Pernetti Gets $1 Million Payout [VIDEO]
Tim Pernetti will receive a $1.2 million payout from Rutgers University as part of the terms of his contract in the wake of yesterday's resignation.
Tim Pernetti will receive a $1.2 million payout from Rutgers University as part of the terms of his contract in the wake of yesterday's resignation.
The burgeoning basketball scandal has cost Rutgers more than a popular, young athletic director, an interim general counsel, two coaches and a lot of embarrassment.
Rutgers University Athletic Director Tim Pernetti has stepped down as university President Robert Barachi issues an apology to those who were offended by the Mike Rice video and explain his actions and those of Pernetti.
BREAKING NEWS UPDATE: This afternoon Townsquare Media NJ received a letter from members of the St. Peter's Prep basketball team in support of Coach Todd Decker. In the letter, the players say, "at no point ever have we felt threatened or fearful in any towards Coach Decker." They go on to say, "Coach Decker has nothing but our support and dedication."
Mike Rice has been fired as head men's basketball coach at Rutgers University and says he is "deeply sorry" for his behavior.
Police in Middlesex Borough continue to look for a teenage girl they say has been missing since March 18.
Monday's deadlines to apply for FEMA disaster relief has been extended yet again.
An Illinois man was arrested for allegedly stealing 21 tons of Muenster from a Wisconsin cheese company. He then attempted to sell the 42,000 pounds of cheese at a rest stop off the New Jersey turnpike.
Pedro Quezada, the winner of the $338 million Powerball jackpot owes $29,000 in child support and could face arrest.
Garden State Parkway drivers should expect heavy delays as repairs to a hole in a bridge deck will block a lane in each direction in Monmouth & Ocean counties.
Perhaps they should have called this the Curve Ball tour. Tom Morello, filling in for Steven Van Zandt during the E Street Band's ongoing concerts through Australia, says Bruce Springsteen tinkers with the setlist until the absolute last moment.
It turns out the winning $338 million Powerball ticket was purchased in North Jersey, not at a Bordentown truck stop.