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PLAINFIELD TODAY:
.......... "Annual Holiday Tree Lighting on Friday"
Accident-prone corner - East 9th Street & 3rd Place: "Not a night for Thanksgiving"
Plainfielder Maria Pellum-Martinez, Letter to Editor - Courier: "Plainfield must work together"
Obituary: "Rufus Walter Underwood Jr., longtime Maxson School science teacher"
Mark Dunn Funeral Today - Mark is the son of former Third Ward Councilman Malcolm R. Dunn.
.......... Funeral is today at Rose of Sharon Church, 825 West 7th Street.
..........Viewing: 11 a.m. - 1 p.m., Service: 1 p.m.
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Clark: "Widow's ride raises awareness of hepatitis C"
Elizabeth: "Woodbridge man gets 32 years for armed heists"
North Plainfield: "School Board member confirms school district has policy to accommodate students with disabilities"
Real Estate: "Hot housing market in Central Jersey appears to be cooling"
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2005 Governor's race: "Corzine, Forrester campaign spending tops $75 million, most expensive ever"
Merck - Ledger: "Merck to cut 7,000 jobs, scrap five plants in huge restructuring"
.......... - Courier: "Embattled drug firm slashing 7,000 jobs during restructuring"
Pension Loophole: "Just-retired Newark cop will collect his old salary plus pension as city's terror expert - total $221K"
Rutgers Football - Ledger: "Insight Bowl bid will bolster bottom line at Rutgers"
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NJ-Delaware development dispute: "U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear NJ suit against Delaware"
Bear Hunt: "Animal rights groups sue to block state's bear policy and hunt"
Immigration Judges: "Immigrants cite judicial discourtesy; Federal appellate panels note 'disturbing pattern'"
Lawyer Ethics: "Crackdown on ethics sweeps up lawyers; Formal charges filed against a record 281"
Profile: "Essex County Judge Michael J. Nelson exchanges Newark bench for military court in Iraq"
Newark: "Milton Harrison, the man who turned the Newark YMCA around"
.......... "Court rejects fiscal lawsuit against Metropolitan Baptist Church"
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Scandal Central:
.......... Plamegate: "Fitzgerald has Rove in crosshairs, is Hadley next?"
.......... Corruption: "California Congressman Randy Cunningham pleads guilty to accepting $2.3M in bribes"
Iraq:
.......... Runup to War: "Timing entwined War vote, mid-term election; was it planned?"
.......... Contractor misbehavior case: "Whistleblowing colonel was upset by what he saw. His apparent suicide raises questions"
Immigration - NY Times: "Bush renews his campaign to overhaul immigration policies"
.......... - Ledger: "Bush pushes border security, more worker visas"
.......... "Minuteman Project extends its reach to suburbs, monitoring employers, overcrowded housing"
Treatment of detainees: "Powell ex-aide Wilkerson: Bush left issue of captives to his hard-liners"
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Jobs in cities: "Though Jersey City is among best at jobs, half of cities bleed jobs despite federal programs"
Domestic partners and marriage rights: "Can Ex-School Chief Testify Against Same-Sex Partner?"
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Katrina - Rebuilding: "For Category 5 Safety, Levees Are Piece of a $32 Billion Pie"
RELIEF: Online donation resources
== Red Cross: http://www.redcross.org/
== Salvation Army: http://www.salvationarmyusa.org/
== Catholic Charities: http://www.catholiccharitiesusa.org/news/katrina.cfm
== United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism: http://www.uscj.org/Hurricane_ReliefYou_6553.html
== Islamic Relief: http://www.irw.org/katrina/
== NYTimes Relief Information page: http://tinyurl.com/d7tpg
== Courier News relief info: http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050906/NEWS/50901001
== FEMA list: http://www.nj.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news-2/112615864767180.xml&coll=1
KATRINA CLEARINGHOUSE: Katrina Blankenship has converted her website into a clearinghouse for Katrina survivors.
