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Sunday, February 10, 2013

School Teacher Sex Assaults, Fashionista Suicide Top State News

Other top stories this week include a dentist charged in a multi-million dollar Medicaid scam and a rough week for the commissioner of the Northwest Bergen County Utilities Authority.

  A Pine Hill Middle School teacher, soccer coach and former councilman was indicted on 92 counts of child abuse, including sexual assault and child pornography, authorities announced Wednesday. A fifth-grade West Orange teacher was arrested Thursday morning on charges of sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a child, according to officials at the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.  The tragic tale of a 22-year-old aspiring fashion designer who took her own life by jumping from the George Washington Bridge on Wednesday —allegedly a victim of bullying, according to the NY Post — has attracted widespread attention on social networking sites. A dentist from Livingston accused in a scam that bilked more than $5.5M from Medicaid over six…

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Pine Hill Teacher Indicted on 92 Counts of Sex Assault, Child Porn (in Gloucester Township Patch), Fifth-Grade Teacher Charged with Sex Assault of 10-Year-Old Student (in West Orange Patch), Fashionista Penned List Of Women Banned From Funeral Before GWB Plunge (in Fort Lee Patch), and 7 more ›

Sunday, February 3, 2013

Mother-Daughter Double Homicide, Murder-Suicide Top State News

Other top stories this week include a man fatally shot by an arrow and an Indiana man who allegedly drove to Mahwah for sex with a 15-year-old he met online.

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  A Teaneck man accused of stabbing his girlfriend to death and smothering her 5-year-old daughter after the child witnessed her mother's murder Monday pleaded not guilty at a packed state Superior Court hearing in Hackensack Thursday.  A husband and wife, both Fairleigh Dickinson University employees, were found dead Monday morning. Later that day, the deaths were ruled a murder and a suicide, respectively. A Berlin Borough resident is accused of killing another man by shooting him in the stomach with an arrow. An Indiana man is in prison Wednesday charged with sexual assault and endangering the welfare of a minor after he drove more than 10 hours to Mahwah to have sexual relations with a 15-year-old township girl he met online, Police …

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Man Accused of Killing Englewood Mother, Daughter Pleads Not Guilty (in Teaneck Patch), Teaneck Man Charged in Englewood Double Murder (in Teaneck Patch), Ex-Cop, Wife Shot Dead Inside Parsippany Home (in Parsippany Patch), and 6 more ›

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