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Officer admits to drunken driving By TOM HOWELL JR. thowell@njherald.com NEWTON — A Wayne police officer avoided criminal prosecution Tuesday by admitting he was drunk when he drove into two Sparta police cars on Route 15 two months ago. Fifteen-year Patrolman Alex-ander Sanagorksi, 38, of Sparta, caused minor injuries to Sparta Sgt. John Lamon and Patrolman Scott Elig when his Ford Explorer veered off the northbound lane and into the median at 2:28 a.m. on Nov. 17, according to police. The officers had been looking for the Explorer based on reports from Jefferson police about a possibly intoxicated driver. There...

Fake voter sign-ups increasing By ERIN NEFF and BRIAN HAYNES REVIEW-JOURNAL Nevada's position as a battleground state in the presidential election has sparked a surge in fake voter registrations, Clark County's top election official said. "We've never seen anything close to this," said Larry Lomax, registrar of voters. So far, the office has flagged several hundred suspicious registration forms, but Lomax believes many more escaped detection among the 5,000 forms coming through his office every week. "There are stupid criminals out there, and there are smart ones," Lomax said. "We can spot the stupid ones because they submit them in...