David Porter was a naval officer and a diplomat, not a professional writer; he wrote Journal of a Cruise Made to the Pacific Ocean (1815) and Constantinople and Its Environs (1835) at his friends' ins...
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Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was co...
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An FBI agent was killed in a shootout with three bank robbery suspects Thursday in north central New Jersey, a law enforcement official said.The FBI confirmed that agent Barry Lee Bush, assigned to...
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Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was co...
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The North Carolina student who performed as a mascot for the school's basketball team died three days after being struck by a car before an NCAA tournament game.Jason Ray died Monday morning, said ...
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Former boxing champion Bobby Czyz Jr. is recovering from injuries sustained in a fiery car crash more than a month ago.The 45-year-old Czyz was pulled unconscious from the back seat of a burning Me...
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Motorists who drive while suffering a hangover from drug use can be considered impaired even if the drug's immediate effects have passed, a state appeals court ruled.The 3-0 ruling by the Appellate...
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The city schools superintendent apologized to a gay student Tuesday for having staffers black out a picture of the student kissing his boyfriend from the high school yearbook, calling the incident ...
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Police used the help of the lone survivor of the execution-style killings of three college students to get close to identifying at least one suspect, city officials said.The spokeswoman, Lupe Todd,...
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Scores of surveillance cameras and gunshot detectors will be installed in high-crime areas in an effort to combat spiraling gun violence in Newark, the mayor announced Tuesday, 10 days after three ...
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Kelly Pavlik knocked out Jermain Taylor in the seventh round Saturday night to win the world middleweight title.Far behind on points after absorbing a brutal beating in the second round, Pavlik cor...
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David Porter
High school to expand alcohol testing
