Archive for 2012

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Lindsay Lohan Bling Bust Déjà Vu: LiLo Questioned by Cops After Alleged Burglary

This is awfully familiar turf for Lindsay Lohan. The star, who was victimized by the notorious Bling Ring in 2009 and accused of swiping jewelry from an L.A. store two years later, was reportedly interviewed by cops Monday after an alleged burglary occurred at a Los Angeles home where she was staying. According to published reports, the actress and her [...]

How to Tell if a Guy Likes you – Five Signs He’s Interested

How can you tell if a guy likes you or is interested? You noticed him when you were standing and talking with a friend. You think he noticed you, but maybe it was your imagination or just wishful thinking. He looked at you at about the same time you saw him. Your eyes met for [...]

Another Paul Ryan vulnernability: Education cuts

Obama is campaigning today in Ohio, where he is giving a speech right now hitting Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan on education. He‘s highlighting Romney’s suggestion that students worried about tuition costs should “shop around” or borrow money from their parents, and slamming the Ryan budget’s cuts to education funding, Head Start, and Pell grants. [...]

At Passaic County sheriff’s drill school, 54 kids learn what it takes to become cops

Nick Stobe thought it was going to be like the TV show “Scared Straight,” with tough drill instructors in his face, yelling.   But the 13-year-old from North Haledon couldn’t have backed out of going to the Passaic County Sheriff’s Junior Police Academy even if he wanted to.   “My mom was going to send me anyway,” Stobe said, [...]

Thousands gather in Clifton park to mark the end of Ramadan

Several thousand Muslims from Bergen and Passaic counties, around the state, and places as far away as North Carolina packed a local park Sunday morning to pray and celebrate Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan.   There were so many worshipers that three different outdoor prayer services were held to accommodate the crowds [...]

GOP Platform To Call For Constitutional Ban On Abortion: Report

Draft language for the 2012 Republican Party platform includes support for a constitutional ban on abortion without specifying exclusions in the cases of rape or incest, according to CNN. The news comes amid ongoing controversy surrounding Rep. Todd Akin’s (R-Mo.) suggestion that victims of “legitimate rape” rarely get pregnant. The GOP Senate candidate running against Sen. Claire McCaskill [...]

PATERSON REGULAR REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION ANNOUCES LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND ITS VISION FOR THE PARTY

PATERSON REGULAR REPUBLICAN ORGANIZATION ANNOUCES LEADERSHIP POSITIONS AND ITS VISION FOR THE PARTY Asks Leaders to Commit To Building The Party in Paterson PATERSON, NEW JERSEY – June 11, 2012 Paterson Regular Republican County Committee Co-Chair Carlos Pagan   This evening the Paterson Regular Republican Committee held their reorganization meeting.  The new slate of officers, [...]

Pascrell’s home turf came up big in 9th Congressional District race

Just how dominating was Bill Pascrell Jr.’s showing in Passaic County during Tuesday’s battle for the Democratic nomination in the newly redrawn 9th Congressional District?   CHRIS MONROE/SPECIAL TO THE RECORD   Ana Guillen is one of 90 voters who made it a unanimous win for Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. in Tuesday’s Democratic primary in Clifton’s 4th [...]

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  PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Catharine Leach is married and has two boys, age 2 and 8. She has a good job with a federal contractor and smokes pot most every day. While she worries that her public support for marijuana decriminalization and legalization could cost her a job or bring the police to her door, [...]

Intel shows Iran nuclear threat not imminent

(Reuters) – The United States, European allies and even Israel generally agree on three things about Iran’s nuclear program: Tehran does not have a bomb, has not decided to build one, and is probably years away from having a deliverable nuclear warhead. Those conclusions, drawn from extensive interviews with current and former U.S. and European [...]

Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin’s ‘Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For [His] Death As George Zimmerman’

Geraldo Rivera provoked outrage on Friday when he said that slain teenager Trayvon Martin was partially responsible for his death because he was wearing a hoodie. The Fox News host later revealed that even his own son was dismayed by the comments. Speaking on Friday’s “Fox and Friends,” Rivera said, “”I think the hoodie is [...]

Bloods member gets 60 years for ordering fatal street shooting

A Bloods street gang member was sentenced to 60 years in state prison Friday for ordering a 15-year-old beginner in the gang to rob and fatally shoot a man in Passaic as the victim sat in his car. KEVIN R. WEXLER/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Donald Thomas 24, of Passaic was sentenced Friday in Judge Raymond A. Redding’s courtroom in [...]