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By JJ Helland - AOL NewsMemo to Michael Bloomberg: The next time a monster blizzard hits your city, do what Cory Booker did. The Newark, N.J., mayor has emerged as an online hero after he and his staff went around the city helping residents cope with the winter blast. Besides communicating with constituents on Twitter, Booker helped shovel snow and directed plows to congested areas. Check out some of Booker's tweets that earned him a lot of kudos: .bbpBox19927535001280510 {background:url(http://a0.twimg.com/profile_background_images/74694112/Cory_Booker_looking_up5.jpg) #9AE4E8;padding:20px;} ...
Man Pleads Guilty to NJ School Killings
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NEWARK, N.J. (Sept. 21) -- A suspect in the execution-style killings of three college students in a New Jersey schoolyard in 2007 pleaded guilty Tuesday, days before his trial was set to begin. Melvin Jovel, 21, pleaded guilty to three counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and weapons charges in the Newark attacks. Prosecutors said Jovel and five other young men lined up Iofemi Hightower and Dashon Harvey, both 20, and 18-year-old Terrance Aeriel, against a schoolyard wall and shot each of them in the back of the head. Essex Sheriff Department / AP Melvin Jovel, 18, pleaded guilty ...
How the Pill Liberated My Mother . . . and Me
By Delia Lloyd - Politics DailyMy father once told me that I was a "mistake." Not a mistake in the sense of: "We wish you'd never been born." But a mistake as in: "We didn't plan on having you." There were probably better ways to have conveyed this message to a child. But my father grew up in mid-century Newark, N.J., the son of an Irish barkeep. He hailed from deep in the heart of Philip Roth territory and they didn't mince words back then. ...
Romance Caused Newark Airport Security Breach, Worldwide Flight Delays
By David Sessions - Politics DailyHaisong Jiang, the man now charged with aggressive tresspassing for sneaking into a secured area and shutting down Newark Liberty Airport last week, was just trying to tell his girlfriend goodbye, the Washington Post reports. According to friends, the 28-year-old Jiang is "very romantic" and was at the airport to see off a woman he had been dating for about a year. When he ducked under a rope and hurried with her into the secure part of the airport, he had little idea it would cause worldwide flight delays and his own arrest. The saga began last Sunday, when Jiang -- after having just been ...
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