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Update 12:20 p.m. EST: “The Interview” will be released at 1 p.m. Wednesday on YouTube, Google Play, and XBox video, Sony just announced. Original story: YouTube has reached a tentative agreement with Sony Pictures to stream the film “The Interview,” reports CNN Wednesday morning, citing “sources with direct knowledge of the negotiations.” The deal has not…
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Posted: December 24th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: News | Tags: Cyber vandalism, Freedom, North Korea, Sony Pictures, The Interview | Comments Off on ‘The Interview,’ On A YouTube Near You
The Borough of Union Beach is joining Middletown Township in showing their support of all law enforcement personnel by light their town blue between now and January 1st.
MMM has received an advanced copy of the following statement that the Borough will release on Tuesday:
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Posted: December 23rd, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Law Enforcement, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, New York, News, NYPD, Police | Tags: Law enforcement, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, NYPD, NYPD Officer Rafael Ramos, NYPD Officer Wenjian Liu, Police, Union Beach | 3 Comments »

The killing of two New York City police officers in an ambush attack this weekend prompted New Jersey’s largest police union to issue a warning today, urging its members to “take extra caution and use increased safety in the coming weeks.” The advisory from the state’s Police Benevolent Association comes a day after a 28-year-old man…
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Posted: December 21st, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: New Jersey, New York, News, NJ State Police, Police | Tags: NYPD, Police, Police Safety, Police Unions | 1 Comment »
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has written to President Barack Obama demanding that fugitive Joanne Chesimard be extradited from Cuba as a condition of the United States normalizing relations with the communist island nation 90 miles from our border, according to a report on FoxNews Sunday.
A video of the FoxNews report was posted on Christie’s Youtube channel and was promoted by twitter by the Governor. Christie posted his letter to the President on twitter two minutes prior to the FoxNews report.
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Posted: December 21st, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: 2016 Presidential Politics, Barack Obama, Chris Christie, Cuba, New Jersey, News, NJ State Police, U.S.-Cuba relations | Tags: 2016 Presidential politics, Barack Obama, Chris Christie, Christie letter to Obama re Joanne Chesimard extradition, JoAnne Chesimard, NJ State Police, Trooper Werner Foerster | 1 Comment »
The Staples store at 1515 Route 35 in Middletown is one of 115 of the company’s stores that were hacked during the summer, according to a statement released by the company yesterday, December 19, 2014.
The company said that the point-of-sale software at 115 of its 1400 stores was infected by malware which exposed customers’ payment card information including card holder names, account numbers, expiration dates and card verification codes. Staples believes that 1.16 million customers’ cards were affected.
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Posted: December 20th, 2014 | Author: Art Gallagher | Filed under: Crime, Middletown, New Jersey, News | Tags: Credit Monitorning, Cyber Security, Cyber Theft, Identity Theft, Middletown, Monmouth County, New Jersey, Staples, Staples data breach, Staples hacked, Staples Middletown, Staples security breach | 1 Comment »

Grace West (center) poses with her family at the Vatican in Rome where she received a blessing from Pope Francis on Wednesday in her fight against neuroblastoma. (Facebook)
FREEHOLD TOWNSHIP —In her brave fight against cancer, 11-year-old Grace West holds tightly to the belief that keeping a positive attitude is key to staying strong physically and emotionally. The fifth grader, who has endured seven rounds of chemotherapy in the past year, received a new source of strength on Wednesday through a blessing by Pope… Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: December 19th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Freehold, News | Tags: Cancer, Freehold, Grace West, Make a Wish Foundation, Neuroblastoma, Pope Francis, Rome | 1 Comment »

TRENTON — State lawmakers would study whether police throughout the state should wear body cameras to capture their interactions with the public, under a bill approved today by the Senate. The legislation ( S2649), passed 37-0, began as an effort to require all officers to wear the devices, but was scaled back after the bill’ sponsor,…
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Posted: December 19th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: News, NJ State Legislature, NJ State Police | Tags: NJ Legislature, NJ Senate, Police, Police body cameras, Public safety, S2649 | Comments Off on Study of police body cameras approved by N.J. lawmakers

TRENTON — President Obama is scheduled to visit New Jersey Monday with an appearance at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst to thank military service members and Department of Defense civilians for their service, the White House confirmed today. The base in amalgam of the United States Air Force’s McGuire Air Force Base, the United States Army’s Fort Dix…
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Posted: December 13th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: Barack Obama, New York, News | Tags: Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, President Barack Obama | 8 Comments »

According to Villanova University, 90 percent of Americans have some caffeine every day. While most of us are aware of the stimulative effect the world’s most widely used drug has on our brain, its effects on other parts of our body are not as widely known. Here’s a short list of some of the most common…
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Posted: November 26th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: News | Tags: Caffeine | 3 Comments »
Voters approved two ballot questions — one to replenish a virtually bankrupt open-space preservation program and the other to make fundamental changes to who is eligible for bail and who is not in New Jersey. Both questions, which would amend the state’s constitution, proved controversial. Unlike previous open-space ballot questions this one proved contentious, even…
Posted: November 7th, 2014 | Author: admin | Filed under: 2014 Elections, News | Tags: bail, Ballot questions, New Jersey, Open space | 2 Comments »