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WCBS wants you to be alarmed, at least if you live in a “sleepy New Jersey town” like the ones Bergen County, where local police are using Homeland Security grants to assemble a stockpile of sweet machine guns, particularly the totally bad-ass Heckler & Koch UMP (pictured). Reactions among sleepy locals range from "It's a waste of our tax money," to “I think if they think they need them, then it is good that they have them.” Police explain that the stockpile is a necessary defense against a crazed gunman situation, when there might not be time to wait for a tardy SWAT team. Also, nothing clears skateboarding teens out of the Garden State Plaza parking lot faster than a couple bursts of submachine gun fire.

Icy conditions on Sunday caused a number of accidents, most notably a 15-car pile-up on Route 3/Meadowland Parkway in New Jersey. A dump truck had jumped a divider, and then cars, unable to avoid it, piled up behind it. There were over 28 injuries and two people died. It was announced that one of the victims was Jennifer Alexander (pictured), a veteran of the American Ballet Theater. Her husband Julio Bragado-Young, another ABT dancer, was...

Foxy Brown, after violating probation, got an all access pass to the big house this morning. The rapper managed to use a Blackberry as a weapon earlier this month - the latest on a list of violent outbursts, yet has managed to stay out of jail against all odds until this point.

Yesterday, there was an interesting NY Times article about new trends in retail store design. Namely, how some stores are eschewing big windows for more secretive look - and how Ruehl, an off-shoot of Abercrombie & Fitch for the post-college consumer, looks like a city townhouse. While there is Ruehl on Bleecker Street that sells accessories, most of the stores are in the suburbs. From the article:

Intrigued by a store they cannot see into, consumers walk in to solve the mystery and stay to shop, executives said.

Continue reading "Ruehls of the Fashion Retailing Game"

Federal, city, and local NJ authorities are facing a big "d'oh!" on their faces after mistakenly putting a Chinese-American woman in Rikers for 8 days last year. Because now the woman, Hui Ping Wang, who was arrested at JFK Airport when she was returning from a trip to China, is suing many law enforcement agencies, incuding the Department of Immigration, the city's Department of Correction, and Bergen County NJ's sheriff's office. Why all the fuss? The Daily News explains:

Hui Ping Wang, 33, was locked up at Rikers Island on Aug. 10, 2005, after a computer check indicated a warrant had been issued for a woman named Hui Hua Wang in Bergen County, N.J.

Continue reading "Asians All Look Same to the Feds"

So, what happened to our sunny, dry weather? The sun disappeared when the winds shifted around and started blowing from the east –right off the cold Atlantic. A giant ridge of high pressure has parked itself over the Canadian Maritimes and is blocking the atmosphere from moving eastward across the country. If a balloon were released in Seattle today it wouldn't follow I-90 across to Boston before flying out to sea. Instead it would take a hard right over the Dakotas, plunge as far south as the Gulf of Mexico, scoot over to the Carolinas, take a hard left up the eastern seaboard, continue north over Vermont, Quebec and Baffin Bay before taking another right over the top of Greenland, before finally plunging south into the Mid-Atlantic. A 4,000 mile trip in only 10,000 miles! Kind of like a large-scale version of trying to drive across Bergen County.

By popular demand, snowfall amounts over Friday and Saturday, from the New York Times: