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','38823587'); threads[2] = new thread(4569869, 'Man injures Port Authority police officer', 'Italiancop', 'Today', '04:37 AM','NEWARK -- A New York City man wreaked havoc on a highway this afternoon when he allegedly stole a Port Authority Police cruiser, injured a police officer and caused several accidents along Route 1&9 North, police said.
The bizarre series of events started around 5 p.m. when Anselmo Silva, 40, of Queens was involved in a two-car crash on Route 1&9 North near Newark Liberty Airport, said Anthony Ambrose, Chief of Detectives for the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office. Port Authority Police responded to the scene and were waiting for additional units from the Newark Police Department when Silva allegedly exited his wrecked vehicle and hijacked the Port Authority cruiser, according to city police spokesman Hubert Henderson.
While authorities were not sure what prompted Silva to allegedly steal the cruiser, a Port Authority official said he may have been intoxicated as he attempted a daring and dangerous escape along a three-mile stretch of the highway.
After Silva entered the police vehicle, the officer fought him for control of the cruiser, according to Henderson, but was knocked to the ground and sustained non-life threatening injuries as the suspect sped off.
Authorities allege Silva then raced north along the highway for approximately one mile before slamming the stolen cruiser into a white cable company truck, Ambrose said. Seconds after colliding with the truck, Silva allegedly stole that vehicle and continued his wild ride northbound, according to Ambrose.
The 40-year-old’s daring escape didn’t last much longer, as he wrecked the stolen vehicle a few blocks away near the intersection of Stockton and DeLancey streets, according to Henderson. Emergency crews had to cut apart pieces of the truck to free Silva after the vehicle flipped over, said Henderson.
Following the third crash, Silva was taken into custody by Port Authority Police and transported to University Hospital in Newark where he was treated for serious injuries, according to Ambrose, who said the Prosecutor’s Office Vehicular Homicide Unit will take the lead in the investigation.
The Port Authority did not release the identity of the injured officer tonight.
Silva did not appear to have a weapon, according to the Port Authority official, and a search of his car did not turn up any narcotics.
While Silva was not officialy charged tonight, Henderson said the wild chase will likely earn him multiple traffic violations, aggravated assault and carjacking charges, and several other offenses.
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Anyone have any details? Heard suspect was dead, officer going to UMDNJ
','38775990'); threads[10] = new thread(4553273, 'First good sign from Obama', 'Jersey', '02/07/10', '11:21 PM','Except for a few glimmers of hope, I thought the State of the Union was horrible. Every speech since has been horrible."I want to consult closely with our Republican colleagues," Obama said. "What I want to do is to ask them to put their ideas on the table. . . . I want to come back and have a large meeting, Republicans and Democrats, to go through, systematically, all the best ideas that are out there and move it forward."Maybe he has reached a new level or maybe I\'m on crack. Hopefully, it is the former. We shall see.
North Haledon — Police officers won\'t see a raise until 2011.
The Policemen\'s Benevolent Association Local 292 agreed to a zero-percent salary increase for two years in an agreement on a five-year contract reached on Wednesday after more than a year of negotiations.
Officers\' salaries will remain fixed for 2009 and 2010, but a 4-percent annual increase will take effect for 2011 to 2013, Mayor Randy George said.
"They\'re hard negotiators, but they kept in mind the residents," George said about the union.
James Ryan, state PBA spokesman, said the zero-percent increase was "not unprecedented."
"Many of the [local] PBAs have had to consider the financial troubles of the municipalities and make concessions in salaries and health care," Ryan said.
The PBA and the borough agreed to several compromises in reaching the agreement.
The police officers got 50 additional hours of compensation time, increasing from 36 to 86 hours. George said officers can\'t use compensation time if it creates overtime.
Higher education stipends increased from $1,000 to $1,500 for an associate\'s degree; from $2,000 to $3,000 for a bachelor\'s degree and from $3,000 to $5,000 for a master\'s degree, George said.
Officers used to get paid $50 an hour for supervising roadwork or construction, but the borough would take 20 percent, $10, for administrative costs. Under the new contract, officers will receive $50 per hour for municipal projects and time-and-a-half pay of the rate of a police officer employed by the borough for 20 years for outside contractors such as Verizon or Cablevision.
The borough will still receive 20 percent of the cost charged to either municipal or outside contractors.
PBA negotiation team members were unavailable for comment.
E-mail: zaremba@northjersey.com
North Haledon — Police officers won\'t see a raise until 2011.
The Policemen\'s Benevolent Association Local 292 agreed to a zero-percent salary increase for two years in an agreement on a five-year contract reached on Wednesday after more than a year of negotiations.
Officers\' salaries will remain fixed for 2009 and 2010, but a 4-percent annual increase will take effect for 2011 to 2013, Mayor Randy George said.
"They\'re hard negotiators, but they kept in mind the residents," George said about the union.
James Ryan, state PBA spokesman, said the zero-percent increase was "not unprecedented."
"Many of the [local] PBAs have had to consider the financial troubles of the municipalities and make concessions in salaries and health care," Ryan said.
The PBA and the borough agreed to several compromises in reaching the agreement.
The police officers got 50 additional hours of compensation time, increasing from 36 to 86 hours. George said officers can\'t use compensation time if it creates overtime.
Higher education stipends increased from $1,000 to $1,500 for an associate\'s degree; from $2,000 to $3,000 for a bachelor\'s degree and from $3,000 to $5,000 for a master\'s degree, George said.
Officers used to get paid $50 an hour for supervising roadwork or construction, but the borough would take 20 percent, $10, for administrative costs. Under the new contract, officers will receive $50 per hour for municipal projects and time-and-a-half pay of the rate of a police officer employed by the borough for 20 years for outside contractors such as Verizon or Cablevision.
The borough will still receive 20 percent of the cost charged to either municipal or outside contractors.
PBA negotiation team members were unavailable for comment.
E-mail: zaremba@northjersey.com2) Liberals believe we can talk everything out with our enemies. One of the weirder quirks of liberalism is their belief that many of our bitterest enemies have rational reasons for disliking us and that can easily be talked away if they realize we\'re good people. Hence, the common liberal refrain of, "Why do they hate us?" The reason this is a particularly odd belief is that liberals don\'t even believe this about conservatives in the United States. The average liberal thinks that if we\'re nice enough, we can reach an understanding with Hugo Chavez or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck can\'t be reasoned with.
3) Liberals don\'t have enough respect for our culture and traditions: To liberals, our cultural, economic, and political norms were formed by backwards troglodytes making arbitrary decisions based on superstition and racism. Unfortunately for them, as a general rule, that\'s not so and proceeding as if it is, will often lead to exactly the same difficulties that our ancestors already dealt with in times past. No matter how smart we are, as Thomas Sowell would say, our wisdom is often no match for the "distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before." Truly wise people are aware that there is a great deal that they do not know.
4) Liberalism is a fundamentally immoral political philosophy. Ironically, given all their talk about "shades of gray," liberals have a very Manichean view of the world. They consider their fellow travelers to be on the side of the angels, while the people who disagree with them are treated as evil. This leads to an "anything goes" mentality when dealing with their foes: ignoring the law via a "living constitution," politically based prosecutions, shouting down opposing speakers, and treating lying about their agenda or opponents to be moral. On the other hand, liberals will support other libs, no matter how corrupt, sleazy, or vile they are as long as they\'re politically useful to the left. See Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, John Murtha, and Robert Byrd for examples of that. In other words, as Margaret Thatcher has said of the Left, "For them, the end always seems to justify the means."
5) Liberals believe merely being liberal makes them good people. Liberals who\'re obsessed with money think they\'re compassionate because they give away other people\'s tax dollars. They believe they care more about the earth than other people, even as they fly around in private jets, because they babble on about global warming. They can be dumb as a rock, but believe they\'re smarter than most other people because they\'re liberals. In other words, in the minds of most liberals, liberalism is an all-purpose substitute for actual virtue instead of just another political philosophy.
6) Liberals have too much faith in government. Even most liberals would admit that government regularly fails the people. If you don\'t believe that, just ask them about the Bush administration and they\'ll give you an earful. However, liberals tend to believe that with the right person in charge, government won\'t be so slow, stupid, inefficient, and badly run. Human history proves that they\'re wrong about that.
7) Liberals have minimal interest in whether the programs they support work or not. To most liberals, whether a government program betters people\'s lives is completely irrelevant to whether they\'ll support it. A program that doesn\'t work and costs billions, but sounds compassionate and helps Democrats politically is a huge success in the eyes of the left. Once you understand that liberals think this way, their baffling support for programs that make no "common sense" is much easier to understand.
"Doesn\'t seem like a weapon was involved," the officer told CLIFFVIEW PILOT. "Probably a strong-arm robbery.... She might have been the manager closing up."
