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A fundraiser has been established for the Arriaga family as Ruben Arriaga Sr. is evaluated for a lung transplant. Arriaga spent 100 days at Valley Hospital fighting COVID-19, including 69 on a ventilator. (Courtesy Valley Health)
RIDGEWOOD, NJ The Arriaga family knew what COVID-19 was capable of, having lost a family member during the pandemic.
So when Ruben Arriaga Sr., of Saddle Brook, began gasping for air in January, the family called 911. The situation got worse when Arriaga was put on a ventilator on Feb. 5.
The family knew the unfortunate reality of what could follow, as Arriaga s brother died from COVID-19 just months earlier, according to News12.
Notorious N.J. ‘Torso Killer’ pleads guilty to 2 murders from 1974
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Richard Cottingham, the notorious serial killer dubbed the “Torso Killer” for his gruesome modus operandi, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to two murders from 1974, authorities announced.
Cottingham, 74, who is currently serving a life sentence in New Jersey State Prison after admitting to six killings in New York and New Jersey, pleaded guilty to killing Mary Ann Pryor, 17, and Lorraine Kelly, 16, back in August 1974, Bergen County Prosecutor Mark Musella said in a statement.
Early January 2020, it was discovered that Cottingham had previously confessed to the murders of three Bergen County teenagers in the late 1960s - each a cold case for over 50 years. Although he was not charged with the teens’ murders, the prosecutor’s office said the cases were “exceptionally cleared.”
OAG: Payroll manager pleads guilty to withholding funds, demanding kickbacks April 23, 2021
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A payroll manager for a Bergen County construction company pleaded guilty to demanding cash kickbacks from employees and failing to pay them for work to circumvent prevailing wage rules on public works projects, Attorney General Gurbir Grewal announced April 22.
UniMak LLC of Saddle Brook entered into a non-prosecution agreement with the OAG to pay $1 million to seven employees the company “cheated out of earned wages,” an announcement said.
Payroll manager Toni Jovanosk pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge James Sattely to third-degree false contract payment claims for a government contract (prevailing wage violations) and third-degree misconduct by a corporate official.
Updated: 6:54 PM CDT April 18, 2021
FRISCO, Texas As Burnie Sutter approached his 100th birthday earlier this month, his daughter admitted that she often felt she was one of the few holding onto the memories that, for Burnie, were beginning to fade. Frisco, by the hundreds, turned out on a sunny Saturday morning to pleasantly prove her wrong. What s it like being 100 years old? Sandi Sutter Richards asked her father on a recent visit to her home in Frisco. You said I m an old., she said prompting him. Old fart, he said as they both laughed.
But Burnett Burnie Sutter, a WWII veteran his fellow soldiers dubbed Smiley, is so much more than that.