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Convicted Murderer Gets 40 Years, Fatal Crash Admission in Top Regional News

Here are some of the must-read stories from around the Morris, Somerset, Passaic and Sussex Patch coverage area.

Demetrius Diaz-Bridges was sentenced on Friday to 40 years in prison for the  at her Nolan’s Point Road Home. Diaz-Bridges was convicted of beating the woman to death with a dumbbell.

An Easton, Pa., teen has admitted to causing a car crash that killed Long Valley’s Josephine Irwin in October 2010, and could face up to four years in New Jersey State Prison, according to a published report.

A Bridgewater man out on parole after being convicted 10 years ago for sexually assaulting a child was arrested Monday for possession of child pornography, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.

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Indictments were handed down against a Parsippany resident believed to have been drunk when she struck and killed an East Hanover man with her car in May, according to a published report.

The  is over—and the father is now free to watch his son play baseball.

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A Clifton man punched another driver in the face during a road rage incident on Old Bloomfield Avenue in Pine Brook on Monday, police said.

A state judge increased bail Tuesday for Ronald Catti, the man suspected in a rash of burglaries in northern New Jersey, according to a published report.

Police say an 18-year-old Mendham Borough resident tried to break into a Gregory Terrace home. But, a few observant residents and their call to the cops stopped that from happening.


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