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Perv Teacher Busted After Loaning Student His Ipad Loaded with Voyeur Shots of Students

Gaspare Gambino A Pennsylvania teacher is facing a string of charges after he loaned a student his iPad and the boy found disturbing images of young female classmates. Gaspare Gambino was arrested on Wednesday and charged with 14 counts of invasion of privacy and accused of taking photos and videos of over a dozen different students…

Diner a ‘total loss’ after overnight blaze, cops say

A fire that burned through a South Jersey diner early Thursday morning has likely destroyed the building, according to police. The Country Town Diner in Berlin sustained significant damage when a fire broke out just before midnight. The flames raged through the early hours of Thursday morning, and police closed a portion of the White Horse…

New Jersey Doctor Charged With Hiring Hitman To Kill His Wife

A doctor from New Jersey, who was accused of hiring a person to kill his wife after she threatened to divorce and expose him for running an illegal prescription opioid drug ring with Pagans motorcycle gang, was charged Tuesday. He was arrested in June 2017. Dr. James Kauffman’s wife April Kauffman, a New Jersey radio host,…

New Jersey Town to Ticket Non-Residents for Using Roads?

A small borough in New Jersey has decided to push back against the phenomenon of traffic created by navigation apps such as Waze and Google Maps. According to The New York Times, police in the New Jersey borough of Leonia will, starting in January, be penalizing nonresidents who use 60 local streets during rush hours, in…

Oprah Winfrey Called for the Death of a Whole Generation in 2013

There are still generations of people, older people…..and they just have to die.  – Oprah Winfrey

HOLLYWOOD-In a 2013 interview about racism, daytime television diva Oprah Winfrey who the left is now calling the future President of the United States said there’s an entire generation of people who were born and bred in the south that “Just have to die”.

Even the online liberal media “fact checker” Snopes admits she said it, but of course, she didn’t quite say it that way.

“Of course the problem is not solved. As long as people can be judged by the color of their skin, the problem’s not solved. As long as there are people who still…” the television talk show host said.  “And there’s a whole generation — I said this for apartheid South Africa, I said this for my own community in the South — there are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die.”

Apologetic Snopes said Winfrey’s comments were not racist, nor was her demand for the death of generations intended JUST for white people.

“However contentious and impolitic it may have been for Winfrey to claim that older generations steeped in prejudice will have to die before the problem of racism can be solved, the objection that it was racist of her to say so is absurd,” Snopes concluded.

Really?

“It’s valid, given the context, to infer that the majority of the people Winfrey was talking about are white, but invalid to infer that her remarks targeted all older white people, or only older white people,” Snopes continued to drivel.

This is where the media, if she was a white, male, Republican would denounce Winfrey as the next Adolf Hitler, but they won’t.

 

Former boyfriend started fire at Lakewood home, cops say

A Lakewood man has been charged with setting fire to his ex-girlfriend’s bed, police said in a statement Wednesday. The woman returned to her Michelle Way home just after midnight Sunday to thick black smoke pouring from the third floor. The woman and her boyfriend suffered smoke inhalation before escaping the home. Firefighters deemed the fire…

Man’s death at music fest leads to $350K settlement in police brutality suit

The family of a 38-year-old New Jersey man who died after allegedly being beaten and choked by coops at a music festival more than two years ago settled their excessive force lawsuit with Howell police for $350,000. The news was first reported by NJ Civil Settlements, a blog that provides a partial list of settlements paid…

Judge reviews Snapchat, video evidence in Sarah Stern killing case

The man accused of strangling his childhood friend, Sarah Stern, and dumping her body off a Jersey Shore bridge in December 2016 used Snapchat to discuss the ongoing investigation with a friend who later went to authorities, prosecutors revealed in court Tuesday. Liam McAtasney sent a Snapchat message to the unnamed friend, who helped authorities record…

Outgoing Gov. Christie to NJ: You’ll Miss Me!

The first time I asked Gov. Chris Christie a question we were 2,000 miles from New Jersey. I was a year into my first newspaper job in southeast New Mexico. Christie, just eight months into his first term, was there to stump for Susana Martinez’s campaign for governor. Noting the candidate’s law-and-order record, Christie played up…

More Snow Tonight? Wintry mix in store for Monday evening commuters

For some, the evening commute on Monday could include some freezing rain and sleet. A winter weather advisory has been issued for central and southwestern New Jersey, from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Monday, according to the National Weather Service forecast. A wintry mix, including light freezing rain, sleet and snow, could hit commuters in…

N.J. school closings, delayed openings (Monday, Jan. 8, 2018)

The lingering effects of a blizzard that swept through New Jersey on Thursday followed by dangerously cold temperatures over the weekend have forced some school closures and delayed openings for Monday, Jan. 8. While temperatures are expected to climb above freezing for much of the state for the first time in a while, many residents woke…

Arctic blast freezes US, Canada amid NY airport chaos

The eastern United States and Canada shivered under record-breaking low temperatures Saturday as Arctic blasts followed a deadly winter storm that left airports struggling to cope with the backlog of flights. In Canada, temperatures approaching minus 50 degrees Celsius (minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit) were forecast in northern Ontario and Quebec. Arctic air and dangerously cold wind…

Sears to Close Ocean County Mall Store This Year

An additional 103 Sears and KMart stores will close in the next several months, Sears Holdings announced Thursday. Among the locations set to go out of business is the Sears on Hooper Avenue in Toms River. That store will close in early April. The Sears Auto Center there will shutter its doors in late January. Sears…

Disgusting Couple Accused Of Engaging In Sexual Act Before Customers

A couple from Austin, Texas, was arrested Sunday after being accused of engaging in a sex act while seated at a booth in a family-friendly restaurant, a police affidavit said. The pair reportedly performed oral sex for nearly five minutes while children were present at Baby Acapulco, a local family-owned chain that serves Mexican cuisine. Jonathan…

Army sergeant based in N.J. killed in Afghanistan

A sergeant who was stationed in Fort Lee was killed Monday while serving in Afghanistan, the U.S. Army said. Sergeant First Class Mihail Golin, 34, died of injuries sustained from small arms fire while on dismounted patrol in the Nangarhar Province in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, Army officials said. Four other soldiers were wounded in…

YouTuber faces severe backlash after showing a dead body in newest video

logan paul being a dumbass YouTube celebrity Logan Paul put out a disturbing video over the weekend in which he filmed himself with a corpse in Japan’s infamous “suicide forest.” The clip outraged a large swath of the internet, who deemed it insensitive, and the 22-year-old later pulled the video and tweeted out an apology. Dear…

N.J. woman wins $5M with accidental scratch-off lottery ticket purchase

A New Jersey woman won $5 million with a scratch-off lottery ticket she purchased accidentally in New York City and didn’t even bother checking for two weeks. Oksana Zaharov, 46, of Edgewater, told New York Lottery officials she meant to buy $1 scratch-off ticket but was mistakenly issued a $10 Set for Life ticket by the…

Teenager shot parents, sister, family friend ‘at close range,’ prosecutor says

The Long Branch teenager who allegedly killed his parents, sister and a family friend on New Year’s Eve opened fire “at close range” using a semi-automatic rifle containing 15 bullets, prosecutors said Tuesday. Law enforcement officials also revealed a third person – a woman in her 20s – fled the house when the shots began along…

Winter Storm Watch: Up to Six Inches of Snow Tonight Possible

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm watch for five New Jersey counties in advance of a strong storm system that could drop up to a half-foot of snow on parts of the region. The watch is effective from 9 p.m. Wednesday through 7 p.m. Thursday in Atlantic, Cape May, Monmouth and Ocean counties,…

Up to 4 inches of snow expected this week along Jersey Shore

While the brutal stretch of cold temperatures in New Jersey is showing no signs of letting up, the possibility of snow later this week appears more likely. Projected snowfall amounts, however, remains uncertain. Forecasters say up to 4 inches of snow could fall along the Jersey Shore starting Wednesday night and continuing into Thursday, according to…

Teen killed parents, sister, family friend with assault rifle, cops say

A 16-year-old armed with a semi-automatic rifle shot and killed his parents, his sister and a family friend who lived with them in Long Branch on New Year’s Eve, authorities said Monday. The teen, whose name was not released because he is a juvenile, will be charged as an adult with four counts of murder and…

Another death in Lakewood, in an accident that kills pedestrian

A pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle on Christmas Day in Lakewood, reported police, who were continuing to investigate the incident. The person was struck near the intersection of Cedarbridge Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive around 7:30 p.m., according to Lakewood Police Lt. Gregory Staffordsmith. Police did not identify the victim. Authorities were…