New Jersey Real-Time News

Bank of America offers to halt some debit card overdraft fees (Wed, 10 Mar 2010)
Financial institution bows to pressure to stop letting customers run up bills by spending money they don't have
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Newark Archdiocese donates church supplies to parishes in Haiti after devastating earthquake (Wed, 10 Mar 2010)
Jennifer Brown/The Star-LedgerMsgr. Beaubrun Ardouin, of Irvington, looks over all of the donated chalices at St. Elizabeth's Roman Catholic Church in Linden. Parishes all over the Newark Archdiocese are sending vestments , chalices and other religious necessities to Haiti to...
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Study shows 43 percent of Americans have less than $10K saved for retirement (Wed, 10 Mar 2010)
APSpecialist Kristian Loughlin is reflected in his screen as he works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, in this January file photo. A national study shows that the number of Americans with little or no retirement savings...
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N.Y.C. cops assure public figures on midtown rooftops are statues, not jumpers (Wed, 10 Mar 2010)
NEW YORK -- The city police department wants the public to know that the figures soon to be gazing down from buildings near a midtown park are an artist's body casts — not residents in distress. The department was worried...
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N.J. man is held in California on in-flight groping charges (Wed, 10 Mar 2010)
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A bond hearing is scheduled today for a New Jersey man charged in an alleged groping incident on a Continental Airlines flight from Newark to Orange County. U.S. attorney's office spokesman Thom Mrozek said James Dalton...
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Foreign stocks remain in tight range (Wed, 10 Mar 2010)
Getty ImagesA board displaying Germany's share index DAX at the stock exchange in the central German city of Frankfurt.European shares continued this week's muted moves today, with losses from construction stocks and banking group Barclays pressuring prices. The Stoxx Europe...
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Preliminary tally shows Bloomfield voters reject plan to renovate condemned football field (Tue, 09 Mar 2010)
BLOOMFIELD -- In a narrow vote, it appears residents rejected a referendum tonight to spend $2.9 million to refurbish the condemned high school football field and stadium. Unofficial results showed 1,194 votes opposed to the bond issue versus 1,084 in...
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N.J. Gov. Chris Christie says he's stuck with bill for state worker 7 percent pay hike (Tue, 09 Mar 2010)
Leaves open door to 'exercise of executive authority,' but did not say exactly how that could happen
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Trenton man is charged with luring, attempted sexual assault of a minor (Tue, 09 Mar 2010)
TRENTON — A Trenton man is accused of luring a 12-year-old girl, according to a report by NorthJersey.com. Jeffrey Simon, 28, was charged with attempted sexual assault, luring and enticing a minor, endangering the welfare of a minor, the report...
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Somerset authorities bust dog-fighting operation (Tue, 09 Mar 2010)
Five people have been charged after a South Bound Brook house was raided; the dogs have been scheduled to be euthanized
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