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Sharpe James, the former five-time mayor of Newark, NJ who was convicted of corruption in April, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for "failing to disclose his romantic relationship with a woman whom he helped to get a lucrative deal on some city-owned land." U.S. District Judge William Martini said, "This is a sad day. A sad day for the citizens of Newark who are disappointed in the conduct of the mayor." Martini also criticized the prosecutors, who had been hoping for a 20-year sentence. James's former mistress Tamika Riley was sentenced to 15 months in prison.

Sharpe James, five-time former mayor of Newark, NJ, was convicted by federal jury this morning on charges he conspired to, per the Star-Ledger, "rig the sale of nine city lots to his mistress, who quickly resold them for hundreds of thousands of dollars in profit."

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a shooting on West 24th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan, another shooting on Rockwell Place and Dekalb Ave. in Brooklyn, and yet another shooting at 92 -35 215th Place in Queens.
• Former Newark Mayor Sharpe James' female acquaintance made an amazing amount of money by buying properties from the city and then flipping them for huge profits.
• Phone records reveal that an upstate teenage driver may have been responding to a text message "What are you doing?" sent by a friend, moments before she ran into oncoming traffic, killing herself and four other just-graduated-from-high school young women.
• After drifting off course and running aground near the Ambrose Channel in New York's lower bay, the oil tanker White Sea was finally floated and moved for repairs at high tide.
• Lenox Hill Hospital was the point of arrival for seven sets of twins this week on East 77th St. Girls: 8; Boys: 6; Healthy: 14!
• A Westchester store is charging $55 for less than a liter of water.
• The young man who was accused of attempting to molest a girl in Queens, and was scared off by an alert and intuitive pit bull who started barking like crazy in response to her cries, turned himself in to police.
• Former U.S. Senator from New York Al D'Amato is expecting a child with this new wife, who is almost 30 years his junior, (she's 41).
• NYPD Officer Russel Timoshenko died today from injuries sustained during a traffic stop early Monday morning, when he was shot twice in the face. He was 23 years old. We'll have further coverage tomorrow.

• Today on the Gothamist Newsmap: a missing child report at Fulton and Warwick Sts. in Brooklyn, a shooting on 143rd St. in the Bronx, and an overturned auto at Kent and Flushing Aves. in Brooklyn.
• Some high-profile bloggers are calling for an online code of conduct. Not us! Did you see that graphic of Sponge Bob and KY?
• "Dashing Diva" nail salons are inflicting NYC-homegrown retail standardization on the rest of the country for a change.
• The jealous butcher who stabbed his wife to death in the street is sentenced to 23 years to life.
• Tim Montgomery, the one-time WR holder in the 100m, plead guilty in a $5 million NYC bank fraud case. His plea means he won't have to testify against his former coach and may avoid jail time.
• New York State moves to steal New Hampshire's electoral thunder by joining "Super Duper Thursday." Because NH already has too much power vis a vis New York and the U.S.'s electoral politics needed more Duper in its Super.
• Illegal loft squatters are political pawns in Albany. Someone's bound to be rooked.
• Sharpe James, the former Mayor of Newark and current NJ state senator, isn't running for re-election because he wants to win a seniors national tennis championship and forget all about that federal investigation.
• Shartpon calls Imus "diabolical" in the latter's media auto da fe, a spectacle wherein one redeems onesself via public torture or self-immolation.
• No one's verifiably sighted one yet, but a porcupine-eating ferocious hunter with sharp teeth and amazing speed is proliferating in NJ; and Kevin Smith's probably already optioned its story.

-- And some bad news, by way of Gothamist Contribute: "according to the militant-islamic calendar, tomorrow, august 22, 2006 is the end of the world." Guess there's no reason to rush out for more cat food tonight.

Cory Booker, who unsuccessfully ran for Mayor of Newark a few years ago in a bitter race against longtime mayor Sharpe James, was elected by a huge margin to lead the 64th biggest city in the country. His opponent, NJ State Senator Ronald Rice, (who was outspent and outmatched) conceded around 10PM; the Star-Ledger notes he didn't mention Booker by name. Booker will be only the third new Mayor of Newark in 36 years, and people are hoping for a big change. Booker, with degrees from Stanford, Oxford and Yale, has said he'll be more a "manager" of government (he has stated he models himself after Mayor Bloomberg) than a politician.

- There's a ROBOT PARADE tomorrow at noon under the Manhattan Bridge in DUMBO (Pearl Street, between York and Front Streets.) Seriously!

How sad! Mayor Sharpe James of Newark has decided not to run for re-election this fall. It might have been the boring Senate race in New York, but his mayoral race was something that Gothamist was looking forward to. James, the clear-cut winner in the Newark-New York City mayoral bad-ass match-up, citied his dual status as Mayor of Newark and State Senator as the reason for his decision. Of course, this didn't seem to matter when he delivered all those signatures to put his name on the ballot. James leaves the mayor's office after 20 years. He has been in the Senate since 1999 and his current term as senator ends in 2007. Speculation on the actual reason James dropped out ranges from fatigue, lack of money, or the actual chance of losing. Politics aside, we're all losing out on what would have been a very amusing race.

Gothamist has been mesmerized by the press circus Newark Mayor Sharpe James created when he dropped off petitions to be on the ballot for mayor this fall. He rode a bike to the city clerk's office, took off his jacket to reveal, in the imitable words of WNBC's Darlene Rodriguez this morning, "some guns," and carried a crate of petitions - all while wearing a straw hat! Just watch this CBS 2 video! And yes, he did explain he biked the city clerk's office because he "was exercising in the gym and already planned to come from the gym here and this was the shortest way to get here." Uh huh. Anyway, Mayor James is 70 years old, and he totally looks like he could beat up our mayor. If the Devils ever move to Newark, and meet the Rangers in the playoffs, Gothamist wouldn't vote that any "friendly wagers" do not involve arm wrestling.

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