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Fast Facts About New Jersey Native Just Named New Orleans Saints Interim Head Coach
The New Orleans Saints' new interim head coach may be familiar to football fans in the Northeast.
Darren Rizzi, who has served as the Saints special teams coach since 2022, was named interim head coach on Monday, Nov. 4, after the team fired Head Coach Dennis Allen.
The 54-year-old Hillsdale, NJ, native was one of Bergen Catholic's most widely recognized receivers, bringing the school's football team to the State Championship Game twice. The team won a title in 1986, and Rizzi held a BC career record of 69 receptions — a title that he held for 22 years, for 1,239 yards and 1…
These 10 NJ Stop & Shop Stores Have Closed
New Jersey officially has 10 fewer Stop & Shop stores.
The 10 underperforming locations closed were among 32 nationwide that the grocer announced would be closing by year's end.
Stop & Shop has kept 350 stores open, including 47 in New Jersey.
The stores that closed on or before Nov. 2 were:
1083 Inman Ave., Edison
1049 US Highway 1 South, Edison
4861 US Highway 9, Howell
1278 US Highway 22, Phillipsburg
581 Stelton Rd., Piscataway
625 Paterson Ave., Carlstadt
1221 State Route 27, Franklin Township
130 Skyline Dr., Ringwood
505 Richmond Ave, Point Pleasant Beach
2275 West County …
Here's Now Many NJ Residents Voted Early (Update)
Thousands of New Jersey voters spent their weekend standing in line at early voting stations fresh off an extra hour of sleep on Sunday, Nov. 3.
Long lines at the Rhoda Center in Teaneck on Sunday afternoon.
Augie Baer
Record-breaking numbers were being reported from the state's 159 polling places according to Lt. Governor Tahesha Way.
Way said 138,919 people voted on Friday, Nov. 1, and 139,778 voted on Saturday, Nov. 2.
On Sunday, 150,143 residents hit the polls, Way said.
At Bergen Community College, the voting line trailed down the steps of the tech building an…
PA Dad Kills Son's Mother, Her Mother In NJ Home Invasion (Update)
A Pennsylvania man has been charged with murder of the mother of his child and her mother in their New Jersey home this week, authorities said.
Junior Edward, of Lansdowne (Delaware County), PA, smashed a first-floor window of the home on Harrington Circle in Willingboro, and shot Catherine Nunez, 33, with whom he shares an 8-year-old son, and her mother, Marisol Nunez, 54, around 4 a.m. on Wednesday, Oct. 30, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia L. Bradshaw and Willingboro Township Acting Public Safety Director Captain Ian Bucs said.
The women's bodies were found in an upstairs bedroom…
Brief Cold Front Coming, Warm Weather Sticking Around In NJ, PA: Forecasters
A cold front will end the summer-like warmth in the Northeast — for now, forecasters say.
"For the next seven to 10 days at least, warm days will outnumber chilly ones, relative to the historical average," AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Brett Anderson said. "This means that when all the days are tallied up, temperatures will be several degrees above that historical average, which is slowly trending downward during November."
The last few days have certainly felt like summer, but the weekend will be feeling more like autumn, forecasters say.
Temperatures on Friday will be in the high 70s …