New Jersey

New Jersey

• Former Rutgers AD Pernetti getting $1.2M, iPad

  Former Rutgers Athletic Director Tim Pernetti is getting $1.2 million in salary, plus an iPad, car allowance and more than two years of health ... 

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  AP source: FBI eyes possible extortion at Rutgers

  The FBI is investigating whether a former Rutgers basketball employee tried to extort the university before he made videos that showed ex-coach Mike ... 

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  Rutgers scandal grows, even as AD Pernetti resigns

  The burgeoning basketball scandal has cost Rutgers more than a popular, young athletic director, an interim general counsel, two coaches and a lot of ... 

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  3 'Real Housewives of NJ' castmates to be charged

  Three cast members of "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" reality show will face charges following an altercation at a clothing boutique. A Paramus ... 

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  As Rutgers sets to repair image, AD's job in limbo

  It seemed a perfect fit when Tim Pernetti was hired as athletic director at Rutgers in April 2009. A New Jersey native who played tight end for the ... 

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  More Rutgers faculty seek firings in coach case

  The call from faculty members and politicians to oust top Rutgers University administrators grew louder, a day after men's basketball coach Mike Rice ... 

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  Two Rutgers players defend fired coach Rice

  Two Rutgers basketball players on Mike Rice's team say the fired coach wasn't the abusive tyrant he appears to be on a widely viewed video that ... 

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  Guide to the firing of Rutgers' basketball coach

  Rutgers University fired men's basketball coach Mike Rice this week after the public airing of video showing him berating players. An at-a-glance look ... 

• Rutgers assistant Martelli resigns amid scandal

  A Rutgers assistant men's basketball coach has resigned amid a scandal over the way his former boss treated players. A Rutgers athletic department ... 

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  Rutgers fires basketball coach over abuse, taunts

  Once the video went viral, Mike Rice's coaching days at Rutgers were over. Now the question is whether anyone else will lose their jobs — including ... 

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  Rutgers fires coach Mike Rice after video release

  Fueled by outrage from even the governor when the video went public, Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after deciding it didn't ... 

• Pal: Nightmares drove NJ man to admit 1990 killing

  A southern New Jersey man who admitted killing a teenager 23 years ago was haunted by nighttime visions of the boy's mother, according to the ... 

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  Reaction to Rice video has Rutgers reconsidering

  Rutgers officials had already seen the video showing coach Mike Rice shoving, grabbing and throwing basketballs at players during practice and yelling ... 

• Forgotten US airship crash recalled 80 years later

  History buffs will gather this week near the New Jersey coast to commemorate a major airship disaster. No, not that one. Newsreel footage and radio ... 

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  Kentucky women hold off Delaware 69-62

  Kentucky coach Matthew Mitchell has his team one victory away from the school's first Final Four. The Wildcats had to overcome an incredible effort ... 

• 3 accused of smoking pot in NJ police parking lot

  State troopers in northern New Jersey didn't have to go far to make a pot bust. They didn't even have to get in their cruisers. Police say they caught ... 

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  Head found in '89 IDed, linked to serial killer

  Almost 25 years after her severed head was found on a golf course, the woman New Jersey police believe was the first victim of a notorious serial ... 

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  NJ to probe state response in boy-with-gun photo

  Gov. Chris Christie has asked his attorney general to investigate the state's visit to the home of a man who had posted online a photo of his son ... 

• Ill. man arrested in NJ with stolen Wis. cheese

  An Illinois man accused of stealing 21 tons of Wisconsin cheese has been arrested in New Jersey. New Jersey authorities say the 34-year-old man from ... 

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  $338M lottery winner feels 'pure joy,' uncertainty

  A New Jersey man feels "pure joy" at winning a $338 million Powerball jackpot but has no idea what he will do with the money — except buy a car, to ... 

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  NJ professor's quixotic quest to be Iran president

  The man who wants to be the next president of Iran sits in a hotel lobby, steps from his office and thousands of miles away from the country he wants ... 

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  Business as usual for Menendez amid investigations

  Beyond the investigations, it's business as usual for Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez. The new Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman presides over ... 

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  $338M NJ Powerball winner says he'll help family

  The winner of a $338 million Powerball jackpot told several media outlets Monday that his first priority will be helping his family. Pedro Quezada, ... 

• APNewsBreak: NJ Revel casino files for bankruptcy

  From the day it opened less than a year ago, Revel decided to break the rules. The newest casino in Atlantic City banned smoking, didn't offer a ...