May 28, 2009

For Immediate Release

CAMDEN -- Gregory Gamble has been named director of economic development at Rutgers University–Camden.

In this new position, Gamble, 37, will work to build relationships between Rutgers and a wide range of businesses and organizations with the goal of the enhancing the economy of the Greater Camden r...   Read More >>

(CNN) -- Eighteen-year-old Juan Gonzalez was dying alone in a hospital, thousand of miles from his Guatemalan home. He was separated from the family he had traveled to the United States to help support.

Diagnosed with a chronically weak heart, without much money and lacking resources, Gonzalez seemed bound to die without ever seeing his parents again.Read More >>

A mother’s fling has resulted in her bearing twins – by different fathers.

Eleven-month-old Justin and Jordan Washington may have arrived in the world within just seven minutes of each other, but in an amazing twist of fate, they are half brothers.

Each has a different dad because their mother Mia Washington, had an affair and conceived two...   Read More >>

An American mother suffocated her son, revived him, then suffocated him again before burying his tiny body in a public playground.

Tiffany Toribio apparently confessed to the shocking crime eight days after she dug a hole and buried three-year-old Tyruss.

'She placed her hand over her son's mouth and nose and suffocated him,' said Police C...   Read More >>

LOS ANGELES — A sequel has been greenlit for Matt Giraud on "American Idol."

The 23-year-old piano player from Kalamazoo, Mich., who crooned Bryan Adam's "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from "Don Juan DeMarco" for his movie song performance Tuesday, received the fewest number of viewer votes Wednesday on the...   Read More >>

The Arizona State University community is expressing anger and embarrassment in response to ASU's decision not to award President Barack Obama an honorary degree when he gives the commencement speech there next month. An ASU spokesperson now confesses, "we blew it," and concedes that the university likely would have conferred the honorary deg...   Read More >>

We've all done it--offended someone with something we've said, intentionally or not. Even the word-savvy President Barack Obama slipped Thursday night on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" when he compared his poor bowling skills to those of the participants in the Special Olympics.

Like Obama's blunder, there are a host of verbal lan...   Read More >>

Child welfare officials are worried about a recent spike in calls to the state child abuse hotline and suspect it’s due to extra family stress brought on by the recession.

The hotline received 6,185 complaints in March, up from 5,104 in February and 5,070 in March last year. Those figures represent calls referred to local offices for investiga...   Read More >>

TRENTON - Governor Jon S. Corzine today announced a new chief executive officer for the Schools Development Authority and a new commissioner for the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT). Governor Corzine recommended for appointment Transportation Commissioner Kris Kolluri to be the next chief executive officer of the Schools Development Au...   Read More >>