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How To reach us NEWS EDITOR: Steve Johnson (973) 428-6642 sjohnsonmorristo.gannett,com TRENTON BUREAU: (609) 984-4343 PAGE AiJ aw JULY 25, 2000 A 1 DAILY RECORD, MORRIS COUNTY I 1 FT" IN BRI rzine on spend! mis kjo ng ran Claims Democrat's proposals would cost taxpayers at least $756B BY ALAN GUENTHER GANNETT STATE BUREAU TRENTON A record tax increase, averaging $4,934.51 per taxpayer, would be required to pay for spending proposals by Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Jon Corzine, his Republican opponent, Rep. Bob Franks, charged Monday at a Statehouse news conference. The price tag for four of ks pre-school. And what would Franks spend to solve the same problems? He wouldn't say.

Franks promised only to provide details of his own proposals in the weeks to come. Campaigning with House Budget Committee Chairman John Kasich, R-Ohio, Franks said the Corzine proposals would "bankrupt America." Kasich called the Corzine plan a "dinosaur" that would stand no chance of approval in Congress. Franks said he supports the same popular goals as Corzine but Lautenberg's legacy Court: Insurers not always liable 3.: 2 JIM 1 if jl BY JOHN P. MC ALPIN ASSOCIATED PRESS TRENTON A jury needs to know that an insurance company is not always liable, especially if an owner could have taken steps to prevent property damage, the state Supreme Court said Monday. In a 6-1 decision, the court ordered a new trial after a jury said The Princeton Insurance Co.

had to pay $150,000 to the owners of a failed nightclub damaged by arson. During the trial, no one disputed that the June 1994 fire was intentionally set. But witnesses disagreed over whether the managers of Hollywood Nights in Bloomfield turned off the automatic sprinkler system before the fire. The trial court judge was clearly wrong when he failed to tell jurors the insurance company could not be held liable if New traffic offense may lead to more plea deals TRENTON (AP) Gov. Christie Whitman signed into law Monday a measure that creates a new traffic offense and clarifies the rules that allow municipal prosecutors to accept plea bargain deals.

In April, the state's Administrative Office of the Courts said municipal court judges should no longer accept plea deals when the facts don't fit the crime. Many said that would end plea bargains and clog dockets at local courts. The bill signed by Whitman creates a new traffic violation for drivers who operate vehicles "in an unsafe manner likely to endanger person or property." Guilty drivers are not charged penalty points in first or second offenses. Lawmakers who supported the bill said it will allow municipal prosecutors and courts the flexibility to allow plea bargains. Navy officer killed by drunken driver PITTSGROVE TWE (AP) The driver at fault in a head-on collision that killed a Navy officer had been cited for drunken driving hours earlier, state police said Monday Michael Pangle, 37, of Wood-stown was charged with driving under the influence after registering a blood-alcohol content of 0.21 percent more than twice the limit for drivers about 10:30 p.m.

Saturday, according to John Hagerty, a spokesman for the state police. Bigger reward for info on Killing at gas station BERNARDS TWP. Reward money for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the killer of a gas station employee has grown to $15,000, authorities said. A second anonymous donor has provided an additional $5,000 toward the capture of the gunman who shot Joseph H. Sass, 31, of Harmony Township outside the Exxon station on King George Road on June 29.

The first donor initially put up $5,000, then later doubled the amount, Somerset County Prosecutor Wayne J. Forrest said. Anyone with information about the homicide can call (888) 577-TIPS (8477). 2 men indicted in Jersey City killings NEW YORK (AP) Two men were indicted Monday on federal racketeering charges relating to the 1994 murders of three people in Jersey City and other acts of violence in New York and Pennsylvania. A grand jury in U.S.

District Court in Manhattan returned the indictment against Lin Long Qun, 29, and Dong Qi Ming, 31, after hearing evidence that they committed numerous acts of violence, including the murders. The indictment accused the men of killing Huang Yong Ting, Jiang Ai Qin and Lin Yu in August 1994 in a basement apartment on Wayne Street in Jersey City. It said the defendants at the time were members of a Chinese alien-smuggling gang and committed the murders to boost their standing. MIKE DERES ASSOCIATED PRESS Sen. Frank Lautenberg, right, who is preparing to leave office after 18 years, is greeted on Monday by Rutgers President Francis L.

Lawrence on campus in New Brunswick after the senator said he is donating his official papers 2,000 cubic feet of them to the university. The photo at right, showing Lautenberg speaking during a bill signing with President Clinton, will be part of the Rutgers Special Collections. Former Newark mayor charged in school fraud llnt1lr Vlf fZl'ftWllltll CC Retail Wholesale UMMVl 1 ui VWIIIlHJVJ Since 1892 Now Picking Our Jgrsey Super Sweet Com I Lit- Corzine's biggest spending proposals totals $756 billion, Franks said. Corzine said Franks' estimates are bogus. But Corzine refused to say what his proposals would, in fact, cost.

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State law requires that hazard clause in all fire insurance policies, according to the court. "Our holding today is dictated as much by common sense as by a straightforward reading of the statute," Associate Justice Peter G. Verniero wrote in the opinion. The court found "by plain logic" that a property owner who may have disabled a sprinkler system could be found to have "increased the hazard," Verniero wrote. This decision reinforces what is a common clause in fire insurance policies across the country, said Allan Maitlin, the insurance company's lawyer.

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