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                             Friday November 3, 2006
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NJ Politics 

Polls show Menendez building up lead  With less than a  week before
Election Day, four polls show the Democratic  candidate for U.S. Senate
creeping ahead of his Republican opponent, who has been weighted down
by the Iraq War and poor ratings for President Bush Glouco Times                                                                       > Menendez hires top lawyer in rent case Marc Elias, a Washington, D.C.
attorney who specializes in criminal defense and election law, will represent
Menendez in an inquiry into a rental property he once owned Star-Ledger   
> Menendez seeks to bury shady dealer image Wash. Post                                                        

NJ Environment  

This is what you call a real snake pit Behind the cozy appearance of the
Fetzkes' well-kept, brown-brick home in Sayreville lies a slithery secret. William
Fetzke, 28, has turned his family's basement into a reptile rescue center Star-Ledger  

Will vegetable oil kill toxin near school? An Atlantic Highland’s man wants
to eliminate a carcinogen leaking from his property into the groundwater under a
neighboring school by dumping 4,000 pounds of a substance more commonly
associated with cooking than cleaning AP Press

PA Politics 

Hush, hush, sweet Cynthia Source says Sherwood offered ex-mistress sweet
deal to keep mum pre-election day Star-Ledger  

PA Environment                                                                   

TMI shutdown to keep reactor off grid The reactor at Three Mile Island, site
of the nation's worst nuclear accident, shut down yesterday after a faulty instrument
reading triggered an automatic safety precaution, company officials say Post-Gazette

Latrobe water bottler accused of fraud Federal law enforcement officials are
investigating Le-Nature's, the debilitated Latrobe bottled water company whose top
management stands accused of accounting fraud, destroying evidence and using
forged documents to divert $20M Post-Gazette

New York/Nation/World  

At Senate bid's final turn, Spencer still NY Journal News

Town loses bid to halt dredging A federal judge blocks efforts by Fort Edward
officials to delay dredging PCBs from the Hudson River Times Union

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