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A 39-year-old man drowned after getting caught in a rip present on the New York Avenue seaside in Lavallette, New Jersey, on Tuesday, police confirmed to NBC10. In keeping with police, the person from Totowa, New Jersey, was heard screaming for assist by others on the seaside, which is unguarded through the week after Labor Day. “We were done yesterday,” said Capt. Jack Caucino of the Lavallette Beach Patrol. “So everybody’s on their own, and people get this idea that they could swim, and they’re strong swimmers, and they’re not.” After a number of minutes, the person was pulled out…

Shakira Zahiruddin, a mom of two and eight months pregnant, spoke via tears at a press convention in Brooklyn Tuesday, the place she and her union accused Barnard Faculty of unlawfully laying her off. Photograph by Adam Daly Barnard Faculty is going through allegations that it laid off a custodian who’s eight months pregnant to keep away from paying her maternity depart, in violation of her union contract and federal regulation, the employee and her union leaders mentioned on Wednesday. The choice left her with out revenue or well being protection for herself, her two kids, ages 7 and 13,…