New Jersey: Professional body piercer Dave Hurban is a man attached to his iPod. Literally. Hurban, 21, who works in a tattoo parlor in Newfield, New Jersey, implanted four metal studs in the skin of his wrist and secured his iPod to them magnetically. "I just invented the strapless watch," he said on Monday of his Apple Inc device, set to display a clock. Hurban cheerfully recounted how he mapped...
02:36 PM, May 15, 2012
Shanghai: Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has cast doubt on New Jersey hosting a grand prix in June 2013 despite a 10-year agreement announced last year. "Maybe the New York race will be 2013," he told the BBC on Tuesday. "It's a when - 2013 or 2014." The east-coast race is likely to be coupled with Canada on successive weekends and would give the United States two rounds of the...
07:09 PM, Apr 17, 2012
Here's to "The Voice", Whitney Houston, a final goodbye to the singer who mesmerised us with her stirring love songs and vibrant dance tunes during a 30-year career that peaked with her 1992 signature hit "I Will Always Love You" and paved the way for a generation of singers that followed her. ...
06:27 PM, Feb 19, 2012
Newark: Whitney Houston's family and friends paid their last respects at her funeral, held in her childhood church in Newark, New Jersey on Saturday evening, a week after the sudden death of the singer whose spectacular voice and best-selling albums made her one of biggest pop stars of her era. Houston, who died in a Beverly Hills hotel room last week, recorded stirring love songs and vibrant dance tunes during...
11:29 PM, Feb 18, 2012
New York: A New Jersey woman got the morning commute of her life when she gave birth to her first child on a Path commuter train to New York. The 31-year-old Indian-origin woman, who lives in Harrison, New Jersey, said she had started feeling contraction-like pains but didn't think they were real because her baby wasn't due yet. She and her 30-year-old husband decided to travel into the city to...
05:10 PM, Jan 17, 2012
South Windsor (US): Millions of people in the US Northeast were without power as an unseasonably early storm dumped heavy, wet snow over the weekend on a region more used to gaping at leaves in October than shovelling snow. The snow was due to stop falling in the northeastern New England states late on Sunday, but it could be days before many of the more than three million without electricity...
10:40 AM, Oct 31, 2011
Paterson: US President Barack Obama stood on a bridge overlooking the rain-swollen and fast-rushing Passaic River in Paterson, New Jersey's third-largest city, and said on Sunday that the federal government would work to rebuild towns recovering from Hurricane Irene's wrath. The Passaic, which had washed over the bridge, swept through the once-booming factory town of 150,000, flooding the downtown area and forcing hundreds to evacuate. More than 100 people had...
01:07 PM, Sep 05, 2011
Fairfield: New Jersey and Vermont struggled with their worst flooding in decades on Monday, a day after Hurricane Irene slammed an already soaked US Northeast with torrential rain, dragging away homes and submerging neighborhoods underwater. The massive storm churned up the US East Coast over the weekend killing at least 38 people in 11 states, in addition to three who died in the Dominican Republic and one in Puerto Rico...
07:07 AM, Aug 30, 2011
Washington: An Indian-American couple in New Jersey has pleaded guilty before a US court for selling counterfeit prescription drugs made in India, federal authorities said. The couple, 47-year-old Nita Patel and 57-year-old Harshad Patel, offered 'generic' forms of patented pharmaceutical products for sale over the internet, the source of which was an Indian company, court documents said. They face a maximum of 10 years of jail prison and a $250,000...
08:40 AM, May 17, 2011
Trenton: An Indian-American pharmacy owner in Trenton was shot dead allegedly by a black teenager after he refused to give a medicine to the boy without a valid prescription. 52-year-old Arjun Reddy Dyapa, owner of Brunswick Avenue Pharmacy in Broad Street, was shot in the chest and brought dead to Capital Health Regional Medical Centre across the pharmacy around 6.30 pm local time last evening. Eye witnesses said a teenage...
12:10 PM, Apr 30, 2011
New Delhi: The governor of the US state of New Jersey Chris Christie signed a proclamation making 5-year-old Jesse Koczon the state's honorary governor for the day. Jesse's twin Brandon was also made the honorary lieutenant governor. Jesse Koczon was shown complaining on a YouTube clip that he can't be governor of New Jersey. The video, recorded by Jesse and Brandon's mother Dawn Koczon shows the twins travelling in the...
03:19 PM, Apr 07, 2011
Paterson: A New Jersey school district has suspended a first-grade teacher after parents complained that she had posted derogatory comments about her students on her Facebook page. The teacher was removed from the classroom this week after several parents who saw the posts came to Paterson School 21 and asked that their children be removed from her class. Her name was not disclosed. The Record newspaper reports that the teacher...
12:08 AM, Apr 02, 2011
New Jersey: New Jersey's Newark International Airport was shut down on Monday following a bomb scare. Security forces shut Terminal A at New Jersey's Newark International Airport on Monday and the bomb squad was called to the scene, after a suspicious package was found behind the ticket counter. It was later discovered that the package was just a computer monitor that normally emits small amounts of radiation. The airport has...
06:54 PM, Dec 20, 2010
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