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Temple Grad, Resident Doctor Trina Wijangco Of NJ Dies, 27 Temple Grad, Resident Doctor Trina Wijangco Of NJ Dies, 27
Temple Grad, Resident Doctor Trina Wijangco Of NJ Dies, 27 A North Jersey native who recently earned her doctorate of medicine died at 27 years old. Trina Wijangco, M.D., passed away on Nov. 7. A cause of death was not made public. Trina graduated from Clifton High School (Class of 2012) and went on to earn her Bachelor’s of Science in Psychology from New York University, graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2016, according to her obituary. She earned her doctorate of medicine from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University in 2021 and was a resident doctor of internal medicine at the Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in New York City when sh…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Warren County Motorcyclist, 62, Dies Week After Phillipsburg Crash Warren County Motorcyclist, 62, Dies Week After Phillipsburg Crash
Warren County Motorcyclist, 62, Dies Week After Phillipsburg Crash A man from Warren County succumbed to his injuries more than a week after his involvement in a Phillipsburg crash. Stewart Lee, 62, of Pohatcong Township hit a street drain and lost control of his motorcycle, colliding with a 2016 Chevrolet Malibu and crashing into a building near the 800 block of South Main Street on August 23, NJ.com reports. Lee was transported to St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill, PA, where he died of multiple blunt force injuries shortly after 6 p.m. Thursday, authorities said. The driver of the Malibu sustained minor injuries, authorities said. Lee’s d…

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by Valerie Musson
News
PA Man Distraught By Coronavirus Shoots Woman, Kills Himself PA Man Distraught By Coronavirus Shoots Woman, Kills Himself
PA Man Distraught By Coronavirus Shoots Woman, Kills Himself A Pennsylvania man who recently lost his job and was becoming increasingly upset by the coronavirus crisis shot his girlfriend in the back as she fled -- then he killed himself, reports say. Roderick Bliss, 38, of Wilson Borough, shot the 43-year-old woman in the back around 1:20 p.m. Monday outside his apartment on N. 17th Street, LehighValley Live reports. Authorities found a semiautomatic pistol nearby and the woman, who was conscious and alert, told officers Bliss shot her, the report says. The unnamed woman was treated in the intensive care unit at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fo…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Warren County Man Who Took Fatal Fall Also Tested Positive For Coronavirus, Advisory Says Warren County Man Who Took Fatal Fall Also Tested Positive For Coronavirus, Advisory Says
Warren County Man Who Took Fatal Fall Also Tested Positive For Coronavirus, Advisory Says A Warren County man who died in a Pennsylvania hospital after suffering a head injury in a fall at home also tested positive for COVID-19, officials said. The 61-year-old Washington Borough man died at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Fountain Hill Friday night, NJ.com reports. The patient’s primary cause of death was a head injury from a fall, but COVID-19 is also listed as a “contributing factor,” according to a release from Lehigh County Coroner Eric Minnich. The patient, along with a 60-year-old man recovering at home, are the first two COVID-19 cases reported in Washington Borough. …

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by Valerie Musson
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Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal COVID-19 Victim
Coronavirus Kills 4th Member Of Same Family Tied To New Jersey's First Fatal Covid-19 Victim A fourth member of a New Jersey family connected to the state's first coronavirus fatality died Thursday. Vincent Fusco passed away at CentraState Medical Center in Freehold, the same hospital where his mother, 73-year-old family matriarch Grace Fusco, died of the virus a day earlier. His brother, Carmine Fusco, died hours before their mother at St. Luke’s University Hospital in Pennsylvania near his home in Bath -- becoming that state's first COVID-19 fatality. Their sister, Rita Fusco-Jackson, died last Friday and later tested positive for the virus. Rita Fusco-Jackson became …

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by Jerry DeMarco