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The article reports that Warren Joseph, a veteran of the Persian Gulf War of 1991 who has been detained by immigration officials in the U.S. since the year 2004, has been granted a hearing to determine if he is being detained legally. Judge Jose L. Linares of the Federal District Court in Newark, New Jersey ruled on May 22, 2007 that Joseph was entitled to a hearing about whether he has been held in violation of his rights. The hearing will be held on June 19, 2007.

The article reports on a judgment, which rules out that New Jersey Meadowlands Commission is responsible for ensuring that low-income housing is included in the development of 21,000 acres it oversees in west of Manhattan, passed by an appellate court in New Jersey. The judgment resolved two lawsuits, including one brought in 2004 by New Jersey Builders Association. It was welcomed by Robert R. Ceberio, executive director of the meadowlands commission.

The article reports that the Board of Education of Kearny, New Jersey and the parents of Matthew LaClair, student at Kearny High School, New Jersey have settled their disputes about history teacher David Paszkiewicz, who proselytized in class. The settlement includes training for teachers and students regarding the separation of church and state and a public statement praising the action of Matthew. Matthew recorded the comments of David in class that only Christians had a place in heaven.

The article reports that 35 T.G.I. Friday's restaurants offered outing for families with autistic children in New Jersey. According to Rosetta Fogarty of Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, the outing has been a change of routine for his 8-year-old son Anthony Fogarty, who is autistic. Rosetta suggested that more restaurants should consider providing a family bathroom as the population of autistic children increases.

The article presents the U.S. news briefs. It says that Shane Tomilson of Queens, New York City, was charged with the murder of his girlfriend, Chameka Miller. It discusses a legislation signed by acting Governor of New Jersey, Richard J. Codey, for the expansion of two regional airports. Information is provided on Roman Catholic Diocese of Norwich, Connecticut, agreeing to pay $300,00 to settle a claim of sexual abuse.

The article offers information regarding the recovery of New Jersey's Governor Jon. S. Corzine from the car accident that occurred on April 12, 2007 in which his left leg, 11 ribs and sternum were broken. It's informed that he has been shifted to his 1835 Greek Revival mansion from a hospital in Camden, New Jersey, where visitors can meet him.

The article focuses on a lawsuit which has been filed against child welfare agency in New Jersey. The lawsuit has been filed by the adoptive mother of a girl who was abandoned at 10 months by her 15 year old mother. The girl spent some time with her father who used to torture her by burning her feet and genitals. She was adopted by her current foster mother in 2006 who appealed to the system to provide better conditions for children.

The article reports that government officials in New Jersey and New York visited towns affected by a northeaster on the week beginning April 17, 2007 to determine if federal aid would be available to the towns. Meanwhile, Governor Richard J. Codey of New Jersey said that the state had suffered a $180 million in damage to private and public property.

The article reports on the damage caused by northeaster and flood waters from the Passaic and Pomption Rivers in Passaic County in New Jersey. The author reports the accounts of losses caused by the flood in the area. It is informed that New Jersey resident William Borger was able to rescue his two German shepherds dogs from his flooded house.

The article offers information on the flood in Paterson, New Jersey due to overflow of Passaic River, resulting in the displacement of thousands of residents of the area. The flood has affected 835 square miles of Northern New Jersey and southern New York, because of which the residents had to shift to Little Falls, New Jersey.

The article reports that hundreds of policemen surrounded the Fox Hollow golf course after local dweller John Hawkins accepted that he had seen the sharpshooter in the golf course who killed an agent of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.), Barry Lee Bush, in New Jersey. The police increased its vigilance around the golf course to catch the sharpshooter.

The article reports that Chad Walder, a police officer, was charged of reckless manslaughter in the shooting of Emil Mann, a member of the Ramapough Mountain Indians in New Jersey State Park, by a Bergen County grand jury in New Jersey. Mann had died nine days after he was shot. The death of a member's death has made the Ramapoughs mountain community very angry. Walder said that he had acted in self-defense. However, Mann's tribe members say that he was shot while trying to resolve a fight.

The article presents information related to New Jersey's first Gay and Lesbian Wedding Exposition which was held on March 21, 2007 in Edison, New Jersey. The event has been organized six months after the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples deserve the same rights as heterosexual married ones. According to Lisa Drozd, owner of the American Bridal Show Company, which sponsored the show, the show was attended by 84 businesses and 127 couples.

The article reports on controversy surrounding the activities of New York Senator Wayne R. Bryant. It is informed that several faculty members at the Camden campus of Rutgers University in New Jersey were enquired about the senator's work record, who he is believed to have earned about $35,000 a year for four years to lecture at the law school. However, the internal records reveal that Bryant had lectured only 2 of the 20 classes that the school proposed to teach.

The article presents information on the New Jersey State Assembly's consideration to approve a package of bills intended to improve early detection of autism. The package of bills also plans for better services for adults with autism and finance the Governor's Council on Autism. It also asks the State Department of Health and Senior Services to study the use of prenatal sonograms. The bills were introduced by Joseph J. Roberts, the assembly speaker.

The article presents information on the arrest of a Hanover Park High School football player and his volunteer coach in the high profile drug roundup in East Hanover, New Jersey. Timothy Biggiani, a 2004 graduate of the high school, said that there is a lot of drug floating around in the school. In a raid, officers seized cocaine, heroin and other drugs as well as weapons and vehicles worth more than $300,000.

The article informs that Bilal Shareef, a Muslim student in Newark, New York, has sued the Newark public schools on March 7, 2007 claiming that he was unable to attend his high school graduation in June 2006 because it was held in a church. Shareef said that it was against his beliefs to set foot in any building with symbols involving God.

The article presents information on meditation classes for mothers and children conducted at the Dharmachakra Buddhist Center in New York City. The classes have been running in the five boroughs of the city to preach Buddhist practices and to train meditation . It is reported that this guided meditation has improved the parenting style of the women.

The article reports on the Supreme Court ruling that says that the school districts in New Jersey must take adequate steps against gay students who are harassed by other students because of their sexual orientation, though they are protected by New Jersey's antidiscrimination law. According to James R. Zazzali, Chief Justice, students in the classroom are entitled to no less protection from the unlawful discrimination and harassment than their adult counterparts in the workplace.

The article provides information on the towing tank found at the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey. The tank, which is longer than a football field is regarded as the world's fastest speed towing tank by Michael Bruno, the director of Stevens Institute's Davidson Laboratory that has used the tank for modeling ships, taking out research on wave action and make better underwater detection of vessels.

The article offers information on the reported suicide of Zachary Toskovich, a senior student at the Glen Rock High School in New Jersey. Zachary, who was reported missing in the early hours of February 8, 2007 was found dead in an interior courtyard of the school later. He was taken to Valley Hospital where he was declared dead. Police suspects that he jumped off the roof of the two-story high school and committed suicide. He sent goodbye messages to his friends before committing the act.

The article reports on 48-year-old James Thomas Sr., chief of the Unalachtigo band, a tribe of the Nanticoke Lenni Lenape Nation, who plans to open a huge casino complex 10 miles north of the George Washington Bridge in New York City. There are 60 members in the tribe who have claimed in a lawsuit filed in federal court in 2005 that the state has sold 3,044 acres of land without the required act of Congress, on which they have rights.

The article reports on the ban on taping inside classrooms by the school board at Kearny High School in New Jersey. The rule was passed after a student complained to his principal about a school teacher who was recorded saying that the students should accept Jesus as their savior, failing which, they will go to hell. The school board regulated that taping is strictly disallowed in the classrooms without an instructor's consent and stressed on the teachers' training on legal requirements.

The article reports that reverend Mark Beckwith will serve as the tenth episcopal bishop of Newark, New Jersey. The main features of his joining ceremony will include gospel music and a Native American flute. In one of his interviews, Beckwith said that the perfection of the universe is diversity and this diocese approaches it.

The article presents news briefs related to crimes and sentences in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Zachary Gibian was sentenced 25 years in prison by the New York Supreme Court for killing his stepfather. John Merla, the former mayor of Keyport, New Jersey, pleaded guilty in Federal District Court for accepting bribes during his tenure. The body of missing New York City college student Joseph Zahornacky was found in a lake in Connecticut.

The article reports that Maplewood, New Jersey-based libraries will remain open during after-school hours as local government officials have come up with ideas on how to help keep uncontrollable students from disrupting other patrons. Local government officials called several meetings and worked with school officials and other agencies to expand after-school programs for middle school students, after receiving complaints about the closing of libraries.

The article presents information on the announcement made by Stuart Rabner, Attorney General of New Jersey that the involvement of clerics to unite the same-sex couples in civil unions is not required. As stated in a letter written to the State Registrar, Joseph A. Komosinsky, the clergy members are free to decline from performing the ceremonies for the heterosexual couples if they think its violating their religious beliefs.

The article reports that the Maplewood Township Committee of New Jersey has come up with a plan to provide security guards to Maplewood Memorial Library. This is because the trustees of the library decided to close it during weekdays from 2.45 to 5 p.m. due to influx of students from a nearby school. The main problem was their disruptive behavior.

The article reports on the usefulness of family photo albums in the life of children who are placed outside their homes because of abuse or neglect. It refers to several people including Tawanda Parker and Lori Khan who keep a photo album which has several pictures during their days at foster homes. The photos make children talk about their birth parents without hurting the foster or adoptive parent.

The article presents information related to a trunk in Hope Avenue in Passaic, New Jersey, which has become a sacred place with some visitors say they can see the face of the Virgin Mary in it. A week ago more than 400 people gathered at the shrine to worship mother Mary. The space around the stump was in bad conditions until it has been rebricked and lighting and fence posts were installed.

The article presents the stories of homeless people who come to eat at the soup kitchen, a block from the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in New Jersey. The soup kitchen serves 700 breakfasts and lunches each Tuesday through Saturday. Richard Stewart, one of the homeless who come to the soup kitchen, said that he has been staying with friends for three years.

The article focuses on arsonists, Joseph T. Lepore and Sean Michael Ryan who set fire to a dormitory in Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey and the opinion of various people on the charges that were announced on the two, for the crime. Lepore and Ryan will serve a term of five years in prison. Some including Alvaro Llanos, a victim of the fire said that the two deserved more than just that. There were others who thought that justice was served.

The article focuses on the annual Touch a Truck event that was held in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. The event was attended by more than 1,862 people to look and climb over 35 pieces of commercial vehicles. The main attractions of the event were fire trucks, rescue vehicles galore, a bookmobile, an underwater rescue rig and a horse trailer. It was organized by the Hunterdon County Department of Parks and Recreation.

The article highlights the growing need of transplant organs among African Americans in the U.S. Robert Kevin Waters, father of a three year old boy who needed transplantation of his diseased colon, addressing a gathering at a National Donor Sabbath, stressed the need for people to become organ donors. A study conducted by Links Inc. and Roche Holding AG found that half of the African Americans would want to donate their organs upon their death.

The article focuses on a lawsuit filed against Aetna Inc., an insurance company, by a couple living in New Jersey. The couple claims that the firm refused to pay for nearly 10 weeks of their daughter's treatment for anorexia nervosa. The lawsuit has been filed by Cliff DeAnna and Maria DeAnna in the United States District Court in Newark, New Jersey.

The article presents information related to the New Jersey Supreme Court's decision regarding same-sex marriages. According to David S. Buckel, lawyer, announced that gay people have constitutional rights to equal treatment under the law. According to Cindy Meneghin of Butler who has been with her partner Maureen Kilian since childhood, the court agreed that we needed equality which means marriage. Everything else is unequal.

The article focuses on the examination of the environmental cleanup work in New Jersey. Lisa P. Jackson, New Jersey's commissioner of environmental protection's plan is to overhaul the department's $60 million cleanup program, which is responsible for monitoring of more than 16,000 contaminated sites.

The article focuses on the grief of the family, school officials and friends of Jamie Bliss, a junior at James Caldwell High School in West Caldwell, New Jersey, who died after collapsing during football practice. The coach, the principal and the reverend say that Bliss was a good boy who fared academically and athletically well. Jamie's parents, Frederick and Joan Bliss have plans to donate his organs and have said the game against Madison High School should be played.

The article informs that New Jersey Transit Corp. (NJTC) has planned to begin rolling out double-decker trains in December 11, 2006. The trains will not be having the dreaded middle seat of its current cars. The facility is expected to ease the commute for some of its 72,000 customers who travel to New York City on a typical weekday. According to Dan Stessel, Spokesman for NJTC, the new cars would be sent to the system's busiest rail lines with effect from December 11, 2006.

The article provides information related to the policy of the New Jersey state government to stop removing deer carcasses from county and municipal roads saying that this responsibility should be shouldered by the county and municipal governments themselves. It reports of the objection of Morris, Warren, Monmouth and Middlesex Counties to this decision and the complaint filed by Hunterdon County against this policy.

The article offers information on the election of Mark Beckwith as the bishop to the Episcopal Church of Newark, New Jersey. Mark Beckwith has been elected as the 10th Episcopal bishop in Newark. Bishop election in the Episcopal Church has been a matter of contention since 2003, since the election of Canon V. Gene Robinson, who is a gay, as the bishop of New Hampshire.

The article cites a memorandum which revealed that New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection knew about the poor condition of a building in Gloucester County, New Jersey, which was used as a day care center.

The article reports that firefighters in New York City paid tribute to firefighter Michael C. Reilly, who passed away while fighting a fire in the city.

The article presents information about ornithologist Hannah Suthers.

This article focuses on different issues related to the election of 10th bishop of the Diocese of Newark, New Jersey.

The article focuses on the making of a replica of the ship Godspeed to mark its 400th anniversary.

The article reports that Warren S. Wallace, dean at the University of Medicine and Dentistry has been dismissed for breaching the code of ethics.

The article reports that a state judge has temporarily blocked the sales of city owned Newark properties not offered for public bidding and this has been admired by Mayor-elect Cory Booker.

The article presents information about Weehawken Municipal Courthouse in New jersey.

The article reports that the New Jersey Department of Environment Protection has banned all fishing of horseshoe crabs in an effort to save shorebird from extinction in New Jersey.