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Release of Josh Brown comes

after NFL reopened its domestic
abuse investigation. Sports, 5C
From organs to tentacles, foods that seem peculiar can become enticing dishes. Table, 1D

LEARNING TO BREAK

GLASS CEILING

BRIDGEGATE
Bridget Anne Kelly: Mayor Fulop was iced,
you are correct, as per the governor. Mayor
Sokolich, we had a good relationship. There
was no reason for Mayor Sokolich to be iced,
or boxed out, or anything.

Prosecution
challenges
Kelly about
fallout timeline
Works to present a different portrait
of her before and after lane closings
DUSTIN RACIOPPI @DRACIOPPI

The prosecution dissected Bridget Anne Kellys

words Tuesday and questioned her actions, pitting her
testimony against that from her former staff and questioning her timeline of the fallout from the George
Washington Bridge scandal.
Kelly, a former deputy chief of staff for Gov. Chris
Christie, spent her last two days on the witness stand
casting herself as a bit player in the administration paid
$140,000 a year but far from a powerful insider like her
predecessor and mentor, Bill Stepien.
But in the prosecutions first full day of cross-examination Tuesday, Assistant U.S. Attorney Vikas Khanna
challenged Kelly directly before jurors, working to
present a different portrait of her before and after the
September 2013 lane closings at the bridge.
See KELLY, Page 2A

Women attend leadership class at Rutgers

to help them break into top corporate ranks
MICHAEL L. DIAMOND @MDIAMONDAPP

icole Spinella reached a crossroad.

The 33-year-old manager at ProSight Specialty Insurance has three
young daughters at home, but she is
determined to keep working her way
up the corporate ladder, worried that
one misstep could stall or even reverse her bright career.
I put pressure on myself in order
to continue to deliver and perform
and make sure Im not falling behind, said Spinella, a Ridgewood resident.
Spinella is one of about a dozen businesswomen attending a leadership class at Rutgers Universitys
School of Management and Labor Relations in Pisca-

taway to find ways to break through barriers that traditionally have kept women out of the executive office and boardroom.
The four-month class is digging into the visible
barriers of how to juggle a family and career. It is digging into the invisible barriers of societys traditional
image of leadership.
And it is underway as a presidential campaign
rages with Democrat Hillary Clinton inching ever
closer if the polls are to be believed to becoming
the nations first female president, in a campaign
where gender issues have attracted more attention
than education, climate change or taxes, perhaps
combined.
Participants in the Rutgers class arent aiming
See CEILING, Page 8A

This is building a cadre of leaders

who aren't at that (executive) level yet,
but are going to be driving change.

I think it comes up every day.

There are just things you don't
necessarily know you're doing.

TERRI BOYER EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF RUTGERS

PAULA FRANK DIRECTOR OF SUPPLIER

CENTER FOR WOMEN AND WORK

DIVERSITY FOR ROSELAND-BASED ADP

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John Brogan (right), a recovery coach and former addict,

speaks with Matt Lopreiato of Toms River, a former addict.

In Hazlet, a plan
for police to help
heroin addicts
KEN SERRANO @KENSERRANOAPP

Heroin addicts once were offered little more than a

set of handcuffs in their dealings with police.
Slowly, thats changing.
A program expected to roll out in Monmouth County
aims to establish the police as possible go-betweens for
those with addictions to get help.
Starting with Hazlet, police departments in the
Bayshore and elsewhere are coming together to bring
recovery coaches in to help when an addict overdoses
or shows up at the station house looking for help. Those
recovery counselors, usually former addicts, work to
convince revived overdose victims and other heroin users to go into treatment.
Jim DiNardo and Barbara Ronchetti, both on the Hazlet Township Committee, are trying to draw other
towns into a network of police departments that offer
See ADDICTS, Page 11A

Miracle boys expected to recover

MONSY ALVARADO @MONSYALVARADO

Two little boys who survived a 100-foot fall from a

bridge in Wanaque on Monday night are hospitalized
but are expected to make a full recovery, officials
said Tuesday.
Their father either threw them or had them in his
arms when he intentionally jumped to his death from
the bridge on Route 287 Monday night, officials said.
He was identified Tuesday as John Spincken, 37, of
Pequannock.
The childrens fall may have been cushioned by

If Trump is elected, a number

of unresolved lawsuits could
become a distraction. Page 1B

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trees, police said.

Its a miracle, Capt. Christopher DePuyt of the
Pequannock Police Department said Tuesday morning. If there is a silver lining its that the kids are OK.
The children were conscious and obviously upset when police found them, DePuyt said. They
were alert and conscious and appeared remarkably
intact for what apparently just happened.
The 1-year-old has a concussion, fractured rib and
a bruised lung, while the 3-year-old suffered a conSee MIRACLE, Page 2A

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