NJ town backs its "Idol" despite pictures
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POINT PLEASANT, New Jersey  - She may be a brash careerist willing to use XXX-rated pictures for publicity, or just a Jersey girl trying to get ahead, but Antonella Barba is easily the most famous person from this small seashore town.
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Life after not winning American Idol may not be   all Grammy Awards and People magazine covers, but the show's   also-rans seem to be holding their own.
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American Idol contestant Antonella Barba, from Point Pleasant, N.J., may be in rocky waters after topless photos of her appeared on the Internet.
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&quot;McPheever&quot; wasn&#039;t enough to carry hometown girl Katherine McPhee to victory on &quot;American Idol,&quot; but fans predicted she would end up a winner in the music industry.
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Actor Alec Baldwin has lent support to New Jersey residents worried about the relicensing of a southern New Jersey nuclear power plant.
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Townspeople had a hard time squaring an unsavory past with their wholesome self-image.
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By WAYNE PARRY POINT PLEASANT, N.J. - A close friend of &quot;American Idol&quot; semi-finalist Antonella Barba says that the aspiring singer is not the subject of some graphically sexual pictures purported to be of her that were posted on the Internet last week.
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The pageant, airing tonight on CMT, is trying to stave off a steady slide to irrelevance. But we'll always have Atlantic City. A photo retrospective of the pageant's glory years
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Fans of "American Idol," U.S. TV's most popular program, on Thursday gave their backing to a female contestant purportedly shown in some X-rated Internet photos, voting to keep her on the show.
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By The Philadelphia Inquirer  Feb. 6--More than three years ago, Mayor Street endorsed moving ahead on the long-delayed promise of a citizen-run cable television station for Philadelphia -- still the largest American city without a TV outlet for amateur programming.
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A state judge, Vincent J. Grasso of Superior Court in Ocean County, has ruled that New Jersey voters who cast absentee ballots for a candidate who has dropped out of the presidential race can vote again.
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More New Jerseyans are surviving cancer, but the state survival rate still trails the national rate, according to a state report issued Tuesday.
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By DAVID PORTER  EDISON, N.J. - One of the inventions that put this central New Jersey town on the map could go the way of the typewriter and the horse and buggy if some lawmakers have their way. The incandescent light bulb, perfected for mass use by Thomas A.
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For a town still fighting an impression of hopelessness, the arrival of a big-time network television show has been both welcome and somewhat anxiety inducing.
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NEWARK, New Jersey  - The former mayor of Newark, New Jersey's largest city, and a companion pleaded not guilty on Monday to a host of federal charges including suspicion of taking lavish vacations with city money.
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The mayor wanted a picture with him. The owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars wanted a word with him. Civic leaders simply wanted to shake his hand.
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By Randy Kraft, The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa.  Dec. 19--Members of the Emmaus High School skateboarding club, and East Penn's top administrator, wish one of the five municipalities in the school district would create a public skateboard park.