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TRENTON — The state Supreme Court has appointed a judge to handle potential lawsuits by defendants whose cases relied on drug evidence handled by a North Jersey lab technician accused of falsifying a marijuana test result. Kamalkant Shah, the now-retired lab worker at the State Police Officer of Forensic Sciences North Regional Laboratory, was the primary laboratory examiner in 7,827 drug cases, state officials have previously said.

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A great white shark, tracked to New Jersey, remains off the southern coastline this morning. The non-profit group OCREACH tracked a shark named “Mary Lee” to a location just east of Brigantine on Friday morning. The group gets a ping from Mary Lee every time her dorsal fin surfaces. She has been making her way north since April and traveled nearly 193 miles in the past 72 hours

FREEHOLD – A Marlboro man in the Monmouth County Correctional Institution on charges he sexually assaulted two teenagers is being housed in the jail's infirmary as a precaution because he recently returned from West Africa.

Fast food fan immediately regrets complaining to Domino's about pizza without toppings A London-based Twitter user been widely mocked for making a bizarre complaint to Domino’s Pizza

(CBS/AP) – Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair.

Signed up July 22, 1999. Please help me celebrate and take look at the linked postAt the time, it was the second longest thread on FR. The longest was Arthur McGowan's "Please Don't Ping Me." It had 1100 replies. So click the link to see some old friends, many are still here. Unfortunately some have passed on or passed out.

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The above phone number is a scam at the very least or a phone spoofing scheme at it's worst. If you receive a phone call from this number Do Not Answer It! Do Not Call It! No one will answer and if it is indeed a spoofing call it's possible some one is trying to trap your info. I have received several of these calls and no message is ever left. If you can block it on your phone do so. My service provider is conducting an investigation and will be blocking this number for me. I made the mistake...

Pop Quiz: We ask college students - Can You Name One U.S. Senator? How Many U.S. Senators for Each State?

The Russian Navy Ochakov Kara-class cruiser was sunk last night to block the Ukrainian Navy ships deployed in Novoozerne, the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence said in a press release today. The information was confirmed by the Ukrainian military of the South Naval Base who were observing the operation. The RF ships blocking the Ukrainian ships in Donuzlav lake in the Crimea left the zone at 23.30 p.m. (March 5). Then, the Russian military towed their ship Ochakov to the navigating channel and filled her with water. Then, there was an explosion. The depth in this area is 9-11 m, it...

After a long winter like we’ve had, everything starts to look funny and this photo by a grammar school student is no different. Check out this drawing below, it will definitely give you something to laugh at, even with all the snow this season. Pole Dancing Gotta love this one….makes you chuckle… First Grade Drawing – PRICELESS! A first grade girl handed in the drawing below for her homework assignment.

A new national survey by Careerbuilder,com puts traffic on top with 39 per cent of those surveyed. There’s nothing like that helpless feeling of sitting in traffic knowing you’re going to be late for work. Next up, lack of sleep at 19 per cent, followed by problems with bad trabsportation at 8 per cent. 7 per cent blame the weather, 6 percent are late due to dropping children at daycare or school and fifteen per cent of employees of employees admit to arriving late for work at least once a week. But there are other more unusual excuses like…

A man who worked for loss prevention was in Walmart and caught a woman shoplifting. What happened after that is the big question of how to handle situation like this. The man did NOT work for Walmart. By no means are we condoning what the woman did, it obviously is wrong to steal. But did this guy go too far in shaming this woman or did he teacher her a valuable lesson? At the end of the video, you can hear the guy giggling, almost like he enjoyed shaming her and catching it on video.

NEW YORK (AP) — A former "Sopranos" actor convicted for his real-life role in the slaying of an off-duty police officer during a botched break-in at a Bronx home was released from prison Tuesday and put on parole.

The United State Air Force Band performed a flash mob at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum on December 3rd.

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A single-payer health care system is one in which a single-entity -- the government -- collects almost all of the revenue for and pays almost all of the bills for the health care system. In most single-payer systems only a small percentage of health care expenses are paid for with private funds. Countries that have a single-payer system include Australia, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Single-payer is popular among the political left in the United States. Leftists have emitted tons of propaganda in favor of a single-payer system, much of which has fossilized into myth. Here are some of...

WORLD BANK/UNITED NATIONS Attention: BENEFICIARY, The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) has made available total of $863,725,490.00 to 27 governments and two international organizations for distribution to 370 successful claimants. This payment is made under the 2011 first phase of the payment mechanism established by the UNCC Governing Council. Your name came up under the list of people who have long-outstanding claims from inheritance of funds, lottery winnings prizes, and contractors to some foreign governments. See the UNITED NATIONS news link for details: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/ik344.doc.htm Your Payment File was given to this office in respect of your total long over-due amount...

There are many moderators, with different kinds of secret knowledge. Anything you might say about them (including this) will be false for some of the Moderators, but true for others, which only adds to the confusion and mystery. The Moderators infiltrate and take over cliques of all kinds, from drug warriors to libertarians to chatters, and turn them to their own ends. And, just as a black joke, some of their secret cliques advertise themselves as Secret Cliques. They have agents and "sleepers" planted everywhere. Many of these people have no idea who they are really reporting to. Others are...