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NJ College Cracks Hot Missing Persons Case NJ College Cracks Hot Missing Persons Case
NJ College Cracks Hot Missing Persons Case Students and staff from a New Jersey college center have cracked a hot missing persons case from across the country. The Ramapo College of New Jersey's Investigative Genetic Genealogy Center (IGG) worked in collaboration with authorities in St. Louis County, MI, to successfully identify “St. Louis John Doe,” who had been missing since 2021. "This was a hot case, which generally refers to the presence of active, investigative leads," reads a release from Ramapo College's IGG. "The use of IGG in hot cases is a fairly new and growing concept." IGG's assistant director, Cairenn Binder, sa…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Worker Critically Injured In Explosion At Ramapo College Worker Critically Injured In Explosion At Ramapo College
Worker Critically Injured In Explosion At Ramapo College UPDATE: A construction worker was gravely injured in a pipe-valve explosion Tuesday morning at Ramapo College of New Jersey in Mahwah, responders said. Mahwah firefighters carried the victim out after he was struck in the head and knocked out by a valve cap during a pressure test on an 8-inch water line on the second floor of the college library shortly after 8 a.m., they said. A helicopter was cancelled because of the weather and he was taken by ambulance to Hackensack University Medical Center with severe head trauma, responders said. They were doubtful about his chances for survival. T…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28 Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28
Poet, Philosopher Jacqueline Winter Thomas Of Emerson Dies, 28 Jacqueline Winter Thomas of Emerson died on April 18, having recently been accepted as an English fellow to Brandeis University’s PhD program. She was 28 years old. Jacqueline earned a Bachelors degree in literature from Ramapo College of New Jersey and a Masters of Fine Arts in creative writing from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, her obituary says. She was also a poetry reader at The Adroit Journal and a contributing editor at Eratio Poetry Journal. Jacqueline was remembered in her obituary as "a poet, a philosopher, a lover of trees, and delighted in snowfall, …

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by Cecilia Levine
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Judges: Ramapo College Immune From Sex Assault Case Of Student Raped In Dorm Room Judges: Ramapo College Immune From Sex Assault Case Of Student Raped In Dorm Room
Judges: Ramapo College Immune From Sex Assault Case Of Student Raped In Dorm Room A panel of three judges declared that Ramapo College of New Jersey was immune to a sex assault lawsuit filed by a student because it's considered an "arm of the state" NorthJersey.com reports. The state-funded college is exempt under a statute granting federal immunity to certain government agencies, the judges at the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia ruled. Student "Jane Jones" says she woke up in undressed in a Ramapo College dorm room undressed and thought she may have been sexually assaulted at a fraternity party on campus the night before in November 2014, the report sa…

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by Cecilia Levine