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Firefighters arrived to find the car's roof just visible offshore Watch video

Firefighters fished another car from the Delaware River Monday, the second time in two months they pulled a vehicle with Pennsylvania plates from the water.

Employees from a company in the 1600 block of Lamberton Street reported seeing a car in the water shortly after 12 p.m., just south of the city's public boat ramp. Trenton Fire Capt. Kevin Rice said.

Firefighters arrived to find the car's roof just visible offshore, Rice said.

The department's Rescue 1 marine unit put two rescue divers in the water to search the car, and found nobody inside.

Once out of the water, police officers and firefighters found a baby stroller in the trunk and a landscaping stone on the floor near the gas and brake pedals.

The firefighters then helped Hawks Towing & Recovery pull it to the shore. The Trenton Police took custody of the car for investigation.

On Feb. 20, city firefighters pulled an empty pickup truck from the river near Riverside Drive near Bloomfield Avenue.

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The suspect was last seen driving a car with Delaware license plates headed to New York City

A man from the Washington, D.C. area punched a Bordentown gas station employee in the neck with brass knuckles, then hopped in a car being refueled and sped off, police said.

The assault occurred Saturday evening, March 10, at about 6 p.m., and Bordentown Township police on Monday publicly identified the attacker as Michael Ward, 46, of Fort Washington, Maryland.

Ward is charged with aggravated assault, weapons and traffic offenses. He fled the Delta gas station on Route 206 in a 2007 Grey Acura RDX with a Delaware license plate, PC231528, police said.

Police said they believe he initially fled to New York City, and they alerted police there.

In a statement, police said Ward pulled into the station driving a gray Mitsubishi Outlander. He abruptly abandoned the vehicle and punched an attendant in the neck, weaing the brass knuckles.

Anyone who encounters Ward should consider him armed and dangerous and immediately contact 911, police said.

Fort Washington is an unincorporated town southwest Prince Georges County that borders the nation's capital.

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Some New Jersey Republicans introduced a bill that would require physicians to provide patients with an opportunity to undergo an ultrasound or a sonogram image of the embryo within 48 hours of a referral for an abortion, or at least 48 hours before an abortion procedure is performed, whichever is later. Watch video

Mississippi's women woke up last Friday, the day after International Women's Day, to news that their lawmakers had just passed what promises to be one of the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation - if not the most.

If Gov. Phil Bryant signs the measure, already approved by both the state's House and Senate, abortions will become illegal after 15 weeks of pregnancy.

Pregnancies that result from rape and incest are not exempt.

It's a disturbing prospect in a state which has only one abortion clinic (which currently provides abortions until the 18th week of pregnancy or so).

A few legislators in New Jersey were up to mischief of their own during a week when the rest of the world was celebrating the rights and accomplishments of women.

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Republican Sens. Steven V. Oroho (Morris, Sussex and Warren counties) and Anthony Bucco (Morris and Somerset counties) introduced a bill that would require physicians to provide patients with an opportunity to undergo an ultrasound or a sonogram image of the embryo within 48 hours of a referral for an abortion, or at least 48 hours before an abortion procedure is performed, whichever is later.

Violators - that is, physicians who fail or refuse to offer an ultrasound or sonogram to a patient desiring an abortion - could be fined up to $100,000 for a first "offense," and up to $250,000 subsequently.

Moreover, a woman who has had an abortion and was not informed of the ultrasound or sonogram option, or the parent of a minor in that position, could sue her doctor and seek actual and punitive damages.

On the Assembly side of the Legislature, Republicans John DiMaio (Hunterdon, Somerset and Warren) and Harold Wirths (Morris, Sussex and Warren) are pushing that house's version of the bill.

The good news is that with a Democratic-controlled Legislature and a Democrat in the Governor's Office, this bill likely has zero chance of seeing the light of day.

The bad news is that abortion opponents have gotten this far with it at all. Clearly, they feel emboldened by the current occupant of the White House and his followers to try chipping away at rights the U.S. Supreme Court established more than almost five decades ago.

While the Garden State's measure is less onerous than the one about to be signed in Mississippi, it still represents an encroachment on a woman's right to control her own body, as well as on a doctor's right to practice medicine free of interference from state lawmakers.

Let the (male) sponsors of these two bills find more appropriate ways to "protect" women, and leave it to the medical experts, in conjunction with their patients, to determine the best course of action.

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North Jersey got more, where some school districts had delayed openings

The Trenton region got some snow Tuesday morning, but by the afternoon it was like the nor'easter hadn't actually happened.

And with that (sort of) dusting, temperatures are expected to warm into the 50s by the weekend and spring is around the corner. 

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The man was in the midst of a fatal crime spree in the New York City area

The Washington, D.C. area man wanted for punching a Bordentown Township gas station employee in the neck with brass knuckles this past weekend was the man shot dead by police in Long Island, New York Monday morning.

He was still on a crime spree, police said.

A Nassau County police officer shot Michael Ward dead Monday morning in Great Neck. The 46-year-old was from Fort Washington, Maryland.

Michael Ward 

According to ABC7NY, before he was killed, Ward knocked a 77-year-old man to the ground in the Bronx and robbed him of stole $20. Then he ran over a pedestrian in Brooklyn, killing him.

And then, just before 4 a.m. Monday, he carjacked a woman on Manhattan's Lower East Side and minutes later, carjacked a driver in New York's Tribeca neighborhood with a punch to the face.

He was fatally wounded by police shortly after motorists honked at his stopped vehicle and he responded by emerging with a bat, smashing their windows and striking one, ABC7NY reported.

Nassau County police said Ward went after an arriving police officer with the bat, who first attempted to Taser the suspect, but was unsuccessful. When Ward refused to drop the bat, the officer fired twice.

He was pronounced dead at a hospital.

In Bordentown Township, police had charged him via warrant with aggravated assault for the Saturday, 6 p.m. assault of an employee of the Delta gas station on Route 206.

Police Ward arrived in a Mitsubishi, slugged the attendant, then jumped into an Acura that was getting gas - a vehicle with Delaware license plates. Bordentown police suspected Ward was headed to New York.

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A corporate attorney for Dow Chemical who has devoted much of his professional life to fighting against the cleanup of toxic waste sites in the nation is Donald Trump's choice to keep watch over the remediation of the nation's Superfund sites.

A corporate attorney for Dow Chemical who has devoted much of his professional life to fighting against the cleanup of toxic waste sites in the nation is Donald Trump's choice to keep watch over the remediation of the nation's Superfund sites.

This is no surprise from a president who has appointed to his cabinet the men and women most likely to overturn the mission of agencies they're assigned to lead.

Think Betsy DeVos at the Department of Education, or Ben Carson at the Housing Department, for example. And they're just two of the members of Trump's Cabinet of the Absurd.

But the man who would Make America Great Again has outdone himself with the nomination of Peter Wright to head up the Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Land and Emergency Management, the arm of the EPA charged with cleaning up the most contaminated sites in the country.

Trump's EPA pick works for company linked to NJ Superfund site

And that's horrible, horrible news for New Jersey, which has more of those sites than any other state.

Dow, the multinational chemical conglomerate, is widely understood to be responsible for more than 100 Superfund sites throughout the nation.

If you live anywhere near Berry's Creek, which flows through Carlstadt, East Rutherford, Lyndhurst, Moonachie, Rutherford, Teterboro and Wood-Ridge on its way to the Hackensack River, you're sickeningly familiar with damage inflicted by a mercury-processing plant purchased run by a Dow subsidiary.

The creek is adjacent to the Ventron/Velsicol Superfund site in Wood-Ridge, which Dow has described as one of its "largest potential environmental liabilities."

The megacorporation was responsible for $80 million worth of remediation on the site as of Dec. 31. It laid out a measly $7 million for those efforts last year. This is chump change compared with the $48.16 billion the company is reported to have made in 2016.

Jeff Tittel, director of the New Jersey Sierra Club, didn't mince words in blasting Trump's move.

"This is one of the worst nominations ever made, by even this president," Tittel said in a news release. "Wright spent his career fighting to prevent cleanup of toxic sites as a corporate lawyer for Dow Chemical Company. His nomination is a risk to public health and the environment."

The corporation Wright has donated his life to defending donated $1 million to Trump's inaugural committee last year, ABC-News reported. In legal terms, res ipsa loquitur: the thing speaks for itself.

With Senate Republicans having perfected the role of Trump toadies, the high-powered lawyer will likely be confirmed, no matter how egregious his conflicts of interests, no matter how loudly our two New Jersey senators call foul.

And Trump's unholy mission of choosing industry insiders to head the regulatory agencies designed to oversee those industries grinds maddeningly on.

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Isiah Greene pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter for killing of Quaadir "Ace" Gurley in North Trenton

A man prosecutors tried three times for the killing of a man in North Trenton has pleaded guilty to a manslaughter charge in the slaying.

Isiah Greene, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter on Feb. 27 for the 2013 killing of Quaadir "Ace" Gurley at the Donnelly Homes housing complex in North Trenton.

Greene sat through three trials over six years, with the last one resulting in a partial conviction on just a weapons charge. He then took a plea bargain for the killing, instead of opting for a fourth trial.

According to the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office, they're recommending Greene serve six years in prison, with a stipulation that he must serve at least 85 percent of sentence. 

But he could spend as little as three years in prison, officials said. It's unclear on whether the sentence for the gun charge will run concurrent or consecutive to Green's manslaughter charge. 

Green also pleaded guilty to an aggravated assault charge which stems from an unrelated February 2013 crime as well. The prosecutor's office also recommended that Greene serve a six-year sentence for that crime, and must serve 85 percent of that sentence before he is eligible for parole.

Greene is scheduled to be sentenced on May 4.

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Students in Mercer County protested in different ways after leaving class Watch video

All was silent outside the Foundation Academy Charter School building on West State Street in Trenton except for the beats that came from four snare drums. 

17 beats of the drum.

Students in grades sixth through eighth joined schools nationwide Wednesday afternoon in unity and demonstration, and standing up against gun violence in honor of the 17 victims of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida. 

As students exited the school in a single line, they joined arms and stood facing the school for a few quiet moments. Four students struck the drums not only for the Florida victims, but once more to remember victims and those affected by gun violence in Trenton.

Isabel Goss, the leader of student culture at the middle school, said the school's students come from all different parts of the city.

Often, she said, students will find they have vastly different experiences with guns and gun violence than the child next to them. 

Jonathan Bazile and Donte Santos, two eights graders who participated in the drumming, said they had mixed feelings about the walk-out. 

"It's happy to be able to celebrate them and their lives," Santos said. "But it's crazy to be doing it. It's crazy that there's been so many this year."

Bazile said he first felt like it couldn't happen here, at his school in Trenton. 

"But then I realized it does happen, maybe not in our schools, but outside. On the streets," he said. 

In the weeks following the Parkland shooting, faculty had to figure out how to speak to their students about guns in schools, Goss said.

National school walkout day: Thousands of students protest

Last Friday, teachers dedicated the day to talking about what they'd need to change to be prepared for a school shooting at Foundation Academy and how students feel about guns in schools. 

"We wanted to focus on what happened in Florida, but also on the idea that (gun violence) is in issue in our neighborhoods, too," Goss said. 

Foundation's protest was in the afternoon, at 2:14 p.m., at the exact time of the Parkland shooting.

Several other schools in Mercer County also participated.

Like many schools, Princeton High School students walked out to their football field at 10 a.m., and stayed their for 17 minutes - to honor the 17 Parkland victims.

At the Pennington School, the school put out a public statement, describing how  Headmaster William S. Hawkey stood with the student body, along with teachers and staffers, who all wore orange National School Walkout t-shirts.

They gathered out front and stood silently as a bell in the school's cupola rang 17 times.

Before that, they had gathered inside and listened to remarks from students,  including organizers, Jake Bongiovi, 15, and Rickey Eng, 16, both sophomores.

Bongiovi contacted Gov. Phil Murphy and his wife, Tammy, who sent an enthusiastic video message to the students, supporting their call to make changes, the school said.

And at Notre Dame High School in Lawrence, Diocese of Trenton Bishop David O'Connell stood with students, who left classes to pray.

The bishop said he was "deeply moved" by the event, and supported students in all schools in the diocese who also organized events, including St. John Vianney in Holmdel; Donovan Catholic in Toms River; Holy Cross Academy in Delran; St. Rose in Belmar; and Trenton Catholic Academy in Hamilton. 

O'Connell said he he does not support arming teachers, "but to restrict gun use by the deranged, disgruntled and disturbed. Our government cannot ignore its responsibility any longer."

"These prayer services today, and the advocacy efforts that students in even more of our schools will pursue in the weeks to come, offer all of us a powerful witness," the bishop said. 

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New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy called the recent outages after two nor'easters "completely and wholly unacceptable" and ordered the state Board of Public Utilities to examine "what went wrong and see if all preparedness measures were taken." Watch video

Power companies are the behemoth utilities that are easy to hate, especially when you are sitting in a cold, dark house with no electricity.

That certainly was the case for hundreds of thousands of New Jersey residents who were left powerless after a string of nor'easters hit the state with strong winds and drenching rain.

The initial inconvenience often turns to frustration and anger as the power outages drag on for hours and then days.

Gov. Phil Murphy called the recent situation "completely and wholly unacceptable" and ordered the state Board of Public Utilities - which oversees the power companies - to examine "what went wrong and see if all preparedness measures were taken."

All this grousing is nothing new.

Similar outcries were heard when Hurricane Irene made a beeline for New Jersey in August 2011. Almost 930,000 homes and businesses across the state lost power. Some customers were without power for more than a week.

All the criticism of the power companies' response to the Irene outages resulted in the BPU holding public hearings to improve service for the next big storm. (Sound familiar?)

That next storm was not long in coming.

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A year later, Superstorm Sandy ravaged New Jersey with such fury that 2.8 million utility customers lost power at the peak of the storm and it took more than two weeks to fully restore power.

Again, there was pressure on the utility companies to do something.

In 2014, Public Service Electric & Gas, the state's largest utility company, received approval from the BPU for a $1.2 billion infrastructure upgrade and Jersey Central Power & Light announced it would invest more than $250 million to prevent outages.

So, you would think New Jersey should be able to weather a nor'easter or two without plunging into the dark ages of past hurricanes.

But the reality is that as long as there are power lines vulnerable to heavy snow and falling trees, we are going to continue to have similar mass outages with future storms.

But that does not let power companies off the hook.

When a storm is coming, electric providers have to be prepared with crews ready to roll.

It's equally important for power companies to listen to their customers and provide them with accurate information about the duration of outages. There is nothing more frustrating than getting the runaround from your power company.

Ratepayers cough up a lot of money for reliable electric service. And when nothing happens when a switch is flicked on, a homeowner or business owner has every right to be upset and not to be kept in the dark.

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Looking for a place to go for a drink in New Jersey always allowed for lots of choices.

If you're looking for a place to go for a drink in New Jersey ... where will you have the most choices?

I guess it all depends on how you measure it.

Per square mile? If that's your criteria, jerseypride.com says that Hoboken's your place, and the Huffington Post confirms it: "The quaint little town once held the Guinness Book of World Record for having the most bars per square mile." That was around 2011, though; it seems to have since been beaten out by Oswego, N.Y.

By population? A ranking on roadsnacks.net says that Wildwood has the most bars per capita in New Jersey followed by Atlantic City and Asbury Park.

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New Jersey doesn't even scare the top of the list when it comes to bars per capita as a state; eater.com's stats show us ranked 29^th, with North Dakota, Montana, Wisconsin and South Dakota leading the way.

As you scroll through the photos in this and past galleries I've posted on New Jersey bars and taverns, some other questions might arise, such as which bar had the most barstools crammed into the smallest amount of floor space? That might just have been Littman's Tavern in Newark. Were there and are there places that didn't have bars? The most recent tally by, ironically, funnewjersey.com shows that 32 of the state's 565 municipalities are still alcohol-free, the 21^st Amendment notwithstanding.

Here's a gallery of places to go to hoist a glass from days gone by in New Jersey. Didn't see a personal favorite? Click on the links to the following galleries - there's a good chance you'll find it there.

Vintage photos of taverns and bars in N.J.

Vintage photos of bars and watering holes in N.J.

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West Windsor-Plainsboro North and Princeton Charter School were winners

Science bowl teams from West Windsor-Plainsboro High North and Princeton Charter School won close competitions against local rivals recently in the New Jersey Regional Science Bowl.

"Who knew this could be so exciting!" said Andrew Zwicker, head of communications and public outreach and science education at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), which hosted and the competition.

"To see how much you know and how you figure things out when you start talking together and watch how you collaborate is really remarkable. We expect you to come back here and help us with the fusion when you are done with school," he said at the conclusion of the middle school contest.

(Zwicker is also a New Jersey Assemblyman, representing the 16th legislative district.)

PPPL has hosted the Science Bowl for 25 years, and teams come from all over New Jersey and the region to compete. State College Area High School from State College, Pa., traveled four hours to get to the contest.

In the high school contest, the two finalists were high schools from the same town, West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South -- the reigning champions for the past three years, and West Windsor-Plainsboro North.

The winning team from West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North. (Handout photo) 

These two teams competed for 13 rounds and were tied with less than a minute left, when West Windsor-Plainsboro North won 86 to 82. The Ridge High School team from Basking Ridge, N.J. won third place.

The middle school contest was also a close competition between two Princeton teams: the John Witherspoon Middle School, last year's winners, and the Princeton Charter School, last year's second place recipients.

These two teams played two final rounds with Princeton Charter narrowly defeating John Witherspoon in the first round 106 to 104, and 96 to 54 in the final round. William Annin Middle School of Basking Ridge won third place.

"This is great! It's been a long haul," said Mark Schlawin, the Princeton Charter School coach. "We came in second two years in a row now. This time we managed the victory.

The winning teams receive an all-expense paid trip to Washington, D.C. where they will compete in the finals of this year's National Science Bowl from April 26 to 30.

The middle school winner will compete against 48 other regional teams, while the high school champion will compete against 64 other teams.

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