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BOONTON, N.J-Kashif Parvaiz admitted to orchestrating the killing of his wife, Nazish Noorani, with his mistress, Antoinette Stephen. Noorani and Parvaiz were both shot in the Boonton, New Jersey but police began to suspect he was involved after they discovered flaws in his story. Parvais’s original story had police suspicious of a hate crime after […]

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BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A New Jersey rappper was found shot dead in an SUV in suburban New Jersey. He was also shot before the SUV was torched along with his body. The rapper, Kampane, real name Rhian Stout, was so badly burned it took a day for police to identify the body. The New York […]

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The Obama administration, leading non-profits and business experts gathered at Rutgers University’s Newark campus on Monday for the Urban Entrepreneur Summit to help minority entrepreneurs find ways to foster wealth within their communities. The event was a rare forum that allowed minority entrepreneurs to witness personal narratives of other successful minority entrepreneurs and obtain fundamental […]

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NEWARK, N.J. — 19-year-old Rasul McNeil-Thomas was charged with murder yesterday for killing an off-duty police officer in a drive-by shooting. The Westward Patch reports: William C. Johnson, 45, a 16-year veteran of the Newark Police Department, who was assigned to the communications division, was unarmed and not working when he was shot shortly before 10 […]

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New Jersey — The abduction of 19-year-old Nadirah Ruffin brought a community together in hopes of finding her and bringing her back home. But the same can’t be said for revealing who the killer is. “Please come forward,” Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel said Thursday afternoon during a news conference. “Now is the time to […]

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TRENTON, N.J. — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis should be allowed to continue his bid for the New Jersey Senate because Republicans have failed to prove he doesn’t live in the state, a judge ruled Wednesday. Administrative Law Judge John Schuster III recommended that a petition to strip Lewis’ name from the June primary […]

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New Jersey- A New Jersey man wants the Supreme Court to take his case after he was jailed and strip searched twice for a traffic fine. Also Read: J.Hud talks weight loss and American Idol Albert W. Florence was in the passenger seat of his BMW when his wife was pulled over by a state […]

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NEWARK, N.J. — Rapper and actor Ja Rule has pleaded guilty to tax evasion in New Jersey. RELATED: Shortest Celebrity Marriages The platinum-selling rapper admitted Tuesday that he failed to pay taxes on more than $3 million in income earned between 2004 and 2006. He entered his guilty plea in a federal courtroom in Newark. […]

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NEW JERSEY-In a stunt reminiscent of James O’Keefe’s Fake Pimp prank on ACORN, a young African American male visited planned Planned Parenthood and told them about his underage sex workers and received advice on how to have them treated for STD’s, while the woman that they talked with, Amy Woodruff, told them how to avoid […]

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The School board in Belvidere New Jersey voted 9-2 to extend a random drug testing program already in place at the high school to students at the middle school. The program is voluntary and requires both student and parental consent. The School Board president says its necessary because sixth and eighth graders use drugs. What […]

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New Jersey — Reuters is reporting on a new law proposed by New Jersey lawmakers that intends to curb steroid use by police officers and firefighters: Law enforcement steroid use is a problem around the country and, given that steroid use can cause aggression, can invite problems for police, said Larry Gaines, chairman of the […]

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New Jersey — Two men, Canpolat Cankurt and Leonardo Quintero are accused of raping a 12-year-old girl who they met on the internet and video recording it with a cell phone camera. North Jersey reports: Quintero and Cankurt are accused of picking up the 12-year-old at her home in Paterson at 2 a.m. Friday, coercing […]