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Booker Maintains Strong Lead, Soldier Charged in Child's Death Top Local News

Tentative settlement reached in red-light camera violations suit also makes headlines.

The four Democratic candidates for US Senate met for a final debate before the primary election Aug. 13. Three of the candidates honed in on the record of frontrunner Mayor Cory Booker.

A man from Irvington was convicted of sexually abusing a young Newark girl repeatedly over the course of two years.

A tentative settlement has been reached between lawyers representing motorists cited for red-light violations and the manufacturers of the red-light cameras used at traffic intersections in communities across the state, including Newark.  

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Acting Council President Anibal Ramos this week introduced legislation that would ask voters to approve an open-space trust fund in Newark. The fund would be used for park maintenance and for the purchase of land to be set aside for open space.

A Newark native, a soldier at a military base in New York, was charged in the murder of a his 4-year-old stepson.  

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