WKNJ Newscast

5/6/15

Good afternoon, its Wednesday, May 6, 2015 at _____________ oclock and youre
listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Unions, New Jersey, and Im _____________ with the news.

In local news
Jersey City construction worker dies in 24-story fall down elevator shaft. He fell more than 200
feet down an unfinished elevator shaft and died yesterday at a construction site in Manhattan, the
New York Post reported. Christian Ginesi, 25, was working on the 24th floor of the Riu Plaza
Times Square under construction at 301 West 46th St. when he plummeted to his death at 12:40
p.m., according to published reports. Ginesi was working for an elevator service company, GTech Associates, the Post reported. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital in critical condition, but
he died from his injuries at 1:26 p.m., the Post reported police sources as saying.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Hudson County wins national award for suicide prevention project.
"I'm very proud of them. They worked very hard," said Janet Wallach, director of program
development and teen services for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Hudson County. The "Boys &
Girls Clubs Keystone Law" would allow teenagers under the age of 18 to access behavioral
health care for the treatment of mental illness or emotional disorders without parental consent.
The club, whose nickname is the Griffins, was competing among some 30 other clubs from
around the county, Wallach said. "Their project was to change the law -- it's a huge thing. They're
the first of my knowledge to do something like this," Wallach told The Jersey Journal.

Along with the award, the club won a $1,000 innovation grant that they will put toward their
next venture: a teen advisory council. "We're planning to create a teen advisory council in the
city to teach teens to become community and social activists," Wallach added.

In National News
A 79-year-old fugitive was captured after 56 years on the run in Melbourne, Florida. Frank
Freshwaters' long run at freedom came to an end with a knock on his door. It was then that the
gray-bearded man living under the alias of William Cox in an old trailer home just west of
Melbourne stared at an officer with the Brevard County Sheriff's Office GAMEOVER Task
Force. The deputy held up a black and white picture of a young 23-year-old man and asked Cox
if he had ever seen him before. "He looked at the picture then told them, 'I haven't seen him in a
long while,'" said Maj. Tod Goodyear, spokesman for the Sheriff's Office, knowing that he was
staring at younger picture of himself. Freshwaters was an inmate who once stayed at the Ohio
State Reformatory, the infamous state prison featured in the movie Shawshank Redemption. "He
admitted who he was and owned up to everything," U.S. Marshal Pete Elliot said when reached
at his Ohio office.

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is requesting that the Justice Department launch a
broad inquiry into the city's troubled police department to determine if officers engage in a
pattern or practice of biased law enforcement. The mayor's action comes a day after meeting with
Attorney General Loretta Lynch in which the two discussed bringing additional assistance to the
city in an effort to address what Rawlings-Blake described as "fractured'' trust between the police
department and the community it serves. "We have to make sure we get this right,'' the mayor

said. "Failure is not an option.' The investigation, similar to a recent inquiry in Ferguson, Mo.,
would look at all aspects of policing in the city to determine if bias exists in the department's
arrest data, traffic stops and other operations. The operational review would be separate from an
ongoing federal inquiry into a fatal police encounter with Freddie Gray who died last month in
police custody. Gray's death sparked a violent riot in the city, resulting in injuries to dozens of
police officers.

In International News
The co-pilot of the Germanwings plane, Andreas Lubitz, that crashed in the French Alps in
March appears to have practiced an unauthorized, rapid descent on a previous flight earlier that
day, a report by French investigators says. He practiced the descent on the outbound leg of a
flight - from Duesseldorf to Barcelona on March 24th. Lubitz is suspected of deliberately
crashing a plane, killing all 150 people on board after locking the flight captain out of the
cockpit. The decent happened over a five minute period at about 7:30 starting 30 seconds after
the captain left the cockpit with a drop from the highest possible altitude at 49,000 feet to the
lowest possible at 100 feet despite instructions by air traffic control to rise to 35,000 feet.

Bollywood star Salman Khan has been freed on bail, hours after being convicted of culpable
homicide in a 2002 Mumbai hit-and-run case. This morning, a sessions court sentenced the actor
to five years in prison for killing a homeless man. The man was among five people who were run
over in the incident. Khan had said his driver was behind the wheel, but the judge said the actor
was driving the car and was under the influence of alcohol at the time. Khan is one of
Bollywood's biggest stars, appearing in more than 80 Hindi-language films that have been huge

commercial hits. The 49-year-old actor was also found guilty of negligent driving and causing
grievous harm to the victims and given separate terms for each offense, but defense lawyers said
all the sentences would run concurrently.

More news, sports, and weather coming up

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In Sports
Breaking news! The NFL has found that it is probable that the New England Patriots deliberately
deflated balls during the Championship Game in January and that quarterback Tom Brady was
"generally aware" of what was happening. The findings were released by Ted Wells, the leagueappointed attorney who investigated whether the Patriots deflated balls in their game against the
Indianapolis Colts. Wells said, it is more probable than not that New England Patriots personnel
participated in violations of the Playing Rules and were involved in a deliberate effort to
circumvent the rules. The report cites evidence that McNally took the game balls into a
bathroom adjacent to the field at Gillette Stadium, and stayed there for about 100 seconds -- "an
amount of time sufficient to deflate thirteen footballs using a needle.' Other evidence included
referee Walt Anderson's inability to locate the previously approved footballs at the start of the
game -- the first time that had happened to him in 19 years. More evidence used were text
messages between Jim McNally, the Officials Locker Room attendant for the Patriots, and John
Jastremski, an equipment assistant for the Patriots, that imply that Brady had previously been
upset with the quality of the game balls.

Washington Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper hit three home runs in his first three at-bats in a
7-5 victory against the Miami Marlins on Wednesday afternoon. In his fourth at-bat he produced
an RBI groundout. He finished the game 3-for-4 with five RBIs.

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In Entertainment
Floyd Mayweather Slapped With a $20 Million Lawsuit by Ex Josie Harris Following Katie
Couric Interview. The pro boxer is on the receiving-end of a $20 million lawsuit from his ex
Josie Harris, who is also the mother of his children. Harris is suing Mayweather for defamation,
intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress,
according to the lawsuit she filed in Los Angeles superior Court. The lawsuit comes shortly after
Mayweather sat down with Katie Couric in anticipation for the big fight on Saturday, where
Couric asked him about his 2010 domestic violence incident involving Harris. "Did I kick, stomp
and beat someone? No, that didn't happen," Floyd told Couric. "Did I restrain a woman that was
on drugs? Yes, I did. So if they say that's domestic violence, then, you know what? I'm guilty. I'm
guilty of restraining someone."
Now, Harris is suing Mayweather for his lies, saying she's been labeled a drug addict and was
humiliated. Mayweather "maliciously lied about his beating" of her "disclaiming any
responsibility for the attack that left Harris with serious injuries," Harris states in the court

documents, adding that "these lies were calculated to serve harm" to her, both personally and
professionally.

Rihanna's Massive Met Gala Robe Took 2 Years to Make. During an interview with Vogue's
Andr Leon Talley on the red carpet, RiRi revealed that not only did her robe take years to make
(yes, that's plural), but it was all stitched together by one womandesigner Guo Pei. "It's a
miracle how it happened actually," she tells Talley. "I saw this beautiful piece on the Internet. I
was looking through, you know, researching Chinese couture...It's handmade by one Chinese
woman. It took two years to make this.

Thats it for your news. Youre listening to 90.3 WKNJ-FM, Union, New Jersey. Im
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