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7-Year-Old Hospitalized After Costume Catches Fire While Trick-or-Treating: Lambertville PD 7-Year-Old Hospitalized After Costume Catches Fire While Trick-or-Treating: Lambertville PD
7-Year-Old Hospitalized After Costume Catches Fire While Trick-or-Treating: Lambertville PD A 7-year-old girl sustained burn injuries after her costume caught fire on Halloween in Lambertville, authorities said. At 8 p.m., the girl was trick or treating on North Union Street with her parents when she walked up a flight of steps to a house for candy, when her costume made contact with a lit candle lining the steps and caught on fire, Lambertville police said. A resident, who was also trick or treating with their child, saw what was happening and patted out the flames with hands, police said. The child was attended to by neighbors and the homeowner until officers arrived, along wit…

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Politics
NJ Campaign Manager Gets Probation For Filing Phony Petitions In Gov Primary: AG NJ Campaign Manager Gets Probation For Filing Phony Petitions In Gov Primary: AG
NJ Campaign Manager Gets Probation For Filing Phony Petitions In Gov Primary: AG A 62-year-old Hunterdon County campaign manager was sentenced to two years of probation on Friday, Oct. 18 after pleading guilty to attempting to fraudulently place a candidate on the Democratic primary ballot in the New Jersey governor’s race in 2021, authorities said. James Devine, a Lambertville resident, submitted 1,948 fraudulent nominating petitions to the New Jersey Department of State’s Division of Elections, in an attempt to enable his candidate, Lisa McCormick, to compete in the primary, Attorney General Matthew Platkin said. Devine pleaded guilty in August. “Rather than…

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Police & Fire
Two Men Busted For Selling, Buying Heroin: Hunterdon County Prosecutor Two Men Busted For Selling, Buying Heroin: Hunterdon County Prosecutor
Two Men Busted For Selling, Buying Heroin: Hunterdon County Prosecutor Two men were arrested in Hunterdon County on Tuesday, Sept. 24 after they were observed making a narcotics transaction, authorities said. Lambertville police and the Hunterdon County Prosecutor’s Office’s Narcotics Task Force began investigating earlier this month after receiving reports of suspicious narcotics transactions on George Street, Hunterdon County Prosecutor Renée Robeson and Lambertville Police Department Lt. Robert Brown said. The investigation resulted in the arrests of Carl Decicco, a 33-year-old Lambertville resident and Rayshawn Robbins, a 39-year-o…

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by Sam Barron