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Burning Boathouse, Sussex Woman Hurt in Colo. Shooting Top Local News
A surprise awaiting high school students and a big-time power outage also made headlines.
A 23-year-old Sussex County woman was among the 70 injured when a gunman opened fire and killed 12 early Friday morning at a movie theater screening of the new Batman movie in Aurora, Colo.
Nearly 1,000 Hopatcong Jersey Central Power & Light customers lost electricity early Friday when a tree branch fell on a power line on Hudson Avenue, police said.
Richard Lavery Jr. looked at and sighed. What was a dream was slowly becoming reality.
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In the end, it was just a bank employee doing his job, but a woman did the right thing when she took down the license plate of a man watching and following a boy in Hopatcong, police said.
A blaze tore through the boathouse at 19 Elba Ave. late Tuesday night.
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Three firefighters suffering from heat exhaustion were taken to the hospital after flames ripped through a boathouse at 19 Elba Ave. late Tuesday night.
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