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Notorious NJ Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of Dance Teacher At Popular Long Island Mall Notorious NJ Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of Dance Teacher At Popular Long Island Mall
Notorious NJ Serial Killer Charged With Murder Of Dance Teacher At Popular Long Island Mall Another female victim has been added to the list of imprisoned 75-year-old New Jersey serial killer Richard Cottingham, thanks to advances in DNA technology. Cottingham was arraigned on Long Island via videoconference Wednesday from South Woods State Prison in Bridgeton for the 1968 slaying of a New Hyde Park woman in the parking lot of the popular Green Acres Mall in Valley Stream. He entered a not-guilty plea to murder charges in the death of Diane Cusick, a 23-year-old divorced single mom who worked as a dance instructor. Cottingham, a married father of three who’d lived in Lodi and wor…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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4 NJ Disney Stores Among Nearly 60 Closing Across America 4 NJ Disney Stores Among Nearly 60 Closing Across America
4 NJ Disney Stores Among Nearly 60 Closing Across America So long, farewell... Disney is closing nearly 60 of its brick and mortar stores across the US come Sept. 15. DisneyDisney Among them, four in New Jersey. According to the Disney Store website, the following stores are closing in the Garden State: Deptford: Deptford Mall, 1750 Deptford Center Road Edison: Menlo Park Mall, 55 Parsonage Road Jackson: Jackson Premium Outlets, 537 Monmouth Road Paramus: Garden State Plaza, 1 Garden State Plaza Blvd. After the next round of closings, only 25 stores will remain in operation. Disney last March announced at least 60 of its North America stor…

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by Cecilia Levine
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'I Just Shot My Father': Bogus Swatting Call Draws Mass Response To Palisades Park Apartment 'I Just Shot My Father': Bogus Swatting Call Draws Mass Response To Palisades Park Apartment
'I Just Shot My Father': Bogus Swatting Call Draws Mass Response To Palisades Park Apartment A throng of police and tactical units descended on a Palisades Park garden apartment complex Friday night in response to what turned out to be a bogus 911 call of a man with a bomb strapped to his chest. The swatting incident forced the evacuation of the West Central Boulevard complex off Grand Avenue after a 911 caller told a dispatcher around 9 p.m. that "I just shot my father," Detective Alex Monteleone said. Units were rushing to the site when the swatter called again, saying he'd shot his dad a second time, he said. The third time, he said he had a pipe bomb strapped to his chest that…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Lord & Taylor Shutters 3 NJ Stores, 24 Across U.S. Lord & Taylor Shutters 3 NJ Stores, 24 Across U.S.
Lord & Taylor Shutters 3 NJ Stores, 24 Across U.S. Lord & Taylor will shutter two dozen locations nationwide including three in New Jersey. After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the nation’s oldest department store announced it will also be closing seven stores in New York, three in Connecticut, two in Massachusetts, two in Illinois and two in Maryland, CNBC reports. One store each in Florida, Michigan, New Hampshire, Virginia and Pennsylvania will also close. The New Jersey stores set to shutter are: Livingston, 111 Eisenhower Pkwy. Rockaway, 317 Mt. Hope Ave. Wayne, Willowbrook Mall These two dozen stores are just a few of t…

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by Valerie Musson