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A Day In The Life: Jersey Caterer Runs Into Paul McCartney A Day In The Life: Jersey Caterer Runs Into Paul McCartney
A Day In The Life: Jersey Caterer Runs Into Paul McCartney In Central Jersey there's a caterer showing photographs of a living legend who stopped and said hello. There beneath the blue suburban skies of Metuchen, John Manzo ran into a rock and roller who's way beyond compare. Manzo, who owns and operates his own catering company, said he was on the phone with a friend while driving in his Jeep Sunday afternoon when he spotted Paul McCartney in front of a local bakery. Had it been another day, he might have looked the other way. "It happened really, really quick. He was running around taking pictures," Manzo told NJ 1015 (WKXW). "What the f**…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes
NJ Pet Salesman Gets Home Confinement For Importing Black Scorpions, Giant Millipedes A group of live scorpions and other endangered species who escaped from an international parcel on its way from Tanzania to the U.S. first brought attention to a Central Jersey pet salesman who was ordered to never do it again. He didn’t listen, though. He even posted photos from his collection while seeking buyers on Facebook – featuring, among others, the immense and popular black scorpion, which glows green or blue under ultraviolet light. A federal judge in Trenton this week sentenced Wlodzimie Lapkiewicz, 30, to six months home confinement and four years’ probation for illegally smuggl…

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by Jerry DeMarco
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North Jersey Catholic Priest Named In Massive Child Sex Abuse Report North Jersey Catholic Priest Named In Massive Child Sex Abuse Report
North Jersey Catholic Priest Named In Massive Child Sex Abuse Report A priest with North Jersey ties was among 300 from six Roman Catholic dioceses in Pennsylvania who sexually abused more than 1,000 children, according to a grand jury report released Tuesday. "We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church," the document says. "But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere." The more than 1,300-p…

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by Cecilia Levine
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Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids
Grewal Expresses Concern Over ICE Arrests Of Parents Dropping Off Kids Federal agents' arrest of two Indonesian nationals as they dropped off their children may have violated a longstanding prohibition on immigration enforcement actions at “sensitive locations,” New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal said. Grewal, of Glen Rock, called on U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen M. Nielsen to personally review the "deeply upsetting" incident. In a letter addressed to Nielsen, Grewal expressed “serious concern” about the arresst of Indonesian nationals Gunawan Liem of Franklin Park and Roby Sanger of Metuchen by agents of Immigration and Cust…

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by Jerry DeMarco