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A 16-year-old girl who had been missing since Saturday was found stabbed to death and dismembered — and police say her killer lived right next door. Jonathan Zarate, 18, appeared Monday in Morris County Court to face charges of murder, weapons offenses, and hindering apprehension in the slaying of Jennifer Parks. Zarate lived next door to Parks in their Randolph, N.J., neighborhood, and prosecutors say the 16-year-old victim left her house early Saturday morning to watch TV with Zarate. But then, authorities said, the two became embroiled in an argument that led to Parks' gruesome killing.

New York -WABC, Feb. 10, 2005) — A boil water advisory has gone out to 17 area towns this morning. All are serviced by the same water treatment tank where the body of a missing New Jersey woman was found last night. Eyewitness News reporter Ken Rosato is at the scene in Totowa with more. The medical examiner arrived at the Passaic Valley water treatment plant last night. It was clear, the news would be grim. They had found the body of a woman missing for several days. The discovery led officials to declare a boil water advisory for several...

...Kennedy did only slightly better in 1960, scoring 49.8% against Nixon. His plurality was one of the smallest in U.S. history..... This election was significant in that it marked the occasion when TV played a major, perhaps determining, part. Roosevelt had already demonstrated the importance of radio when his skill at the media, honed in his "Fireside Chats" as president, helped to secure his landslide re-election in 1936. In 1960, the media (overwhelmingly pro-Democrat) judged Kennedy an outright winner in the TV debates. It was said that his team persuaded the studio to turn up the lights so that Nixon...

Ramsey, three others in tight race for state House, poll shows By JOHN FLESHER The Associated Press 7/28/2004, 5:23 p.m. ET TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) — John Ramsey is running neck-and-neck with three other Republicans for the state House less than a week before the primary election, according to poll results released Wednesday. The survey by Lansing-based EPIC/MRA shows that many people in Michigan's 105th House District have an unfavorable impression of Ramsey, father of slain child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey. But it also suggests he is benefiting from the crowded field, pollster Ed Sarpolus said. "It's your typical divide-and-conquer...

MIAMI -- A South Florida woman says a toy included in Wendy's kids' meals is obscene. When Tiffany Glad took her three-and-a-half year old niece to Wendy's, the little girl was fascinated with the wind-up toy that told the story of the new Garfield movie. But Glad says the next day, the cute toy turned crude. It seems one scene shows Garfield pointing upward and Glad says it looks like Garfield is sticking up his middle finger. "My niece came to me and said Garfield was being bad and I asked her to explain to me. And she's articulate, she...

Florida Woman Says Garfield Toy Is ObsceneMIAMI -- A South Florida woman says a toy included in Wendy's kids' meals is obscene. When Tiffany Glad took her three-and-a-half year old niece to Wendy's, the little girl was fascinated with the wind-up toy that told the story of the new Garfield movie. But Glad says the next day, the cute toy turned crude. It seems one scene shows Garfield pointing upward and Glad says it looks like Garfield is sticking up his middle finger. "My niece came to me and said Garfield was being bad and I asked her to explain...

James A. Garfield, the last of the nation's presidents to have been born in a log cabin, barely made it to the White House and spent only a few months there before he was felled by an assassin’s bullets. Garfield, who was born to a farm family in Cuyahoga County on Nov. 19, 1831, was named president of Hiram College at 26 and became the youngest brigadier general in the Union Army in 1862. Garfield was an accidental president. In 1880, delegates to the Republican convention were deadlocked after 34 votes. Garfield’s name was offered as a compromise. That fall,...

<p>The comic strip "Garfield" turns 25 today, still enormously popular and at the same time a throwback.</p> <p>Other than some changes in the characters' appearance, the strip has stayed the same since its debut in 1978.</p> <p>But the rest of the comics landscape has changed drastically. What were once the "funnies" are now often outspoken and controversial.</p>

GARFIELD, N.J. -- An 80-year-old woman was mauled to death by two pit bull dogs that she had known since they were puppies, Bergen County authorities said Tuesday. Wounds caused by claws or teeth covered more than 80 percent of Julia Mazziotto's body, and the medical examiner found she had also suffered a broken right wrist, county Prosecutor John L. Molinelli said. Blood soaked her clothing and was spattered on the walls and floor of her apartment, he said.

Previous posts state that the Federal Reserve is a privately owned (for profit) corporation. ANYONE that disagrees with this statement is either ignorant or mis-informed. My question is: Are there any organized groups trying to abolish the FED and how can they be contacted?