Clark Mayor Recycles Letter Urging Attacks On Somali Neighbors, Residents Sound Alarm
Residents of one New Jersey town are sounding the alarm over troubling anonymous letters urging attacks on Somali families. Even more troubling, they say, is that local officials who received the same letters didn't think to report them.
The letters, postmarked Oct. 30 and mailed to homes in Clark, Union County, identified residents as "somali in heritage" and named a specific street, telling recipients that if "trouble begins," their "first return attack should be there," according to the community Facebook page Stronger Clark.
The sender identified itself as "Americans For Safety," the gr…
Man Vanishes Beneath Voorhees Lake Behind Library As Police Watch, Search Underway
A man disappeared beneath the surface of a lake in Camden County late Friday, Nov. 13, as police officers tried to reach him, authorities said.
Voorhees police responded to a 911 call near the Camden County Library on Laurel Road around 11:50 p.m., Capt. Daniel Scheets said. Officers spotted an unidentified adult man in a nearby lake, but he went underwater as they attempted to make contact with him, Scheets said.
Surveillance footage showed the man running toward the water's edge before the incident, according to police. Firefighters, emergency management personnel, dive teams, a…
