US retailer Dick’s Sporting Goods announced Wednesday it would stop selling assault-style rifles and bar gun sales to any customers under 21 years old in the wake of the Florida school shooting. Responding to the outcry from victims of the deadly Parkland high school shooting that claimed 17 lives, including 14 children, earlier this month, Dick’s…
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Dick’s Sporting Goods to end sales of assault-style guns
Music: A season of Jewish choirs in concert
The following is a partial list of Jewish choral performances in New Jersey this spring: Kol Dodi will perform a Lag b’Omer concert May 3 at Morristown Jewish Center-Beit Yisrael. Photo courtesy Marcia Solkoff Eskin “Sing Hallelujah-Chichester Psalms and More,” Sharim v’Sharot, in honor of the centennial of Leonard Bernstein’s birth, featuring other area choirs and…
New Jersey Researcher Finds Selfies Make Your Nose Look Bigger
“Does this smartphone make my nose look big?” It might, according to researchers at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School who point out that most people are unaware that close-up selfies produce a distorted image. The nose can appear 30 percent wider according to a new analysis, which adds a new wrinkle to modern day vanity. “Young…
Hundreds of flights cancelled at N.J., N.Y., Philly airports by storm
Hundreds of flights have been cancelled at New Jersey, Philly and New York airports due to a powerful nor’easter making its way through the area packing wind gusts up to 60 mph and heavy rain. As of 7:50 a.m., Newark Liberty International Airport had 132 cancellations, according to FlightAware, a flight tracking service. There were hundreds…
More: Man busted with 8 kilos of drugs, AK-47 might get out of jail
An Essex County man who was arrested last month with more than 8 kilos of cocaine and a loaded AK-47 may be released from jail Friday if the state appellate court doesn’t render a decision on an appeal filed by prosecutors hoping to keep him locked up. Rasheed Sanders, 37, of East Orange, was arrested inside…
