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Bright Green Fireball Blazes Across Yardley, Doylestown Skies Bright Green Fireball Blazes Across Yardley, Doylestown Skies
Bright Green Fireball Blazes Across Yardley, Doylestown Skies An earthquake, a total solar eclipse and now a fireball. What a week for weather in the Northeast. Dozens of residents across the region reported seeing a bright green fireball blaze across the sky on before dawn on Wednesday, April 10. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Daily Voice NJ (@dailyvoicenewjersey) Linda Price-Heine captured a fireball in the sky Wednesday, April 10. Daily Voice Linda Price-Heine got a text from her neighbor, Joan Piney, in Wall Township this morning telling her to check her camera, she said…

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by Cecilia Levine
Police & Fire
Jersey Shore Wrestling Champ Who Coached Kids Admits Trafficking Child Porn Jersey Shore Wrestling Champ Who Coached Kids Admits Trafficking Child Porn
Jersey Shore Wrestling Champ Who Coached Kids Admits Trafficking Child Porn UPDATE: A former New Jersey state wrestling champion who made national headlines when he came out admitted in federal court on Tuesday that he trafficked child porn, authorities said. Alec Donovan, a 26-year-old youth wrestling coach and referee from Brick, “used an internet-based application to exchange multiple images and videos of child sexual abuse, including depictions involving pre-pubescent children,” U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Philip R. Sellinger said after the June 6 plea hearing in Trenton. Donovan, who records show has coached at the Shorething Wrestling Club in Lakewood, also …

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by Jerry DeMarco
Obituaries
Lifelong Hunterdon County Resident, Animal Rescue Volunteer Dies In Crash, 43 Lifelong Hunterdon County Resident, Animal Rescue Volunteer Dies In Crash, 43
Lifelong Hunterdon County Resident, Animal Rescue Volunteer Dies In Crash, 43 Lifelong Hunterdon County resident and animal rescue volunteer Wayne Allyn Davidson died in a car crash on Friday, March 18. He was 43. Born in Hackettstown, Davidson lived in Lebanon Township his entire life, his obituary says. Davidson graduated from Voorhees High School in 1997 and worked at Jordan Tree Service in Lebanon Township, according to his memorial. Davidson was remembered for his love of all things mechanical, especially cars. He also enjoyed farming and volunteering at Orphan Anni-mals in Glen Gardner, where he had earned a nickname as the “pig whisperer.” Davidson leaves b…

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by Valerie Musson
Police & Fire
Alert Issued For North Jersey Teen Missing For Weeks Alert Issued For North Jersey Teen Missing For Weeks
Alert Issued For North Jersey Teen Missing For Weeks Police have issued an alert for a North Jersey teen they say has been missing for more than three weeks. Alejandro Tiul Choc, 16, was last seen at his home on Main Street in Hackettstown on Monday, Feb. 21, local police said in a Wednesday, March 16 release. Choc is described as a Hispanic male standing five feet tall and weighing about 130 pounds, police said. He was last seen wearing a black button-down shirt, black jacket, blue jeans, green sneakers, pink and white ankle bracelet, green and white wrist bracelet, and a black backpack. Choc’s destination is unknown, police said. Anyone…

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by Valerie Musson
News
Armed Man Who Terrorized Couple At Delaware Water Gap Headed To Fed Pen Armed Man Who Terrorized Couple At Delaware Water Gap Headed To Fed Pen
Armed Man Who Terrorized Couple At Delaware Water Gap Headed To Fed Pen UPDATE: A Wayne man must spend more than a year and a half in federal prison for an assault and fierce struggle that occurred after he pulled a pellet gun on a couple who'd been swimming at the Delaware Water Gap. Jeffrey A. Mulcahy, 59, must serve just about all of the 21-month sentence he received Tuesday because there’s no parole in the federal prison system. Mulcahy took a deal from the government rather than face trial, admitting last fall that he assaulted the couple in the Kittatinny Point area on the New Jersey side of the river in September 2019. Mulcahy initially walked off after…

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by Jerry DeMarco
Police & Fire
DA: Hilltown Man Who Pointed Gun At Woman In Walmart Facing Up To 4 Years In Prison DA: Hilltown Man Who Pointed Gun At Woman In Walmart Facing Up To 4 Years In Prison
DA: Hilltown Man Who Pointed Gun At Woman In Walmart Facing Up To 4 Years In Prison A 29-year-old Hilltown man was sentenced Friday to up to four years in state prison on several firearms violations in an investigation that began when he pointed a gun at a woman in the parking lot of a Walmart in Hilltown Township, authorities said. A woman told police she was with her 10-year-old daughter when she pulled into an open parking spot and noticed a man in a car next to hers cursing at her around 2:40 p.m. on Aug. 10, 2020, according to the Bucks County District Attorney's Office. When she and her daughter got out of the car, the man -- later identified as Willia…

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by Nicole Acosta
Obituaries
NJ Man Struck, Killed By Car In Poconos NJ Man Struck, Killed By Car In Poconos
NJ Man Struck, Killed By Car In Poconos A man from New Jersey was pronounced dead after being hit by a car in Pennsylvania, state police said. Allan L. Johnson, 80, of Hackettstown was fatally struck around 12 p.m. Sunday in the area of Paradise Valley Road south of Route 715 in Paradise Township, Monroe County, NJ.com reports citing state police. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The driver, an 85-year-old Stroudsburg, PA woman, was uninjured, the report says. Additional details about the crash circumstances were not immediately released.

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by Valerie Musson