Archives for April 2007
Jurors deadlock on murder charge in Plainfield
Published on 30 Apr 2007 at 6:24 am.
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Judge instructs them to keep deliberating to decide teen’s fate in friend’s fatal stabbing BY NYIER ABDOU Star-Ledger Staff Jurors deliberating the case of a North Plainfield teen charged with killing his high school friend are deadlocked on the murder charge.
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What Giuliani actually did say
Published on 27 Apr 2007 at 7:24 am.
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BY JAMES TARANTO Opinion Journal I’m Not Being Defensive! If an exchange between Rudy Giuliani and top Democrats is a preview of next year’s general election campaign, Republicans have reason to be a lot more confident than they have been these past few months. Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume reports:
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Giuliani warns of ‘new 9/11′ if Dems win
Published on 25 Apr 2007 at 7:54 am.
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The Politico By Roger Simon MANCHESTER, N.H. —- Rudy Giuliani said if a Democrat is elected president in 2008, America will be at risk for another terrorist attack on the scale of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Vicious bias attack left man’s soul intact
Published on 25 Apr 2007 at 7:45 am.
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Beaten but unbowed and expressing thanks BY CATHY BUGMAN Star-Ledger Staff Oscar Romero-Figueroa’s life changed forever on June 10, 2004. He was walking home from picking up groceries at 9 p.m. that night in North Plainfield when he was brutally beaten by two assailants wielding a baseball bat in what authorities described as a racially [...]
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Crimes decline in 2 counties
Published on 24 Apr 2007 at 9:34 am.
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Hunterdon, Somerset, two of safest counties BY RALPH R. ORTEGA Star-Ledger Staff The fewest serious crimes are committed in Hunterdon County, and the sixth-fewest occur in Somerset County, according to a State Police report.
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N. Plainfield block group sets standard
Published on 19 Apr 2007 at 7:40 am.
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Cathy Bugman The Star Ledger They’re like family. The residents of Jackson Avenue in North Plainfield formed a block association 10 years ago and are celebrating the milestone this year.
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Somerset County school election results
Published on 18 Apr 2007 at 12:49 pm.
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Somerset County school election results North Plainfield Winners are in bold * denotes incumbent
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School plans pass
Published on 18 Apr 2007 at 7:57 am.
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Somerset OKs 13 of 17 budgets BY BEV McCARRON Star-Ledger Staff Voters passed the majority of school budgets in Somerset County, giving their approval to spending plans that on average called for lower tax increases than in past years thanks to a statewide effort to control property taxes.
‘Guest workers’ needed to do dirty work at slave wages
Published on 17 Apr 2007 at 6:15 pm.
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Salt Lake Tribune BY Robyn Blumner Inevitably, during a debate on illegal immigration, someone will claim that we need this population because they will do the work that no American will do.
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For Illegal Immigrants, Housing Slump Takes Toll
Published on 17 Apr 2007 at 7:31 am.
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The New York Times By EDUARDO PORTER HURON, Calif. — Some of the casualties of America’s housing bust are easy to spot up and down California’s Central Valley.