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UpdatedWed, Mar 17, 2021 at 4:27 pm ET Replies(74) Jack Beyda, a co-worker of the deceased boy's father, showed up outside their home Wednesday to pay his respects. He showed money he has collected to help pay for the funeral. (Carly Baldwin/Patch) "I saw an adult being carried out on a stretcher," said neighbor Steve Koch. (Carly Baldwin/Patch) A view down Laurel Street in Carteret where the child and mother were attacked. (Carly Baldwin/Patch) CARTERET, NJ — The community of Carteret is in deep mourning after a three-year-old boy was killed by a pair of pit bulls Tuesday afternoon, and hi...

UpdatedWed, Mar 3, 2021 at 10:04 pm ET Reply(1) (Shutterstock) EAST BRUNSWICK, NJ — The family of a 10-year-old South Jersey girl who died when she was ejected from an amusement park ride in 2019 has now sued the makers of that ride, alleging they knew the ride was dangerous. The suit was filed Feb. 22 in Middlesex County Superior Court and the lawsuit highlighted that the same ride has been used every year since 1998 at the Middlesex County Fair. The ride is the "Xtreme Super Sizzler," owned by Skelly's Amusements. Skelly's provides the rides for many fairs throughout New Jersey, and the ...

By Juha Saarinen on Feb 10, 2021 6:53AM Flaws in TCP/IP stack expected to be exploited. Microsoft has issued an urgent security alert advising customers to apply patches for vulnerabilities in the Windows transmission control/internet protocol (TCP/IP) networking stack, as its security researchers expect the flaws to be exploited soon. Of the three vulnerabilities, the CVE-2021-24086 flaw is easy to exploit for denial of service attacks that cause a STOP error with a Blue Screen of Death in Windows, Microsoft said. Two remote code execution (RCE) bugs...

UpdatedWed, Jan 6, 2021 at 9:30 pm ET Replies(14) A U.S. Capitol police officer shoots pepper spray at a protestor attempting to enter the Capitol building Wednesday. (Kevin Dietsch/UPI/Shutterstock) NEW JERSEY, NJ — Congressman Chris Smith is one of only two Republican Congress representatives remaining in New Jersey; he represents New Jersey's Fourth Congressional District, which is most of Monmouth, part of Ocean County and a small sliver of Mercer. Speaking directly to Patch Wednesday night, here are his thoughts on what happened in Washington today: "I unequivocally condemn the assault...

UpdatedThu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:35 pm ET Reply(1) Rep. Chris Smith pictured in Washington, D.C. in June of 2020. (Shutterstock) WASHINGTON, DC — Fourth District New Jersey Congressman Chris Smith, a Republican, voted with the Congressional majority Wednesday night to confirm the Electoral College vote counts that make Joe Biden the nation's 46th president. There are only two remaining New Jersey Congress representatives who are Republican — Smith and Rep. Jeff Van Drew. Of the two, only Van Drew voted in support of the objections. Van Drew represents the Second Congressional District (South ...