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Prosecutor wants teen accused of killing 10-year-old to await trial in jail

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Karon Council, 18, of Neptune Township, fled to Florida after he shot and killed a 10-year-old boy, authorities say. He was brought back to New Jersey to face a Monmouth County Superior Court judge. Watch video

Council_arrest.jpgKaron Council, 18, of Neptune Township, was arrested Sunday by U.S. Marshal's in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He is accused of gunning down a 10-year-old boy in Asbury Park.  

Prosecutors in Monmouth County filed a motion to keep a man accused of gunning down a 10-year-old boy and wounding his mother behind bars pending trial.   

Karon Council, 18, had his first appearance before Superior Court Judge David Bauman Thursday afternoon. Council was arrested in South Florida on Sunday and arrived in New Jersey Wednesday night.

The state's new bail reform guidelines require prosecutors to file a motion to seek detention, which they did Thursday morning. A judge decides on the motion at a formal detention hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday.  

At his first appearance, Council was formally read his charges by Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Joseph Cummings. He was also read his rights by Bauman.

Council and his accomplice, a 16-year-old who authorities have not identified because of his age, are each facing murder charges and weapons offenses in the killing of Yovanni Banos-Merino inside his Ridge Avenue home last week.

First-degree murder carries a sentence of up to life in prison. Prosecutors have not said if they intend to try the 16-year-old as an adult. 

Authorities say just moments before the shooting, Council and the 16-year-old knocked on the door of the first-floor apartment at a house on the 400 block of Ridge Avenue looking for a man named "Jameer." 

After Council and the teenager were told "Jameer" was not home, they walked away, according to police reports. Council then walked back to the house, and began to shoot at the home, the report said.

Yovanni, who was inside the house, was shot. He was pronounced dead by first-responders at 11:18 p.m. on Feb. 21. His mother, 38-year-old Lilia Merino, was taken to Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune where she was treated for a gunshot wound to the leg and released.

The 16-year-old was arrested at Neptune Township High School two days later. Council fled the area and was arrested in Deerfield Beach, Florida, by members of the U.S. Marshal's Service. 

Council, who was wearing a yellow jail-issued jumpsuit, sat in the jury box with a blank stare during the brief hearing. 

Members of his family sat in the second row of the courtroom. They declined to comment.

Alex Napoliello may be reached at anapoliello@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @alexnapoNJ. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

March coastal storm update: Just how hellish is your Friday commute going to be?

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Here's what drivers will be facing on their way to work or school on Friday morning, as a powerful nor'easter swirls off the New Jersey coast.

Weather forecasters have had a difficult time pinning down all the details of the powerful nor'easter that will be swirling off the New Jersey coast Thursday night and Friday, but they are certain of one thing: The Friday morning commute will be a wet and sloppy mess.

Exactly how wet and how sloppy depends on where you live, where you work or where you go to school.

For drivers in Passaic, Sussex and Warren counties, you will likely have to cope with a mix of rain and snow in the early morning, then all snow in the late morning, according to Patrick O'Hara, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service's regional office in Mount Holly.

nj-weather-snow-forecast-update.jpgHere's how much snow the National Weather Service is forecasting for northwestern New Jersey from early Friday morning through early Saturday morning.  

Commuters in other parts of northern New Jersey, as well as most areas of central and southern New Jersey, should expect to ride through pockets of wind-swept rain Friday morning, forecasters said. As the day goes on, some snow could mix in with the rain, and by Friday night a light coating of snow could accumulate in Bergen, Essex and Hudson counties as colder air sweeps in.

The biggest impact of the coastal storm will be the steady winds, and gusts that can get as high as 50 to 60 mph -- strong enough to bring down trees and power lines. 

"There are going to be howling winds tomorrow. There's no question about that," said Joe Miketta, the acting meteorologist in charge of the Mount Holly office. 

Aside from the strong winds and potential power outages, forecasters are concerned about the threat of coastal flooding, flooding near streams and rivers, and beach erosion.

nj-nyc-weather-snow-forecast.jpgHere's how much snow the National Weather Service is forecasting for northeastern New Jersey and New York City.  

Will it be a 'bomb cyclone'?

Meteorologists say this storm is going to get significantly stronger as it lingers in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday, about 200 miles away from New Jersey, so it has the potential to become a "bomb cyclone." 

That term is often used to describe storms that go through a process known as bombogenesis, when a storm's central pressure drops 24 millibars within 24 hours. O'Hara said this nor'easter could get close to that type of drop, based on data from computer guidance models. 

However, the storm is not expected to be nearly as strong as the blizzard/ bomb cyclone that hit New Jersey in early January. The central pressure of the blizzard dropped more than 50 millibars in 24 hours, making it one of the strongest East Coast storms since Hurricane Sandy. 

Whether or not it becomes an actual bomb cyclone, Friday's nor'easter is expected to pack a big punch -- producing wind gusts that have the force of tropical storm winds and dropping as much as 2 to 3 inches of rain on New Jersey, 3 to 6 inches of snow in far northern counties of the state, and up to a foot of snow in the Poconos.

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Len Melisurgo may be reached at LMelisurgo@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @LensReality or like him on Facebook. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

Big coastal storm could slam N.J. with heavy rain, flooding, 45 mph gusts

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New Jersey's weather is looking stormy in early March, with a possible coastal storm developing near the Jersey Shore

'The Bridge of San Luis Rey' is beautifully scripted at N.J. premiere: review

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'The Bridge of San Luis Rey,' adapted from the Thornton Wilder novel, plays in Red Bank through March 18

David Greenspan loves words. This was perhaps nowhere more clear than in his recent six-hour solo performance that meticulously delivered "Strange Interlude" with such precision that it seemed as though he had poured over every word with limitless care. The actor's adoration of language emerges again at Two River Theater in Red Bank, where he stars in a world-premiere production of his own stage adaptation of Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey," published in 1927.

Greenspan's version is efficient (75 minutes, not six hours), playful, and most of all dexterous with language. Lines are frequently in verse, and even the prose passages are vibrantly lyrical. It is a whimsical fairytale about big themes like love, longing, loss, and loneliness, but it is first a paean to the joys and powers of words.

Set in eighteenth-century Peru, Wilder's story finds grounding in the collapse of a flimsy Incan bridge and the death of the five travelers who plunged into the gorge below. Like the novel, Greenspan's adaptation opens by revealing the fact of five deaths on the compromised bridge, and then finds suspense by introducing more than a dozen characters without identifying which five are doomed. Greenspan plays Uncle Pio, a character with a relatively small storyline among the ensemble, but the adaptor also identifies himself to the audience as a stage director, frequently introducing characters, shifting the play's scenes, and offering narrative exposition. This nod to the dramatic structure of Wilder's "Our Town" is a sly and effective move by Greenspan both to make his adaptation more Wilderesque and also to manage the expanse of a novel within the confines of a short play.

Other than Uncle Pio, we also meet characters like Dona Maria (Mary Lou Rosato), a wealthy and lonely noble who drinks too much and misses her daughter, Dona Clara (Madeline Wise), who lives in Spain and greets every missive from her mother with an eye roll. There is Camila Perichole (Elizabeth Ramos), the beautiful actress who maintains affairs with bullfighters and politicians, and is the object of fiery longing from a peasant scribe Manuel (Bradley James Tejeda, El Coqui himself), whose twin brother Esteban (Zachary Infante) struggles to hide his resentment of Manuel's new devotion.

Greenspan's script impresses in its ability to introduce in such a short span these and other characters well enough that we come to know and care about each. This is of course key if we are going to worry about impending deaths, and pity the loss of life. Like most stage adaptation of novels, the show sacrifices some richness in its characterization and plotting, but Greenspan does well to divert attention from those necessary losses. The cast joins with director Ken Rus Schmoll to bring their characters effectively to full life. Schmoll returns to Two River after showing similar nuance in last season's "The Women of Padilla," another short, somber-sweet fairytale of a play.

Like "Padilla," "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is most interested with how tragedy effects the people who live on in its wake, but as told by Greenspan, Wilder's tale becomes at least as invested it its audience and the force of theatricality as it does in its characters. The five deaths happen intermittently over the course of the play rather than as some gruesome climax, and as stage director, Greenspan reveals each subsequent death with flippant matter-of-factness. The stage director says that the snapped bridge simply "flings the five gesticulating ants into the valley below," a line Greenspan borrows directly from Wilder, whose novel follows the determined efforts of a friar to make sense of the tragedy. Greenspan's adaptation shifts the burden of that investigation to the audience, if we are so inclined to take it up.

For the play is in part a spirited romp through the joy of a script full of slinky rhymes conjuring fanciful stories: an ode to the poetry of fairytale. But "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" also coyly invites consideration of how the space of theater so easily conjures and discards life. At the utterance of stage director, five lives end, a condition whose peculiarity lies at the heart of Greenspan's play.

THE BRIDGE OF SAN LUIS REY

Two River Theater Company

21 Bridge Avenue, Red Bank

Tickets: available online (http://www.tworivertheater.org/). Running through March 18.

Patrick Maley may be reached at patrickjmaley@gmail.com. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @PatrickJMaley. Find NJ.com/Entertainment on Facebook.


2018 State Wrestling Championships mega-coverage guide: All previews & more

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Check out the NJ.com mega-coverage guide, showing what we've done so far previewing the State Wrestling Championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City on March 2, 3 and 4 and what's yet to come.

Welcome to our complete preview coverage. For current live coverage of the 2018 NJSIAA State Wrestling Championships at Boardwalk Hall in Atlantic City, check out NJ.com's wrestling homepage.

LIVE COVERAGE & MORE
Starting 2:30 p.m.
• LIVE UPDATES, results, photos, brackets and more 
• LIVE CHAT: Friday

STATE TOURNAMENT ESSENTIALS
Full weekend schedule in Atlantic City
Complete, interactive list of all 448 AC qualifiers
All 14 state tournament brackets 
• First round pairings

SPECIAL LOOKS
  Weighing-in: Video previews for all 14 classes

STATE TOURNAMENT PREVIEWS
• N.J. in national rankings: 31 standouts head to Atlantic City

Fantastic Friday: 25 best matches on Opening Day
National No. 1 Kinner, Glory cap road show in Atlantic City
Can Bryan Martin's magical season end with a state title?
Gateway state champ wants rematch with Bergen Catholic national No. 1
Delsea's Billy Janzer ready to join program's elites
• These 7 wrestlers from Hudson County are headed to Atlantic City
• Robbinsville's Bilgrav ready to take on the field at 160

• Almost automatic to zero losses: A-to-Z guide to the finals
Who are the 44 wrestling medalists returning to Atlantic City?
State final bouts that we'd most like to see in A.C.
35 unranked wrestlers who would make noise in Atlantic City
Heading to A.C.: The top 8 wrestlers ranked at every weight class
P4P wrestler rankings: Atlantic City shuffle, final 5 additions
The final wrestling Top 20 of 2017-2018: The last shakeup after Toms River
A look back at live updates from the NJSIAA seeding meeting

REGION REWIND
• Pope John's Rotunda, year after AC injury, aims to atone
EPR's Babin defeats Bierdumpfel again
• Westwood's Furman, Pompton Lakes' Flynn stay unbeaten
Bergen Catholic's McKenzie goes from not wrestling to region champ
• Hasbrouck Heights' O'Malley again leaves no doubt claiming 170 title
• 'Little setback for major comeback.' Fair Lawn's Cedeno wins 113, eyes A.C. run
WATCH DePaul's Ricky Cabanillas beats buzzer, former teammate
•  WATCH Tempers flare in 126-pound final between N. Cabanillas, D. Weaver
Hackettstown's Carida tops Delbarton's Tavoso in marquee bout
• Delbarton, P'burg fulfill expectations, send 12 & 6 to AC
• HP's Olivieri earns tough title, eyes AC debut
•  WATCH: NP's Smith, Colonia's Poznanski provide stunning turns
•  WATCH: Woodbridge's Nyers pulls 2 upsets to win 220 title
•  WATCH: SPF's Wustefeld nails down 195 title
•  WATCH: Joe Heilmann edges Kelly for title
• Cunningham of SHP stops Fierro again to win at 132
• Armamento pulls stunning comeback to win 120 title
Wrestlers from Woodbridge have big day at Region 4
• Coleman completes 1-2 takedown, wins at 138 as 4 seed
• Voorhees big man rolls on
• Monroe's Bradley, between anthem statements, earns title
Casey wins 4th straight title, returning champs go 5-for-5
• RFH freshman Brignola places 3rd as the 126 8 seed
• HC freshman Ungar wins 106 title
 Hayes, Lamparelli, Bobchin are Mercer County winners
  WATCH: Bound Brook's Casey completes 4-peat at 152
  WATCH Raritan's Acevedo, a 10 seed, keeps amazing run going
  WATCH: Raritan's Wolf wins 220 title
  WATCH: Bound Brook's Sistrunk wins 285 title in UTB
• Messina win's 1st region title for Freehold Borough since 1964
Delran's Miraglia knocks off unbeaten Slendorn
 Hayes, Lamparelli, Bobchin are Mercer County winners
  WATCH: CBA's Koehler wins 3rd title; Ocean's Benner rolls to 2nd-straight

  WATCH: Wall's Kelly score big in 2nd on way to 145 title
• No. 4 Paulsboro wins 2 titles, sends 8 to Atlantic City
• Lacey wins 2 championships, sends 3 to AC
• No. 18 Camden Catholic wins 2 titles, sends 5 to states (PHOTOS)
• Lacey 145-pounder Luke Gauthier wins MOW
 State champs prevail: Kinner wins 4th, Mininno, Janzer earn 3rd
 WATCH: Gateway's Mininno, Kingsway's Kinner prevail in finals
O'Connell's redemption keys Southern's big day
•  Region 2 photo gallery
•  Region 3 photo gallery
•  Region 6 photo gallery
•  Region 7 photo gallery
•  Region 8 photo gallery

Pat Lanni may be reached at planni@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @PatLanniHS. Like NJ.com High School Sports on Facebook.

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Monmouth County school closings, early dismissals (Friday, March 2, 2018)

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Monmouth County schools have announced delayed openings on Friday, March 2 due to the heavy rain and high winds hitting the state.

As a strong nor'easter storm pounds the state with heavy rain and high winds, Monmouth County schools have started announcing closures and early dismissals for Friday, March 2.  

The following list will be updated as more closings and delayed openings are announced throughout Friday.

EARLY DISMISSAL

  • Henry Hudson Regional, 12:30 p.m. 
  • Keansburg, 12:15 p.m

If you know of any delays or closures not on this list, let us know in the comments.

Caitlyn Stulpin may be reached at cstulpin@njadvancemedia.com. Follow her on Twitter @caitstulpin. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

Girls basketball upsets & statement wins through the quarters: Double-digit seeds rise

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What you need to know from the state tournament

At N.J. cat convention, people will pay big bucks to mingle with celebrity kitties

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The new event, slated for April, is the brainchild of the owner of Catsbury Park, a cat cafe that opened last year in Asbury Park. Famous Instagram cats get top billing at the convention, which will have local cats up for adoption and raise money for charity.

More than 100 crashes reported on major highways during nor'easter

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Speed restrictions in effect on Parkway and Turnpike

Despite difficult driving conditions during Friday's nor'easter, no one has been seriously injured during the more than 100 crashes State Police troopers have responded to as of midday Friday.

In all, troopers have been on the scene of 109 crashes and have aided 147 drivers for problems ranging from flat tires, mechanical problems or spin-outs on roads they patrol.

In a crash that appeared serious to passers-by, a vehicle overturned on the southbound Garden State Parkway just after 10 a.m. near milepost 106.7 in Tinton Falls, but no one was seriously hurt, authorities said.

There are 45 mph speed restrictions on sections of both the Parkway and the New Jersey Turnpike. The speed limit has been reduced on the Parkway between exit 105 and 124 as well as between exit 158 and the New York State line due to salting as of 12:30 p.m.

Follow live N.J. power outage updates caused by strong nor'easter storm

On the Turnpike, the speed limits 45 between exit 6 and 8A as of 12:30 p.m, also for salting.

An empty tractor-trailer ban is in effect at the Walt Whitman, Ben Franklin, Commodore Barry and Betsy Ross bridges linking New Jersey and Philadelphia. 

State Police continue to caution motorists to reduce their speed. 

Jeff Goldman may be reached at jeff_goldman@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @JeffSGoldman. Find NJ.com on Facebook.

 

Previews, predictions for every boys basketball semifinal; Friday & Saturday

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NJ Advance Media takes a crack at predicting who makes the sectional finals.

State Wrestling Championships: LIVE UPDATES, results, photos, brackets and more

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Complete coverage of the N.J. State Wrestling Championships

Welcome to NJ.com's coverage of the 2018 NJSIAA State Wrestling Championships from Atlantic City. We have a talented group of reporters, photographers and videographers at the arena, ready to provide live updates and keep wrestling fans informed on the top stories coming out of Boardwalk Hall.  


RELATED: Who are the 44 wrestling medalists returning to Atlantic City?


2018 State Championship brackets
106 | 113 | 120 | 126 | 132 | 138 | 145
152 | 160 | 170 | 182 | 195 | 220 | 285

RESULTS AND PAIRINGS
First round pairings 


LIVE UPDATES: Friday's action, beginning at 2:30 p.m.


TOURNAMENT ESSENTIALS, PREVIEWS
  Weighing In - NJ.com's predictions for the tourney 
Full weekend schedule
• Complete list of AC qualifiers
 Fantastic Friday: 25 best matches on opening day of state wrestling


RELATED: Mega-coverage guide - Full preview & all you need to be ready for the finals


MORE PREVIEWS
 National No. 1 Kinner, Glory cap road show in Atlantic City
 Can Bryan Martin's magical season end with a state title?
 Gateway state champion wants rematch with Bergen Catholic national No. 1
 Delsea's Billy Janzer ready to join program's elites
 Fantastic Friday: 25 best matches on Opening Day
• Almost automatic to zero losses: A-to-Z guide to the finals
 Who are the 44 wrestling medalists returning to Atlantic City?
 State final bouts that we'd most like to see in A.C.
 35 unranked wrestlers who would make noise in Atlantic City
 Heading to A.C.: The top 8 wrestlers ranked at every weight class
 P4P wrestler rankings: Atlantic City shuffle, final 5 additions
 The final wrestling Top 20 of 2017-2018: The last shakeup after Toms River


Girls basketball: Previews, predictions for every semifinal, Friday & Saturday

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NJ Advance Media takes a crack at predicting who makes the sectional finals.

New play 'Wild Horses' is strained, lacks innovation at N.J. Repertory Theatre: review

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'Wild Horses' seems like that stranger at the bar late in the night who is just dying to tell a story. Nobody likes that person.

It is karaoke night at a lively, warmhearted neighborhood bar (Jessica Parks with a great set). After five or six performances, some dancing, and friendly mingling, one woman (Estelle Bajou as a nameless character) mounts the stage to sing the American classic "Horse With No Name." But instead of singing, she launches without explanation or justification into a story of her childhood. The bar patrons don't seem put off, but before we know it this woman is deep into a tale of her adolescence.

"Wild Horses," a new play by Allison Gregory receiving part of its rolling world-premiere at Long Branch's New Jersey Repertory Company, is a one-woman show about teenage coming-of-age in one long ago, spirited summer. Our narrator, now a mother of teenagers who has slipped off to the bar on the pretense of going to a book club, tells us how she and her two closest friends snuck alcohol, experimented with boys, slipped out of the house for late-night exploits, and so on down the line of the expected tales of teenage angst. The big questions that "Wild Horses" leave open is why this story is particularly unique or important.

Instead, this character seems like that stranger at the bar late in the night who is just dying to tell a story. Nobody likes that person, and "Wild Horses" never bothers to suggest why we should like this character or invest in her story. The press release suggests that this "is a coming-of-age story about a time when anything was possible, when the world was full of promise, young love was still a fantasy." This catalog of platitudes suits "Wild Horses" well, as Gregory does little to innovate or test the limits of her familiar genre.

Bajou and director SuzAnne Barabas seem to do all they can to find something compelling in this script, but the search is strained. Bajou changes voices and mannerisms to embody stock characters like bullying older brothers, geeky high school boys, gruff fathers, and dreamy-cool crushes, successfully distinguishing them all from each other, if not from the long history of their type.

The play closes with some requisite melodrama at the close of our narrator's story and what turns out to be a welcome last call from the bartender.

WILD HORSES

The NJ Repertory Company

179 Broadway, Long Branch

Tickets available online (https://web.ovationtix.com/trs/cal/93), running through March 25.

Patrick Maley may be reached at patrickjmaley@gmail.com. Find him on Twitter and Instagram @PatrickJMaley. Find NJ.com/Entertainment on Facebook.

Power not expected to return until mid-week for some in N.J. | Track the outages

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Check to see when your power will be restored with our outage tracker and on your utility company's website.

2 N.J. teens, puppy die in Delaware crash

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Drugs or alcohol did not appear to have a role in the 10:15 a.m. crash, the Delaware State Police said, adding that it was unclear why the car drifted from the left lane.

Two 19-year-olds from New Jersey and a puppy were killed and a 20-year-old man critically injured when their car drifted off the road and hit a tree in Delaware this morning, according to a report on delawareonline.com.

Driver Adrian Velazquez of Kearny and passenger Alfahtee Heuy of Hillside were  pronounced dead at the scene of the crash on U.S. 13, the New Journal website said, quoting the Delaware State Police.

The 20-year-old, a resident of Howell, was taken to Christiana Hospital in critical condition, the website said.

Master Cpl. Melissa Jaffe of the Delaware State Police told the website that Velazquez, who was wearing a seat belt, was driving north on U.S. 13 in the left lane when his car veered into the right lane, then off the road into the grass.

The car continued on the grass, hit "a small rise in the ground,'' went airborne, landed in thick brush and came to a stop when it struck a large tree, the website quoted Jaffe as saying.

Drugs or alcohol did not appear to have a role in the 10:15 a.m. crash, Jaffe said, adding that it was unclear why the car drifted from the left lane.

Huey and the injured passenger weren't wearing seat belts, according to the report. Huey was partially ejected from the car and the injured man was ejected and found a short distance away.

N.J. has ties to the nation's very first mass shooting and its most recent

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Howard Unruh killed 13 people in 1949, including relatives of a student who survived the Parkland school shooting.

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