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A Newark Police Officer struck and killed a nurse with his car and then drove the body to his mother’s house seeking advice before returning to the scene with the body, officials said on Wednesday. Louis Santiago, 25, of Bloomfield was arrested and charged with reckless vehicular homicide, desecrating human remains and other charges after he hit and killed 29-year-old nurse Damian Dymka, of Garfield, on the Garden State Parkway, according to the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office.

Facebook Twitter Email Print Save A man died after being shot on the Blue Ridge Parkway Tuesday during what an official described as a possible road rage incident. Chief Ranger Neal Labrie said two men were driving near mile marker 116, near Explore Park, about 10:15 a.m. when a road rage incident resulted in a shooting. Roanoke County police arrived to the scene within about 15 minutes. “We understand that one presented a weapon and the other responded with shooting,” Labrie said. One man was taken to Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital, where he died. His name has not been released,...

St. Louis Today reported: When is the line crossed between better health and surveillance? In early 2012, wristwatch-like devices called Polar active monitors will be used by older students in PE classes at all 18 Parkway elementary schools. District officials say the devices should help improve the students’ fitness and academic achievement. Later this school year, the district plans to collect data about activity levels and even sleep patterns for a week at a time. It will have the students wear the devices round the clock. Some parents and legal experts are raising privacy concerns about at least that aspect...

ORLANDO - Orlando leaders made President Barack Obama Parkway the first road under construction in the nation named after our 44th president, and surely one of the few in history to be named after a sitting president in his first term. However, Commissioner Samuel Ings, who came up with the name for the road, knows what he'd like to see. "One of my dreams would be when we get ready to cut the ribbon that our president, presidential limo and seal would be the first to travel along Presidential Barack Obama Parkway," Ings said.

The State Treasurer's Office has denied an Open Public Records Act (OPRA) request filed Republican members of the Assembly Transportation and Public Works Committee. Yesterday, the trio sent a joint, second letter to Governor Jon Corzine asking him to compel Treasury to release an $800,000 consulting report on the proposed sale of New Jersey toll road assets for public review. "Late Friday, we received word from treasury that this report would not be made public," says Assemblyman Sean Kean. He warns, "We are prepared to take legal action against the Administration if they refuse to turn over the results of...

Passages would let creatures safely slither and hop under widened Parkway Snakes, frogs and salamanders may never be stuck in Shore traffic again. The long-planned widening of the Garden State Parkway through the Pinelands will include a series of wildlife tunnels designed to let five threatened or endangered species of reptiles and amphibians pass safely from one side of the highway to the other. The cost: $9 million. The widening project will disrupt the habitats of 14 animals on the federal or state threatened or endangered species lists, a Turnpike consultant found.

Just 18 days after suffering numerous serious injuries in an automobile crash, Gov. Jon S. Corzine, D-N.J., was released from Cooper University Hospital Monday and issued an emotional statement to the public. "I understand I set a very poor example for a lot of young people, a lot of people in general," said a teary-eyed Corzine, who was not wearing a seat belt when he was critically injured in an April 12 automobile crash on the Garden State Parkway. "I certainly hope the state will forgive me and I will work very hard to try to set the right kind...

UNION CITY, N.J.—In his 30-plus years as a player in New Jersey politics, Senator Robert Menendez has cultivated dozens of friends and allies in positions of influence. But recently, on Sept. 5, one of his allies, a New Jersey business owner and a major fund-raiser for Mr. Menendez, showed up in a curious place: in front of a grand jury in Newark, where he was questioned about the financing of terror bombings in Cuba during the 1990’s. Also appearing in front of the grand jury was the former accountant of a deceased ally and donor for the Senator. The fund-raiser,...

URGENT BULLETIN: The New Jersey Supreme Court will hand down its ruling in the marriage equality case Wednesday, October 25, 2006 at 3:00 pm. THIS SUPERCEDES THE COURT'S EARLIER ANNOUNCEMENT THAT THERE WOULD BE NO DECISIONS COMING DOWN ON WEDNESDAY. The Court will post the decision at http://www.judiciary.state.nj.us/opinions/index.htm Please attend Garden State Equality's statewide rally for marriage equality Wednesday night at 7:00 pm, Unitarian Church of Montclair, 67 Church Street, downtown Montclair. The rally supercedes any other event we have e-mailed you about. Right now please call as many people as you can, and please forward this e-mail to every...

I received a notice yesterday from the State of New Jersey, Office of the Attorney General, Department of Law and Public Law and Safety, Division of Elections The letter said: Dear Voter: A review of the statewiud voter registration system indicates that your date of birth is missing from your registration record. Please be advised that a missing date of birth will not affect your right to vote. However, we need this missing information to assure that your records are correct and properly maintained. Please provide your date of birth on the line below and mail this letter back in...

New Jersey Republicans are taking the Codey administration to task over a proposed idea to lease state toll roads. Acting Governor Codey is exploring the possibility to help plug a looming four (b) billion-dollar budget deficit. Under such a deal, the state would get a one-time payment from a company, which would take over the operation and maintenance of the highway in exchange for keeping toll revenues. But Senate Minority Leader Leonard Lance, a fiscal conservative, said doing so would allow New Jersey's state government to continue to live beyond its means. A Codey spokeswoman says it's an idea under...

<p>The Sacramento County supervisors got their first taste Tuesday of the public ire sure to be unleashed if they slash maintenance along the American River Parkway and allow the region's open-space jewel to rot.</p> <p>Entire days would pass without patrols and illegal camping would flourish, said Ron Suter, county parks director.</p>

<p>Groups of four or five fourth-graders edged toward consensus about how to design graphs as part of a recent math lesson at Hanna Woods Elementary School in west St. Louis County.</p> <p>Some groups sketched bar charts. One group drew symbols - circles, triangles, squares and hearts. One opted for traditional lines.</p>

NEWS 1920 L Street, NW • Suite 200 • Washington, DC 20036 202.785.0266 • Fax 202.785.0261 W W W . A T R . O R G FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Paul Prososki 30 October 2003 202-785-0266 Gas Tax Hike in New Jersey? It’s Time For Candidates To Come Clean With Voters Rumors claim New Jersey gas tax will increase once legislators have no accountability to their constituents. WASHINGTON – With less than one week before an election, rumors are circulating a deal has been cut to increase the gas tax during the lame duck session of the state legislature....

Underfunding of park said to endanger ability to provide services. Federal funding for the Blue Ridge Parkway falls 40 percent short of the costs of operating the 469-mile road, endangering the park's ability to serve its visitors and protect its scenic views, according to a study. The business plan released Tuesday was prepared for the parkway by graduate business school students at Harvard, Emory and the University of California-Berkeley. It says the parkway's base budget has grown only by 0.5 percent over inflation since 1980. Meanwhile, visitation increased by 2.2 percent annually from 1989 to 2002 -- from 16.1 million...

<p>Ah, driving in New Jersey. The most crowded roads.</p> <p>The longest commutes. The, ahem, nicest drivers.</p> <p>And the highest average auto insurance bills in the nation. Again.</p> <p>New Jersey beat out all the other states for the eighth time in the past decade, according to the annual National Association of Insurance Commissioners' survey, released yesterday.</p>

Lots of news to report! First, Washington, DC based nomoretolls.org (Kevin McKeown) has filed a case in lower federal courts on the basis that toll booths violate the clean air act while operators of toll booths violate the civil rights of toll payers by requiring an unnecessary increase in the period of time a toxic emitting vehicle is needlessly operated resulting in increased pollution. The case had now reached the U.S.Supreme Court where it has been assigned Docket No. 01-1421!. Citizens Against Tolls plans to file an Amicus Curiae (Friend of Court) brief in support of this case. The brief...

State to charge E-ZPass users $1 a month The Associated Press 7/11/02 5:45 PM  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey will hire a single contractor to run its E-ZPass system and it will charge drivers who use E-ZPass a $1-a-month service charge to help pay down the system's $400 million debt load, state officials said Thursday. Other states with E-ZPass have a similar monthly service charge, officials said. The new fee -- assessed to more than 1 million E-ZPass customers -- is expected to cut the debt in six years. Gov. James E. McGreevey said he also wants to cut...