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A state police swat team member readies a robot to enter a home where a man had barricaded himself on Friday, May 10, 2013 in Trenton, N.J. The standoff with an armed man who police said took multiple hostages entered its second day Saturday as authorities worked to negotiate his surrender and his captives' safe release. The man, whose identity has not been released, was holed up in a brick house in South Trenton more than 18 hours after the standoff began Friday afternoon, authorities said. (AP Photo/The Trentonian, Scott Ketterer)

2 bodies found after standoff; suspect killed

Last updated Monday, May 13, 2013 - 9:48am

TRENTON, N.J. — Police stormed a New Jersey home early Sunday and fatally shot a registered sex offender who had held his girlfriend’s three children hostage, ending their 37-hour ordeal and recovering the bodies of the captives’ mother and another sibling, authorities said.

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This undated photo provided by pfizer shows a real Viagra pill on top of counterfeit pills. In a first for the drug industry, Pfizer Inc. told The Associated Press on May 6, 2013, that it will sell erectile dysfunction pill Viagra directly to patients on its website. (AP Photo/pfizer, William Vazquez)

Viagra now available online

Linda A. Johnson The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, May 6, 2013 - 1:34pm

TRENTON, N.J. — Men who are bashful about needing help in the bedroom no longer have to go to the drugstore to buy that little blue pill.

In a first for the drug industry, Pfizer Inc. told The Associated Press that the drugmaker will begin selling its popular erectile dysfunction pill Viagra directly to patients on its website.

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Source says FBI investigating ex-Rutgers assistant coach for extortion

Geoff Mulvihill The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, April 7, 2013 - 11:28am

A person familiar with the situation tells the Associated Press that the FBI is investigating whether a former employee of the Rutgers basketball program tried to extort the university.

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Former Rutger's basketball coach Mike Rice.

Video: Rutgers' basketball coach Rice fired amid shocking abuse video

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 11:45pm

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs during practice.

The videotape, broadcast Tuesday on ESPN, prompted sharp criticism from Gov. Chris Christie, and the head of the New Jersey Assembly called for Rice to be fired.

See the full story here.

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FILE - In this Jan. 7, 2012, file photo, Rutgers coach Mike Rice reacts to play during an NCAA college basketball game against Connecticut in Piscataway, N.J. The airing Tuesday, April 2, 2013, of a videotape of Rice using gay slurs, shoving and grabbing his players and throwing balls at them in practice over the past three seasons has Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti reconsidering his decision not to fire the coach. Pernetti was given a copy of the video in late November by a disgruntled former employee, and he suspended Rice for three games, fined him $50,000 and made him undergo anger management classes for inappropriate behavior after investigating it. (AP Photo/Rich Schultz, File)(AP Photo/Mel Evans, File)

Basketball coach fired after video of shocking behavior goes viral

Tom Canavan The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, April 3, 2013 - 9:49am

PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- Rutgers fired basketball coach Mike Rice on Wednesday after a videotape aired showing him shoving, grabbing and throwing balls at players in practice and using gay slurs during practice.

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3 arrested for smoking pot in police parking lot

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 28, 2013 - 11:27am

TOTOWA, N.J. — State troopers in northern New Jersey didn’t have to go far to make a pot bust. They didn’t even have to get in their cruisers.

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Adoption offers pour in for malnourished boy, 4, found with dead mom

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, March 27, 2013 - 2:45pm

UNION, N.J. -- New Jersey authorities have identified a woman found dead in an apartment with her malnourished 4-year-old son as offers pour in from around the world to adopt the boy.

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Pedro Quezada, the winner of the Powerball jackpot, talks to the media during a news conference at the New Jersey Lottery headquarters, Tuesday, March 26, 2013, in Lawrenceville, N.J. Quezada , 44, won the $338 million jackpot with the winning ticket he purchased at Eagle Liquors store in Passaic, N.J. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Immigrant wins $338M Powerball lottery

Angela Delli Santi The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 26, 2013 - 3:28pm

LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. — A New Jersey man says he felt “pure joy” at winning a $338 million Powerball jackpot but has no idea what he will do with the money — except buy a car, to replace his feet as his primary mode of transportation.

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1 ticket wins $338.3M Powerball jackpot

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Sunday, March 24, 2013 - 8:29am

DES MOINES, Iowa -- A single ticket sold in New Jersey matched all six numbers in Saturday night's drawing for the $338.3 million Powerball jackpot, lottery officials said. It was the 13th drawing held in the days since a Virginia man won a $217 million jackpot Feb. 6.

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Shane Mercer points to a photo of his father, Airman Will Small, as his mother Alecia Mercer looks on at their Kinston, N.C., home on Monday, March 18, 2013. Will Small died of rabies, and people who received his donated organs became sick, and one has died. (AP Photo/Allen Breed)

Man dies of rabies from Airman's donated kidney

A. Breed, Martha Waggoner The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 19, 2013 - 9:21am

TRENTON, N.C. -- When William Edward Small told his father that he'd signed an organ donor card, it came as no surprise. "Little Ed" had been that way his whole life, his dad said.

"If he had it, he would give it to you," said his father, also named William Small. "Anything that somebody wanted, all they had to do was ask. And that's just the type of person he was."

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Female kicker set for NFL regional combine tryout

Dan Gelston The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, February 28, 2013 - 6:06pm

Lauren Silberman has scant chance at making the NFL.

Silberman never kicked anything more than a soccer ball in an organized game and she just started practicing long-range field goals.

Even so, the first female kicker scheduled to try out at an NFL regional scouting combine would like to see where her new hobby will take her. In an era where Danica Patrick can contend against men in motor sports, Silberman is about to take a big kick forward for female athletes, even if the odds are clearly stacked against her. The 28-year-old Silberman will kick Sunday at the New York Jets’ training facility in Florham Park, N.J.

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FILE - In this May 2, 2012 file photo, Patricia Krentcil, 44, waits to be arraigned at the Essex County Superior Court in Newark, N.J., where she appeared on charges of endangering her 5-year-old child by taking her into a tanning salon. A grand jury in New Jersey has decided to let Krentcil a woman who gained overnight notoriety as "the tanning mom" bronze away in peace. Prosecutors in Newark said Tuesday, Feb. 26, 2013 a grand jury refused to indict Patricia Krentcil on a charge she took her young daughter into a tanning booth with her. (AP Photo/Julio Cortez, File)

'Tanning mom' says life is a 'living hell'

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 27, 2013 - 1:25pm

NNUTLEY, N.J. — A New Jersey woman widely known as “the tanning mom” is celebrating a grand jury’s refusal to indict her on a charge she unlawfully let her 5-year-old daughter into a tanning booth.

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Proposal to ship NJ nuke waste to Utah in court

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, February 19, 2013 - 1:02pm

A court decision issued Tuesday brings new uncertainty to whether nuclear materials on a southern New Jersey site will be shipped to Utah or kept in place.

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Casino to allow betting over hotel room TVs

wayne Parry The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, February 11, 2013 - 6:23pm

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. -- Guests at one New Jersey casino won't even have to get out of bed in order to place a bet.

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U.S. to join suit over New Jersey sports betting law

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 22, 2013 - 2:22pm

NEWARK, N.J. — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed notice that it is joining sports leagues’ effort to stop New Jersey from instituting sports gambling.

In a filing Tuesday, federal attorneys asked a judge to give them until the end of next week to respond to constitutional challenges made by the state. Attorneys representing New Jersey have argued in court papers that an early 1990s federal law prohibiting sports gambling in all but four states is unconstitutional.

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