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Atlantic City Pizzeria Workers Rewarded For Saving Family Vacation Atlantic City Pizzeria Workers Rewarded For Saving Family Vacation
Atlantic City Pizzeria Workers Rewarded For Saving Family Vacation Honesty proved be to the best policy for a pair of Atlantic City pizzeria workers, who found a family's $2,000 they left in cash and are being rewarded for it. A Facebook post from Tony's Baltimore Grill, which bills itself as AC's oldest pizza joint, details the incidents that unfolded a few weeks ago. A young man came running into the pizzeria at 2800 Atlantic Avenue, frantic that his family's vacation was ruined as they had misplaced $2,000 in cash. Well, Malik, a restaurant worker, had found the cash and turned it over to another employee, Pam, thinking it was hers as she had wait…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Professional Ring Finder Strikes Silver, Gold All Over NJ Professional Ring Finder Strikes Silver, Gold All Over NJ
Professional Ring Finder Strikes Silver, Gold All Over NJ He doesn't do it for fame or fortune, but Ed Trapper's hobby as a treasure hunter attracts a lot of attention. Last weekend, he was able to find a wedding ring on the beach in Lavallette. And a man's gold cross in a lagoon.  Asked whether he's had one special find, the 63-year-old Forked River resident said, "They're all rewarding." Trapper said it's all about doing a lot of detective work, and it's important if the person seeking their lost item knows approximately where they lost it. "You ask them over and over again," Trapper said, to narrow down the location. In the case of the weddi…

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by Jon Craig
Lifestyle
PICS: Morris County Man Reunites Woman With Gold Class Ring Found Buried After Nearly 40 Years PICS: Morris County Man Reunites Woman With Gold Class Ring Found Buried After Nearly 40 Years
PICS: Morris County Man Reunites Woman With Gold Class Ring Found Buried After Nearly 40 Years When Morris County resident and metal detecting enthusiast Brian Cox found more than his usual pull tabs and bottle caps during a recent search session at an old sports field in Mendham, he was intrigued — to say the least. “I dug up a treasure — a 1983 class ring from Wardlaw+Hartridge school, made of 10 karat gold with a clear stone,” he said. After meticulously cleaning the ring, Cox was even more surprised to find an engravement on the inside of the band and immediately wondered if he could reunite it with its original owner. “With the school’s name, graduation year and the owner’s na…

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by Valerie Musson
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Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do?
Profitable (Uh, Teachable) Moment For Boy Who Found 10 Bucks On Ground, What Would YOU Do? Young Michael Lindenberg just wanted to do the right thing when he showed up with his dad at Ridgewood police headquarters holding a $10 bill. Michael told Sgt. Kyle Finch that he’d found it on the ground, Police Chief Jacqueline Luthcke said. He and his father thought the right thing to do was to bring it to police to see whether anyone had reported losing it, the chief said. Finch told Michael that late July day that he would log it in as found property in the hopes that the owner came forward. If no one did after six months, the sergeant said, Michael could have it. Time passed an…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
Newark TSA Agent Gets Misplaced Wedding Dress To The Ceremony On Time Newark TSA Agent Gets Misplaced Wedding Dress To The Ceremony On Time
Newark TSA Agent Gets Misplaced Wedding Dress To The Ceremony On Time It seemed like your ordinary roller bag left behind at the Newark Airport TSA checkpoint by someone perhaps in a rush -- only inside was the dress a young bride-to-be was to wear at her wedding in Ohio the very next day. Narolin Cepeda, a former Paterson resident, was already winging on her way there when the MOB inadvertently left hers and her daughter's dresses behind. Moving quickly, Cepeda's younger brother, Christopher, pulled up a form online, sent it to the TSA’s Lost and Found Office at Newark Liberty International Airport and hoped for the best. Loletta Nathan-Gordon, a TSA admini…

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by Jerry DeMarco