College Costs in the Spotlight for Oregon and New Jersey. Political...

... on most college-shopping resources, which often focuses solely on the New Brunswick camps. Camden is the cheapest, Newark in the middle, and New Brunswick the most expensive. Fairleigh Dickinson University shows a sharp contrast in cost between its ...

http://thealternativepress.com/articles/college-costs-in-the-spotlight-for-oregon-and-new

Police: Newark pizza delivery man fatally shot

... Hospital , where he died at 10 p.m. Investigators say the 20-year-old Torres was delivering pizza for a Pizza Hut in Newark. NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Police in Newark are investigating the fatal shooting of a pizza delivery man. Authorities say police ...

http://www.sfgate.com/news/crime/article/Police-Newark-pizza-delivery-man-fatally-shot-4780568.php

Glimpse of History: Work at home was vital to war effort

NEWARK - In this photo taken in Newark in 1943 by Howard Hollem, 18-year-old James Butler, left, empties a crate of squeezed-out metal tubes to be sorted by Martha Brawn as part of the effort to recycle materials during World War II.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/09/glimpse_of_history_work_at_home_was_vital_to_war_effort.html

Newark activist Fredrica Bey, husband drop claims to $1.1 million from nonprofit group she founded

... Women in Support of the Million Man March, is seen leaving her home in May 2013. (Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger) NEWARK - Newark activist Fredrica Bey and her husband have dropped claims they are owed $1.1 million by the non-profit group Bey ...

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/09/newark_activist_fredrica_bey_husband_drop_bankruptcy_claims_to_more_than_1_million_from_non-profit_g.html

NJ woman spared prison in dog-in-trash chute case

... She got 18 months of probation instead. Curtis, 29, admitted that she left the pit bull tied to a railing outside her Newark apartment building in 2011 when she left town for a week. The emaciated dog was found in a plastic bag at the bottom of the ...

http://www.lakewyliepilot.com/2013/08/29/2045999/nj-woman-gets-probation-in-dog.html

Violence continues as 2 more killed in Newark

Two more people have been killed in Newark, the latest in a spate of violent incidents that have plagued the city in recent days.

http://www.myfoxny.com/story/23315434/violence-continues-as-2-more-killed-in-newark

Flint mayor meets with Obama at White House

... joined at the second session by Flint Public Safety Director Alvern Lock. The group of mayors included Cory Booker of Newark, N.J.; Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, Calif.; Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans; and Michael Nutter of Philadelphia.

http://www.abc12.com/story/23274434/flint-mayor-meets-with-obama-at-white-house

Dirtbike rider injured in crash on off-road track in Throop

... dirtbike track in Throop, police said. The incident occurred shortly before 3 p.m. when Miguel Angel DeJesus, 27, Newark, N.J. lost control of his motorcycle on a jump at the track and the vehicle landed on top of him, said Patrolman Joseph Flesher. ...

http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/dirtbike-rider-injured-in-crash-on-off-road-track-in-throop-1.1545321

Column: Parenting skills cross over into classroom

... hard-charging educator. In 2002, he was the founding principal of TEAM Academy, the first charter school in the Newark, N.J., region operated by KIPP, the national charter chain. Like many of his fellow KIPP trailblazers, Hill, by his own estimate, ...

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/column-parenting-skills-cross-over-into-classroom/2139180

School breakfast after the bell; Labor Day hours; BEN Column, Sept. 1, update 3

... a documentary now and then, like on the Badlands of Baltimore, the year cocaine took over Harlem, the streets of Newark? Let's contract Mike Abbott to tell what it's like growing up in Boston and going to the oldest high school in the country with ...

http://www.nj.com/south-jersey-voices/index.ssf/2013/09/school_breakfast_after_the_bel.html

Authorities investigating suspicious death of inmate in Essex County jail

NEWARK - An inmate was found dead in his cell at the Essex County Correctional Facility early today and authorities are investigating the man's death as suspicious.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/authorities_investigating_suspicious_death_of_inmate_in_essex_county_jail.html

Senate Foreign Relations Committee To Hold Hearing On Tuesday...

Chairman Menendez and Senate Foreign Relations Committee to Hold Hearing on Tuesday regarding Authorization for Use of Military Force in Syria NEWARK, NJ U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez , Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, will preside over a hearing beginning this Tuesday to debate the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Syria.

http://www.paramuspost.com/article.php/20130901180042855

Violence continues as 2 more killed in Newark

Two more people have been killed in Newark, the latest in a spate of violent incidents that have plagued the city in recent days.

http://www.krmg.com/ap/ap/crime/violence-continues-as-2-more-killed-in-newark/nZjfm/

Woman in New Jersey gets probation in cruelty case

... a plastic bag and then thrown down the building's garbage disposal chute and left to die. Last month, Kisha Curtis of Newark, New Jersey, pleaded guilty to fourth-degree animal cruelty. Curtis also admitted that in 2011 she tied her pit bull up at a ...

http://www.examiner.com/article/woman-new-jersey-gets-probation-cruelty-case?cid=rss

Violence continues as 2 more killed in Newark

Two more people have been killed in Newark, the latest in a spate of violent incidents that have plagued the city in recent days.

http://www.app.com/viewart/20130901/NJNEWS14/309010070/Violence-continues-2-more-killed-Newark

Violence continues as 2 more killed in Newark

Two more people have been killed in Newark, the latest in a spate of violent incidents that have plagued the city in recent days.

http://www.enquirerherald.com/2013/09/01/2663715/violence-continues-as-2-more-killed.html

NJ to pay $500,000 to settle death in custody suit

New Jersey will pay $500,000 to settle claims that two state police troopers used excessive force and contributed to the 2008 death of a Newark man in their custody, according to a published report.

http://www.njherald.com/story/23312380/nj-to-pay-500000-to-settle-death-in-custody-suit

Irvington resident shot in taxi near Newark's Beth Israel Hospital

A file photo of Newark Beth Israel Medical Center. A 39-year-old Irvington man was shot in a taxi near the hospital early this morning.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/09/irvington_resident_shot_in_taxi_near_newarks_beth_israel_hospital.html

Flood advisory issued for parts of northern Jersey

A person walks up Kinney Street in Newark protected by an umbrella as the rain comes down in Newark last Wednesday The National Weather Service recommends that you do not drive your vehicle into areas where the water covers the roadway.

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2013/09/flood_advisory_issued_for_parts_of_northern_jersey.html

Politicians jump on the Sharknado bandwagon

... It also caused politicians from both sides of the aisle to weigh in. When asked how he would react to a Sharknado, Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker tweeted during the film "Understanding serious nature of this threat Nwk OEM put together an ...

http://www.examiner.com/article/politicians-jump-on-the-sharknado-bandwagon

New Jersey about to reshape the way it courts businesses

Projects such as the Prudential office towers in Newark were aided by incentive packages from the state.

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2013/09/new_jersey_about_to_reshape_th.html

Put Baltimore back to work

... upgrading the skills of adult workers and expanding opportunity. A Baltimore Training Fund could be sourced - as in Newark, N.J. and Boston - through proceeds from the sale or transfar of public lands, by small increases in the repayment rate on ...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-jobs-baltimore-20130901,0,2174261.story?track=rss

Editorial: In N.J. race for U.S. Senate, it DOESN'T matter

... in the Senate race, Steve Lonegan. Reached for comment on a Washington Post profile of Booker on Monday in which the Newark mayor was asked the "gay" question, Lonegan told the Star-Ledger t his: Other than the debatable use of "lifestyle," it was a ...

http://www.nj.com/south-jersey-voices/index.ssf/2013/09/editorial_in_nj_race_for_us_se.html

N.J. judge awarded Bronze Star for serving in Afghanistan, his third deployment

Judge Michael Nelson returned to the bench in Superior Court in Newark last month.

http://www.nj.com/essex/index.ssf/2013/09/nj_judge_returns_from_tour_in_afghanistan_straddles_military_civilian_court_life.html

Motorcyclist Killed, Burglary Arrest, Councilwoman's Resignation Top Local News

Dwayne Vanderveer was killed Saturday when the motorcycle he was riding collided head-on with another vehicle in Newark, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said.

http://madison.patch.com/groups/week-in-review/p/motorcyclist-killed-burglary-arrest-councilwomans-resignation-top-local-news

Herhold: Cory Booker's dubious investment in social media

... The problem with the adage is that it doesn't work for politicians. Consider the case of Cory Booker, Stanford grad, Newark, N.J., mayor, likely New Jersey senator and Web entrepreneur. The New York Times last week described how Booker's Silicon ...

http://www.mercurynews.com/scott-herhold/ci_23836466/herhold-cory-bookers-dubious-investment-social-media?source=rss

Two more killings bringthis week s homicidetoll in Newark to 7

Two more killings bring this weekA s homicide toll in Newark to 7 Star-Ledger [Newark, NJ], by James Queally Newark - A woman was fatally stabbed and a man was shot and killed in unrelated homicides in the city's Central Ward this afternoon, the sixth and seventh killings of what authorities are calling the city's deadliest week so far this year, ... (more)

http://lucianne.com/thread/?artnum=750274

Woman spared prison in dog-in-trash chute case

... to prison. On Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, a judge sentenced Kisha Curtis to 18 months' probation. (AP... (Mel Evans/AP) NEWARK, N.J. - A woman who admitted abandoning a dog later found at the bottom of a trash chute in a case that became a cause ...

http://www.dailycamera.com/the-bottom-line/ci_23981472/woman-spared-prison-dog-trash-chute-case

Tougher N.J. teacher evaluations aim to highlight the best

... evaluations will be more consequential because earning tenure and keeping it will be tied to getting good ratings. Newark has gone a step further; a contract signed last year gives teachers raises only if they are rated "effective" or "highly ...

http://www.northjersey.com/news/NJ_teachers_to_face_tougher_evaluations_with_goal_of_highlighting_the_best.html

Man claims he was profiled by police

... that might be taken against state police, attorney Cletus Lyman confirmed. Stewart, who owns a towing company in Newark, N.J., once owned a repossession business with Shane Skibber, who died in 2008 from injuries suffered in a motorcycle crash. ...

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130901/NEWS/309010334