Tick Tock Diner Manager Makes Bail

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Georgios Spyropoulos, manager of the Tick Tock Diner in Clifton, was released from Passaic County Jail on Tuesday after posting bail of $600,000.

Spyropoulos had been arrested six weeks ago on charges of plotting to kill his uncle, Alexandros Sgourdos, co-owner of the diner.

Pre-teen exposure to positivity should be taught at an early age

BY JOSEPH MARTINO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Exposure to 'uplifting material' should come before 'pent-up self-rage, anger and emotions get out of control.'

From my experience as a retired New York City/State peace officer of 32 years I started to write many motivational quotations as a public service in the hope of reaching and inspiring young people to help overcome a lack of self confidence, low self-e...

Christie's Budget To Fall A Billion Short: What Will He Call The Treasury Director Now?

BY MICHAEL HAYNE

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

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One could make the argument that the lap-band surgery that Christie got a few months ago has made has boosted his ego even further and given him a delusions of grandeur, perhaps making him the Fat Actress of Jersey politics. He might be  appearing in tax-payer funded commercials to boost his Jersey comeback broken r...

NJ Weather: Poss. showers and storms today, great holiday weekend

BY STEVE DIMARTINO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Showers and thunderstorms will be a lingering threat of the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area today as disturbances interact with a warm and humid tropical air mass over the northern Mid Atlantic.

One such disturbance will continue to dive through Connecticut this morning and through Long Island with periods of heavy rain, wind gusts up to 40 mp...

Rangers Drop Third Straight to Bruins: Season on Brink

BY PAUL BRUNO

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

In methodical fashion the Bruins have taken command of this series, and the Rangers appear to have few ways to respond.

The Rangers certainly had no answer in thwarting Boston forward Danielle Paille.

The hustling and physical 6-2, 200-pound forward curled around the Rangers net and swept in a loose puck that had eluded Henrik Lundqvist with 3:31 left in t...

N.J. Firefighter Loses Homes to Sandy and Now Fire

BY BOB HOLT

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Seaside Heights volunteer fireman Tim Farrell was one of many who lost their homes to Hurricane Sandy last year.

It would be hard to blame Farrell for feeling unlucky after he responded to a call last week, but learned that his new home had gone up in flames.

Farrell had responded to a report of a fire at a bait shop next to his home. “When I got maybe a block away, I...

'Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812' Off Broadway Review: Romantic Russians Rock Out

BY MICHAEL SOMMERS

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Exhilarating entertainment in every way, “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” is an unusually smart and tuneful new musical cunningly crafted from a romantic hunk of “War and Peace.”

Making the off-Broadway show all the more memorable, it is staged evocatively in a pop-up tent known as Kazino that is situated directly beneath the High Line in the me...

The Democrat Hypocrisy

BY JOE SINAGRA

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Yes we have the highest taxes due to the last two previous administrations. Corzine and McGreevey combined added over 154 tax increases. A budget that was in the toilet, the state was going broke and Corzine was writing checks knowing the well was running dry. On July 15, 2006 the sales tax was raised from 6% to 7% that was supposed to fund our rebates and the fo...

Former Rutgers' Running Back Robbed

BY GINA G. SCALA

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

Former Rutgers All-American and Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice is counting his blessings; just days after his Maryland home was burglarized and two guns and $2,000 in cash were taken.

“First of all, my family is OK, which is most important,” he said in a statement. “I’ll be dealing with this through the proper legal channels.”

The break-in occurred betwee...

FBI Investigating Menendez Allegations as Smear

BY GINA G. SCALA

NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM

The latest headlines in the Sen. Robert Menendez corruption investigation reads like an episode from the ABC TV series, Scandal; especially with the FBI now actively inquiring why a person or persons would want to set him up.

Last fall, Menendez was at the center of a story involving sex with prostitutes while in the Dominican Republic with longtime friend and pol...