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Baraka Calls for Federal Investigation and Booker's Father Dies

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During a ceremony attended by Mayor Cory Booker and other city officials, trendy grover Whole Foods officially announced it would be building a store in the Hahne’s building on Broad Street.

A Belleville man who had been indicted for manslaughter in the death of a 2-year-old Newark toddler in 2011 lost his appeal this week, one week after the man himself was killed in what investigators said was a targeted shooting.

Councilman Ras Baraka called on the federal government to investigate whether Essex County Executive Joseph DiVincenzo pressured an East Orange charity to disburse federal aid to people who would not normally qualify for it. The charity’s activities were first reported in a Star Ledger article Sunday.

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Former mayor Sharpe James’s request to appeal his 2008 corruption conviction to the United States Supreme Court was rejected.

Mayor Cory Booker’s father Cary died in Las Vegas. He was 76 years old.

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