A raging fire that apparently started in an ice cream shop raged along a New Jersey boardwalk badly damaged in Superstorm Sandy, destroying more than 30 businesses. …[more]
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A New York judge says the murder trial for a man accused of killing a 6-year-old boy who vanished in 1979 likely will be held next spring. …read more
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By John Goglia, Contributor Yes, the entry-level pilot at the controls of your flight may well be making close to the average pay of a McDonald’s or other fast food worker. The truth about regional pilot pay broke open with the crash of the Colgan Flight 3407, operating as Continental Connection, outside Buffalo, New York. Many frequent flyers were shocked to learn that the co-pilot on that flight was earning approximately $16,200 a year and commuting from her home in Seattle, Washington to her base in Newark, NJ to make ends meet. The night before her fateful flight, she slept in aircraft jump seats or crew lounges, hardly conducive to the proper rest needed to fly a jet aircraft. Sure enough, the NTSB found the probable cause of the crash to be pilot errors and further determined that both pilots’ performance was likely impaired because of fatigue. …read more
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Authorities say a bus driver in northern New Jersey was talking on his cellphone when he crashed, triggering a chain reaction accident that killed an 8-month-old girl. …read more
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A New Jersey woman pleaded guilty to animal cruelty charges Tuesday in a case that sparked international headlines after an emaciated dog was found, starved and near-death, wrapped in a plastic bag and thrown down a building’s garbage chute. …read more
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An out-of-control bus struck a lamppost Tuesday, sending the pole crashing onto a baby stroller and killing the 8-month-old girl inside, authorities said. …read more
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A New Jersey man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for fatally beating a college student with a baseball bat because he thought the teen had laughed at him. …read more
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By dvarga
I am thinking of taking Zoysia grass plugs from my dad’s house and planting them in my lawn to someday fill the entire lawn.
Question 1) Is Zoysia grass grub resistant?
Question 2) Will my battery powered electric lawnmower be able to cut the thicker zoysia grass? (assuming I keep the blade sharp)
Thanks!!!
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By blackroses
We live in NJ and we bought this house 3 years back. We have not replaced the furnace yet and I don’t think it was ever replaced so approx. age is about 21 years.
There had been a switch (see picture) and an outlet underneath which in turn goes to the control/circuit of the furnace.
If the switch is off, the furnace/blower would not start.
Any idea what is the purpose of the power outlet might be ?
Thank you.
–Pratik Patel
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A northern New Jersey man has been convicted of sexually abusing a sleeping woman on a cross-country flight last year.
Jurors returned the verdict against 49-year-old Bawer Aksal (BAO’-uhr OCK’-sahl) on Friday, their second day of deliberations. The Turkish-born American citizen was convicted of sexual abuse and abusive sexual contact.
The woman testified under an alias that she awoke on the Phoenix-to-Newark flight last August to find Aksal with one hand inside her blouse and the other inside her underwear.
Aksal didn’t testify but told authorities the woman made unwanted sexual advances toward him and forced his hands to touch her.
On Thursday, jurors had asked to review testimony by a man who sat next to Aksal on the flight and by an FBI agent who interviewed the defendant.
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Police in New Jersey will soon have to get warrants if they want to track suspects using cellphone data, the state’s Supreme Court ruled in a decision that affords citizens here more privacy protections than they enjoy under federal law.
In a unanimous ruling Thursday stemming from the arrest of a burglary suspect in 2006, the court directed that beginning in 30 days, all law enforcement officers must get a search warrant based on probable cause if they want to get access to cellphone locating data. Since 2010, police have had to satisfy a lower standard of demonstrating there are “reasonable grounds” to believe the information would be relevant to an investigation.
“No one buys a cell phone to share detailed information about their whereabouts with the police,” Chief Justice Stuart Rabner wrote. “That was true in 2006 and is equally true today. Citizens have a legitimate privacy interest in such information.”
Rabner noted that federal courts have been divided over the issue of cellphone tracking by law enforcement. In some other areas, he wrote, New Jersey’s constitution goes farther than the Fourth Amendment in protecting citizens from unreasonable search and seizure — particularly in previous cases involving Internet usage, bank records and hotel telephone records.
“When people make disclosures to phone companies and other providers to use their services, they are not promoting the release of personal information to others. Instead, they can reasonably expect that their personal information will remain private,” Rabner wrote. “For those reasons, we have departed from federal case law that takes a different approach.”
Rubin Sinins, an attorney who argued on behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and a state criminal defense lawyers association, called Thursday’s decision “vitally important.”
“I’m not surprised it was unanimous because the basic premise of the opinion is quite logical and consistent with citizens’ reasonable expectation of privacy in their cellphone usage,” he said.
In the 2006 case, police tracked Robert Earls to a motel on Route 9 in Howell using information provided by T-Mobile about the location of a cellphone believed to be in his possession. When he opened the door to his room, police saw items they believed had been stolen and arrested him. He eventually pleaded guilty to burglary and theft.
It wasn’t immediately clear how Earls’ case would be affected by the ruling since a lower …read more
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By Damon Lowney
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The proliferation of automated license plate readers in police departments around the country has increased dramatically over the years, leading the American Civil Liberties Union to commission a report to find out what they are being used for, the policies governing their use and how they should be used to benefit the American public. The report, which has just been released, is called You Are Being Tracked. The report’s findings, according to the ACLU, show that plate readers are not being used in a lawful manner that benefits US citizens.
Automated plate readers are placed on roads, highways, overpasses, police cars, etc., and snap photos of all vehicles and license plates that pass by them. Software reads the numbers, adds a time and location stamp to them and then stores them in a database – often for an indefinite amount of time, even if the drivers are innocent of any crime. The ACLU claims that storing plate data indefinitely, or for an unnecessarily long period of time, is an invasion of privacy because many facets of citizens’ personal lives can be found out if their location is being tracked at all times.
In a 2011 survey, the ACLU found that almost three-quarters of police departments in the US were using plate readers and 85 percent of them were planning to increase their use of the readers over the next five years.
One city that has no plate-read storage policy, Milpitas, CA, the ACLU points out, has a population of 67,000, yet it had 4.7 million stored plate reads as of August 2, 2012. Jersey City, NJ, has a policy to store read data for 5 years, but with a population of 250,000, it still has about 10 million plate reads stored. The Minnesota State Patrol is striking a better balance with the technology, the ACLU states, with a patrol area covering 5.3 million people but a plate-read storage policy of 48 hours. The MSP stores less than 20,000 reads because of its policy, which the ACLU says limits the chance that innocent drivers can be tracked over time. The Ohio State Patrol’s policy is even stricter than the MSP’s, the ACLU reports, as its policy states that all non-hit records can’t be stored and must be deleted immediately.
Fueling the debate, the ACLU report found that, “In Maryland, for every million plates read, only 47 (0.005 percent) were potentially associated with a stolen car or a person wanted for a serious crime.” What do you think about this technology? Check out the ACLU’s press release below, then have your say in Comments.
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Testimony has resumed in the federal trial of a northern New Jersey man accused of groping a woman on a flight from Phoenix to Newark.
The woman is back on the witness stand to face cross-examination Monday.
Last week, she testified that she told authorities she was on a United Airlines flight last summer when she awoke to find Bawer Aksal had slipped his hands into her blouse and shorts. The woman testified the encounter left her feeling “completely humiliated” and “contaminated.”
Aksal, a Turkish-born U.S. citizen, has pleaded not guilty to a sexual abuse charge. He has denied through his attorney that he harmed the woman, whom he says he did not know.
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A 15-year-old’s birthday party in New Jersey has ended in gunfire, leaving one teenager dead and four others hurt.
The gunshots erupted late Friday in Hamilton Township. It’s not yet clear what prompted the shooting.
Mercer County prosecutors say 17-year-old Shakir Williams of Trenton was shot to death.
They say a 17-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical but stable condition with wounds to the torso, arms, leg and groin.
Two other teens, ages 17 and 18, were shot in the leg, while a fourth victim was hit in the calf. They were treated at a hospital and released.
Authorities say dozens of people attended the party. No arrests have been announced.
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By vv132
We have 7 zones on the house and about 26-28 sprinkler heads/sprays. We get water from the town/city at about 30-35 psi, but then the tubing goes from smaller tubing(guessing half inch) to 1 inch tubing for all the sprinkler lines so we need a pump. WE had a pump bunch of years ago that worked for a while but was then removed. Trying to get this to work so everything works perfect as I replaced/upgraded most of the heads and this is the last thing needing fixing. Any ideas on how to fix this or what direction to take? I dont know how much GPM I need. Tech support on flotec stopped helping me right away after i didn’t know how much GPM we require.
Thanks
V.V.
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By vv132
We have 7 zones on the house and about 26-28 sprinkler heads/sprays. We get water from the town/city at about 30-35 psi, but then the tubing goes from smaller tubing(guessing half inch) to 1 inch tubing for all the sprinkler lines so we need a pump. WE had a pump bunch of years ago that worked for a while but was then removed. Trying to get this to work so everything works perfect as I replaced/upgraded most of the heads and this is the last thing needing fixing. Any ideas on how to fix this or what direction to take? I dont know how much GPM I need. Tech support on flotec stopped helping me right away after i didn’t know how much GPM we require.
Thanks
V.V.
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I have been shopping around for the best replacement setup for our needs, which I should outline now; we’re a young couple that have intentions of having children and possibly expanding the home down the line. The 6 gallon tank inside our boiler is barely supplying enough hot water (shocker) to our 2.5 baths. We have not even attempted heavy demand; 2.5 baths + dishwasher + clothes washer would be impossible to run within a few hours of one another. Being that it’s juts the 2 of us now and we’re already running out of water after consecutive showers, we’re hoping to eliminate the limited supply of hot water. The original, single-paned slider windows are still throughout the house, which will also be replaced eventually, but not before the boiler installation. Insulation throughout the house is average at best. The existing boiler is tied into a fireplace chimney in our basement that keeps us from utilizing the area in front of the fireplace (the oil boiler sounds like a jet when it kicks on), so we are also intending on installing the new boiler elsewhere in the basement, in all likelihood direct vented. When I purchased the home, there already was a 3/4″ gas line piped to where a dryer would go and where we were thinking about relocated the new system to–more on that below.
What does helps us is that I am an architect and pretty handy, so my intentions were to replace the boiler myself to help with my budget, which is a factor. Alsom, to pay for college, I was a plumber’s apprentice for a few summers and winters, so I am not really intimidated by the job, but rather making the right decision for my home for the next 30+ years. I have generated a manual-J for the house in Wrightsoft that is giving me around 67k BTU heat loss, so I am thinking of around an 80k BTU for a replacement. I was planning on a blower-door test, but I already know the house won’t fair all that well considering the windows and doors.
We’ve spec’d Navien combis units on a few buildings we’ve done in some urban multi-family buildings in northeast NJ which have given us nothing but trouble, but we believe it has a lot to do with shoddy installation. Our plumbers from that job has complained about the difficulty of getting Navien reps to take care of their issues and overall below average customer service. With that being said, I am still open to their product, just with a
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Six months after Superstorm Sandy, tens of thousands of people in New York and New Jersey remain homeless and communities are still struggling to recover.
But progress has been made as well. New boardwalks will be ready for summer, and homes are being elevated even as ruined ones are bulldozed.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says some people are doing just fine while others are facing “horrendous” obstacles to recovery.
The federal government has paid billions in flood insurance claims and housing assistance in the two states, with more to come.
Lynda Fricchione (frik-ee-OHN’), whose Toms River, N.J., home was ruined, says a trip to New Orleans showed her people and communities can recover from terrible storms.
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At his sentencing hearings in 2006, serial killer nurse Charles Cullen did not explain why he killed at least 29 hospital and nursing home patients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
He had told investigators they were mercy killings. But a prosecutor said Cullen was driven by a compulsion to kill and was no “angel of death.”
In an interview to be broadcast Sunday on CBS‘ “60 Minutes,” Cullen at first says he thought he was helping people by ending their suffering. Many of the victims of his lethal drug overdoses were old or gravely ill.
But Cullen tells a different story when reminded some victims were not close to death. He says there was “no justification” and “I felt overwhelmed at the time.”
Cullen is serving multiple life terms in New Jersey.
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Two children have been discovered living in a New Jersey storage unit.
Trenton police Lt. Mark Kieffer tells The Trenton Times (http://bit.ly/13qzynp ) newspaper officers went to a storage locker in nearby Ewing on Thursday after a woman arrested earlier in the day told them her two sons were there.
Police discovered a 5-year-old and a 10-year-old living inside a filthy, narrow, unheated unit at the Extra Space Storage facility.
The children were removed by police. The Mercer County prosecutor’s office is investigating.
Police say the boys’ mother was arrested for slashing the tires on her boyfriend’s car. They say she told them about her children as part of routine questioning on whether she had any dependents.
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