Kelly, 28, on Thursday and charged him with making terroristic threats and circulating a false report of an impending emergency, NorthJersey.com reported.  Kelly sent the email and hour-and-20-minute YouTube video, which Chancellor Nancy Cantor said in an email Thursday morning to students, faculty and staff “included language that could be interpret…

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by Paul Milo