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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Fire in Paterson displaces three families

  Eyewitness NewsPATERSON (WABC) -- A third-alarm fire burned through two buildings in New Jersey, leaving at least three families homeless.

Fire broke out in a vacant building on East 19th Street in Paterson just after 3 a.m.

The fire spread to a neighboring house, which was occupied by the three displaced families. No injuries were reported.

The cause of the fire is investigation.

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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Three from NY, NJ, killed in Florida car crash

Web produced by Jennifer Matarese, Eyewitness NewsJUPITER, Fla. (WABC) -- Three people from New York and New Jersey died in a car crash in Florida Sunday. One of the victims was a volunteer firefighter in Haworth.

You can tell by his smile, Albert Koeniges loved life.

"His dedication to be a public servant, he loved this town. He loved the people in this town," said Chief Robert Hennion, Haworth Fire Department.

And next to his kids and granddaughter, Haworth's Volunteer Fire Department was his heart and soul.

"He always felt that he had to be here, and he always did. He had a warm presence when he was in the building," Hennion said.

Outside the department that Koeniges joined in 1943, and gave 63 years of his life to, the flag flies at half-mast in honor of a much loved member.

80-year-old Koeniges and two longtime friends, sisters, ages 75 and 73 died in Jupiter, Florida Sunday. Koeniges was driving this Honda SUV, when it veered off I-95, slammed into a light pole, rolled down an embankment, flipped over a retaining wall, and sank in a canal.

The news quickly spread in tiny Hawthorne, most especially to the young guys, who were not even born when their mentor joined.

"In a department mostly short-staffed, it was hard loosing someone as knowledgeable as him, even at his age. It's a tremendous loss for the department," said Kenneth Kiel, VP Haworth Fire Company.

The department was Koeniges' second home.

So much of his influence is here, and his wife's: a scholarship awarded to college-bound kids bears her name and is still helping kids nearly 20 years after her passing.

It was only death that could take Koeniges away from his service here.

"No way he wanted to give this is up. He'd be here to the day he couldn't walk. His dedication was unbelievable here," Kiel said.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Three unrelated murders in Jersey City overnight

See it on TV? Check here.   Eyewitness NewsJERSEY CITY (WABC) -- Three men were killed in unrelated overnight homicides in Jersey City.

First, 44-year-old Craig Samson, of Newark, was fatally shot in a grocery store at the intersection of Ocean and Orient avenues just before midnight.

Then 27-year-old James Cobbs, of Jersey City, was fatally shot on Rutgers Avenue just after 12:45 a.m.

Finally, 52-year-old Jose Pazminowas was shot in the parking lot of Dunkin Donuts at Tonnelle and Manhattan avenues at around 3:30 a.m.

No arrests were immediately made.

All the murders are under investigation, although they do not appear connected.

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Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Heartbreak after three teens killed in GSP crash

See it on TV? Check here.  Web produced by Bill King and Jennifer Matarese, Eyewitness NewsHOLMDEL (WABC) -- A stunned community in Staten Island is in mourning Tuesday after a trip home from New Jersey turned tragic for one family.

An SUV carrying five family members and two friends back from a holiday weekend trip to /*Atlantic City*/ crashed on the */Garden State Parkway*/ in /*Holmdel*/ Monday, killing two teenage brothers and their 15-year-old friend.

Four people survived the accident, though a mother and daughter remain in critical condition. Sadly, police say the three young men who died could've been saved if they had been wearing their seat belts.

The 2003 gray Ford Expedition crashed shortly after 5 a.m., flipping over and throwing several of the victims out of the SUV and onto the road.

Authorities say 18-year-old /*Hlias Iliopoulos*/, his 13-year-old brother /*Chrystoph Iliopoulos*/ and their 15-year-old friend /*Eric Colligan*/ were pronounced dead at the scene. Iliopoulous' 20-year-old sister Fontiny, her 25-year-old fiance /*Vincent Whiteaker*/ and her parents, 51-year-old /*Stavroula Iliopoulos*/ and 54-year-old /*Dimitrios Iliopoulos*/, were rushed to the hospital.

Neighbors were sick over the loss.

"I can't believe this happened," neighbor Manny River said. "It's a bad dream I can't wake up from."

"It's hard to see on your block, with your neighbors," Danielle Callan said. "It's very upsetting."

State Police Capt. Frank Davis says a car passing at a high speed may have scared the driver and caused him to lose control and slam into the guardrail. The speeding car may have been black or dark-colored BMW or Mercedes-Benz.

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand YearsA History of Christianity, a six-part series presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford history professor whose books about Cranmer and the Reformation have been acclaimed as masterpieces. A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity and delve into what it means to be a Christian. Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will uncover how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world. Most Christian histories start with St Paul's mission to Rome, but Diarmaid MacCulloch argues that the first Christianity stayed much closer to its Middle-Eastern roots. He describes not only the main ideas and personalities of Christian history, its organization and spirituality, but how it has changed politics, sex, and human society. The series includes subjects from Palestine in the first century to India in the third, from Damascus to China in the seventh century and from San Francisco to Korea in the twentieth. MacCulloch is one of the most widely travelled of Christian historians and conveys a sense of place as arrestingly as he does the power of ideas. He presents the development of Christian history differently from any of his predecessors. He shows how, after a semblance of unity in its earliest centuries, the Christian church divided during the next 1400 years into three increasingly distanced parts, of which the western Church was by no means always the most important: he observes that at the end of the first eight centuries of Christian history, Baghdad might have seemed a more likely capital for worldwide Christianity than Rome. This is the first truly global history of Christianity. Diarmaid MacCulloch is one of the world's leading historians and Professor of History of the Church and Fellow at St. Cross College Oxford. The series is a BBC co-production with the Open University and Jerusalem Productions. Giftbox set of 6 one hour DVDs

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Teen shot three times near West New York home

  Eyewitness NewsWEST NEW YORK (WABC) -- A teenager was shot multiple times outside a building in West New York, New Jersey, Monday morning.

The victim, believed to be a 14-year-old boy, was shot at least three times at around 2 a.m. on Fillmore Place.

Police say he was shot once to the chest and twice in the legs. He was rushed to Jersey City Medical Center in unknown condition.

A dark colored SUV, possibly a Nissan, fled the scene.

It was not clear if the vehicle was linked to the shooting.

The boy was shot near his home.

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