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*He’s at it again. Last year, Newark Mayor Cory Booker saved a neighbor from a burning building. On Thursday, he rescued a pooch from likely freezing to death in the bitter cold. ABC 7 reporter Toni Yates saw two abandoned dogs on a Newark street as temperatures dipped into the teens. She tweeted about it, [...]
*In a Sunday appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Newark, N.J. Mayor Cory Booker (D) delivered an emotional argument for more gun control, highlighting personal tragedy in the process. “I don’t know if anybody here has seen anybody shot,” Booker said. “I have. I don’t know if anybody here has had to put their hand in [...]
*Newark Mayor Cory Booker (D) said he’d explore a run for senate in an op-ed in the Newark Star-Ledger. [Click here to read the op-ed.] Booker called Democratic party leaders this morning to inform them of his plans to challenge Democrat Frank Lautenberg for his seat in 2014. The mayor had previously flirted with a [...]
*Newark, New Jersey is up in arms over the newest replacement on their City Council, but for reasons that may surprise you. Corey Booker has been all over the news as Newark’s community mayor. He is the golden guy that will come and sit with your grandmother if you need to run to work or [...]
*During an appearance on Sunday’s “Oprah’s Next Chapter,” Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker spoke on a variety of topics – from his political future, to his diet, to his headline-making rescue of a neighbor from a burning building earlier this year. According to The Star-Ledger, host Oprah Winfrey taped the show in April and therefore [...]
*Oprah Winfrey’s primetime series “Oprah’s Next Chapter” will feature a fresh interview with Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker this Sunday, May 27 (9-10 p.m. ET/PT) on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network. According to a press release, the interview was conducted “days after Mayor Cory Booker had a near death experience in a burning building.” It [...]
*Newark Mayor Cory Booker made national headlines Friday after he risked his life to save a young woman who was caught in a fire near his apartment building. The mayor suffered second degree burns, but left with his life which is the most important part. Newark Police Officer Alex Rodriguez, who was with him, said [...]
*Now that the dust has cleared and the family is going on vacation, the bill for Whitney Houston’s funeral has surfaced. According to reports, the final result is $187,000 but billed to the residents of Newark, N.J. Yes, the very public funeral attracted hundreds, if not thousands of fans and service attendees and caused the [...]
*Little did 22-year-old Justin Street know that he would die after a Newark, New Jersey woman injected his penis with silicone in an attempt to get it enlarged. The woman, 34-year-old Kasia Rivera, gave Street the injection in May. According to TheGrio.com, Street died the day after his injection. His death is ruled a homicide [...]
*50 Cent wasn’t the only one taking advantage of Twitter during the big East Coast blizzard this week. While the rapper was busy tweeting pictures of himself shoveling the walks of his Connecticut neighbors (for $100 per house), Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker was using his Twitter page for more altruistic purposes — to assist [...]
*There seems to be an education awareness campaign going on. The last donation given by Oprah’s foundation, the Angel Network, gave $1 million to 6 different schools throughout the country to help continue their developing, but successful schools. The next big donation that will show up on Oprah this Friday is a collaboration between New Jersey’s [...]
*A Newark pastor allegedly forced two teenage girls to videotape him and one of his congregants engaged in sexual acts at a New Jersey motel, authorities said. Cops arrested Rev. Moises Cotto, pastor of the Congregation of Yahweh Templo El Candelero, at his East Orange home Monday night and charged him with kidnapping, aggravated assault, [...]
Newark’s Mayor Cory Booker easily won a second term Tuesday night, beating out three challengers with 59 percent of the vote, according to reports. Just before 10 p.m., Booker declared victory over his three challengers – Clifford Minor, Yvonne Garrett Moore and Mirna L. White – and addressed a packed room at the Robert Treat [...]
*One of New Jersey’s longest serving former mayors got a hero’s welcome Tuesday, stepping off a Greyhound bus in Newark and blowing kisses to a throng of cheering supporters before being driven to a halfway house where he’ll serve out the remainder of a federal prison sentence on corruption charges. “It’s good to be home,” [...]
*A Newark, N.J. police undercover police officer was caught on tape as he roused and then punched 15 year old Travis Retrey. The youth who has never had any issues with the police was sitting in front of the apartment building waiting on a friend when he was assaulted.
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