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NJ Dock Workers Charged With Conspiring to Traffic 2 Tons of Cocaine
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsTwo New Jersey dock workers have been arrested for allegedly plotting to traffic more than 2 tons of cocaine into the United States. Dominic Guido, a longshoreman, and Robert Roselli, a dock worker at a private company, have been charged with conspiracy for allegedly planning to smuggle large shipments of cocaine into the Port Authority Marine Terminal in Elizabeth, N.J. Federal prosecutors say Guido, 47, cut the locks on shipping containers to allow drug traffickers access to the cocaine, while Roselli, 44, monitored their status. The men were nabbed after a six-month sting in which they ...
New Jersey Transgender Man Says Firing Was Discriminatory
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsEl'Jai Devoureau wants to be treated just like any other man. The 39-year-old New Jersey resident was born into a woman's body but says he's known from the very beginning that he is male. Apparently, though, Devoureau wasn't man enough for his former employer: The drug treatment center where he worked watching men urinate fired him from after finding out that he was transgendered. The center only hires men to monitor other men taking their drug tests. Now, Devoureau, who had sex-change surgery five years ago, is suing the center for discrimination, a suit some legal experts say is the first ...
5-Year-Old YouTube Sensation Named Governor of New Jersey
By Susanna Baird - AOL NewsA 5-year-old boy helmed the state of New Jersey on Wednesday, thanks to a viral video and a kind-hearted governor. Most politicos adopt a stiff upper lip in the face of defeat, but scribble-in candidate and toddler Jesse Koczon sobbed when naysayers dashed his political dreams in 2009. "What's making you so sad?" his mother, Dawn Koczon, asks him in a now-famous video, shot in the family car on the way home from the local polling place, where 3-year-old Jesse was denied both the vote and the top seat in Trenton. " 'Cause everyone tells me that I'm too small to be the governor of New ...
Record-Breaking Storm System Roars Across US
By Paul Yeager - AOL NewsThe powerful storm system that swept through the Plains on Sunday and to the East Coast today, killing at least seven people in the Deep South, spawned over 1,500 reports of severe weather since Sunday, including a record-breaking 1,200-plus reports during one 24-hour period. The hardest hit regions were the Tennessee Valley, Mississippi Valley and the Southeast, where the majority of the reports piled up from early Monday through early Tuesday. During the 24 hours, more preliminary severe weather reports -- large hail, wind damage and tornadoes -- were tallied than in any other 24-hour ...
Supreme Court to Hear NJ Man's Appeal Over Strip Searches
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court said Monday it will hear the case of a man who claims that strip searches in two New Jersey jails violated his constitutional rights. Albert Florence was searched twice in seven days after he was arrested on a warrant for a traffic fine he had already paid. The justices will review an appeals court decision upholding the searches. Most other federal courts have found routine strip searches to be unconstitutional, although more recent decisions have gone the other way. Florence argues the jailhouse searches were unreasonable because he was being held for ...
Joke's on the Northeast With April Fools' Snow
By not in system - AOL NewsBOSTON -- A no-joke April Fools' snowstorm descended upon parts of the Northeast early Friday, a cruel prank on a region that was finally enjoying a reprieve from its long, white winter. The spring snowstorm was expected to last through Friday morning -- April Fools' Day -- dropping up to 10 inches of snow in some areas in eastern New York and around New England, dispiriting people eager for spring after a long, snow-filled winter. In Portland, Maine, heavy wet snow clung to trees and street signs Friday morning. Robert F. Bukaty, AP A motorist passes a sign urging drivers to ...
N.J. Paper Gets Letter to the Editor From The Boss
By not in system - AOL NewsNEPTUNE, N.J. -- Bruce Springsteen has written a letter to the editor to what he calls his hometown newspaper. Today Springsteen thanked the Asbury Park Press for a March 27 article about how anti-poverty groups in New Jersey are facing an uphill battle as Gov. Chris Christie seeks to cut spending and property taxes. Springsteen writes that the "article shows that the cuts are eating away at the lower edges of the middle class, not just those already classified as in poverty." Springsteen says it will "likely to continue to get worse over the next few years." The letter is signed: Bruce ...
States Hustle to Legalize Online Poker Despite Federal Roadblocks
By Steve Friess - AOL NewsLAS VEGAS -- First it was medicinal marijuana use. Then immigration reform. And now at least six states, most notably Nevada and California, are on the brink of taking action where they believe the federal government has failed -- legalizing Internet poker. Bills are percolating in legislatures across the country that would formally permit residents to play poker online within state boundaries, an effort to circumvent a 2006 federal law that crippled the fast-growing Web gambling industry. The bill most likely to be adopted first appears to be the one sponsored by Nevada Assemblyman William ...
Flour Falls Like Snow in Englewood, NJ, After Bakery Blows Its Top
By not in system - AOL NewsENGLEWOOD, N.J. -- People might have thought they were part of a recipe when a northern New Jersey bakery blew its top and shot a cloud of flour over cars and buildings. Acting Englewood Fire Chief Gerald Marion says a pipe became loose at the top of the La Esperanza Bakery silo as flour was being pumped into the building on Tuesday. Some people thought there was an explosion as flour filled the air and coated several adjacent buildings. A spokesman for the bakery told The Record newspaper it lost probably less than 10 bags of flour from the 20,000 pounds that were being delivered. The ...
New Jersey Man Protests, Sues Over Routine Strip Search
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- Albert Florence was strip-searched twice in seven days in two New Jersey jails after he was arrested on a warrant for a traffic fine he had already paid. Florence said he should never have been ordered to undress for the searches, much less been arrested. He sued over his treatment, but a divided panel of federal appeals court judges in Philadelphia said that it is reasonable to search everyone being jailed, even without suspicion that a person may be concealing a weapon or drugs. Most other federal courts have ruled otherwise, and now Florence is asking the Supreme Court to ...
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