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High School Swimmer ID'd As 16-Year-Old Killed In South Jersey Crash High School Swimmer ID'd As 16-Year-Old Killed In South Jersey Crash
High School Swimmer ID'd As 16-Year-Old Killed In South Jersey Crash The 16-year-old girl killed in a weekend South Jersey crash has been identified as a high school athlete. Sophia Bennett was killed in the two-car crash on Friday, March 22, at the intersection of Hurffville Road and Deptford Center Road just after 8 p.m., according to police and school officials. The vehicle that Sophia was riding in was being driven by a 17-year-old Gibbstown boy, who was seriously injured, police said at the time of the crash. The other driver, a 27-year-old woman from Deptford, was taken to Jefferson Hospital (Washington Township), police said. Sophia was a s…

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by Jon Craig
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Warren Hills HS Senior Dies In Crash Warren Hills HS Senior Dies In Crash
Warren Hills HS Senior Dies In Crash An 18-year-old senior at Warren Hills Regional High School died after a one-car crash Wednesday night, authorities said. Jake Stria of Washington Township was headed northbound on Franklin Road when his car veered off and struck a tree around 5:30 p.m., police said. He was flown to St. Luke's University Hospital in Pennsylvania where he later was pronounced dead. More than $9,800 had been raised as of Thursday morning on a GoFundMe in Jake's memory. Grief counselors will be on-hand at the high school for those affected. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

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by Cecilia Levine
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Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark
Somerset Athlete Leaps To Death From New NY Landmark A former high school rugby star from Basking Ridge leaped to his death from a landmark structure at the brand-new Hudson Yards in Manhattan over the weekend, authorities confirmed. Peter DeSalvo, 19, a freshman at Sacred Heart University in Connecticut, jumped to his death from the sixth story of The Vessel, 150 or so feet above West 33rd Street near the Hudson River, around 5:30 p.m. Saturday, according to published reports. He didn’t leave a note, loved ones said. DeSalvo, who was a member of SHU's rugby club, was taken to Bellevue Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, after jumping fr…

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by Jerry DeMarco