NJ Daycare Worker Charged With Attempted Murder Of Child: PM

Good evening, North Jersey Patch readers! Here are some of the share-worthy stories from our area for today.

Here are the top five stories from North Jersey:

1. An employee at a South Jersey daycare has been charged with attempted murder after physically assaulting a 1-year-old child.(Read more on Patch)
2. Police are asking for the public's help identifying a woman who on Saturday morning was filmed in Columbia Park yelling a racial epithet at another woman. (Read more on Patch)
3. A Jersey City man who is a registered sex offender, was arrested on Friday and charged with the possession and distribution of Child Sex Abuse Material. The man sent about 100 images of child sex abuse over Instagram's direct messages, according to the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office. (Read more on Patch)
4. A tornado touched down in Burlington County Saturday night as a line of severe thunderstorms swept through the area. And it left quite a mark. (Read more on Patch)
5. Island Heights Patrolman Rocco Mellott was a hero to a mother not once but twice, rescuing her child from her minivan and helping with the cost to repair the necessary damage. (Read more on Patch)

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