A Jersey City homicide trial will enter its second day of jury deliberations tomorrow and a second city homicide trial will enter its third day of deliberation.

JERSEY CITY -- Two Jersey City homicide trials will enter there second and third day of deliberations tomorrow. 

The jury began deliberating on the fate of Jeffrey T. Harley, 50, of Jersey City, yesterday afternoon, resumed this morning and ended the day with no verdict. Deliberations will continue in the tomorrow.

He is charged with in the Feb. 6. 2016, murder of 81-year-old Lucila Cardenas-Viejo who was beaten, choked, slashed and stabbed in the throat in Lexington Avenue home during a robbery.

So far today the jury has asked to hear playback of some testimony and has reviewed Harley's video recorded statement made prior to his arrest. The trial is before Hudson County Superior Court Judge Patrick Arre.

The state has based its case largely on security video from numerous locations from which Harley was identified by his ex-girlfriend and the victim's mother. The defense told jurors in closing arguments that the jury had no way of knowing if the masked man seen entering the victim's home on security video was in fact Harley. 

Closing arguments were heard today in the murder trial of Ibn Bailey of Jersey City who is charged with the March 25, 2015, murder of Karl Revis, 40, of East Orange, the son of a retired Newark police officer.

Revis was found shot in the face and slumped over the steering wheel of his still running car on Pacific Avenue in Jersey City that night. The state says security video at Revis' building shows he and Bailey entered that day and left a short time later following a sexual encounter.

The prosecution asserts that Bailey, 32, was wearing the same clothing when captured on security video leaving the area of the murder at the time of the shooting. His fingerprint was found on the passenger side door.

The defense claimed today that detectives botched the investigation and that clothing the state contends Bailey is wearing in the videos are not the same. It asserts a third person shot Revis and that person remains free due to the failures of detectives.

Bailey is being tried before Hudson County Superior Court Judge Sheila Venable. Both trials are in the Hudson County Administration Building in Jersey City. 

New Jersey was the site of the first true American football game of any kind, anywhere

In 2014, when Super Bowl XLVIII was held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, the weather could have been an issue. After all, the stadium has no roof and temperatures in New Jersey can be brutal in February. But, the weather was a non-issue; it was a mild 49 degrees in East Rutherford on that Sunday.

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According to the Pro Football Hall of Fame (profootballhof.com), that wasn't the lowest game-time temperature for an outdoor Super Bowl; Super Bowl XLVI - the Giants played in that one - was held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis and started at a temperature of 44 degrees. And Super Bowl VI at Tulane Stadium in New Orleans kicked off in balmy 39 degrees.

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The Super Bowl held in New Jersey added to the state's rich tradition in the sport. Of course, football, began in New Jersey with Rutgers and Princeton in 1869; often referred to as "The Birthplace of College Football," the Rutgers-Princeton game in New Brunswick is seen by the Professional Football Researchers Association as the first true American football game of any kind, anywhere.

New Jersey high school football has an equally lengthy tradition. The Lawrenceville School began an annual tradition of playing the Hill School in Pottstown, Pa., in 1887; Vineland and Millville high schools began their Thanksgiving Day game tradition in 1893.

And, notwithstanding their names, New Jersey has been home to two professional football teams since the 1970s.

Here's a gallery of vintage football teams, players and venues from all around New Jersey. And here are links to other galleries you might enjoy.

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The nearly four-year-old civil case remains active after the last three defendants in the criminal case were sentenced

A woman whose husband was killed during a carjacking at The Mall at Short Hills made a formal offer in September to settle her nearly four-year-old civil lawsuit against the mall for $12 million, court records show.

Jamie Schare Friedland's Sept. 15 offer was the first made in the case since her attorneys almost four years ago filed a civil complaint against Taubman Centers Inc., the Michigan-based company that owns the upscale shopping mall in Millburn where her husband Dustin was fatally shot on Dec. 15, 2013.

The complaint, filed in state Superior Court in March 2014, alleges negligent security practices at the mall contributed to her husband's death at the hands of four carjackers during the theft of a Range Rover from the mall's parking deck.

The all-inclusive "offer of judgment" to the mall, its owners and former general manager came just a month before the last two defendants in the criminal case pleaded guilty under agreements with the Essex County Prosecutor's Office.

Attorneys for Friedland and the mall have not responded to requests for comment on the offer of judgment in the civil case.

Lawrence H. Kleiner, a Bergen County-based attorney who handles personal injury cases, told NJ Advance Media that Friedland's formal offer should be considered a "demand with teeth."

Under a state rule, civil defendants have either 10 days before a trial or 90 days -- whichever is sooner -- after being served with an offer of judgment to accept it. If the defendants don't accept the offer and lose at trial, they could face significantly increased  under the same rule.

"The failure to accept that -- if (the defendants) get lit up at trial -- they're looking at tremendous fees," Kleiner said.

If a jury awarded Friedland more than 120 percent of the settlement on offer, he said, she would then be entitled to 8-percent interest from the date of the offer, as well as attorneys' fees accrued since the offer.

Hanif Thompson, whom prosecutors identified as the gunman, earlier this month received a 30-year sentence after pleading guilty to felony murder and a weapons charge. Superior Court Judge Michael L. Ravin sentenced the two remaining defendants, Karif Ford and Kevin Roberts, the same day to 20 years in prison for carjacking.

Basim Henry, the admitted getaway driver and the only one of the four defendants to take his case to trial, was sentenced in June to life plus 10 years in prison after being convicted of murder, felony murder, carjacking, conspiracy and weapons offenses.

In the original 2014 civil complaint, Friedland's attorney, Bruce Nagel, cited four previous carjackings of female shoppers at the mall as evidence its owners should have been aware of the threat faced by shoppers.

Attorneys for the mall's owners have argued that Dustin Friedland's killing was a random act of violence that could not have been prevented by the mall.

A specific trial date has not yet been scheduled.

Thomas Moriarty may be reached at tmoriarty@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ThomasDMoriarty. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

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Calvin Jones was last seen in Newark on Wednesday morning

The search for a missing 22-year-old Newark man who might have jumped into the Passaic River late Wednesday resumed Thursday morning, authorities said. 

Calvin Jones (Newark Department of Public Safety) 

Newark police received a call from a woman who said her son, Calvin Jones, might have jumped from the Clay Street bridge. Authorities quickly dispatched firefighters and the city's Emergency Services Unit, a spokesman said. 

The Kearny Fire Department send two small boats to assist and the U.S. Coast Guard was also notified, the official said. 

Authorities suspended the search late Wednesday but resumed the search in the morning. They still aren't sure if the Jones actually entered the water as no witnesses have been found. There is also a possibility he went to New York City, authorities said. 

Jones was last seen at 7 a.m. in the area of 8th Avenue and Spring Street in Newark, police said. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, black coat, black jeans and sneakers.

Anyone with information about Jones' whereabouts is asked to call the city's Crime Stopper tip line at 1-877-695-8477 or 1-877-695-4867.  

Tips can also be made using the police's website at: www.newarkpd.org.

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The Newark School Board is assuming full authority of the 36,000-student district Thursday and the state's last appointed superintendent is leaving his post.

For the last three years, Newark's school superintendent has been trying to work himself out of a job. 

He's finally succeeded. 

Chris Cerf departed the district Thursday as the last state-appointed superintendent. The exit marks the end of 22 years of state rule: Control of Newark schools has finally returned to the city. 

"Now is the time to give the people of Newark back full control over their schools," Cerf, 63, said recently. "To give it back at a time when the foundations that have led to the progress of the last several years are built or well under construction." 

The Newark School Board assumed full authority of the 36,000-student district Thursday, meaning it will have final say over district matters and the power to hire and fire the schools' chief. The milestone -- more than two decades in the making -- is as much the product of significant school improvements as it is the perfect alignment of political will.

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Under state control, a revolving door of state-appointed superintendents with veto power over board decisions have roiled residents who decried the disconnected "outsiders" who were shaping their children's future.

"The whole top-down approach was never a partnership," State Sen. Teresa Ruiz, D-Essex, told NJ Advance Media. "It's almost like nobody was held responsible or held 100 percent accountable ... it's the state's responsibility to ensure that the outcome is success and I think we're seeing that now."

Following the turbulent tenure of former Superintendent Cami Anderson, Cerf struck a smoother partnership with the city's political leaders after his 2015 appointment by Gov. Chris Christie. 

"He came in with the intent of saying, 'We're going to get out of this and get to the finish line,'" said Ruiz, chairwoman of the Senate Education Committee. 

Mayor Ras Baraka, who said he met weekly with Cerf, echoed the sentiment.

"Fairly recently there was a lot of cooperation, a lot of focus ... not really a fight of trying to take the district back from (the state)," he said. "We negotiated early on that we would work for local control."

The consensus was: "Let's try and fix some of the issues before it comes back to us," he added. 

Far too long

New Jersey was the first state to takeover a school district when it assumed authority of Jersey City schools in 1989. Paterson would follow in 1991; Newark in 1995. Camden schools were taken over in 2013. 

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"I don't think the record of state control can be heralded as a success in New Jersey," U.S. Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., said. "I don't know about coming in and taking over a school system for 20 years, there's something wrong with that."

Under former Republican Gov. Christie, the state voted to return local control to Jersey City schools last year; Paterson is almost there. 

Ruiz said if the state plans to continue in the business of taking over districts, the paradigm needs to shift to a partnership-based model.

"When the state came in I felt they thought everything we were doing in Newark was absolutely wrong," Baraka, who was a teacher in 1995, said. "It already starts with that adversarial relationship because you're not here, you're sending people here so it's more of an occupation than cooperation."

Anderson, the former schools chief, rattled the community with controversial reforms and school closures that even Cerf acknowledged could have better engaged residents. Board meetings were often derailed by protests. 

"We made a ton of mistakes," Cerf said. "While the arrow is pointed up, there's been plenty of dips along the way." Cerf still credited Anderson with much of the success the district is seeing now but said the state squandered prior opportunities to fix schools. 

"There (was) not an aggressive reform agenda. When there was an effort to edge in that direction, the same kinds of points of resistance that we have experienced in the last couple of years rose up ... and the state very typically said said we didn't really mean it, we're not going to make a change in leadership," Cerf said. 

"Sometimes you need to bring power to the center, make a profound change and then distribute it back, without that process it's very hard to break through the political bulwarks that exist to oppose change and I kind of think that's what happened in Newark, and I think it took too long to happen."

Baraka and Christie struck a deal in 2015 to reach local control; Booker, too, worked with Christie to gain more power over the schools when he was mayor. 

Booker said the last few years proved an unprecendented coalescing of leadership to return the reins to Newark.

"You had an alignment of leadership, myself, Chris Cerf and others that were willing to put their capital out there," he said.   

By many measures, Newark schools are improving. 

• The district's 78 percent graduation rate has increased more than 20 percentage points from 1995, when the state took over.
• Students on free or reduced lunch outperform other large school districts that take the PARCC exam in math and language arts.
• African-American students in Newark are three times more likely to attend schools with test scores higher than the state average, than they were in 2009. 

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There's still more work to be done and challenges ahead. The district is seeing increased enrollment but remains underfunded by the state (by $140 miilion). Many Newark schools ranked low on the state's new 1 to 100 controversial rating system that factors in test scores, graduation rates and absenteeism. 

"Change is hard, change runs into some pretty tricky politics and sometimes change has casualties," Cerf said. The former state Education Commissioner and now schools superintendent says he has no post-Newark plans. 

"I am really tired. I'm very in need of stepping off for a little bit," he said. "But I know this much about me, this is the work I was meant to do, which is the only explanation for why I would take this assignment."

Deputy Superintendent Robert Gregory, a graduate of Newark schools and a former principal, will become interim superintendent.  

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Documents obtained by NJ Advance Media show one in four parishes and schools in the archdiocese have failed to submit reports that detail which workers have received training and background checks.

More than six dozen parishes and schools in the Archdiocese of Newark may be out of compliance with a policy meant to protect children from sexual abuse, documents obtained by NJ Advance Media show.

Sixteen years ago, after the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops passed the historic Dallas charter meant to address the allegations of sexual misconduct in the church, dioceses across the U.S. were required to implement background checks and training for all staffers and volunteers working with children.

As part of that policy and in order to sustain accountability, parishes and schools were required to submit annual reports to the diocese listing the workers who had completed the screening and training and those who had not.

Documents obtained by NJ Advance Media show that in the Newark archdiocese, 24 percent of the parishes in 2017 did not submit a compliance report. That means 53 parishes could be fielding teachers, volunteers and other workers who may not have passed a background check, said an employee within the archdiocese.

However, it is unclear if all or some of the parishes and 13 schools included in the 2017 documents simply failed to file the paperwork in time or actually did not conduct the background screenings.

The archdiocese employee requested to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak on the matter.

"We just don't know all the details of what is going on in these parishes and schools and that is the problem," he said. "We don't know if many of our teachers working with children have pasts we should be concerned about."

NJ Advance Media contacted more than a dozen schools and parishes on the list and several said they faced staffing issues, adding they did not have enough people to file the necessary paperwork.

"It's really hard. A lot of people do not want to sign (the paperwork). It is a big pain in the butt," said one woman who answered the phone at a Bloomfield parish who identified herself as a secretary.

"We haven't done it in a while. We just can't get everyone together. People keep coming and going," she said.

A representative for Church of Our Lady of Grace and St. Joseph in Hoboken contacted on Wednesday said the parish was going to file its compliance report that afternoon.

Jim Goodness, director of communications for the Archdiocese of Newark, said the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) found the archdiocese overall in compliance for 2017, but he did not dispute that some parishes and schools did not file reports.

"The cardinal is a believer in the charter, and parishes have always been told to maintain policies for reporting, background checks and training," said Goodness. "Whenever or if ever there is an instance where there is less than full compliance, we aggressively act to bring the area into compliance."

"This is a big problem. These things -- background checks and training -- simply have to be done," said the Rev. Thomas Reese, a senior analyst with the National Catholic Reporter and former editor of America, a Catholic magazine. "Any parish or school that doesn't is nuts."

Even if the USCCB issues a letter to an archdiocese stating it is in compliance, it does not mean that all of its parishes and schools are, the source said.

For example, in 2016 an auditing firm conducted a study of the archdiocese and asked Newark to provide individual reports from just two parishes, the employee  said. The archdiocese did not have the paperwork for those parishes, or for many others, but it still passed the compliance test, he said.

When he learned dozens of schools and parishes failed to submit their reports last year, Cardinal Joseph Tobin called a meeting of pastors and urged them to make compliance the highest priority, the employee said.

The documents show, however, that the problem may be more than just an administrative issue.

Each parish and school is required to apply for access to a server that allows them to conduct background checks for their workers and check for past criminal activity. Some of the 66 parishes and schools involved have failed for at least three years to apply for access and initiate the background check process, according to the documents.

The documents also show that those in charge of overseeing compliance have been pushing parishes to prioritize administering background checks and asking their workers to complete training.

They even asked pastors to make announcements from the altar at the end of each Mass about the need for employees and volunteers to comply.

According to the documents, despite the lack of reporting to the archdiocese, more parishes and schools filed their audit reports in 2017 than previously.

"People don't care about this until it happens to them, until something happens to their child," the employee said.

He described a scenario at his parish in New Jersey where a couple approached him about an usher they thought was acting inappropriately with children. They asked if the usher had a history of misconduct. 

"I couldn't answer that question because I really didn't know. None of the paperwork had been done," he said.

Erin Banco may be reached at ebanco@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @ErinBanco. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

The new season of the reality competition 'Survivor' premieres Feb. 28 on CBS Watch video

If the name of the game is "Survivor," Desiree Afuye says she's the perfect player. 

"I've survived my whole life," she says in a cast video for the long-running CBS reality competition series. "I've been homeless. I've lived out of my car, had nothing to eat. I've been through a whole lot of struggles that people my age usually have not been through or haven't seen yet." 

Afuye, 21, who was homeless for two months after her freshman year of college when her parents were in Nigeria, calls Newark her hometown. 

Desiree Afuye. (Robert Voets | CBS Entertainment)

She currently lives in Brooklyn and will join the show's Naviti tribe when "Survivor: Ghost Island," the Fiji-set 36th season of the show filmed this past summer, premieres on Feb. 28. 

According to her profile on the jobs and internships website WayUp.com, Afuye, a broadcast communication major at St. John's University, also lists her hometown as Union -- she is included on a list of 2014 graduates from Union High School -- and has worked as a production assistant for Complex. If she becomes the show's "sole survivor," she'll win $1 million.  

"I wanna win a million dollars," Afuye says in her cast interview. "I wanna prove everybody wrong. Yes, I'm young, but I'm wise beyond my years. I'm smart, I'm strategic, I'm social, I'm physically strong. I got this."

Afuye, who calls the "superhuman" Beyonce her biggest inspiration, marks her social skills as her strongpoint -- she says she can be friends with anyone and pull off seeming harmless to competition as she makes her play for the win.

"I'm the girl that you just love," she says. "I'm everybody's friend. I'm chill, I'm cool, I'm funny." Living in a house with seven other women helps, she says. 

According to the website Inside Survivor, Afuye has posted videos -- like this review of the Drake album "Views" -- on YouTube as "Desiree London."

She says that a trip to Nigeria to see family when she was 10 made a big impression on her. 

"It just gave me a different outlook on life," she says. 

The "Ghost Island" theme of this season of "Survivor" will materialize through mistakes contestants have made in the past that will return to haunt the current competitors. Afuye compares herself to former "Survivor" contestant Michaela Bradshaw. 

"I am a strong black woman who is not afraid to make power moves," she says. "I haven't had an easy life and sure as hell don't expect winning 'Survivor' to come easy. I relate a lot to her because we are both strong-willed and determined and willing to do what it takes to accomplish our goals."

Afuye says the money would change her life "drastically."

"I would have a story for the books--the girl that went from village to Versailles," she says. "I've seen it all, from the slums to the fast-paced, hard working student life in NYC. I want to change my life and my surroundings."

Last season, Ryan Ulrich, a bellhop from North Arlington, competed on the show. 

"Survivor: Ghost Island" premieres 8 p.m. Feb. 28 on CBS. 

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The Newark Housing Authority says residents at Terrell Homes will be a part of the development's future.

 Victor Cirilo was disturbed about news reports coming from the Millard E. Terrell Homes, one of 23 Newark Housing Authority sites he took over in September as the agency's new executive director.

Residents had been protesting for three years the agency's proposal to demolish the 275-unit complex in the East Ward, along the Passaic River on Chapel Street. They dug in deeper in October, addressing a City Council meeting after the board of commissioners voted to ask the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for permission to shut down the complex.

"I'm like, what's going on here?'' Cirilo said. "This is absolutely bad publicity for the housing authority, because it made the agency seem inhumane.''

Cirilo made it his business to meet the residents. He drove to the troubled development and found Rita Fortenberry, president of the tenant association.

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"I was impressed," Fortenberry said. "He came by himself, unannounced, with no entourage.''

Cirilo said he told Fortenberry that he read about her in The Star-Ledger and wanted to find out why there was so much dissension.

They talked for a long time as Fortenberry gave him a tour of the complex. Cirilo said he sensed the residents' mistrust of the agency.

"There was a process for the future of Terrell Homes without the people's input,'' he said. "The community was discontented, so we decided to go back to the drawing board and make a connection with our residents.''

He has kept his word to start from scratch.

Now, residents who want to stay at the complex don't have to worry about moving.

On Wednesday, they attended the first planning redevelopment meeting to chart a course for the aging complex, which was built in 1946.

They met at the housing authority's headquarters with financial and planning professionals. To develop a plan for the complex, the agency hired NW Financial of Hoboken and Kitchen & Associates, a professional planner from Collingswood.

Sitting around the conference table were aides to East Ward Councilman Augusto Amador, vocal tenant leaders and a community advocate organization that has taken up the fight to save Terrell. They included Fortenberry, residents Rosemary Horsley, Dorothy Brazell, as well as Joseph Della Fave, executive director of the Ironbound Community Corporation, the grass-root group that has been supporting  residents as a way to emphasize the need for low-income housing in the city.

"We have never had this type of discussion ever with residents at the table,'' Della Fave said. "The most important thing is the needs of the people who live there are first and that the process is transparent."

For 90 minutes, they talked about development possibilities at Terrell,  which could include renovation of the site, new construction, demolition or a combination.

Stephen L. Schoch, managing principal of Kitchen & Associates, said for the next meeting later this month, his firm will come up with design options based on what they heard Wednesday. At that discussion, residents explained what makes Terrell unique and why some of them have lived in the complex for 50 years.

"We lived as one village," said Horsley. "We looked out for each other's kids. That was our strength.''

It remained that way until the family-oriented development started to deteriorate as new residents moved in, coming mostly from high-rise buildings the housing authority had demolished.

The demise of the complex was gradual. Boilers broke down; pipes cracked, causing flooding at a property already in a flood zone. Power often went out when the electrical system couldn't handle tenant demand.

Some of the disrepair was due to a crumbling infrastructure, but residents said agency neglect of the property also played a role.

"My lights would go out if I put on my George Foreman Grill,'' said  resident Gary Hamer at the meeting.

Either way, the housing authority eventually determined that the three-story buildings were too costly to maintain, and their proximity to chemical companies also was a problem. In 2015, the federal Environmental Protection Agency removed lead from the grounds around the buildings.

Meanwhile, as the property continued to deteriorate, residents noticed improvements to areas near their development and that made them skeptical.

Riverfront Park was constructed next to the complex on 12.3 acres of waterfront property with athletic fields and two playgrounds along the Passaic River. Residents thought they had access, but an entrance to the park from Terrell Homes was closed. They complained to have it opened.

Just blocks away, developers built multifamily homes and a strip mall with businesses. The surrounding area was getting better, but Terrell residents said they felt left out of the recovery.

"Now that park is built up, it's time for us to go,'' said Horsley of the housing authority's plan to close the complex. "Why should we move out when everything is here?"

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Now residents have a seat at the planning table.

Cirilo said the demolition and disposition of a plan that the board of commissioners voted on last October can't be submitted to HUD unless there is a redevelopment plan. Surprisingly, the board didn't have that plan in place, even though residents had been told they would be moved to other developments.

Cirilo hopes that with this new planning committee, a new proposal can be presented  to all of the Terrell residents by next month.

The residents, confident that all was not lost, viewed the planning meeting as productive. Now they're a part of the agenda and their thoughts have value and meaning.

"When you pull a petal off of a rose, it's still a rose,'' Horsley said, describing Terrell Homes.

The complex's potential might not have been recognized had Cirilo not shown up that day to find Forteberry. Meeting tenants, he said, is the best part of his job. He can assess conditions, figure out ways to better serve the people.

"He wasn't in no rush,'' Fortenberry said.

She liked that. It showed he cared about residents.

"There's a new sheriff in town,'' she said.

Barry Carter: (973) 836-4925 or bcarter@starledger.com or 

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Red is blind, and his sister, Coco, looks out for him.

Red and Coco 

BELLEVILLE -- Red and Coco are 13-year-old Labrador retrievers in the care of Rosemarie's Rescue Ranch in West Caldwell. Red is blind, and his sister, Coco, looks out for him.

They lost their lifelong owner three years ago and need a home together to live out their golden years. They need a home without other pets, as Coco will not allow any other animal to go near her brother. A home with a fenced-in yard would be ideal for these senior dogs who have been spayed and neutered and are up-to-date on shots; the rescue will provide all food and medical care if needed, and transportation is available anywhere on the east coast.

For more information on Red and Coco, email susanrescue@aol.com, text or call 973-220-1900 or go to rosemariesrescueranch.com.

Shelters interested in placing a pet in the Paw Print adoption column or submitting news should call 973-836-4922 or email essex@starledger.com.

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EAST ORANGE -- This photo, taken at Ashland Stadium in East Orange in an undetermined year, shows East Orange High School's Vic Amborsini carrying the ball in a Thanksgiving Day game against Barringer High School. MORE: Vintage photos around New Jersey The 8,000-seat Ashland Stadium was built in the 1920s and served as the venue for many rivalries, including the...

EAST ORANGE -- This photo, taken at Ashland Stadium in East Orange in an undetermined year, shows East Orange High School's Vic Amborsini carrying the ball in a Thanksgiving Day game against Barringer High School.

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The 8,000-seat Ashland Stadium was built in the 1920s and served as the venue for many rivalries, including the East Orange/Barringer competition.

If you would like to share a photo that provides a glimpse of history in your community, please call 973-836-4922 or send an email to essex@starledger.com. And, check out more glimpses of history in our online galleries on nj.com.

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The state said Friday, though, it was "very concerned" of what was detailed in the criminal complaint. Watch video

The nine members of a CNBC TV crew who were arrested after allegedly attempting to sneak a fake bomb through security at Newark Liberty International Airport appeared in court Friday where a prosecutor said he was "very concerned" about what was detailed in their criminal complaints. 

The attorney for seven of the men, Harold Ruvoldt, however, told NJ Advance Media after the group's first court appearance he was confident the facts would show that no crime had been committed and no grand jury would indict on the evidence. 

The crew members were arrested on Jan. 18 after the cable network team allegedly tried to bring a roller bag through security that included a motor, wires and PVC pipes, which TSA said had all indicators of an improvised explosive device.

On Friday morning, the group of men-- Ronald M. Montano, 44, of Staten Island, New York; Samuel Micah Berns, 39, of Hollywood, California; Jacob M. Towsley, 34, of Portageville, New York; Michael L. Palmer, 51, Staten Island, New York; William Oaks, 36, of Brooklyn, New York; Philip K. Nakagami, 26, of Jersey City; Carlos F. Gonzalez, 33, of Queens, New York; Timothy S. Duffy, 34, of Sparta, and Adolfo Lacola, 51, of Staten Island, New York-- all pleaded not guilty through their attorneys to charges of creating a false public alarm, interference with transportation and conspiracy.

Essex County Supervising Assistant Prosecutor Anthony Higgins told the judge he was recommending the case to the county's special prosecution unit. 

Judge Sybil Elias released the men with summonses for a March 5 court date. 

The production company, Endemol Shine Group, which employed the nine men who are filming a reality TV show for CNBC, previously called the incident a "misunderstanding" and apologized. 

Port Authority officials though said the fake bomb caused an unnecessary alarm in the airport, forcing FBI bomb techs and large number Port Authority officers to respond, wasted law enforcement's time. 

Port Authority Chairman Kevin J. O'Toole and Executive Director Rick Cotton said previously they expected an "aggressive prosecution."

None of the nine men, who had claimed to be part of the network, had press credentials at the time, according to TSA. 

The show, "Staten Island Hustle," which follows friends looking for investments, was scheduled to debut in the spring. Endemol Shine Group is a Dutch production company that contracts with CNBC, which is based in Englewood Cliffs. Endemol also created MasterChef and The Biggest Loser.

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Calvin Jones had been missing since Wednesday morning

The 22-year-old Newark man who went missing Wednesday morning was found in New York on Thursday night, authorities said. 

Calvin Jones' mother told Newark police her son might have jumped in the Passaic River on Wednesday night after finding some his belongings near the water.

Police used boats to search the Passaic River late Wednesday and early Thursday before saying Jones might have traveled to New York. All along, authorities maintained that they weren't sure if Jones actually entered the river as there were no witnesses.

Jones had last been seen at 7 a.m. Wednesday in the area of 8th Avenue and Spring Street in Newark, police said.

Newark police didn't say where in New York Jones was located.

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