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Paul Milo

Content Producer

pmilo@dailyvoice.com

Paul Milo has worked as a reporter in northern New Jersey for more than 20 years, first for North Jersey Media Group / NorthJersey.com, then at Patch.com and at NJ.com / The Star-Ledger. He has written about a 106-year-old World War I veteran, the Sept. 11 attacks and a 15-year-old stock manipulator who was the youngest person ever civilly charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission, among many other stories. He has interviewed governors, presidential candidates and celebrities including Ryan Seacrest and comedian Kevin Hart.

In addition to his work for New Jersey-based outlets, he has also written for BeliefNet, Editor and Publisher, The Huffington Post, The Boston Globe and other publications, as well as freelance assignments for global chemical company BASF.

His first book, Your Flying Car Awaits, was published by HarperCollins in 2010. As part of the book’s promotional efforts he was interviewed by The New York Times and on WNYC radio’s The Brian Lehrer Show.

Paul was formerly a reporter at Daily Voice.

Paul Milo's Contributions

Police & Fire

Longtime Med School Employee From Newark Sentenced For Theft A Newark woman who worked for decades as an administrative assistant at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School was sentenced to five years in prison for stealing tens of thousands of dollars from the school, the Essex County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday. Sondra Bell, 55, stole about $87,000 between January 2017 and April of last year, when the theft was discovered. Bell was asked to order plane tickets for her boss to attend a medical conference, but there were insufficient funds. When Bell asked the doctor to pay out of pocket for the tickets, he refused. Authorities were aler…

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

Police & Fire

Helicopter Misses Landing Pad And Crashes In Hudson: Nypd A helicopter ended up in the Hudson River after it missed its landing pad near West 30th Street in Manhattan Wednesday afternoon, the NYPD said. The pilot got out of the water safely, police also said. The pilot, who was alone on the helicopter, suffered non-life-threatening injuries, CBS 2 reported. A person on the ground near the dock was hurt after being struck by flying debris, the station also said. Those injuries were also non-life-threatening. The crash occurred near the recently opened Hudson Yards development, which is almost directly across the river from …

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

Police & Fire

Union Man Indicted In Crash That Killed Off-Duty Hillside Police Officer A 29-year-old Union resident has been indicted on charges of aggravated manslaughter and vehicular homicide for what authorities said was an alcohol-fuelled vehicle crash that killed his passenger last year. Authorities say Ricardo Dos-Santos was driving an Acura SUV when it crashed into the back of a truck stopped for a red light near 1&9 and Pleasant Street in Linden around 2:15 a.m. Oct. 15. Dos-Santos was driving around 90 mph when he slammed into the truck, authorities also said. Responders found Dos-Santos and a passenger, Giovanni Esposito, 30, at the sce…

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

News

Newark Airport Rated America’s Worst One of the region’s three major airports was dealt a humbling blow this week, when a company that specializes in helping fliers win compensation for airline service issues ranked it dead last in the United States. In fact, AirHelp found that Newark Liberty International Airport was one of the worst in the world, landing just 16 places from the bottom of a list of 132 airports for which the organization compiled data. Not all major metro airports were ranked -- one of Newark's sister airports in the region, LaGuardia, does not appear on the list. JFK was in 86th place. The Newar…

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

Real Estate

Check It Out: 19th-Century 'Castle' On Lake Hopatcong For Sale The sellers of an 8-bedroom home on the shores of Lake Hopatcong have slashed the asking price by $200,000, bringing it to just under $1 million, according to the web site Zillow. Built in 1895, the home on Edgemere Avenue in Mount Arlington boasts eight bedrooms, three-and-a-half baths and a large porch overlooking the lake as well as a pair of docks. With its stone and intricate wood construction, the 5,600-square-foot home is known as the Castle on the Lake and was designed by noted architect Francis Himpler, who also designed churches in the New York-New Jersey area.

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

Neighbors

Montclair Residents Raising Funds For Memorial To 7-Year-Old Ballplayer A GoFundMe campaign has been started to honor the memory of an avid Montclair baseball player who drowned in a swimming pool over the summer. Terry Demming, 7, played baseball for the Montclair Bulldogs and was known for a "high-spirited love of sports and the outdoors," the fundraiser's organizer said. To honor the memory of the young athlete, the GoFundMe campaign is raising money to install a bench near the Glenfield Park diamond to "give family, friends, and all visitors a spot to connect in a place where he experienced great joy - fitting for an exuberant boy" who eas…

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

News

Paramus PD: Man Who Spit On, Screamed Threats At Jitney Passenger Arrested (Watch Video) A 51-year-old Hackensack man was arrested after police said he spit on and threatened to kill a jitney bus passenger in a racially-tinged tirade aboard through Paramus. Victor E. Colon was arrested Wednesday night at his home, Paramus police said. He was charged with offenses including aggravated assault, bias intimidation and making terroristic threats. Colon allegedly stomped on the foot of a passenger getting on the bus at 2218 Broadway in Fair Lawn May 2 before moving his seat closer to the victim and harassing him during the ride up Route 4 eastbound, Chief of Police Kenneth Ehrenberg…

by Paul Milo & Cecilia Levine

05/15/2019

Events

Cash 5 Lottery Ticket Sold In South Orange Good For $353K A ticket sold in South Orange matched five numbers in the Jersey Cash 5 drawing on Tuesday, state lottery officials said. The winning ticket, good for a prize of $353,354, was sold at 7-Eleven, 60 Valley St. The winning numbers are 12,13, 17, 23 and 29. The XTRA number was 4. There were 416,286 tickets purchased for the drawing. By adding XTRA, for an additional $1 per play, winners are able to multiply their non-jackpot prizes by the XTRA number drawn. For correctly matching four of the five numbers drawn, 110 ticketholders won $331 each and 14 othe…

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

Police & Fire

Newark Teen Charged In Newark, East Newark Street Robberies A 17-year-old boy from Newark was charged in two robberies occurring Sunday in Newark and East Newark, law enforcement in both communities said. On Tuesday, Newark's Director of Public Safety Anthony Ambrose announced that the youth had been charged in a robbery on Ferry Street near Jefferson Street in which two people emerged from a car and beat a woman shortly before 7 a.m. The woman's injuries were non-life-threatening, police said. That same day, a group of males pulled up in a car and tried to rob a man as he was walking on Central Avenue in East Newark, NJ.com reporte…

by Paul Milo

05/15/2019

News

NJ Transit Invites Public To Comment In Hoboken Wednesday, Penn NY Thursday Got something you'd like to say to NJ Transit? The state agency is giving many commuters two chances this week to sound off in person on their way home from work. On Wednesday, the "We Are Listening" forum will be held outside the waiting room at Hoboken Terminal from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. On Thursday, a similar session will be held at the New York Penn Station, 7th Avenue Concourse, also from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The agency is meeting with commuters who will be affected by track repairs at Penn Station New York this summer, work which will force rush-hour trains on direct …

by Paul Milo

05/14/2019

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