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An infectious disease specialist testified Friday that shifting inmates from northern sites to South Jersey prisons was an error during a pandemic.

McMullen suffered grievous wounds, including head and brain injuries, and died later that night at a hospital. Witnesses to what happened include two siblings and her grandmother. The New Jersey State Police and the N.J. Department of Community Affairs are conducting separate investigations. At least some evidence collected in those investigations is expected to be used in the two cases filed last week in Middlesex County Superior Court. Parents and relatives of McMullen filed related lawsuits ...

The bridges date to 1966 and 1968, respectively, and both are 62 feet in length. A Federal Highway Administration database listed them as late as 2018 as “scour critical.” Other listed problems included “slumping” embankments, channel obstruction due to debris and vegetation, and some movement in the stream bed. “Scour” is an engineering term for the phenomenon of water digging holes in stream beds, thus undermining foundations, abutments, and piers. “Scour critical” means erosi...

Vineland is preparing to part with about 44 acres off 1615 West Garden Road, close to North Mill Road and the municipal industrial park. The sale price is about $1.15 million. About 33 acres of the property is not subject to wetlands restrictions. An ordinance will be introduced this month to transfer the property, legally owned by city government, to the Vineland Industrial Commission, the city’s development arm. The transfer is necessary because the commission is able to directly sell land ...

The suit levies two charges of negligence against the state. The foster parent is accused of assault and the intentional and negligent infliction of emotional distress. The abuse allegedly took place from 2004 into 2006. The plaintiff now is 32 according to the lawsuit filed by Andrew J. Thomson, an attorney with Edelstein Law in Philadelphia. “It’s a total predator thing where he starts lavishing him with gifts,” Thomson said. “But it just escalates from there. “It happened a while ...

“The concept is it’s an all-inclusive’ park, where not only people with disabilities but children that don’t have any disabilities could all join together,” said city Solicitor Richard Tonetta. “For example, it might have a swing set that would hook up to a wheelchair. “It’s really a really cool thing,” Tonetta said recently. “Now, we’re taking it a little bit further. We are including not only for children, but for adults. Because you can have someone that’s developmen...

Realtor Barry Bielat, a managing partner in Millville Alley Properties LLC, has been involved with the Four Seasons project since its initial approach to Millville. He expects many people will be leaving Philadelphia and other cities for single-family communities like this. “Maybe even coming from multi-family (living),” Bielat said. “People want a single-family home. And this is an affordable single-family home, and interest rates are good. We’re optimistic the market will be pretty go...

Camden County Superior Court Steven Polansky is overseeing the litigation, and he continues to block transfers of most inmates. The county had deals with Atlantic and Salem to lease space at their jails and has talked about it with Burlington County. There was a flurry of court activity last week. Last Thursday, Polansky notified attorneys for the county and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender that conflicts in his schedule require the trial, or plenary hearing, to start on Feb. 23. By...

“So, I don’t have a firm opening date for you,” Wolf said Tuesday. “It’ll be soon, very soon. And we’re very excited. We’re excited to be part of Millville and part of this community. It’s a great community.” There is 5,000 square feet set aside inside the facility for a first-floor daycare that could accept 85 people. New Jersey, however, ordered closed all adult daycares in March 2020 due to the pandemic. Blocked from operating the daycare, Wolf said his company has found a ...

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