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Embattled Senator Bob Menendez Announces Wife Has Breast Cancer Embattled Senator Bob Menendez Announces Wife Has Breast Cancer
Embattled Senator Bob Menendez Announces Wife Has Breast Cancer Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), who is facing federal corruption charges said his wife, Nadine, is battling breast cancer. “Nadine is suffering from Grade 3 breast cancer, which will require her to have mastectomy surgery,” Menendez said. “We are of course, concerned about the seriousness and advanced stage of the disease. She will require follow up surgery and possibly radiation treatment.” Like her husband, Nadine Menendez is facing corruption and bribery charges. While the senator's trial is currently underway, her trial was pushed back due to medical concerns. Her trial is currently schedu…

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by Sam Barron
Police & Fire
New Details Emerge As Feds Take Case Of South Jersey Man Charged With Building Pipe Bombs New Details Emerge As Feds Take Case Of South Jersey Man Charged With Building Pipe Bombs
New Details Emerge As Feds Take Case Of South Jersey Man Charged With Building Pipe Bombs Federal authorities on Tuesday announced that they're now handling the prosecution of a South Jersey man who forced a major evacuation of homes and businesses after local police said they found him driving around with homemade pipe bombs in his car. U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip Sellinger announced the move on Jan. 23 while sharing new details about last summer's arrest. Jeremy Giliberti, 52, of Mount Laurel, was stopped by Hamilton Township police in the parking lot of a T-Mobile store on South Broad Street shortly before 11 a.m. last July 26. On the floorboard of the front passenge…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Feds: Female Duo Admits Dealing Meth Throughout South Jersey Feds: Female Duo Admits Dealing Meth Throughout South Jersey
Feds: Female Duo Admits Dealing Meth Throughout South Jersey Two women caught trafficking meth through South Jersey took plea deals rather than risk federal prosecution, authorities said. Sherri Craig, 42, of Clementon, New Jersey, and Shannon Foster, 27, of Egg Harbor City, formally agreed on Thursday, Oct. 13, to mandatory five-year minimum sentences -- and possibly more time. All of it must be served because there's no parole in the federal prison system. Several federal agencies teamed up to investigate Craig and Foster, who "regularly" bought methamphetamine from suppliers and conspired with each other, and others, to deal it throughout the so…

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by Jerry DeMarco
News
Speeding Trespasser Admits Deliberately Hitting Fort Dix MPs With His Car Speeding Trespasser Admits Deliberately Hitting Fort Dix MPs With His Car
Speeding Trespasser Admits Deliberately Hitting Fort Dix MPs With His Car A Florida man who hit two Air Force military police officers with his car after blowing through a checkpoint at Fort Dix -- dragging one of them several feet -- pleaded guilty to assault in exchange for what he hopes will be leniency, federal authorities said. The officers pursued Hal Wander, 25, of Port Charlotte, after he sped through a designated checkpoint without stopping at the Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst military base in Burlington County, NJ on Nov. 16, 2020. Wander, who records show had prior arrests in Florida involving marijuana and stolen property, admitted deliberately plo…

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by Jerry DeMarco