Anthony Appolonia spent five years in prison for killing cats. Now living in Delaware, he’s allegedly adopting cats again. But where are they? (After this ran, the Delaware Attorney General’s Office launched an investigation.) … More He tortured and killed 19 cats. Now some fear he’s at it again
Our coverage of Gregorio Martinez, a convicted sex offender who had been on the run, kick-started a stalled investigation and helped lead to his arrest in Central America. … More A preacher’s flight from justice
By Sue Eptsein and Mark Mueller Ten votes guilty. Two not. That was the split Tuesday evening in the Middlesex County Courthouse as Michelle Lodzinski waited to learn if she would be convicted of murder in the death of her 5-year-old son, Timothy Wiltsey, a quarter century ago, according to a juror who was present. It … More ‘You just knew’ Lodzinski was guilty, juror says
The top official at Northern State Prison in Newark has been demoted and reassigned after failing to report to the Department of Corrections that one of his officers briefly lost a service weapon, NJ Advance Media has learned. … More Top prison official demoted for failing to report missing gun, sources say
Megan Duncan, Alanda Watson and Denise Mercurius will report to work Friday morning, as they have done every day for years. Once there, they expect to be fired. The three are among a rising number of workers facing termination for refusing a flu shot. … More They said no to company-mandated flu shot and now fear firing. Here’s why.
He called them his grandmas. The Rev. Alex Orozco befriended the elderly women at St. Rose of Lima parish in Short Hills. Orozco was a new priest, charming and afire with enthusiasm. And always, it seemed, willing to accept money. … More Priest took more than $250K from ‘grandmas’ at wealthy church
He was a dark horse in the papal election, a little-known Argentine cardinal who rarely traveled outside South America and whose emergence as leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics surprised even the most experienced Vatican-watchers. Less than three years into his tenure and with his first trip to the United States at hand, … More Who is Pope Francis? A primer on the pontiff
The Rev. Manuel Gallo Espinoza was allowed to slip away after a teenage boy accused him of rape. An NJ Advance Media investigation found he later became a teacher in Maryland. Now police are hunting for him. … More Where’s Father Manuel? Police hunting priest accused of rape
A retired teacher accused of sexually abusing one of her teenage students in the 1990s — an allegation chronicled in a two-part series in The Star-Ledger last year — will not face criminal charges “at this time,” a prosecutor said Thursday, adding that the investigation will remain open, though inactive, indefinitely. … More No charges ‘at this time’ in teacher-student sex investigation
Nobel Prize-winner John Nash, the inspiration for the Oscar-winning film ‘A Beautiful Mind,’ considered the Abel Prize his highest achievement. Here is the inside story of his ‘dream week’ in Norway before his death in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike. … More The Final Days of John Nash
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