| December 15, 2012 | - A New Jersey ShopRite refused to decorate the birthday cake of a three-year-old boy with his name, Adolf Hitler Campbell. “ShopRite can't even make a cake for a three-year-old,” said the boy's mother. “That's sad.”
| Source:
LehighValleyLive.com
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| July 27, 2008 | - Lightning struck ten people in New York and New Jersey, killing one.
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WCBS
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| July 25, 2008 | - Seventy-six-year-old Marlene Mackenzie of North Caldwell, New Jersey, was arrested for killing her husband by throwing a cocktail glass at his head.
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WNBC
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| February 7, 2008 | - In the G.O.P. primaries on Super Tuesday, John McCain emerged as the likely Republican presidential nominee after winning California,
New York, New Jersey, and other “blue states”; Mike Huckabee won states in the South, and Mitt Romney won states in which he has owned a home. Romney later announced the end of his presidential campaign to an audience that moaned and cried “No, no!” “Size,” explained Romney, referring to the number of delegates pledged to McCain, “does matter.”
| Source 1:
Talking Points Memo
Source 2:
National Post
Source 3:
Breitbart
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| October 19, 2007 | - Forty-nine percent of New Jersey residents admitted they'd rather live somewhere else.
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Fox News
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| October 19, 2007 | - Forty-nine percent of New Jersey residents admitted they'd rather live somewhere else.
| Source:
Fox News
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| September 26, 2007 | - Riverside, New Jersey, joined the list of towns across the nation that were rescinding anti-immigrant ordinances because they were hurting local economies. “The business district is fairly vacant now, but it's not the legitimate businesses that are gone,” said former mayor Charles Hilton. “It's all the ones that were supporting the illegal immigrants, or, as I like to call them, the criminal aliens.”
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New York Times
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| August 11, 2007 | - Three college students were murdered execution-style in a New Jersey playground.
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IHT
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| May 9, 2007 | - More than 1,000 rusty, unexploded munitions had been found on the Jersey Shore, left there as a result of a beach-reclamation project.
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NJ Star-Ledger
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| May 8, 2007 | - Four ethnic Albanians, a Jordanian, and a Turk were arrested for plotting to invade Fort Dix, New Jersey.
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NJ Star-Ledger
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| April 10, 2007 | - Radio personality Don Imus lost his job after he called players on the Rutgers
women's basketball team “nappy-headed hos.”
| Source:
CNN
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| January 25, 2007 | -
New Jersey warned its residents against eating heavy metal-contaminated squirrels.
| Source:
AP via ThePittsburghChannel.com
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| January 4, 2007 | - Local police claimed ownership of a rare meteorite that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey family's house.
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| November 22, 2006 | - In Ramsey, New Jersey, a flock of turkeys was spotted waiting for a New York-bound train.
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AP via Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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| November 20, 2006 | - A professional dominatrix testified that an officer in the Greenburgh, New York, police department had extracted sexual favors from her. “He wanted to go to a motel in the Bronx where I would defecate on him,” she said, “but I told him I was uncomfortable going to the Bronx.”
| Source:
Journal News
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| October 30, 2006 | -
St. Louis was named America's most dangerous city. “You made my day!” said Mayor Gwendolyn Faison of Camden, New Jersey, which was formerly ranked most dangerous. “There's a new hope and a new spirit.”
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| September 14, 2006 | -
Princeton professor Edward Felten said that he and his students had successfully hacked a Diebold voting machine.
| Source:
NBC 6
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| July 27, 2006 | - Threatening letters sent to federal officials by Donald Ray Bilby, 30, who is currently serving time for auto theft in Trenton, New Jersey, included his full name, signature, and inmate number.
| Source:
Mail and Guardian
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| June 1, 2006 | - In New Jersey a 13-year-old girl was arrested for attempting to kill her 91-year-old neighbor.
| Source:
The Press of Atlantic City
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| January 25, 2006 | - With support from the ACLU, a boy in New Jersey won the right to wear a skirt to school; the boy wears the skirt to protest the school's policy banning shorts.
| Source:
AP via Yahoo! News
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| November 25, 2005 | -
Scientists at Rutgers University in New Jersey said that global warming had doubled the rate of sea-level rise over the last 150 years, and there was nothing that could be done to stop it.
| Source:
The Guardian
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| November 23, 2005 | - Violent shopping incidents occurred in Hamilton Township, New Jersey; Elkton, Maryland; Grand Rapids, Michigan; Orlando, Florida; and Sunrise, Florida, where a 72-year-old woman was trampled.
| Source 1:
WTOPNews.com
Source 2:
NBC10.com
Source 3:
The Miami Herald
Source 4:
Reuters
Source 5:
KYW.com
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| November 9, 2005 | - Michael Bloomberg was re-elected mayor of New York City for around $68 million, and Jon Corzine was elected governor of New Jersey for around $40 million. When sworn in, Corzine will be America's only bearded governor.
| Source:
USA Today
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| September 15, 2005 | - Two plague-infected mice were missing in New Jersey.
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MSNBC
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| June 28, 2005 | - A Zamboni driver in Morristown, New Jersey, was charged with drunk Zamboni driving.
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ABC News
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| June 6, 2005 | -
New Jersey was planning to try six animal-rights activists on “animal enterprise terrorism” charges.
| Source:
Reuters
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| May 6, 2005 | - A college student in New Jersey unearthed an 1888 interview with Walt Whitman in which Whitman gave advice to young men pursuing a career in literature. “First, don't write poetry,” he said. “Second ditto; third ditto.”
| Source:
ABC News
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| March 12, 2005 | - A woman's head was found in a bowling bag in New Jersey.
| Source:
New York Times
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| March 11, 2005 | - A New Jersey man was arrested for a string of burglaries. “He defecated in at least four residences,” said a prosecutor. “When he was taken into custody, he also defecated, and that was in his pants.”
| Source:
The Trentonian
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| January 5, 2005 | - Federal authorities arrested a New Jersey man for menacing a jet with a hand-held laser.
| Source:
The New York Times
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| October 13, 2004 | - A tractor-trailer accident spilled hundreds of live chickens onto the New Jersey Turnpike.
| Source:
New York Times
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| September 3, 2004 | -
New Jersey man died of Lassa fever.
| Source:
Associated Press
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| August 13, 2004 | - Governor James McGreevey of New Jersey announced that he is a "gay American" and resigned. "I am here today because, shamefully, I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man, which violates my bonds of matrimony," he said. "It was wrong. It was foolish. It was inexcusable."
| Source:
Men's News Daily
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| December 17, 2003 | - A nurse in New Jersey admitted to killing up to 40 patients "to alleviate pain and suffering."
| Source:
New York Times
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| August 14, 2001 | - A New Jersey woman fell 200 feet off a cliff and died after she stopped along an interstate in Pennsylvania to relieve herself. The accident occurred just three miles from the next rest area.
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