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Regional week in review for Nov. 8, 2009
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A recap of stories in our area during the past week.
Atlantic City
High-rise fire leaves
150 briefly homeless
From Press staff reports
A three-alarm fire left nearly 150 people temporarily homeless after it damaged the 14-story Inlet Tower apartment building Wednesday morning.
Investigators said the fire was caused by an electrical problem that started inside the wall on the ninth floor of the building at 220 N. New Hampshire Ave.
Authorities relocated residents to the adjacent Charles P. Jeffries Tower at 227 N. Vermont Ave. The Atlantic City Housing Authority oversees both properties.
Casinos cut 525
from work force
Casinos shed 525 jobs last month in the latest round of payroll cuts heading into the slower fall and winter.
Newly released figures by the state Casino Control Commission show that all 11 casino hotels cut back in October to reduce the industry's total work force to 36,812 - 3,312 fewer employees than at the same time last year.
Atlantic County
Illnesses shut school
as another reopens
Mass absences due to illness Monday prompted officials at Atlantic City's Our Lady Star of the Sea Regional School to cancel classes for the rest of the week.
The diocese issued a statement Monday afternoon saying 97 students called in sick and another 15 were sent home during the day, representing 57 percent of the school's student body.
Meanwhile, Pilgrim Academy in Galloway Township reopened Monday after widespread illness prompted a three-day closing last week.
Cape May
Lady Mary hearing
awaits lab results
The manager of the scallop boat Lady Mary broke down in tears Tuesday during a hearing into the March 24 sinking that killed his two sons and four others.
"They probably were coming in Tuesday (the day of the accident)," Royal "Fuzzy" Smith, 64, testified before lowering his head and beginning to sob quietly.
The Coast Guard Marine Board of Investigation suspended its probe Thursday as it awaits lab results on the ship's rudder.
Egg Harbor Township
Husband arrested
in artist's strangling
John M. Hilyard went to police Wednesday afternoon to report his wife missing. He left later that night in handcuffs, charged with murder.
Hilyard, 48, knew exactly where she was when he made the report, First Assistant Prosecutor Murray Talasnik said Thursday.
A jogger found the body of Chun-Yan Hilyard, 45, just before 8 a.m. Wednesday near Fenton Mill's Creek, where her husband allegedly left the body after strangling her during an argument Tuesday morning in their Bridle Path Drive home.
Mays Landing
Small, 12 others plead
not guilty of fraud
Atlantic City Councilman Marty Small and a dozen others involved in his failed mayoral campaign pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that they disenfranchised voters using messenger ballots.
Small and various staffers were indicted in September on various second-degree charges alleging they improperly handled messenger ballots during this year's Democratic primary. Small lost that election to Mayor Lorenzo Langford.
Posted in Atlantic on Sunday, November 8, 2009 2:10 am
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