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Man breaks into church, beats up nun
12:16 PM on 03/12/2010
VIDEO - Police are searching for the heinous individual who heartlessly beat a nun at St. Lucy's Church in Newark, N.J. Thursday morning...
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Baby thrown off bridge still missing; survival odds slim
11:17 AM on 02/18/2010
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey officials searching for a baby believed to have been thrown off a bridge by her father acknowledge her chances of survival are slim by now...
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Cory Booker: Black History Month promotes 'understanding'
10:51 AM on 02/09/2010
VIDEO - Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, NJ says Black History Month is part of 'what makes America so great'...
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TheGrio's 100: Cory Booker, Brick City mayor with a bright future
9:18 AM on 02/05/2010
TheGrio's 100 - Cory Booker took office as mayor of Newark, N.J., in 2006...
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'Team in Africa' program connects students a continent apart
7:02 AM on 01/11/2010
VIDEO - Rwanda and Kenya might as well be on another planet for most middle-school students. But not at Team Academy in Newark, New Jersey...
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Mayor Booker and Conan face off for last laugh after weeks of verbal sparring
8:28 AM on 10/16/2009
VIDEO - It was just a joke. But not to Mayor Cory Booker of Newark, NJ. In September, talk show host Conan O'Brien dissed the mayor's attempt...
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Pull up you pants or get a ticket?
4:45 PM on 08/12/2009
We've all seen this picture. Teenagers -- urban, suburban, white, black, Latino -- wearing jeans so low their butts meet us at the bus stop, in the mall, the supermarket, walking down the street.
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Newark mayor Cory Booker a politician who tweets by example
5:48 PM on 06/06/2009
VICTOR EPSTEIN Associated Press Writer (AP Photo/Mike Derer) NEWARK, New Jersey (AP) -- Newark Mayor Cory Booker and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom are blazing a new trail in political discourse from opposite sides of the country as they build huge Internet followings on Twitter's fast-growing social network. They don't...
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Dems down to the wire lobbying for reform votes
VIDEO - They've made some progress. A fourth Democrat, John Boccieri of Ohio, has switched his vote from "no" to "yes."...
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