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           A sampling of top news stories... Friday October 6, 2006
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NJ Politics 

Feds seeking Bryant’s legislative records The U.S. Attorney 's Office, which is probing possible connections between state spending directed by Sen. Wayne Bryant (D-Camden) and his private jobs as an attorney and professor, has discussed subpoenaing Statehouse records with the Legislature's top lawyers Star-Ledger  Gannett   

 


Sweeney denies sexually harassing woman Gloucester
County Freeholder-Director Stephen M.Sweeney says a former
county Democratic official who alleges he sexually harassed
her is seeking revenge because she was suspended from her
county job for "shaking down" a county vendor for hotel stays
Gannett  Inquirer  Star-Ledger  Glouco Times

NJ Environment  

• Researchers: More funds needed for storm planning Despite a decade of
  building their technological prowess, NJ ocean researchers are still supported largely
  by federal funding that occasionally pays for big projects but not the kind of ongoing
  ocean monitoring that would serve the Mid-Atlantic region's public and private interests,
  researchers say ,AP Press

• Newark trash chief sentenced A federal judge sentences the former manager of
  Newark's Sanitation Division to 45 months in prison for taking $24,000 in kickbacks
  from an East Newark trash hauler with city contracts Jersey Journal

PA Politics 

• Can't refuse pay raise, judge is told Superior Court Judge Joan Orie Melvin
  does not want to accept the pay raise granted to state judges, but her attorney said
  state court officials have refused to give her less pay Associated Press

PA Environment

• Panel to study Kilbuck slide A bipartisan committee of state lawmakers charged
  with reviewing the state's worst environmental problems said Thursday it would probe
  the Kilbuck landslide Tribune Democrat
  > Kilbuck's not the only place with landslides Post-Gazette
   

• Authority gets money for clean energy turbine Southwestern Pennsylvania Water
  Authority gets a $299,000 state grant for a turbine generator that will tap the energy of
  water flowing through a water line to create electricity Observer Reporter

New York/Nation/World  
 

• Al Pirro can drive, but law license is parked Daily News
• Hinchey seeks health study on PCBs Poughkeepsie — A cleaner Hudson River
  doesn't necessarily mean a safer one, at least not when PCBs are concerned Record-Online

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