NJ Man Charged With High School Junior’s Murder – Patch.com

Good evening, South Jersey Patch readers! Here are some of the share-worthy stories from our area for today.

Here are the top five stories from the Garden State:

  1. A Newark man was arrested Thursday and charged with the June 6 murder of a Maplewood teen Moussa Fofana, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office and Maplewood Police Department announced Friday.(Read more on Patch)
  2. New Jersey students, educators, staff and visitors will once again be wearing face masks in school buildings – regardless of vaccination status – when the new school year begins in September, Gov. Phil Murphy announced on Friday. (Read more on Patch)
  3. A youth wrestling coach arrested on a child pornography charge was barred from the premises of a local youth wrestling club after allegations of inappropriate behavior surfaced against him in 2019, club officials said Thursday. (Read more on Patch)
  4. Scott Fairlamb intends to plead guilty to two of the 12 charges facing him for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots, and is asking that people donate money to his “Patriot Fund” to help him and his wife Andrea. (Read more on Patch)
  5. A new national survey done by Rutgers and other universities found that 60 to 71 percent of those polled think the government should mandate coronavirus vaccination, depending on the circumstances. (Read more on Patch)

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