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Ex-N.J. Teacher Praised For Recovery Had Heroin In Wrong-Way Crash: Patch PM

Also: Son charged with killing father / Fire at Essex County college / Fatal motorcycle crash on Rt. 206.

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Ex-N.J. Teacher Praised For Recovery Had Heroin In Wrong-Way, Head-On Parkway Crash

Brenna Haase had worked hard to get her life back together. She was counseled by ex-Gov. James McGreevey, and the New Jersey Reentry Corporation was proud to announce recently that she had been hired as the intake coordinator for the organization. Now family and ex-co-workers are coming to grips with the news that the New Jersey woman was charged Sunday with heroin possession in a wrong-way, head-on Garden State Parkway crash. >>>Read more on Patch

Friday's Patch PM: North Jersey Mayors Leave GOP Over Trump's Comments

Other headlines:

CORRECTION: Man Killed In Orlando Nightclub Shooting Never A New Jersey Resident

  • Patch and other media outlets incorrectly said one of the victims of the shooting at a gay nightclub in Orlando, Fla. lived in New Jersey. We regret the error.

Middlesex County Man, 20, Shot and Killed His Father, Prosecutor Says

  • The man was shot in his home on Friday morning, June 10, and died 24 hours later at Robert Wood Johnson hospital in New Brunswick.

At Least 13 Hurt In Essex County College Fire; Campus Shuts Down

  • A New Jersey college has closed after a fire left at least 13 people hurt, police said.

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