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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: Cory Booker

Cory Booker stories: 7 news summaries

 Citizen Convoys 
 Take on Jersey Crime 

Volunteers cruise Newark streets to deter thugs

Oct 29, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Volunteer convoys have been cruising Newark's roughest streets over the last month in an effort to cut crime rates and fly the flag for law enforcement. Citizens taking part in the "Crime Caravan" program hit the streets in packs of vehicles that resemble crime response units, led by off-duty... More »

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crime • New Jersey • Newark • Cory Booker

OPINION

 Dear Conan: 
 Newark's Not Funny 

O'Brien's quips make light of grim inner-city realities

Oct 13, 09 4:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - There have been some hilarious moments in Conan O'Brien's mock feud with Newark mayor Cory Booker, but there's nothing funny about the plight of America's inner cities, writes Bob Herbert. O'Brien and his audience are mocking a place that, like too many others in America, is "poverty-stricken, run down,... More »

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New Jersey • Newark • Conan O'Brien • Cory Booker • urban blight

Newark Mayor Bars Conan From NJ in Playful Feud

Booker fires back after O'Brien's Newark joke

Oct 1, 09 5:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - Conan O’Brien and Newark Mayor Cory Booker have been lobbing insults back and forth—O’Brien on the Tonight Show, Booker via YouTube—for the past week. It started when Conan made a joke about Booker’s drive to improve Newark's health care—it "consists of a bus... More »

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YouTube • Conan O'Brien • Cory Booker • Tonight Show

OPINION

'Black Geniuses' Remark is OK

Geraldo's comment on Fox is 'refreshing,' scribe writes in Post

Feb 26, 08 6:30 PM CST
(Newser) - The presidential race is so odd that Geraldo Rivera has pondered "black geniuses" on Fox—which was “absurd in a way that’s new and refreshing," Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post. Rivera was talking about Barack Obama and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick last week on... More »

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Barack Obama • Geraldo Rivera • Fox News • Cory Booker • Deval Patrick • Adrian Fenty • Cosby Show

Key Suspect Nabbed in Schoolyard Executions

Busted as he prepared to flee country: cops

Aug 19, 07 5:42 AM CDT
(Newser) - A principal suspect and his teenage half brother have been arrested in the New Jersey schoolyard executions of three college students in a crime that has shattered the Newark community. Nicaraguan immigrant Rodolfo Godinez, 24, and the teen were arrested in two separate apartments near Washington, D.C., and were... More »

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New Jersey • murder • Newark • Cory Booker • Rodolfo Godinez • shooting

Second Suspect Surrenders in Newark Killings

15-year-old already in custody in brutal schoolyard murders

Aug 9, 07 1:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - A man Newark's mayor called the "principle suspect" in last weekend's brutal schoolyard murders turned himself in to police this afternoon, the Star Ledger reports. Jose Carranza was picked out of a photo array by the lone survivor of the killing spree several hours after cops arrested a 15-year-old... More »

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New Jersey • murder • Newark • Cory Booker • Jose Carranza • shooting

NJ Mayor Under Gun in Triple Killing

Newark crime rate sparks calls for idealist Booker's resignation

Aug 7, 07 4:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jersey residents shocked by the shooting deaths of three students at a Newark schoolyard this weekend are lashing out at a young mayor who rode a wave of hope and idealism into office, the Times reports. Cory Booker, 38, is facing a wall of public hostility—and calls for his... More »

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crime • New Jersey • murder • homicide • Newark • mayor • Cory Booker • gun violence

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