Lyndhurst News

The Record and Herald News

• Shooting in Times Square

  The Record and Herald News – 41 mins ago  

  Police officers inspect a Mac 10 9mm machine pistol and nearby magazine in the parking garage of the Marriot Marquis Hotel in Times Square where a shooting took place, Thursday. Full Story »

• Fairleigh Dickinson University to open pharmacy school in Morris County

  The Record and Herald News – 41 mins ago  

  Fairleigh Dickinson University has gotten the go-ahead and will invest more than $12 million to open the state’s second pharmacy school at its campus in Morris County. Full Story »

• Firefighters rescue woman from well

  The Record and Herald News – 42 mins ago  

  Firefighters rescue a woman from a well in Ahmadabad, India, Friday. Three people fell in a well after its roof collapsed, leaving one dead. Firefighters rescue a woman from a well in Ahmadabad, India, Friday. Three people fell in a well after its roof collapsed, leaving one dead. Full Story »

• Skeleton World Cup: Racing down the track

  The Record and Herald News – 42 mins ago  

  Canada's Melissa Hollingsworth races down the track during the FIBT World Cup skeleton competition at Winterberg, Germany, on Friday. Canada's Melissa Hollingsworth races down the track during the FIBT World Cup skeleton competition at Winterberg, Germany, on Friday. Full Story »

• Afghanistan: It's a dog eat dog world.

  The Record and Herald News – 42 mins ago  

  Dogs fight it out as people watch in Kabul, Afghanistan Friday. Every Friday, the Muslim day of rest, hundreds of people participate in the dog fights which were banned when the Taliban religious army was in power. Full Story »

The Star-Ledger

• N.J. officials probe private lobbying group on how it spends taxpayer funds

  The Star-Ledger – 20 mins ago  

  2003 File photoDoug Cabana, New Jersey Associations of Counties board member, says he wants to see changes the organization tight its belts in spending.Elected officials today will ask a private lobbying group to detail how it spends taxpayer-funded fees, to... Full Story »

• Rockaway police say woman picking up her son at school was three times DWI limit

  The Star-Ledger – 34 mins ago  

  ROCKAWAY BOROUGH -- A woman who picked up her son from school was driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit, police said. Jeanne Champagne, 45, of Wharton drove to Sacred Heart School in Rockaway Borough at... Full Story »

• National Guard recruiter from Cape May County gets probation for fraud

  The Star-Ledger – 34 mins ago  

  LOWER TOWNSHIP — A former National Guard recruiter is getting probation for stealing from a program that pays cash incentives for recruiting new soldiers. Gregory Fletcher, 33, of Lower Township, pleaded guilty in October to theft by deception. Fletcher was... Full Story »

• Police arrest student after bomb threat shuts Bridgewater-Raritan High

  The Star-Ledger – 35 mins ago  

  BRIDGEWATER – A Bridgewater-Raritan High School student was in police custody after another student reported a potential threat to a faculty member Thursday afternoon, prompting the campus’ closure today. Bridgewater-Raritan School District Superintendent Michael Schilder said police have conducted a... Full Story »

• Billionaire investor Carl Icahn agrees to buy bank debt of Donald Trump's casinos

  The Star-Ledger – 1 hr 5 mins ago  

  NEW YORK — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he has agreed to buy a majority of the first-lien bank debt of Trump Entertainment Resorts Holdings, which owns three Atlantic City casinos. The deal is part of a bankruptcy reorganization plan... Full Story »

New York Daily News

• Middle-East Piece: Editorial cartoonists draw attention to Israeli-Palestinian conflict with exhibit

  New York Daily News – Fri Dec 11, 7:07 am ET  
  

  When it comes to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a group of famed editorial cartoonists hope the pen is mightier than the sword. Full Story »

• Jane Goodall urges judge to consider 'gravity' of woman's crime of importing illegal monkey meat

  New York Daily News – Fri Dec 11, 5:58 am ET  

  Renowned primatologist Jane Goodall urged the judge who will sentence a Staten Island woman who imported illegal monkey meat from Africa to consider the "gravity" of the crime. Full Story »

• Relatives of Guy Bastardi, Michael Bastardi suing estate of Taconic death driver Diane Schuler

  New York Daily News – Fri Dec 11, 5:49 am ET  

  Relatives of two men killed in the Taconic State Parkway wrong-way crash filed suit Thursday against the estate of drunken and drugged-up driver Diane Schuler. Full Story »

• The MAC-10: The gun used in Time Square shooting, used by John Wayne , Bruce Willis in films

  New York Daily News – Fri Dec 11, 3:34 am ET  
  

  The MAC-10 is a handheld submachine gun that weighs about 6 pounds, can hold 30 bullets in its magazine and fire more than 1,000 rounds a minute. Full Story »

• 'Horndog High' hits Late Night: Conan, Letterman have fun with nude teachers Mauro, Brito

  New York Daily News – Fri Dec 11, 1:53 am ET  
  

  The sexy scandal involving two female James Madison High School teachers hit the late-night shows this week, with David Letterman and Conan O'Brien cracking wise. Full Story »

WCBS-TV New York

• MTA Budget Gap May Cause Significant Service Cuts

  WCBS-TV New York – 13 mins ago  

  The clock is ticking for the cash-squeezed MTA. The agency must balance its budget in the next few weeks, and that means possible service cuts to subways and buses. Five million people ride the subways each day, and another two million take city buses, so proposed service cuts have the potential to affect practically everyone, and commuters are angry. Full Story »

• DA: Teacher's Underwear Found In Suspect's Home

  WCBS-TV New York – 14 mins ago  

  A prosecutor says police found a murder victim's underwear in the suburban New York apartment of the next-door neighbor accused of killing her. Rockland County prosecutor Stephen Moore spoke Thursday after Eric Lau pleaded not guilty to charges of murder and burglary in the Nov. 29 killing of Jami Erlich. During a bench conference, Moore told the judge Lau beat Erlich and slit her throat in her ... Full Story »

• Obama Says Afghanistan Not US 'Protectorate'

  WCBS-TV New York – 1 hr 3 mins ago  

  President Barack Obama says he needed to set a deadline to start withdrawing U.S. forces so the Afghans wouldn't assume their country would be "a permanent protectorate" of the United States. Obama told CBS's "60 Minutes" that his decision to start bringing forces home by July 2011 was a signal the United States would not protect the country forever. Obama has said the U.S. commitment to ... Full Story »

• Missing Yale Lab Tech Found Near Home

  WCBS-TV New York – 1 hr 22 mins ago  

  Police say they've found a missing Yale University lab technician who reportedly works at the building where a graduate student was killed in September. West Haven police say 47-year-old John DiNello was found safe near his home in West Haven at about 6:30 a.m. Friday. No other details were released. University spokesman Tom Conroy said DiNello hadn't shown up for work in four days and hadn't ... Full Story »

• Bloomberg: 'We've Got To Stop Gun Violence'

  WCBS-TV New York – 2 hrs 31 mins ago  

  The mayor railed against gun violence on Friday, one day after a street peddler died in a shootout with police outside a hotel in bustling Times Square. Raymond Martinez, 25, was killed by a plainclothes police sergeant Thursday after trading gunfire in an area crowded with tourists and holiday shoppers. Mayor Michael Bloomberg was asked about the shooting while appearing at a Manhattan charity ... Full Story »

New York Post

• Boxer Johnson pardon KO'd

  New York Post – Fri Dec 11, 7:06 am ET  

  The Justice Department yesterday rejected a request to grant a posthumous pardon to black heavyweight boxing champ Jack Johnson, jailed in 1913 in a racially charged case. Department attorney Ronald Rodgers wrote that resources for pardons are bes... Full Story »

• Pope nudges Cuba-US ties

  New York Post – Fri Dec 11, 7:06 am ET  

  VATICAN CITY -- Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday there are growing signs of religious freedom in Cuba -- and an opportunity for reconciliation between the communist nation and the United States. Welcoming Havana's new ambassador to the Vatican, Be... Full Story »

• Erin perv to plead guilty

  New York Post – Fri Dec 11, 7:05 am ET  

  An insurance executive has agreed to plead guilty to interstate stalking after nude videos were secretly made of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, according to court documents filed yesterday. Michael Barrett will plead guilty in Los Angeles federal cou... Full Story »

• US 'Qaeda' kids

  New York Post – Fri Dec 11, 7:05 am ET  

  WASHINGTON -- Five young American Muslims arrested in Pakistan met with representatives of an al Qaeda-linked group and asked for training, but were turned down because they lacked references from trusted militants, a Pakistani law-enforcement offici... Full Story »

• It's animal house

  New York Post – Fri Dec 11, 7:05 am ET  

  Dorothy would think this is wild: a lion and tiger and bear -- oh, my! The three animals are living together like brothers at a Georgia habitat. Leo, an African lion, Shere Khan, the tiger, and Baloo, an American black bear, were rescued together ... Full Story »

The Jersey Journal

• Union City has tripled the fun after last year's Christmas show's success

  The Jersey Journal – 1 hr 57 mins ago  

  Given the success of Union City's Christmas show last year, officials have decided to have three showings this year - starting tonight at 7 p.m.. Full Story »

• Liberty Academy Charter School trustees and teahcers will meet to discuss benefit package changes

  The Jersey Journal – 2 hrs 27 mins ago  

  Teachers at the Liberty Academy Charter School in Jersey City have a meeting scheduled with the school's board of trustees tonight after the teachers held a sit-in at the school protesting changes to their health care plans that require employee contributions, and demanded to meet with the trustees, according to The Jersey Journal. Full Story »

• Two Hoboken bodegas were robbed for small payoffs

  The Jersey Journal – 2 hrs 57 mins ago  

  In separate crimes, two Hoboken bodegas were robbed for a total payoff of under $80, according to The Jersey Journal. Full Story »

• NYC Federal officer flees the scene of an accident in Hoboken, cops say

  The Jersey Journal – Fri Dec 11, 9:05 am ET  

  A New York City Federal Reserve police officer Jay Geldziler, 30 of Hoboken, has been charged with driving under the influence and fleeing an accident scene after allegedly causing a crash Wednesday night, according to the Jersey Journal. Full Story »

• Jersey Journal front and back page news: Friday December 11

  The Jersey Journal – Fri Dec 11, 12:34 am ET  

  Robbery may have been the motive in a brutal attack in a Jersey City highrise that left a mother dead and her baby boy in critical condition after being stabbed multiple times, officials said. Meanwhile, Lori Serrano, who had an... Full Story »

New York Times

• We Weren’t Quite Ready for the Modern Toilet Age

  New York Times – 2 hrs 30 mins ago  

  The fully automated self-cleaning pay toilets at Herald and Greeley Squares have been replaced, and the bathrooms are now cleaned the old-fashioned way. Full Story »

• A Vibrant, Polyglot Hub

  New York Times – 2 hrs 31 mins ago  

  Sprawling out from beneath the rumble of the elevated 7 train, Jackson Heights, Queens, may be the most diverse neighborhood in the most diverse county in the country. Full Story »

• Yosef H. Yerushalmi, Scholar of Jewish History, Dies at 77

  New York Times – Fri Dec 11, 8:16 am ET  

  Among his many works, Dr. Yerushalmi examined the conflict between the collective memory of the Jewish people and verifiable history. Full Story »

• In Holiday Crush, a Fatal Shootout in Times Sq.

  New York Times – Fri Dec 11, 4:16 am ET  

  Tourists watched as a plainclothes police sergeant tried to question a vendor, who ran off, then turned and opened fire. The officer fired back, killing him. Full Story »

• A Head Start on TV Careers, With the Garden as a Lab

  New York Times – Thu Dec 10, 11:46 pm ET  

  A Garden of Dreams program puts children from low-income areas in a Madison Square Garden “classroom,” teaching them about jobs in television while making sure they look the part. Full Story »

Newsday

• Huntington restaurant owner seriously injured in crash

  Newsday – 17 mins ago  

  The co-owner of a popular Huntington restaurant remained hospitalized in a medically induced coma Friday. Full Story »

• Frigid Friday with high winds on LI

  Newsday – 32 mins ago  

  Temperatures are not expected to top 30 degrees on Long Island today. Full Story »

• Judge: No partial verdict allowed in Oddone trial

  Newsday – 37 mins ago  

  The judge in the Anthony Oddone murder trial said Friday he would not allow a partial verdict to be announced, saying he does not believe the jury has reached a verdict on any of the charges. Full Story »

• Snow flurries possible on a frigid Friday on LI

  Newsday – Fri Dec 11, 7:59 am ET  

  Howling winds and frigid temperatures were making for a miserable morning Friday - and don't expect things to get better soon. Full Story »

• Billy Joel says Alexa had 'devastating heartbreak'

  Newsday – Fri Dec 11, 6:50 am ET  

  Billy Joel, Christie Brinkley: Daughter is recovering from 'dangerous actions' of last weekend Full Story »

Asbury Park Press

• Explosion destroys building in Tinton Falls

  Asbury Park Press – Fri Dec 11, 9:06 am ET  

  TINTON FALLS — An explosion ripped through an industrial building that housed a paving company on Shafto Road Thursday night, destroying the structure and shaking homes for miles around. Full Story »

• New Egypt Warriors take top dance honors

  Asbury Park Press – Fri Dec 11, 8:24 am ET  

  LAKE BUENA VISTA, FLA. — Karen Farrah, coach of the Monmouth Falcons Junior Midget dance team, has been at this business of Pop Warner activities for a long time — 25 years to be exact. But this year seemed special. Full Story »

• Monmouth man succumbs to H1N1 virus

  Asbury Park Press – Fri Dec 11, 8:21 am ET  

  Health officials say the H1N1 flu has caused three more deaths in New Jersey, including one in Monmouth County, bringing the total number of deaths in the state to 34 since the outbreak of the virus last spring. Full Story »

• Local man, George E. Smith, accepts Nobel Prize in Physics

  Asbury Park Press – Fri Dec 11, 7:24 am ET  

  STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN — George E. Smith of Waretown Thursday was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics during a ceremony in Stockholm. Full Story »

• Berkeley school board replaces ousted member

  Asbury Park Press – Fri Dec 11, 7:09 am ET  

  BERKELEY — Nicholas Cariddo, 34, of Western Boulevard is the newest member of the Board of Education. Full Story »

FOX 5 New York

• Pay Czar Limits Executives Compensation

  FOX 5 New York – 41 mins ago  

  The Obama administration's pay czar is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest taxpayer bailouts to $500,000 and delaying some other payouts. Full Story »

• Madoff Victims One Year Later

  FOX 5 New York – Fri Dec 11, 8:05 am ET  

  "There is a sense of fear still," Ilene Kent told Good Day NY's Greg Kelly on Friday. Kent and her family lost more than half of their savings in the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. It's been one year since the convicted swindler was arrested in the biggest Ponzi scheme ever. Watch the video for full interview . Full Story »

• Deep Freeze Hits Tri-State

  FOX 5 New York – Fri Dec 11, 6:35 am ET  

  Bundle up before you head outdoors today. It feels like it's only in the single digits in many locations around the Tri-State Region. The NY Weather Authority says high temperatures will reach the low 30s. Plenty of sunshine is on tap, but it will do little help warm things up. Expect strong winds as well. Full Story »

• Madoff 1 Year Anniversary

  FOX 5 New York – Fri Dec 11, 6:20 am ET  

  With the economy in a slump, this year has been a bad one for charities, but few have had such rough going as philanthropies that learned a year ago that part or all of their endowments had been wiped out in the Bernard Madoff scandal. Full Story »

• Brother of Murdered Woman Speaks Out

  FOX 5 New York – Thu Dec 10, 11:05 pm ET  

  Lakisha Scriven, 30, was shot execution-style in the back of her head right in front of her daughters in the Bronx Monday morning. She worked as a supervisor for the city's Administration for Children's Services, and now her family is wants to know if that had anything to do with her murder. Full Story »