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 A monstrous tornado killed at least 24 people Monday as it roared through Moore and south Oklahoma City — leaving rescue workers frantically searching into the night for missing children at the devastated Plaza Towers Elementary School in the Moore School District.
 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.
SHOUT OUT Amanda Jo Magno made her Sweet 16 birthday party special, raising $4,000 for the John Theurer Cancer Center at HackensackUMC in the name of her grandfather, Nick Ciarocco, who died of small-cell lung cancer last year. “I always knew I wanted to participate in the fight against cancer, but I had to think [...] While educators throughout the state strain to interpret New Jersey’s strict anti-bullying law, a judge has found that an eighth-grade Ridgewood boy violated the rules by calling a fellow student a “horse” and “fat.” Rescue crews had not finished searching the Oklahoma wreckage for tornado survivors before members of Congress started to chew over the political implications of another disaster-aid bill. The 13-5 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee cleared the way for an epic showdown on the Senate floor on legislation that is one of President Obama’s top domestic priorities — yet also gives the Republican Party a chance to recast itself as more appealing to minorities. Charleen Jackson says that in the month since her mentally ill son, Corie Mann, was shot five times by police after he allegedly stabbed an officer in the hallway of a public housing project on Monroe Street, it has been a struggle just being able to visit him. New Jersey Transit and PATH rail commuters were plagued with delays of up to an hour during the evening rush hour on Tuesday because of signal problems, spokeswomen for both services said. A contractor doing road work Tuesday struck a 30 inch main near the intersection of Avenue E and East 52nd Street. Passaic County Sheriff’s officers arrested a Jersey City man who was hiding in the stairwell of a Belmont Avenue apartment building Tuesday after a foot chase that started with an electronic license plate reading that indicated that the car he was sitting in had been stolen, authorities said. Helmeted rescue workers raced Tuesday to complete the search for survivors and the dead in the Oklahoma City suburb where a mammoth tornado destroyed countless homes, cleared lots down to bare red earth and claimed 24 lives, including those of nine children. While educators throughout the state strain to interpret New Jersey’s strict anti-bullying law, a judge has found that an eighth-grade Ridgewood boy violated the rules by calling a fellow student a “horse” and “fat.” The boardwalks are back, and so are most of the beaches, even if some are a little thinner this year. Special Agents Christopher W. Lorek and Stephen P. Shaw, who died May 17 during a maritime counterterrorism exercise, were remembered by Director Mueller and others at a memorial service in Quantico, Virginia An Iowa letter carrier was sentenced to 37 years in prison Tuesday for sending dud pipe bombs with letters signed ""The Bishop"" in an odd but potentially deadly bid to drive up the value of shares he owned. Just 61 departments in the United States have a Class 1 rank out of more than 48,000 that have been surveyed by the Insurance Services Office, a risk assessment company. The merchandise bore trademark insignias of Coach, Louis Vuitton, LaCoste, Tiffany & Co., Michael Kors and Channel. Ladies’ handbags, wallets, suitcases, coin purses, sunglasses, belts, watches and cell phone cases were all being sold at the shop.
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