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Need a Good Read? This Star-Ledger Column’s Worth Your Time

Kevin Canessa Jr. — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 19:59:11 +0000

Paul Mulshine, a columnist for the Newark Star-Ledger (and NJ.com) has written a tremendous column about Jersey City and its politics. This is a must read for all Hudson County political junkies– and I know there are plenty of you out there. Click here for the full piece.

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Prostitute-Loving Holocaust Survivor, 90, Killed

Kevin Canessa Jr. — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 02:02:23 +0000

File this one under bizarre — extremely bizarre — news.

A 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, who had a thing for hookers, was found strangled to death in New York City. Click here to read the full story on CNN.com.

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Subway cars on the Atlantic Ocean floor?

Kevin Canessa Jr. — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:10:31 +0000

The headline tells it all.

Some 30 out-of-commission subway cars were dropped into the Atlantic Ocean near Cape May to create artificial reefs for sea life that otherwise couldn’t survive in the waters.

Click here to read the Star-Ledger story on the drop.

The Star-Ledger photo of the subway car drop into the Atlantic Ocean near Cape May.

Woman, 1,000 pounds, charged with killing 2-year-old nephew

Kevin Canessa Jr. — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 04:10:00 +0000

A 1,000-pound Texas woman has been charged with capital murder in the death of the woman’s 2-year-old nephew, according to reports. A grand jury in Hidalgo County, Texas charged Myra Rosales with injury to a child and felony murder. She had also been charged with capital murder. If convicted, Rosales could be executed [this is Texas, remember].

When Rosales was initially charged with capital murder, she was released on her own recognizance since chances of her fleeing without major assistance was relatively out of the question. In fact, now that a grand jury has indicted her on these new charges, officials in Hidalgo County are now faced with two serious issues—transporting her from her home [she's currently stuck in the house] to be processed, and then, once the processing is over, finding her a place of incarceration.

The dilemma is extremely rare, and it’s caught officials off guard. At this point, it’s not immediately clear where she’ll be locked up.

The charges stem, of course, from the death of her nephew. After an autopsy was performed on the boy, it was learned he suffered severe head trauma and brain hemorrhaging.

The boy’s mother, meanwhile, has also been charged with injury to a child, according to reports from KGBT-TV.

We’ll bring you more on this developing story as soon as it becomes available. In the interim, click here for a full report from KGBT-TV in Texas.

‘83 Town Car has 1.3 million miles on it

Kevin Canessa Jr. — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:59:00 +0000

A man who owns a Lincoln Town Car—one he bought in 1983—is still on the road, and it has logged 1.3 million miles. Check out this story below.

Jersey Journal: State parole officer accused of assaulting a 14-year-old boy

Kevin Canessa Jr. — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:29:00 +0000

A state parole officer stands accused of assaulting a 14-year-old boy who was umpiring a kids’ baseball game at Pershing Field in Jersey City, The Jersey Journal is reporting. The Journal says the officer, Thomas Millford Lambert, 40, of Jersey City, didn’t like the calls the 14-year-old ump had been making. Click here to read this hard to believe story.