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After a tumultuous period as Assembly speaker from 2010 to 2014, Sheila Oliver fell prey to the same New Jersey Democratic bosses who had orchestrated her rise. She was seen as too independent-minded and not enough of a team player during a heady time when Democrats were busy cutting all kinds of deals with Republican Gov. Chris Christie.
In a ceremony on Sept. 11 of this year, Essex County Sheriff Officers Jason Perry and Chris Richardson prepare the flag to be given to Susan Rossinow of West Orange, who lost her husband on 9/11.
Criminologists say if the charges against 20-year-old Khalil Wheeler-Weaver turn out to be true, New Jersey will have a name to add to the list of America's serial killers. Authorities allege Wheeler-Weaver, an Orange resident who worked as a security guard, killed at least three women, and tried to kill a fourth before he was arrested last year.
Allison Busch-Vogel, a lawyer and mom of three in South Orange, New Jersey, was so devastated by Donald Trump's victory and Hillary Clinton's defeat in the presidential race, she couldn't get herself to work for three days after the election. "I said, 'Oh, my God.
The stench of cigarette smoke, carbolic, vomit, and a hint of coming closed coffin lids climbed off the casino carpets like the plague as a squat overweight man in late middle age in a Don Johnson T-shirt with a jacket thrown over it rolled the dice at one of the tables and emitted a prehistoric shriek of triumph. The crowds plodded in and out of the dull, liver-yellow lit room in dogged pursuit of individualized pleasure - or pain, or as was the case in a clump of Newarkers outside a coffee shop on the street, agony.
As if the Bridgegate blowback couldn't get any worse, fresh evidence of the misuse of government, and Gov. Chris Christie's knowledge of it, has emerged. Newly revealed emails strongly indicate the governor knew staffers in his taxpayer-funded office were courting endorsements for his 2013 re-election campaign, doing his private political work on the taxpayer dime.
Not all of the kids of West Orange, New Jersey's Pleasantdale Elementary School were exactly thrilled when they heard their school would be renamed to Kelly Elementary, according to the school's PTA members. But they quickly warmed to the idea - and yesterday , they cheered the loudest of all as members of the school community and city residents gathered to celebrate their identical-twin hometown astronauts, Mark and Scott Kelly.
Retired astronaut Scott Kelly, right, speaks while standing next to his astronaut twin brother Mark Kelly during an event renaming the elementary school they attended, Thursday, May 19, 2016, in West Orange, N.J. Pleasantdale Elementary School was renamed the Kelly Elementary School during the ceremony.
In this Friday, May 6, 2016, photo, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a rally in Eugene, Ore. Trump has won the Republican presidential primary in Oregon, adding another state to the presumptive GOP nominee's tally of victories.