Arrest in the Poconos: First News Friday

Arrest in the Poconos: First News Friday

A Pennsylvania State Police Trooper stands guard in front of the Blooming Grove State Police barracks after suspected killer Eric Frein was captured and taken into custody at the barracks AP Photo / The Scranton Times-Tribune, Butch Comegys)

The manhunt for a cop killer in the Poconos is over this morning. Eric Frien was taken alive last night after seven weeks of searching dense woods and playing cat and mouse with the suspect. He was finally found near an empty airport hanger he was using as a shelter. When police arrested him...they used the handcuffs from the trooper Frien is accused of killing.

There are dozens of New Jersey residents who are being actively monitored for symptoms of Ebola. Health deparment officials confirm none of them have come in direct contact with infected persons and are not quarantined. But they are being monitored daily in thier homes. Health officials would not tell us where the patients live.

The nurse who's become the public face of health care volunteers who're being scrutinized upon returning from West Africa is doing laundry while she waits to learn whether she'll be quarantined until the 21-day incubation period ends on November 10. Kaci Hickox has rebelled against a voluntary quarantine and went for a bike ride Thursday. Her lawyers have been trying to work out an agreement to ease quarantine restrictions.

Meanwhile, the Pentagon confirms any soldier returning from West Africa where they have been helping contain the Ebola outbreak will be quarantined for 21-days when they return to the United States The military policy goes beyond what was recommended by the President.

Unnerving new details about a Middlesex County teen arrested Wednesday for threatening to bring a weapon to school. We can now tell you the 17-year old threatened to shoot fellow students at Woodbridge High School and had access to guns and weapons that were illegally owned by his father. Three guns have been seized from the home....

The father of a New Jersey boy who was 4 years old when he killed a 6-year-old neighbor with his father's gun has pleaded guilty to child endangerment. Anthony Senatore of Toms River faces three years in prison. Senatore was charged with keeping a loaded .22-caliber rifle unlocked in his bedroom. That's where his son found it in April 2013, took it outside and shot 6-year-old brandon holt once in the head.

The marjority of New Jersey residents agree with the decision the Sayreville school board made to cancel the varsity football program after allegations of hazing against freshmen players were revealed.

A new Seton Hall sports poll reveals that the Sayreville Board of Education took appropriate action in response to allegations of sexual assault and hazing among seven players of the Sayreville War Memorial High School football team.

Some media reports have been saying the 7 Sayreville football players charged with sex abuse and hazing are all black, and all of the victims are white but a reliable law enforcement source tells Townsquare Media News that is inaccurate, and the Middlesex County Prosecutor insists race has nothing to do with this case. Nevertheless, there are concerns.

Police need your help hunting down a man who stole from 9 ATM’s in one day. He took over $100,000 from cash machines in Woodbridge, Edison, Perth Amboy and Newark. But how he did it remaisn a mystery.

You saw the video of Governor Christie telling a heckler to sit down and shut up? Asked about it as he campaign for a GOP candidate in New Mexico Christie says if people are going to give it he's going to give it back and that's what people have come to expected from him.

A new Associated Press poll finds voters aren't very interested in traditional wedge issues such as abortion and gay marriage as Election Day approaches. Only 32 percent of likely voters who answered the poll call gay marriage an important issue, compared with 91 percent ranking the economy important, 78 percent saying health care is important and 74 percent naming Ebola important.

Hit with soaring rental prices, thousands of New Jersey tenants face eviction each year. Some manage to pay up and survive until their next paycheck. Others aren't so lucky.

If you saw or even suspected cyber-fraud would you know who to call to report it? Assembly GOP leader Jon Bramnick admits he wouldn't and that's why he's drafting a bill to require the state to create a hotline dedicated solely to dealing with those complaints.

Over the past 6 years the number of reported bias crimes has been dropping in New Jersey, but law enforcement officials stress we still have a significant problem

Healthcare costs continue to skyrocket for New Jersey's employers, but most are still offering it by finding ways to pay for it. That's the takeaway from the New Jersey Business & Industry Association's 2014 health benefits survey.

The owner of a company that operates rolling chairs on the Boardwalk in Atlantic City has pleaded guilty to defrauding the IRS out of nearly $120,000. Prosecutors say William Boland hid from the government how much his company really made, much of that money is paid in cash.

Closing casinos have been great for the Borgota. Company officials say thier revenue is up almost five percent and they now claim almost a quarter of the entire gaming market in Atlantic City.

 

The key to a better Atlantic City is property tax relief. That's the latest idea submitted to the state. A drop in rateables has meant an increased burden on taxpayers...

WEATHER from chief meteorologist Dan Zarrow:

TODAY: Mostly to partly sunny. Highs 54-60

TONIGHT: Showers. Lows 40-46

TOMORROW: Showers likely. Breezy and colder. Highs 52-57

SUNDAY: Becoming mostly sunny. Windy and cold. Highs 47-51

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