07/13/2015 09:02 PM EDT

The Coast Guard is known for performing rescues at sea. It’s not every day, however, Coast Guardsmen find themselves plucking 500-pound lifeguard stands from the water and transferring them ashore.

The Diocese of Camden by Michael Jordan Laskey

Last winter, a friend of mine in West Virginia invited me to speak at a social ministries conference there. \”Sounds good,\” I said to her,\” but instead of just me, how about I get a group of South Jerseyans together and we come down for a few extra days?\”

\”Why not?\” she replied.

Diocese of Camden pilgrims to West Virginia worked with local resident Ron Hutson (fifth from right) on a repair project during their stay at Nazareth Farm. From left: Nazareth Farm staff member Annika Darby; pilgrims Mike Jordan Laskey, Yanelis Fernandez, Donna Mills and Steve Mills; Ron Hutson; and pilgrims Jim Steintz, Amanda Dupras, Roger Asselta and Geneva O’Brien.

BLADES (July 15, 2015) – The Second Annual Recycled Cardboard Boat Regatta – presented by the Delaware Nature Society’s Abbott’s Mill Nature Center, in conjunction with DNREC’s Division of Watershed Stewardship’s Reclaim Our River Program, the Town of Blades and the Nanticoke River Sail & Power Squadron – will cast off on Saturday, Aug. 8 at the Nanticoke River Public Marine Park, 26 N. Market Street, Blades, DE 19973. Sign-in and registration begin at noon, with initial aesthetic judging at 1 p.m. and races starting at 2 p.m.

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HARRISBURG, PN—A Harrisburg man who pled guilty to the December 9, 2014 robbery of the Mid Penn Bank on North Front Street in Harrisburg has been charged with four additional bank robberies.

According to United States Attorney Peter Smith, Dylan Blum, age 22, has been charged in a four count Criminal Information that was filed in U.S. District Court in Harrisburg on Friday, July 10, 2015, charging him with the robberies of four banks in December of 2014 and January of 2015 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania and in New Jersey. Blum allegedly passed a threatening note to tellers at three of those robberies and attempted to rob another bank but was prevented by employees from entering that bank. Blum allegedly made off with a total of $5,788.00 from the three banks he was able to rob. Blum turned himself in to the Harrisburg Police department on January 3, 2015.

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Haddon Heights Mayor

Edward Forte

(photo courtesy Haddon Hts.)

 Forte was also accused of voting to appoint his personal lawyer, Albert Olizi, as Borough Solicitor. The LFP dismissed that charge. Likewise, a charge against Haddon Heights Councilman Richard DiRenzo, who was accused of voting for Olizi, his personal attorney, for Borough Solicitor was dismissed. Also, a charge filed against Olizi accused of being the Mayor\’s attorney and involved with Sons of Italy chapter while serving as Borough Solicitor was dismissed. 

July 14, 2015

NEWARK, NJ—A Canadian stock promoter today admitted his role in a scheme to artificially inflate the stock price of a publicly traded company through manipulative trading and other fraudulent means, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Mitchell G. Adam, 47, of Vancouver, Canada, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Jose Linares to an information charging him with conspiracy to commit securities and mail fraud. Adam was initially charged by criminal complaint and arrested on May 20, 2015 at the George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston.

According to documents filed in this case and statements made in court:

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US President Barack Obama pauses while speaking at the NAACP\’s annual convention in Philadelphia July 14, 2015.[Photo/Agencies] WASHINGTON – US President Barack Obama on Tuesday laid out an expansive vision for fixing the US criminal justice system by focusing on communities, courtrooms and cellblocks. He announced a federal review of the use of solitary confinement and…