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 A monster tornado ripped through southern Oklahoma City and the suburb of Moore on Monday afternoon, leaving homes and schools in ruins and fires burning out of control.  Beginning on May 20, law enforcement officials will be out in full force, taking part in the 2013 national Click It or Ticket seat belt enforcement mobilization and cracking down on motorists who are not belted.
“Officers throughout New Jersey are prepared to ticket anyone who is not wearing their seat belt.”  The most expensive hospital in America is not in Beverly Hills or New York's Upper East Side. Based on its bills to Medicare, the Bayonne Medical Center charged the highest amounts in the country for nearly one-quarter of the most common hospital treatments, according to a New York Times analysis of 2011 data
 Internet celebrity "Kai the Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker" has been arrested in the murder of a Clark, New Jersey man.
Investigators said Kai met Joseph Galfy, Jr., an attorney near Times Square, where a surveillance camera captured images of them. The men later went back to the victim's house, officials said.  New Jersey added only 3,300 jobs in April, and the unemployment rate declined to 8.7 percent.
Compared to April of last year, the unadjusted workweek decreased by 1.0 hour, average hourly earnings decreased by $0.42, and weekly earnings were lower by $36.43.  SHOUT OUT Members of the Lodi Police Department shaved their heads to raise breast cancer awareness and show support for Alicia Veri-Rodriguez, who is battling the disease. As soon as Veri-Rodriguez’s cousin, Lodi Police Officer Dominic Miller, offered to shave his head, brother officers took up the cause, as well. Handling the clippers was Alicia’s [...]  The Senate on Monday approved a number of bills that are part of a comprehensive package on gun safety. Approved today were 10 bills that will help keep weapons out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill, crack down on gun trafficking, improve reporting and tracing of illegal firearms by law enforcement and find ways to reduce violence and improve school safety, among other actions.  One World Trade Center now stands a symbolic 1,776 feet high, the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere and third tallest in the world
With the final section of spire now in place, One World Trade Center stands as the Western Hemisphere’s tallest icon of freedom, resilience and the indomitable American spirit,” said Port Authority Vice Chairman Scott Rechler.
 “The governor’s rejection of this legislation is out of step with the majority of states in the nation and out of touch with New Jersey’s hardworking families. Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia provide for early in-person voting, and as a result of the veto our residents’ access to the polls will be restricted to only one day.
People are becoming impoverished at a faster rate in areas that used to be considered comfortable suburban enclaves, including large swaths of North Jersey, than they are in cities, according to a study released Monday. Residents and others seeking to weigh in on clean-up plans at a Ringwood Superfund site have until May 28 to submit their final round of comments or recommendations to the federal Environmental Protection Agency. City fire officials ordered the closure of the Paterson Museum on Monday afternoon after an emergency inspection uncovered safety hazards, said Mayor Jeffery Jones. A Secaucus man, ensnared in an undercover sting involving a scheme to launder purported drug-trafficking money, was sentenced Monday to three years of probation, including eight months of home confinement. Detectives from Bergen County Prosecutor John L. Molinelli’s Special Victims Unit today arrested a former Wyckoff assistant pastor who’d been allowed to remain a priest on charges of violating an agreement not to ever work with children again. The Rev. Michael Fugee is charged with seven counts of violating a judicial order “as a result [...] A forklift operator narrowly escaped tragedy Monday afternoon as the concrete floor of a warehouse collapsed, swallowing him and his vehicle in a gooey pool of spilled cooking oil and soy sauce, authorities and witnesses said. A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the state, the Department of Corrections and the New Jersey Parole Board in the death of a Garfield woman allegedly strangled by a parolee who escaped the custody of a halfway house. A former Wyckoff assistant pastor, who had been allowed to continue working as a priest despite confessing to the sexual abuse of a 13-year-old child, was arrested Monday and charged with violating an agreement with law enforcement officials that barred him from working with children. Senate Democrats want to toughen background checks for gun buyers. Republicans want to prevent a Morris County landfill from contaminating the area around it. But both efforts are now stalled, caught up in an intensifying political fight between Senate President Stephen Sweeney, a Democrat, and Republican leader Tom Kean Jr. Deb Levy will have a reading and signing at Bnai Keshet on Tuesday evening, May 21. Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, belie what had been a relatively quiet start of the 2013 tornado season. Union and community advocates on Monday called for stronger state oversight of for-profit takeovers of not-for-profit hospitals at a hearing by two state Senate committees. Leonord Spera, 44, of Clifton, was struck as he was bicycling on Nutley's Centre Street near Freeman Avenue, authorities said. ?Legislation that would increase scrutiny of privatization contracts was one of several measures considered by the full Assembly and several legislative committees Monday. Lawmakers also considered bills in response to cyberbullying and open space preservation. Authorities say three would-be burglars failed to make a clean getaway when they tried to steal a washer and dryer from the basement of a vacant northern New Jersey home.
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