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Toys 'R' Us goes solar in a big way

Joan Verdon The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Friday, August 12, 2011 - 8:49am

HACKENSACK, N.J. — Toys "R" Us Thursday unveiled a solar power system at its distribution center in Flanders, N.J., a system that gives the company, at least for now, bragging rights to having the largest rooftop solar panel installation in North America and the second-largest in the world.

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At 73, New Jersey hurler with 800 wins still getting 'whippersnappers' out

Evonne Coutros, The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Tuesday, June 14, 2011 - 3:33pm

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Teammates call Bergen County Undersheriff Harry Shortway Jr. a 73-year-old great-grandfather with a lethal weapon -- his curveball.

Shortway, a pitcher with the Hawthorne Fire Department Softball Team, achieved his 800th career mound victory this month, a goal that the former Marine was determined to accomplish pitching modified ball.

Shortway passed his 700th career win 11 years ago but stepped up to the plate to take a swing at 800 games, hoping that age and time would not take away his pitching arm.

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Reputed Colombian drug lord's trial is delayed for plea talks

Peter J. Sampson, The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Friday, January 14, 2011 - 10:42am

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- A federal judge in Newark, N.J., has delayed the trial of a reputed Colombian drug lord while his lawyers and prosecutors try to resolve charges relating to the transfer of tons of cocaine to the United States and millions of dollars in cash to South America.

Salomon Camacho Mora, 66, a Colombian citizen who was captured in Venezuela a year ago and brought to New Jersey, was due to stand trial this week on charges of conspiracy, drug trafficking and money laundering.

But U.S. District Judge William H. Walls agreed to push the trial back to April 18 to allow lawyers for the reputed cocaine cartel leader to continue efforts to work out a plea deal with prosecutors.

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27 indicted in painkiller-ring case

John Petrick, The Record

Last updated Wednesday, December 15, 2010 - 10:20am

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Twenty-seven people from Passaic, Bergen, Hudson, Morris, Essex and Middlesex counties were charged in an indictment handed up Tuesday for their alleged participation in a massive illegal prescription painkiller ring authorities busted in April.

The indictment represents what remains of 72 defendants in all who were arrested in April's sweep.

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'Cocaine hangover' leads to conviction for driver

Kilbret Markos, The Record (Hackensack N.J.)

Last updated Friday, December 3, 2010 - 12:55pm

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- Driving sober may no longer be a surefire defense against a DWI charge in New Jersey.

In a jury trial that might be the first of its kind in the state, Bergen County prosecutors recently obtained a conviction against a man who was accused of driving with a "cocaine hangover" when he caused an accident that seriously injured a Little Falls woman. He could receive up to five years in prison when he is sentenced Friday.

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Toilet paper stunt at school spurs charge against pilot

N.J.), The Record (Hackensack

Last updated Friday, October 15, 2010 - 9:42am

HACKENSACK, N.J. -- New Jersey resident Warren Saunders was charged Thursday with violating state aviation codes during an airplane toilet-paper-drop stunt that stirred up post-9/11 anxieties about low-flying planes, authorities said.

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