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False Alarm— Trash Bag Mistaken for Man Stuck in Sewer

Fri, 10 Jun 2011 14:28:57 CDT

It turns out a worker wasn't stuck inside a pipe in New Jersey's second-largest city. Jersey City Fire Chief Darren Rivers says it was actually a bag of trash. He says workers with the Jersey City Incinerator Authority were checking the pipe with a camera when they thought they saw...

NJ Man Arrested for Peeing on...Women

P.Cash — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:57:46 CDT

You can't make this stuff up, folks. Jersey City police believe they have caught the man responsible for peeing on the legs of several women since December. Nitinkuma Patel, 27, of Secaucus, NJ, was caught in the act, peeing on the back of a 16-year-old girl's legs as she walked...

5 Jersey Cops Shot; 2 Suspects Killed

Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:47:48 CDT

Five police officers were shot—two of them critically wounded—in a running gunfight in Jersey City today. Both suspects were killed in the shootout, which began on the street about 5am and ended when SWAT officers fought their way into an apartment where the man and woman had taken...

Death Threats Sent to Goldman Sachs

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:10:39 CDT

Investment powerhouse Goldman Sachs has been the subject of menacing letters sent to newspapers across the country, prompting an investigation by the FBI. "Hundreds will die," warn the letters that have been traced back to Queens, New York. "We are inside. You cannot stop us."