Jerry Eure Sr. was an elder at his church which he attended “every Sunday” according to Rev. Jan Willem van der Werff, pastor of Covenant Presbyterian Church. Eure was active in his neighborhood too, handing out Christmas cards to children and working with the New Jersey Council on Ageing. Eure received an award just this past May for making a “lasting and positive impact” on the lives of senior citizen in the County. Eure was active and in good health. Yet this “sweet old man” was murdered in his home.
Anyone with information about this homocide should the confidential tip line at (609) 989-3663. Let’s get Jerry Eure’s killer(s) off the street and behind bars.
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Anyone who has visited a family member, loved one, or friend in a New Jersey hospital knows the is a nursing shortage, but researcher Linda Lynn of Rutgers College of Nursing in Newark just completed a survey that found nurses are feeling the strain of overwork and are leaving. The survey had 22,000 responders who said they do not there is enough staff at there institutions. With the average nurse being 50 years old and having 24 years experience and working 10 hours a day, these nurses can speak with some authority.
That nurses are concerned about their workload making them unable to do their jobs effectively bears heeding. The survey estimated that by 2020 New Jersey would face a shortage of nurses of about 49 percent below the demand. The shortage is exacerbated by the lack of professors to train new nurses. So the problem is not likely to be corrected immediately.
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While dealing with mental health issues is difficult at the best of times, when the mentally ill person commits a crime resolution is even more difficult. The New Jersey Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether persons who are aquitted of a crime by reason of insanity and who are then returned to the community should be further monitored by the court. It would be easy to say yes to further monitoring or even to suggest these people should not be allowed in the community if they have tendancies toward violence but the method needed to the monitoring requires careful consideration.
There is already in place laws to protect the institutionalized insane from being held beyond the point for which they are a danger to themselves or others but there is no such monitoring mechanism in place for those insane deemed ”non-dangerous”.
Law is about precedent. So if the precedent is set in one area it can arguably be applied to others. For example, if a person who has been found not guilty but will still be monitored by the state then that monitoring can be applied to others found not guilty. If the court can require a person found not guilty to submit to medical tests, require the release of medical history not just to the court but to the district attorney’s office, then not guilty for all is redefined. Is that what we really want to do? Granted there needs to be something done to ensure public safety from the criminally insane who are not institutionalized and not complying with there medical treatment plan, but not guilty needs to mean not guilty, even for the insane.
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Just to get the news out to my fellow real estate professionals, HomeValues has to pay $51,ooo in court costs and attorney fees for misleading real estate professionals in the quality of its leads. Seems they made up names for leads even using obvious fake names like “Mickey Mouse”. HomeValues has four internet presences. They are:
Real estate professional subscribes to the service were to get access to potential leads. Instead they did not get valid buyers or sellers.
HouseValues did not admit wrongdoing when it settled the case against it. It will however, “refrain from certain business practices, waive any fees owed by consumers who complained to the Attorney General’s Office, and credit or refund those subscribers who got an invalid or bad lead, according to the settlement.”
It is good these folks were found out. More importantly that citizens followed through with the process and made and effort to stop this company. Leads are gotten through building and maintaining relationships not through shelling out hard earned cash to a lead generation company that will send you names like “Mickey Mouse”.
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Hopewell and Lawrence township residents can expect some delays on Route 31 and I-95 as the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDot) will replace sign stuctures. NJDOT will replace the overhead sign structures located at milepost 4.90 on Route 31 northbound in Hopewell Township, and mileposts 5.78 southbound and 6.9 northbound on I-Route 95 in Lawrence. Construction should start on Friday, November 12 and be completed in December. The construction requires the closing of the shoulder on both roadways so be careful out there folks and give the NJDot crews a brake and slow down while they are working.
Well it is finally coming! All those people who think they can drive while eating, while combing their hair and those who think they can drive while gabbing on a cell phone, there are only two things to say: DWD and March 1st. As of March first it will cost distracted drivers $100 for not making driving the only thing they do behind the wheel of their car.
It will no longer be a pile-on charge but a primary offense that officers can stop you for alone. Drive pass a police officer chatting on the phone without a hands-free device and you get to cough up $100 bucks. Will the law be enough to deter folks from engaging in habits that leave a moving vehicle with nobody driving it? Well, a while back few people bothered to buckle up when they got behind the wheel…