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Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Jury deliberations under way in baby bridge death

A New Jersey father says he threw his baby girl over a bridge.

Eyewitness NewsNEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Jury deliberations began Tuesday in the trial of a New Jersey man accused of throwing his 3-month-old daughter off a bridge.

Prosecutors say Shamsid-Din Abdur-Raheem abducted Zara Malani-lin Abdur-Raheem from her grandmother's East Orange apartment in 2010 while the baby's mother was in court seeking a restraining order.

Authorities say he eventually parked on the Driscoll Bridge on the Garden State Parkway and threw or dropped the girl into the Raritan River. Her body was discovered about two months later.

Published reports say that prosecutors told jurors that Abdur-Raheem repeatedly admitted to investigators that he threw his daughter off the bridge. But defense lawyers say they've proven there's reasonable doubt he's guilty.

Besides the murder count, the 24-year-old former Galloway Township resident also faces charges of attempted murder, kidnapping, aggravated assault and child endangerment.

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Friday, July 15, 2011

Preparations under way in NJ for Sept. 11 exhibit

Eyewitness NewsTRENTON -- Preparations are under way at the New Jersey State Museum for an exhibit commemorating the Sept. 11 attacks.

It will run from Sept. 7 through Sept. 30.

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno will announce the details at the Statehouse on Thursday.

She says the goal is to honor and unite New Jersey residents.

About 700 New Jerseyans died in the attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and aboard a hijacked airliner that crashed in western Pennsylvania.

Also on Thursday, New Jersey is unveiling a Sept. 11 curriculum for students from kindergarten through high school. The classroom lessons focus on the attacks, the history of terrorism and the heroics of regular people.

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Friday, July 8, 2011

Barbour Playground cleanup is under way

Web produced by Melanie Yates, Eyewitness NewsPATERSON, New Jersey (WABC) -- From a distance, Barbour Playground in Paterson, New Jersey, looks fantastic. But taking a closer look, it is apparent why it is deserted on a beautiful summer day.

The park is littered with discarded drug paraphernalia, like used hypodermic needles and discarded bags of crack.

"This is a park for kids and there's no one here but adults, junkies, drug addicts, drug dealers," Paterson resident Carmen Torres said.

The kids who do play in Barbour Park learn quickly to stay away. Linda Camacho got stuck with a needle there when she was 12.

"I fell and my hands went through the dirt, and I fell into a needle that had no cap," the now-15-year-old said. "And it went into my hand, and I brought it to my mom and she took it out."

Barbour Park got the new playground about three years ago. Since then, it's become a haven for addicts, who leave their heroin wrappers, dirty needles, medicine bottles and liquor bottles behind.

"The park is for them to play, not to slide down and land on a needle or broken glass," Paterson resident Kimberly Edwards said.

Eyewitness News called Paterson's newly-elected Mayor Jeffrey Jones to tell him about the hazards in the city park. Within an hour, he was there himself, cleaning up the bottles and needles.

"This is unacceptable under any standard," Jones said.

A large public works crew showed up and began the huge job of cleaning up the forgotten park. The mayor has demanded an immediate review from his Department of Public Works about why this situation, which was so obvious to Eyewitness News, was ignored.

Mayor Jones wants to clean up the neighborhood too. He also called police, who arrested at least one person in a suspected crack house across the street.

Public works employees spent hours this afternoon cleaning up the park so kids can enjoy it for the first time this summer.

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