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Facebook Fight Club, $200,000 Cheese Heist Top This Week's NJ News

Other top stories this week include a hit-and-run suspect whom cops allege arrived at the police station for questioning with weapons to "deal with police," and a man charged in the death of his girlfriend's 1-year-old girl foster daughte

Facebook Fight Page Probed By District

The Bridgwater school district is investigating a recently published Facebook page that is filled with videos of recorded fights both inside and outside of the Bridgewater-Raritan High School building.

Saddle Brook Police uncovered a 21-ton shipment of stolen Muenster cheese inside a refrigerated trailer at an NJ Turnpike rest area Tuesday, Police Chief Robert Kugler said.

Man Charged in Death of Cinnaminson Girlfriend's Foster Child

A Shamong man killed a 1-year-old Cinnaminson girl who was in his girlfriend’s foster care, according to authorities.

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A suspect in a hit-and-run crash involving his ex-wife arrived for questioning at Gloucester Township Police headquarters carrying a retractable baton and two knives, saying he brought the weapons to "deal with police," authorities allege.

Hoboken Nanny Gets Prison Time for Abuse Caught on Hidden Cam

A Hoboken nanny who was charged with aggravated assault last year after she slapped, kicked and dropped a 6-month-old baby in her care has been sentenced to three years in prison, her defense attorney said Thursday. 

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Man Charged with First Degree Murder in Toms River Stabbing

A Lakewood man has been charged with first degree murder in the June 2012 death of a Lakewood man in Toms River, according to an Ocean County grand jury indictment this week. 

West Deptford Woman Sentenced to 24 Years for Fatal Stabbing

A West Deptford woman who fatally stabbed a man in the neck and robbed him as he died was sentenced Thursday to 24 years in state prison.

A 74-year-old Princeton Rabbi was killed and two people seriously injured after a BMW careened down Riverside Drive on Thursday morning without braking, crossed to the other side of the road and struck two parked cars, police said. 

Head of Huge Newark-based Drug Ring Sentenced to 11 Years

A West Orange man was sentenced to 11 years in prison Thursday for leading a Newark-based drug ring which illegally sold millions of dollars of prescription painkillers a year, the state Attorney General's Office announced. 

Former Brick Administrator Indicted in 'Pay-to-Play' Scandal

Brick Township's former business administrator, Scott MacFadden, has been indicted for violating state pay-to-play laws in his role as chief administrative officer of Birdsall Services Group, a Monmouth County-based engineering firm.

Birdsall Services Charged in Election Law Violations

The engineering firm, which does business with municipalities throughout the state is accused of skirting pay-to-play laws by reimbursing employees for their personal, unreportable political contributions.

County Executive Suffered Stroke

Bergen County Executive Kathleen Donovan suffered a stroke caused by pain related to multiple stress fractures, according to a report Thursday. 

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