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DON’T MISS: “PHIL SPECTOR” — It’s not often that you find a TV movie boasting the acting talent of Al Pacino and Helen Mirren, and the writing of David Mamet, so this is to be savored. The film is more character study than courtroom drama as it explores the relationship between the oddball m…
A look at key moments in Dow history
The Dow Jones industrial average often makes headlines. But let's not forget everything else that happened as the Dow has twisted and turned Ñ from The Muppets suing Mickey Mouse to John McCain meeting Joe the Plumber.
Guest opinion: Tucson Grammy nominee takes on Academy
2012 nominee for Best Americana Album says Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences changed the rules after her.
Part-time Tucson musician in benefit for Sandy victims
Yachts were beached in her front yard, and the water inside singer-songwriter Linda Chorney's Sea Bright, N.J., townhouse rose to 8 feet during superstorm Sandy.
New storm bears down on Sandy-battered NYC, NJ
NEW YORK — A nor’easter blustered into New York and New Jersey on Wednesday with rain and wet snow, plunging homes right back into darkness, stopping commuter trains again and inflicting another round of misery on thousands of people still reeling from Superstorm Sandy’s blow more than a week ago.
Storm-ravaged states scramble to help displaced residents vote
TOMS RIVER, N.J. — One storm-battered New Jersey county was delivering ballots to emergency shelters Monday while New York City was lining up shuttle buses to ferry people in hard-hit coastal areas to the polls.
Sandy’s receding waters reveal more deaths; 2 N.Y. boys swept from car
WASHINGTON — The number of dead from super storm Sandy continued to increase Thursday as floodwaters slowly receded back to the sea, exposing bodies including two small boys killed on Staten Island, N.Y.
Archbishop to urge N.J. Catholics to vote in defense of marriage
HACKENSACK, N.J. — In a sweeping pastoral statement to be made public Tuesday, the leader of more than 1 million North Jersey Catholics urges them to vote “in defense of marriage and life,” and warns that the passage of same-sex marriage laws might lead to a government crackdown on their rel…
Indictment: NJ man sexually abused woman during flight from Phoenix
NEWARK, N.J. — A New Jersey man has been indicted on a charge of sexually abusing a sleeping woman on a cross-country flight.
N.J. mom decapitates son, 2, then commits suicide
CAMDEN, N.J. — A woman who had previously admitted blacking out from drug use decapitated her 2-year-old son and put the boy’s head in her freezer before killing herself, just five months after having regained custody of the boy from the state’s child welfare agency, authorities said Wednesday.
Eating champ Bill “El Wingador” Simmons clipped on drug charge
William T. Simmons, the five-time Philadelphia wing-eating champion known as “El Wingador,” was arrested in New Jersey on a charge of cocaine distribution.
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Ex-Rutgers student gets 30 days for webcam spying
NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. — A former Rutgers University student who attracted the scorn of gay-rights advocates and was convicted of hate crimes for using a webcam to view seconds of his roommate and another man kissing days before the roommate killed himself will go to jail for 30 days.
Cheapskate Wednesday: Site offers wine for aficionados on a budget
They are calling it Cheapskate Wednesday, which might scare away those who mind being label as cheap.
Bronzed NJ mom: Daughter’s burns not from salon
NEWARK, N.J. — A woman whose own skin is deeply bronze-colored from regular visits to a tanning salon has been accused of taking her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth in violation of state law, burning the girl’s skin.
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