Elizabeth man charged in Monday morning incident.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012
[Updated: 9:50 p.m. Monday] An ambulance attendant is dead following a multi-vehicle crash Monday in Newark that left three others injured, authorities said. Keith Chipepo, 30, of Montclair, was killed when a Chrysler Pacifica, allegedly driven by James A. Sterling, 29, of Elizabeth, collided with the private ambulance Chipepo was riding in around 11:15 a.m. at South Orange Avenue and South 9th Street, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said. Circumstances surrounding the collision, which also involved a food truck and a county transportation bus, are under investigation. New Jersey State Police were also on scene though the agency's involvement is not clear. Sterling was charged aggravated manslaughter, driving with a suspended license…
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Newark's own, singer Whitney Houston, was welcomed home to the church where she began her singing career Saturday, in a rousing gospel-flavored funeral service before an audience of family, friends and celebrities. "Whitney, today is your day," the Rev. Joe A. Carter, pastor of New Hope Baptist Church, said in beginning the service. A powerful choir of more than 100 singers, backed by a band that included drums and bass and horns, provided an emotional backdrop to a procession of singers, most of them from the world of gospel music. Actor and filmmaker Tyler Perry spoke of what he termed the grace that carried Houston through her life. "There was a grace that carried her down through Miss Cissy Houston, a grace that brought her up through …
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10:14 am on Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Is this the second death in so many weeks due to high speed chases? Is Newark reverting to its old ways? I thought they had outlawed these chases about ten years ago? more ›