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Snooki is building her dream house in New Jersey, drinking again

Although no one really seemed to notice, “The Jersey Shore” had its series finale last week, which leaves us all wondering: What will Snooki do next? Surely the world is her oyster (or dill pickle). So what if she admitted to Access Hollywood that she and her baby daddy Jionni are living in his mom’s basement? Read More

Backers of California ban on gay therapy support other states as opponents plan lawsuit

Gay rights advocates are making plans to get other states to join California in banning psychotherapy aimed at making gay teenagers straight, even as opponents prepared Monday to sue to overturn the first law in the nation to take aim at the practice. Read More

Teacher posts she is ‘warden for future criminals’

What: A New Jersey administrative law judge ruled that a first-grade teacher who wrote that she was a “warden for future criminals” on Facebook should lose her tenured job.How: Paterson teacher Jennifer O’Brien posted her remark to 333 friends on March 28. But it was forwarded and several parents saw it. Read More

‘Real Housewives’ Jaqueline and Teresa in stripper-rumor clash

Jacqueline Laurita
It’s a war of words between “Real Housewives of New Jersey” Jacqueline Laurita and Teresa Giudice! Though Teresa has long been one of the franchise’s least controversial characters, she has come out with tweets blazing against her former friend. Read More

Dead bus driver not discovered in New Jersey bus for nearly five hours

A New Jersey Transit bus idled for nearly five hours outside a Port Authority terminal in New York with a dead driver inside. When Thomas Truex didn’t return to the bus garage after the morning commute, N.J. Transit officials called his wife, who hadn’t seen him. The bus was finally noticed parked at a curb where drivers routinely stop for a break. The dead driver was in a passenger seat, which would have made him less noticeable, officials said. Read More

Alleged Picasso art thief a surveillance camera star

Mark Lugo
Is there a surveillance camera tape in America that Mark Lugo has not starred in?Lugo, the unemployed 30-year-old sommelier accused of stealing a dozen artworks, including a Picasso sketch from a Union Square art gallery, was allegedly caught in the act on security cameras in San Francisco, New Jersey and New York. Read More

Alleged Picasso art thief’s passport seized, bail set at $5 million

Mark Lugo
Alleged Picasso art thief Mark Lugo’s passport was seized Friday and a defense request to reduce his $5 million bail was denied after a San Francisco judge said he poses a safety risk to the nation’s businesses. Read More

Picasso thief's home had $500K in stolen artwork, police say

Mark Lugo
A police raid on Mark Lugo’s New Jersey apartment Tuesday uncovered several stolen artworks, including a Picasso painting that was taken from a Manhattan art gallery, investigators said Thursday. Lugo, 30, of Hoboken, N.J., is locked up in San Francisco County Jail after being charged with stealing a Picasso sketch from the Weinstein Gallery in Union Square on July 5. The drawing, “Tête de Femme,” is worth more than $200,000. Read More

Stolen Picasso found in SF theft suspect's New Jersey apartment

Mark Lugo
A police raid on Mark Lugo’s New Jersey apartment on Tuesday uncovered several stolen artworks - including a Picasso painting that was taken from a Manhattan hotel, investigators said Thursday. Read More

New Jersey wine merchant ‘gobsmacked’ by Picasso art theft suspect

Mark Lugo
Robert Lesnick, loss prevention manager for a New Jersey fine wine store, told The San Francisco Examiner Thursday he was “gobsmacked” to learn that Mark Lugo was arrested last week for the brazen theft of a Picasso drawing from a Union Square art gallery. “I was having my morning coffee reading the paper and almost spit it out,” Lesnick said. Read More
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