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COVID-19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication COVID-19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication
Covid-19: 'He's Been Through Hell:' Mom Details 9-Year-Old Son’s Battle With Rare Complication A mom is speaking out after her 9-year-old son was diagnosed with a rare and potentially fatal COVID-19 complication that landed him in the hospital. Michele Mi says her son, Johnny, a third-grader in Mt. Olive, New Jersey, was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Dec. 23 but showed no symptoms. “I thought we were very lucky,” she writes in a Jan. 20 Facebook post. Two and a half weeks went by before Johnny — who had already been quarantined — woke up vomiting with a spiked temperature, said Mi, who rushed him to a pediatrician. After Johnny’s flu test came back negative, the pediatrician told Mi a…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
1 Dead, 3 Injured: Tow Truck Driver Crosses Center Line, Strikes Sedan Head On In Lafayette 1 Dead, 3 Injured: Tow Truck Driver Crosses Center Line, Strikes Sedan Head On In Lafayette
1 Dead, 3 Injured: Tow Truck Driver Crosses Center Line, Strikes Sedan Head On In Lafayette One person was dead and three injured after a tow truck driver struck a sedan head on in Lafayette Monday night, authorities said. Joseph Crilley, 29 of Newton, crossed over the center line into the northbound lane, striking a Honda civic at milepost 28.2 on Route 94 around 10:40 p.m.., New Jersey State Police Trooper Alejandro Goez said The driver of the Honda, James Ziniewicz, 43 of Newton, was pronounced dead at the scene, Goez said.  One adult passenger in the Honda was airlifted to Morristown Medical Center with serious injuries, and another passenger was taken in an ambulance, a…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Sussex County Beauty Queen Turns Corner Months After Near-Fatal Crash Sussex County Beauty Queen Turns Corner Months After Near-Fatal Crash
Sussex County Beauty Queen Turns Corner Months After Near-Fatal Crash The Honigsberg family is finally seeing a glimmer of hope. Nearly four months after a near-fatal car accident, Grace Honigsberg is beginning to turn a corner. The 23-year-old and former Miss Frankford is not yet conscious but is beginning to turn a corner, her family said on a GoFundMe page that had raised more than $12,200 as of Monday. "Grace is not yet conscious but is making small gains in rehab," the page says.  "She is scheduled to be discharged to outpatient rehabilitation. At that time, regardless of her status of still needing total care assistance, her family will be taking…

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by Cecilia Levine
News
Orange County Man Writes Poignant Facebook Post Hours Before Fatal Crash Orange County Man Writes Poignant Facebook Post Hours Before Fatal Crash
Orange County Man Writes Poignant Facebook Post Hours Before Fatal Crash Hours before he was killed in a crash, a motorcyclist from the Hudson Valley was taking in the idyllic moment alongside Greenwood Lake in Orange County. "Beautiful day to be out on the bike," 38-year-old Jesse Dunn of Unionville, also in Orange County, wrote on Facebook around 4 p.m. Saturday. He shared a photo of his Kawasaki motorcycle and the view from Emerald Point Restaurant & Marina. That evening around 8:30, Dunn was killed after his bike crossed over to the other side of Loomis Avenue and struck the front of a northbound Hyundai Elantra in Wantage, New Jersey Sta…

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by Cecilia Levine
Lifestyle
NYJet Gets Emotional Visiting Hospitalized Paramus Bus Crash Victims NYJet Gets Emotional Visiting Hospitalized Paramus Bus Crash Victims
NYJet Gets Emotional Visiting Hospitalized Paramus Bus Crash Victims Paramus middle schoolers recovering in the hospital from last week's Route 80 school bus crash that killed two received a special visit from New York Jet Avery Williamson last weekend. When the linebacker was asked by Jets staff to visit the East Brook students at Morristown Medical Center -- located near the Jets' training facility in Florham Park -- he immediately said yes, the New York Post reports. Williamson told The Post his Saturday visit was an emotional one. “It was one of those things you say yes to but you don’t know how deeply it’s going to affect you and how touching it will b…

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by Cecilia Levine
Obituaries
Wallkill High School Grad Matthew Gillis Dies, 25 Wallkill High School Grad Matthew Gillis Dies, 25
Wallkill High School Grad Matthew Gillis Dies, 25 Matthew Gillis of Port Jervis died on Saturday, Jan. 20 surrounded by his family at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey. He was 25. Matthew graduated from Wallkill High School in 2011. He was the manager at the Quick Chek in Wantage, NJ for several years until he left on disability.  Matthew hobbies are golf, NASCAR, his favorite driver Martin Truex Jr., he loved his Ford truck, enjoyed spending time with his friends especially Dylan, he loved all sports and was a very outdoorsman. Matt was predeceased by his paternal grandparents, George and Helen Gillis and his maternal grandfather H…

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by Cecilia Levine