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Cecilia Levine

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People Pulled From Bayonne Building As Fire Burns Several victims were pulled from a four-alarm fire that tore through a Bayonne building Tuesday, June 7. The blaze broke out at an apartment building on Broadway and 15th around 10:30 p.m. An unknown number of residents were hospitalized after being rescued, including one from a third story window, abc7 reports. The fire remains under investigation.

by Cecilia Levine

06/08/2022

News

Rutgers Women's Basketball Players Win Appeal In Discrimination Case Four former Rutgers-Newark basketball players will have another shot at what they say is justice. A New Jersey appeals court reinstated claims of race, gender and sexual orientation discrimination brought by Jasmine Daniels, Jade Howard, Sarah Schwartz and Arianna Williams as part of an existing lawsuit, NJ Advance Media reports. Those claims have been tacked on to the suit involving Sharee Gordon and Adayshia McKinnon. A local court previously ruled that the women hadn't suffered discrimination from longtime Athletic Director Mark Griffin and interim women's basketball head coach Wil…

by Cecilia Levine & Jerry DeMarco

06/07/2022

News

'BRB,' Says 76ers Halftime Dunker After Freak Spinal Cord Accident Gary Lyons wasn't flipping for a crowd, jumping out of a plane or rock climbing when he crushed spine on May 25. He was just going up to catch a pass during his umpteenth routine game of basketball. The 32-year-old Philadelphia 76ers Dunk Squad performer was weeks away from graduating the fire academy and going on to become one of Camden County's bravest, like his uncle. It was a devastating blow for Lyons, whose life is a constant flow of activity and movement. But, he tells Daily Voice from Magee Rehabilitation, giving up isn't in the cards. "The past two weeks have been a lot to proce…

by Cecilia Levine

06/07/2022

Police & Fire

Murder Suspect Kaitlin Marie Armstrong Spotted At Newark Airport: US Marshals A Texas woman accused of killing a cyclist involved with her bicycling boyfriend may have hopped a flight from Newark Airport days after the slaying last month, authorities said. Kaitlin Marie Armstrong, 34, of Austin, went to New York City after killing 25-year-old Anna Moriah Wilson, of Vermont, the US Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force said. Wilson was staying at a friend's place in Austin for a race and involved with Armstrong's partner, Colin Strickland, he later admitted. Armstrong was dropped off at Newark Airport on May 18, however, a search of outbound flights found no re…

by Cecilia Levine

06/07/2022

News

Every Cancer Patient In Remission After Miraculous Memorial Sloan Kettering Drug Trial More than 15 rectal cancer patients who participated in a drug trial at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center are in remission. The first patient to try the drug was Washington DC's Sascha Roth, who got the good news on a Friday evening just four weeks before she was scheduled to undergo weeks of radiation therapy. More than a dozen others would soon receive the good news. The MSK clinical trial was investigating if immunotherapy alone could beat rectal cancer that had not spread to other tissues, in a subset of patients whose tumor contained a specific genetic mutation, the hospital sai…

by Cecilia Levine

06/07/2022

Police & Fire

Attempted Murder: Arrest Made In Hoboken Shooting A 19-year-old gunman was arrested in the Monday, June 6 shooting that left a 17-year-old boy hurt in Hoboken, city police said. Halim A. Gilyard is believed to have been one of the shooters from the incident at 4th and Jackson Street, Detective Lt. Danilo Cabrera said. He was arrested Friday, June 10 by officers executing a search warrant at an apartment building on 4th and Adams Street, Cabrera said. Gilyard was arrested without incident and charged with attempted murder and weapons offenses, police said. He was then transported to the Hudson County Correctional Facility. The i…

by Cecilia Levine

06/07/2022

Police & Fire

Bayonne Murder Suspect On The Run Arrested For Theft In Miami: Authorities A 32-year-old man wanted in the murder of a Bayonne man was arrested on an unrelated theft charge in Miami, authorities announced Monday, June 6. Elvis Santana, 32, had been on the run since the stabbing death of 29-year-old Mathew Mortimer in March 2021, Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said. Santana was arrested Wednesday, May 25 and being held at the Miami-Dade County Turner-Knight Guilford Correctional Facility while awaiting extradition to New Jersey. Mortimer was stabbed dead in the vestibule of 1095 Avenue C just before 3:30 p.m. March 2, Suarez said.&nb…

by Cecilia Levine

06/06/2022

Police & Fire

3 Killed In Mass Casualty Philly Shooting Were Boxer, School RA, 'Little Twin' Daughter Authorities have identified the three people who were killed in this weekend' mass casualty shooting that left nearly a dozen people injured in Philadelphia. Gregory Jackson, 34, Alexis Quinn, 27, and 22-year-old Kris Minners, all of whom were pronounced dead at local hospitals. Jackson was identified by those who know him as a boxer, "vital as ever," whose name in the ring was "Japan Jackson." Posted by Daniel Cork on Sunday, June 5, 2022 Minners was a graduate of Girard College, where he had been working as a residential advisor for 6th and 2nd grade boys, the school said in a statem…

by Cecilia Levine

06/05/2022

Police & Fire

Abducted Toddler Found Safe An Amber Alert has for a toddler abducted out of York County was called off after the girl was found safe Sunday, June 5, authorities said. Mya Campbell was abducted by Maria McKenzie, 27, out of Springettsbury Township, police said. She was last seen at 3:23 p.m. on Concord Road. Mya was last seen wearing a pink, green and yellow polka dot dress. McKenzie is in a brown jacket and is believed to be driving a silver 2005 Suzuki XL7, license plate LXG5500. It was not clear if any charges were filed.

by Cecilia Levine

06/05/2022

Police & Fire

Hopatcong Woman, 28, Killed By Car In Bridgewater A 28-year-old Hopatcong woman was struck and killed by a car in Bridgewater overnight, authorities said. Kelsey Benson was walking on State Highway 28 when she was struck by a Lexus driven by a 59-year-old Bridgewater man around 12:45 a.m. Sunday, June 5, local police said. Members of Robert Wood Johnson Hospital Paramedic unit responded to the scene to render aid to Benson, but she ultimately died of her injuries at the scene. The cause of the crash is still under investigation and no charges have been filed at this time. Anyone with information regarding the crash is asked t…

by Cecilia Levine

06/05/2022

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