Funeral service Friday for teen killed in Bloomfield crash

  Web produced by Bill King, Eyewitness NewsBLOOMFIELD (WABC) -- Funeral services will be held in New Jersey Friday for a teenager killed in a car crash last weekend.

Hundreds of mourners turned out at a wake in Bloomfield Thursday night to pay their respects to 16-year-old Christina Lembo.

Friends remember Lembo, a junior at Bloomfield High School, as a sweet, smart athlete. Four other people were hurt in the crash, none of them seriously. The driver, Omar Baldeon, was consumed with thoughts of what, if anything, he could have done differently.

Baldeon was driving with two classmates in the car just after 11 p.m. when a black Camaro that eyewitnesses believe was drag racing with another car blind-sided him, slamming into his Honda Civic.

No charges have yet been filed. The case is expected to go to a grand jury.

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Gas prices in New Jersey going up Friday

  Eyewitness NewsNEW JERSEY (WABC) -- New Jersey drivers will be paying more at the pump Friday.

Gas prices are going up 11 cents Friday morning.

As of Thursday night, a gallon of regular gas costs $3.70 at gas stations on the New Jersey Turnpike and Garden State Parkway.

Friday that goes up to $3.81.

Gas prices increase once a week on the two highways.

The cost is determined by a survey of other stations across the state.

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Funeral services on Friday for NJ lawmaker

FILE In this Dec. 27, 2007 file photograph, New Jersey Assemblyman Alex DeCroce, R-Morris Plains, asks a question during a joint hearing of the Assembly Budget and Education committees in Trenton, N.J. Late Monday, Jan. 9, 2012, DeCroce collapsed and died at the Statehouse after the legislature wrapped-up the last day of their session. ( (AP Photo/Mel Evans,file))

  Eyewitness NewsPARSIPPANY, N.J. -- Funeral services will be held Friday for Alex DeCroce, the New Jersey Republican Assembly leader who died at the Statehouse this week after a late-night session.

The 10 a.m. service at St. Peter the Apostle Church in Parsippany will be followed by burial in Gate of Heaven Cemetery, East Hanover.

Visiting hours will be 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday at Par-Troy Funeral Home in Parsippany. DeCroce's family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the New Jersey Crime Victims Law Center.

A lawmaker since 1989, DeCroce was also a Realtor who owned his own company.

The 75-year-old collapsed late Monday night after the Assembly adjourned. He was pronounced dead by a colleague who is also a physician.

State police attributed the death to a heart-related issue.

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Gas prices drop 5 cents in NJ Friday morning

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  Tiffany Jackson, Eyewitness NewsNEW JERSEY (WABC) -- Friday morning, the price of gas is set to drop 5 cents in New Jersey, just in time for the holiday weekend.

As of 7 a.m. the price of regular will fall to $3.59 a gallon.

Medium will drop to $3.75, and premium will cost $3.86.

The New Jersey Turnpike Authority surveys 100 gas stations along the highway, every Wednesday and Thursday to determine the state's average price. (Copyright ©2011 WABC-TV/DT. All Rights Reserved.)
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