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Newark NJ, following a year-long jubilee, hundreds of Filipino Catholics from throughout Bergen, Essex, Hudson, and Union counties filled Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart for the Archdiocese of Newark’s final celebration of the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines on May 1.
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West Milford NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin announced today that a New York man was indicted by a state grand jury for allegedly illegally collecting solid sewage waste and discharging it into a storm drain that emptied into West Milford Lake in West Milford, NJ in March 2021.
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Hundreds of Filipino Catholics followed a replica of the Jubilee Cross, along with statues of Santo Nino de Cebu and Our Lady of Manaoag, as they traveled to parishes throughout the Archdiocese of Newark for the Archdiocese’s year-long celebration of 500 years of Christianity in the Philippines. (Photo courtesy of the Archdiocese of Newark)
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Newark NJ, The Archdiocese of Newark’s year-long celebration of the 500th anniversary of Christianity in the Philippines will conclude with a cultural procession and joyous Mass at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart on Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m. Traditional Filipino attire is welcomed.
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Newark NJ, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic started two years ago, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., archbishop of Newark, celebrated Easter Sunday Mass before a filled Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark on April 17.
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Chester NJ, Phil Rizzo, Congressional candidate in New Jersey’s 7th District, has outraised every non-establishment primary opponents combined. Rizzo hauled in over $215,000 in just 90 days of campaigning in contrast with the combined $80,000 raised by his opponents in Q1.
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Ridgewood NJ, we have to laugh at this one , James Singer, DCCC Spokesperson called out Tom Kean Jr. for accepting campaign donations from Matt Mowers’ leadership PAC , claiming he voted in two states in 2016 saying, “If Tom Kean Jr. cares about election integrity he should denounce double voting and return the donations he took from Matt Mowers.” . How could that be, according to the Democrats, the “media” and Facebook censors there was absolutely positively no election fraud whatsoever.
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Newark NJ, The celebration of Holy Week — the Catholic Church’s most sacred time of year — is underway in the Archdiocese of Newark. Thus far, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., archbishop of Newark, has celebrated the Palm Sunday Mass and the Chrism Mass at Newark’s Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart.
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Somerset NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin today announced charges against five individuals in connection with an internet fraud scheme involving the sale of aircraft equipment and replacement parts.
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Newark NJ, Four individuals were charged with conspiring to launder money taken from victims across the United States, many of whom were elderly, as a part of a series of romance scams, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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Founded in 1886 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, Johnson & Johnson has become the largest healthcare corporation in the world over the decades, with 250 subsidiary companies operating in 60 countries. However, the company has been the subject of controversy many times. For instance, while Johnson & Johnson had known that the talc in its famous baby powder was contaminated with asbestos since the ‘70s, the company decided to keep this a secret from consumers. Consequently, thousands of people came to struggle with ovarian cancer and mesothelioma, a sporadic and aggressive cancer of the lungs, several decades later. Johnson & Johnson had to pay millions of dollars to the victims in over 40,000 cases.
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South Plainfield NJ, a Middlesex County, New Jersey, man was charged with embezzling over $2.3 million from a New York-based company where he had been the controller since 2001, U.S. Attorney Philip R. Sellinger announced today.
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Newark NJ, During Holy Week, nearly 1.3 million Catholics throughout the Archdiocese of Newark will participate in sacred liturgies remembering the death of Christ and celebrating his resurrection on Easter Sunday. This year, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., Archbishop of Newark, will observe Holy Week and the Paschal Triduum with in-person liturgical celebrations at the Cathedral Basilica of the Sacred Heart in Newark.
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Continue reading Gymnastics Coach Charged with Manufacturing and Possessing Child Porn
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Newark NJ, Acting Attorney General Matthew J. Platkin and the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor today announced the arrest of a Newark doctor on charges of forgery, obtaining a controlled dangerous substance by fraud, and health care claims fraud. The arrest was the result of an investigation by the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit.
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