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Fat Joe joins the fight against childhood obesity with a concert

By theGrio

11:15 AM on 01/11/2012

The program began in October of 2011 with 1,500 high school freshmen in five different Newark, NJ high schools competing against each other for the most minutes moved.
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Woman denies causing penis injection death

By theGrio

10:10 AM on 12/14/2011

NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) - Authorities say a man who died after having his penis injected with silicone was trying to get it enlarged...
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'American Gangster' Frank Lucas faces jail for allegedly bilking feds of 17G

By theGrio

3:16 PM on 12/13/2011

New York Daily News - Frank Lucas, who once ran a billion-dollar business smuggling heroin before going straight, could go to jail for bilking the U.S. government out of $17,300...
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Booker stumps for Obama in NH, criticizes Romney

By theGrio

2:21 PM on 12/13/2011

NBC - Just days after Mitt Romney's New Jersey surrogate, Gov. Chris Christie, hit the road for Romney in Iowa, another New Jersey leader, Newark Mayor Cory Booker...
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NJ's black population doesn't put Christie on a pedestal

By Chelsea-Lyn Rudder

9:27 AM on 09/29/2011

theGRIO REPORT - An August 17, 2011 Quinnipiac University Poll indicates that amongst black voters Christie has an 81 percent disapproval rating...
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Parents, ACLU sue NJ city over Facebook records

By theGrio

2:45 PM on 09/08/2011

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the state's biggest city...
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Newark's Cory Booker: Is he more myth than mayor?

By Vivian Glover

4:34 PM on 09/06/2011

theGRIO REPORT - Political analysts and writers agree that Booker hasn't soothed residents' paranoia about what's going to happen to their city...
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NJ man pleads guilty in murder of 5 teens

By theGrio

2:01 PM on 08/30/2011

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - A New Jersey man pleaded guilty Tuesday to murdering five teenagers in 1978 in what was one of the state's longest-running cold cases...
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Man shoots self near kids' Newark toy gun swap event

By theGrio

4:30 PM on 08/22/2011

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The exchange program was organized by a grass-roots group called Stop Shootin' Inc...
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Newark mayor vetoes armed security at late-night eateries

By theGrio

12:29 PM on 07/21/2011

VIDEO - Newark Mayor Cory Booker has vetoed a measure that would require late-night eateries to hire armed security guards...
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Teen dead, 12 wounded in Newark, NJ shootings

By theGrio

2:35 PM on 07/12/2011

NEW YORK - Police are looking for suspects after three shootings in New Jersey's largest city left a teenager dead and 12 people wounded...
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'Fathers Now' keeps black dads from doing time (VIDEO)

By Todd Johnson

8:53 AM on 06/16/2011

theGRIO VIDEO - Newark Mayor Cory Booker is a firm believer in the program, which he helped get off the ground in 2008 with a combination of private and public dollars...
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Cory Booker can count on becoming Mr. Senator

By Dr. Boyce Watkins

8:28 AM on 06/10/2011

OPINION - The world is waiting for Booker, and when he moves to the national scene, he is going to be successful...
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Booker 'won't rule out' US Senate run in 2014 (VIDEO)

By Todd Johnson

2:00 PM on 06/09/2011

theGRIO VIDEO - Booker told theGRIO's Todd Johnson Thursday he would 'never say never' to a potential Senate run in 2014...
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Newark Mayor Cory Booker eyes possible run for US Senate

By theGrio

7:39 AM on 06/09/2011

NEWARK STAR LEDGER - Mayor Cory Booker is bringing his knack for fund-raising to the national stage, and eying a possible run for the U.S. Senate...
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NJ mom accused of starving child pleads not guilty

By theGrio

12:14 PM on 06/02/2011

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The children's 30-year-old mother, Venette Ovilde, stared blankly and answered a judge's questions in a barely audible whisper as she entered her plea...
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Viewing to be held for slain Newark police officer

By theGrio

10:48 AM on 06/01/2011

NEWARK - Officer William Johnson was standing at the counter of a fast-food restaurant trying to get a slice of pizza when he was shot along with two other people last Thursday...
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Slain cop wasn't target in Newark drive-by

By theGrio

12:39 PM on 05/27/2011

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The acting police director in Newark, N.J., says officials do not believe that a police officer killed in a drive-by shooting was the intended target...
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Man gets over 200 years in Newark murders

By theGrio

5:17 PM on 05/19/2011

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Alexander Alfaro was 16 at the time of the 2007 killings that shocked New Jersey's largest city and led to anti-crime reforms...
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Feds launch investigation of Newark police dept.

By theGrio

4:49 PM on 05/09/2011

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - Newark has long been one of the most violent and poorest cities in New Jersey...
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