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Editorial: News and Features

The U.S.Navy's Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team performs a flyover with six F/A-18s past the Statue of Liberty during the parade of ships to kick off Fleet Week 2012. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Egyptians celebrate in Journal Square after President Hosni Mubarak's resignation. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Firefighters reach out to others trapped on the roof of a house on Randolph Avenue while battling a three-alarm fire. The firefighters on the roof were rescued by those on the tower ladder. Four homes were damaged and four people were injured including three firefighters.
     
  
Students and teachers of St. Henry’s Religious Education stage the Living Stations of the Cross–a series of tableaux depicting the last hours of Jesus Christ–at St. Henry’s Roman Catholic Church in observance of the Christian holy day, Good Friday. Here, the Ninth Station: Jesus Christ (Jack Santopietro) falls for a third time. At right, Ezekiel Lupianez, 4, dressed as a Roman soldier, breaks character, when upon seeing his mother, Maria Lupianez, in the audience taking his picture, he breaks into a smile and waves for the camera. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Jersey City firefighters decontaminate a young boy and a woman who lived in a bed bug-infested house on Wilkinson Avenue. Hudson County Sheriff's officers who showed up at the house looking for a weapon in connection with a domestic violence incident were greeted by an infestation of bed bugs, prompting the Jersey City Fire Department to set up a decontamination tent in the street. Ten residents of the building as well as five sheriff's officers were quarantined in the two-and-a-half story building while fire officials brought people out to scrub them down in a special shower set up at the scene. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Denise Batista is comforted by her friend, Claribel Cruz, surrounded by family members and friends who gathered at her home in the Heights a day after her son, Juan Batista, 26, was shot to death in what authorities believe was a retaliatory killing in response to the shooting of a Latin Kings member earlier in the year. Denise Batista called her son "a happy person" who was trying to put his life back together after spending time in jail. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
     
  
Friends try to restrain a distraught Miles Dionisio, sister of Christine Mariano, 20, who was found strangled to death in a fire at Mariano’s Stevens Avenue home. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Jersey City police detective Robert Potter stops the distraught brother of murder victim, Ramona Pujols, from going into her apartment building on Central Avenue where she was found dead. Jersey City officers detained the brother, cuffed him and was taken away in a police car, after he continued to be uncontrollable at the crime scene. He was released later in the day. The main suspect, Pujols' boyfriend, William Davila, 36, was arrested the next day. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Ivan Reyes Sr. -- holding his son, Ivan Jr. -- lunges at killer Martey J. Williams at a sentencing hearing. Williams had smiled as Reyes showed the court scars on his son, who was injured in the Dec. 8, 2009, attack that killed his wife, Jacqueline. Reyes was found in contempt of court but was released three hours later after time served. Williams pleaded guilty last month and his sentencing was postponed. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
     
  
Spectators snap photos as Tiger Woods tee off at one of the holes during The Barclays Classic Pro-Am at Liberty National Golf Course. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
A Jersey City police detective investigates a burglary at Young's Fine Jewelry on Central Avenue. Cops say the burglars used a brick to smash the door of the shop. About $200,000 in merchandise was stolen. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
A tractor trailer carrying organic foods to a city co-op this afternoon clipped the limb of a tree on Ninth Street near Hamilton Park, ripping the tree out of the ground and sending it crashing on two parked cars. Luz Crisostomo, the driver of the white Scion, says she was praying at St. Michael's Church of St. Jude nearby when the tree fell on the car. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
     
  
JERSEY CITY, N.J., FEB. 27, 2006 -- A firefighter drags a fire hose into one of four homes on Fairmount Avenue damaged by the four-alarm fire which also ripped through three businesses on West Side Avenue. Three firefighters were injured. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Jersey City Police Department Emergency Services Unit officers carry the casket of their fellow officer, Robert Nguyen, followed by Bhuddist monks and his family after the funeral service at the New Jersey National Guard Armory. Nguyen and another police officer, Shawn Carson, died when their police vehicle plunged off the Lincoln Highway Bridge and into the frigid waters of the Hackensack River on Christmas night in 2005. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Funeral service for slain U.S. Marine Anthony Chenay Adams, 23, of Jersey City, at Monumental Baptist Church. Here, U.S. Marines place Anthony C. Adams' flag-draped casket on a pickup truck hearse after the funeral service. Police say Adams was the victim of a carjacking. Early on May 26, he was in his 2002 Ford Explorer on Bidwell Avenue when he was shot once in the chest and left ear, officials said. Earl Austin, 20, of Bartholdi Avenue, has been charged. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
     
  
People participate in a candlelight vigil for Rutgers University freshman Tyler Clementi at Brower Commons on the Rutgers University campus. Clementi jumped to his death off the George Washington Bridge a day after two classmates surreptitiously recorded him having sex with a man in his dorm room and broadcasted it over the Internet. (Reena Rose Sibayan/AP Photo)
   
Bloomfield High School Key Club member, Yvonne Burne, 16, draws a number from inside the plexiglass drum during the flu vaccine lottery held at the municipal building. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Survivors of the US Airways Flight 1549 bound for Charlotte, N.C.--which made an emergency landing on the Hudson River after both engines failed when the plane struck a flock of geese during takeoff minutes earlier at LaGuardia Airport--are escorted by police from the NY Waterway Port Imperial ferry terminal, to board a bus that will take them to the senior citizen nutrition center to be reunited with their loved ones. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
     
  
Jerry Cork of Maryland shares his portable television with complete strangers who came to the nation's capital in hopes of seeing in person the historic moment when Sen.Barack Obama is sworn in as the first African-American president of the United States, but instead were unable to get past the huge crowds that have gathered on the National Mall. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
U.S. President Barack Obama and New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine wave at the top of the steps as they exit Air Force One at Newark Liberty International Airport. (Reena Rose Sibayan/AP Photo)
   
Graduates wave to the their loved ones in the audience before the start of the Hudson County Community College graduation ceremony at The New Jersey Performing Arts Center. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
     
  
Genie Morrow, upper left hand corner, and Liza Bertini, lower right hand corner, lead a kids yoga class at Devotion Yoga. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Nancy Fiacco of Bayville, N.J., calls the attention of Champion Fyrethorn Royal Guard "Killian," foreground, during a break grooming a family of Irish Setters, with breeder Charlie Sloughfy, center, for the Garden Specialty Dog Show at the Meadowlands Expo Center. On the grooming tables are, from left, Fyrethorn Femme Fatale "Kaela," Fyrethorn Straight Flush "Celine," and Champion Fyrethorn Center Court "Bryan." (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Eleven-year-old Kate Matthews shoots out of the water slide at the municipal pool on an 80-degree summer day. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Clark Eagle)
     
  
Lailani Susana, 5, plays in the spraying water of an open fire hydrant at the corner of Belmont and Bergen Avenues during a heat wave. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)
   
Pre-K students at the Kidz Kastle II on Ocean Avenue wave to Elmo as they prepare to march down the block in celebration of The Week of the Young Child. (Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal)