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Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Indicted By Federal Grand Jury Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Indicted By Federal Grand Jury
Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Indicted By Federal Grand Jury A college student from Saudi Arabia who stole a school bus in Livingston, NJ, and drove it nearly 60 miles to Stroudsburg, PA, has been indicted by a federal grand jury, authorities said. Bader Alzahrani, a 22-year-old divorced sophomore who attends an undisclosed college, broke into a vacant home across the street from a Livingston Board of Education parking lot on Hill Side Avenue where the bus was parked on Jan. 15, the indictment returned in U.S. District Court in Newark says. The district reported the bus stolen two days later. Police found a backpack with a Saudi Arabian passport bea…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Kept Anti-Semitic Journals: Feds Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Kept Anti-Semitic Journals: Feds
Saudi National Who Drove Stolen NJ School Bus To PA Kept Anti-Semitic Journals: Feds A college student from Saudi Arabia who stole a school bus in Livingston, NJ, and drove it nearly 60 miles to Stroudsburg, PA, kept anti-Semitic journals, federal authorities said. Bader Alzahrani, a 22-year-old divorced sophomore who attends an undisclosed college, is accused of first breaking into a vacant home across the street from a Livingston Board of Education parking lot on Hill Side Avenue where the bus was parked. The district reported the bus stolen on Jan. 17, two days after the residential break-in, U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said. Police found a backpack…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Schools
Teen NJ Tutor Helps Students Around The World Ace SATs With Viral TikTok Videos Teen NJ Tutor Helps Students Around The World Ace SATs With Viral TikTok Videos
Teen NJ Tutor Helps Students Around The World Ace SATs With Viral TikTok Videos Leon Wang admits learning has always come easily to him. But the rising Montclair High School senior says he's long watched his peers struggle. That's why he began helping them on the side as early as elementary school. He's been doing it ever since. When the pandemic hit, and everyone turned to TikTok for entertainment, Wang knew he could use the video-sharing app to reach a whole new audience. As of July 13, Wang had 160.9K followers on TikTok -- where he's widely known as "Leon the Tutor."  His page is brimming with videos on must-know formulas for taking the SAT/AC…

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by Cecilia Levine
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With No Place To Go, You Might As Well Fill Up: NJ, NY, CT Gas Prices Continue To Drop With No Place To Go, You Might As Well Fill Up: NJ, NY, CT Gas Prices Continue To Drop
With No Place To Go, You Might As Well Fill Up: NJ, NY, CT Gas Prices Continue To Drop At a time when gas prices usually rise – especially in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- they’ve begun a steep drop, as the coronavirus forces airlines to slash the number of daily flights and civilians to drive drastically less. On top of that, Russia and Saudi Arabia are increasing production in a price war that has experts predicting that gas may soon cost less than the crude oil that it’s made from. New Jersey’s average gas price fell eight cents a gallon from last week to an average Monday of $2.36 (from $2.44), AAA Northeast reported. That’s 12 cents cheaper than a month ago (…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail
Feds Smash World's Largest Dark Web Child Porn Network By Following Bitcoin Trail Federal authorities have smashed the world’s largest dark web child porn marketplace, arresting a whopping 337 people around the world – some of them in New Jersey, New York and Connecticut -- all thanks to bitcoin. To sniff out the network, investigators used a unique strategy. "Welcome to Video" was one of the first websites of its kind to monetize exploitation videos of infants, toddlers and other children, "one of the worst forms of evil imaginable," one federal prosecutor said. The network used bitcoin because of the difficulty in tracing it, the Justice Department said in a complaint…

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by Jerry DeMarco