Camden

The Scholastic Rowing Association of America national championship regatta is scheduled for Friday and Saturday on the Cooper River in Camden. Gonzaga (Wash.) is the defending champion in the boys' varsity eight grand final, and National Cathedral (Wash.) is the defending champion in the girls' varsity eight grand final. For complete results of the weekend's 186 races and more information on the regatta, go to www.sraa.net . The SRAA was formed in 1935 to foster scholastic rowing and to stage an annual regatta open to all schools of the world, the winner to be recognized as North American champions.

An attendance clerk at Woodrow Wilson High School filed a lawsuit Wednesday in Superior Court in Camden County alleging attendance inflation by her superiors and the Camden School District. Roxanne Garrett also accuses former Wilson principal Tyrone Richards of sexual harassment and creating a hostile work environment. Richards did not return calls for comment Wednesday. In a six-page complaint, Garrett describes a district with an "everyone should fear for their job" mentality.

A Camden man pleaded guilty Thursday to a scheme involving cashing checks stolen from curbside mail boxes in business industrial parks in Camden, Gloucester, and Burlington counties. Appearing before U.S. District Judge Jerome B. Simandle in federal court in Camden, Michael A. Ingalls, 35, of Camden, admitted to one count of conspiracy to commit bank fraud and one count of possessing stolen mail. Ingalls and Ibn Muhammad, 35, of Camden, a co-conspirator, would recruit helpers to cash the checks.

Passenger trains could be running again between Camden and Glassboro by 2019, if someone comes up with $1.6 billion and the current construction schedule doesn't slip. Those are big ifs. South Jersey residents got an update Monday evening on the latest plans for a long-discussed 18-mile light-rail line that would restore passenger service to a corridor now used only for freight trains. At a show-and-tell session at Woodbury High School, about 100 area residents talked to officials of STV Inc., the engineering firm conducting an $8.1 million environmental-impact study for the Delaware River Port Authority.

Colan Miller waited his whole career for Camden Catholic to push into South Jersey baseball prominence. Maybe that's why the senior righthander worked so quickly and efficiently in Saturday's Diamond Classic quarterfinals. Miller pitched a three-hitter with five strikeouts as Camden Catholic beat Pitman, 2-1, in a game that took just 74 minutes at Washington Township. "The tempo was perfect for me," Miller said. "I love to work fast. " With the victory, Camden Catholic (16-8)

Connie Williams, 72, a community activist who worked with children and police to keep her East Camden neighborhood safe, died early Saturday, May 18, of lung cancer. Ms. Williams ran after-school and summer crime-prevention programs in an effort to keep children active and away from drugs. For the last decade, she had been president of the East Side Civic Association in Camden. "It's a sad day for the city," Camden County Police Chief Scott Thomson said. "Miss Connie was a mother hen to the children of East Camden.

For several years, even as the Camden city administration warned that it was unable to financially support its police department, more than half of $12 million in federal and state grants that poured in during that time lay unused. Most of that money couldn't be used because the city failed to keep police staffing at levels required by the grants. But more than $500,000 in grant money that the city was free to use sat around for two years until recently when the police department purchased various items, including new cars, portable radios, and tires, according to an Inquirer analysis of police-related grants the city has received since 2009.

Angelo J. Errichetti, 84, a former Camden mayor and state senator who was South Jersey's premier Democratic power broker in the decade before his 1981 bribery conviction in the Abscam scandal, has died after a long illness. He had been living in Ventnor, N.J. During two mayoral terms, starting in 1973, he built a reputation as an unflagging booster for his hometown, where his father, a Neapolitan immigrant, stoked coal at the shipyard to feed seven children. Mr. Errichetti's efforts to revive Camden's moribund economy were said to occupy 12 hours on a typical day, yet he took on a second office simultaneously.

Dominique Reid played in just five games last season for Timber Creek because of a knee injury. But the 6-foot-8 forward still earned a Division I basketball scholarship. Reid on Wednesday signed with Niagara University, according to Timber Creek coach Rich Bolds. "Once Dom gets healthy, he can dominate that league," Bolds said of Reid, who averaged 20.2 points as a junior. Reid suffered the knee injury in the spring of 2012. He didn't take the floor for Timber Creek until late February.