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  A Camden man died early Sunday morning after being shot multiple times in his car and then crashing the vehicle while trying to flee from the gunfire, according to police. Rayshine Burks, 24, was shot in his gold Buick Century in front of Center Food Market at the intersection of Henry and Royden Streets around 12:30 a.m., the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. He drove away but crashed into a tree after two blocks, police said. He was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

A police officer and a 21-year-old man were wounded in a shooting during a struggle early Tuesday in Delanco. Patrolman Francisco Ambrifi, 40, responded to a 911 call from a resident of the 400 block of Delaware Avenue about a man causing a disturbance on the street shortly before 4 a.m. The officer encountered a man who was "behaving in a disorderly fashion" and who "failed to comply with officer's orders," and a struggle followed. Ambrifi fired his gun, striking the victim more than once, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi and Delanco Police Chief Jesse DeSanto said in a statement.

Congratulations to Cooper University Hospital and Rowan University. They're holding a celebration today in Camden to mark their partnership to create a medical school. Gov. Brendan Byrne promised South Jersey a four-year medical school 30 years ago. But it took that long to get the right mixture of fate, politics, and economics needed to finally make it happen. There was that fateful day in April 2007 when Gov. Corzine was critically injured in a car wreck on the Garden State Parkway.

The New Jersey Education Law Center has gone to court to try to reverse state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf's decision to approve the KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy Renaissance school in Camden. In a filing in Superior Court on behalf of some city residents and regional organizations, the law center, which represents students in failing school districts, says the KIPP application does not follow the law with regard to three of its five proposed schools. In March, Cerf signed off on an agreement between the Camden Board of Education and the nonprofit to build five partly private, partly public schools in the city.

Once almost unthinkable, cutting off healthy breasts to prevent cancer is increasingly common among women with certain gene mutations and, as Angelina Jolie found, often restores a sense of control. "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no ways diminishes my femininity," the movie star wrote Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed. Jolie, who watched her mother die of ovarian cancer at age 56, inherited a mutation in a gene, BRCA1, that puts her at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

In a city synonymous with failure, Cooper University Hospital is the grand exception. Cooper's new glass and metal pavilion rises 10 stories over downtown Camden. It cost $220 million. The first class at its new $140 million medical school starts this summer. Nearby, rehabbed rowhouses on cobblestone streets create an oasis amid Camden's burned-out buildings. Behind it all is hospital board chairman George E. Norcross III, the insurance magnate who is now promoting Cooper with the same relentless focus that has made him very wealthy and arguably the top Democratic boss in New Jersey.

A Camden man died early Sunday after being shot several times in his car and then crashing the vehicle while trying to flee from the gunfire, according to police. Rayshine Burks, 24, was shot in his gold Buick Century in front of Center Food Market at the intersection of Henry and Royden Streets around 12:30 a.m., the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. He drove away but crashed into a tree after two blocks, police said. He was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Two people were shot dead in Camden over the weekend, authorities said. Franklin Morales, 39, was found lying in a driveway on the 900 block of Biedeman Avenue in East Camden around 9 p.m. Saturday. He was pronounced dead at Cooper University Hospital. Around 11 p.m., Khalil Cotton, 23, of Camden, was shot near Mount Ephraim Avenue and Morton Street in the Whitman Park section. He was driven to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The deaths brought the city's homicide tally to 33, compared with 23 at this time last year.

Two people were killed in a head-on crash this morning on The White Horse Pike in Clementon, Camden County, police said. A third person - a man - was reported in critical but stable condition at Cooper University Hospital in Camden. The two cars collided head on near Higgins Avenue about 3:30 a.m. Killed were a male and a female, whose names and ages were not immediately released. An investigation is under way.

A rush-hour car accident Friday evening closed both eastbound and westbound lanes of Route 70 near Cuthbert Boulevard in Cherry Hill. One man injured in the accident was taken to Cooper University Hospital, Cherry Hill police said. Authorities said one or both directions of Route 70 could be closed for hours. By 8:30, the highway was fully open, police said. The cause of the accident was under investigation.    - Shaj Mathew

A police officer and a 21-year-old man were wounded in a shooting during a struggle early Tuesday in Delanco. Patrolman Francisco Ambrifi, 40, responded to a 911 call from a resident of the 400 block of Delaware Avenue about a man causing a disturbance on the street shortly before 4 a.m. The officer encountered a man who was "behaving in a disorderly fashion" and who "failed to comply with officer's orders," and a struggle followed. Ambrifi fired his gun, striking the victim more than once, Burlington County Prosecutor Robert D. Bernardi and Delanco Police Chief Jesse DeSanto said in a statement.

Once almost unthinkable, cutting off healthy breasts to prevent cancer is increasingly common among women with certain gene mutations and, as Angelina Jolie found, often restores a sense of control. "I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no ways diminishes my femininity," the movie star wrote Tuesday in a New York Times op-ed. Jolie, who watched her mother die of ovarian cancer at age 56, inherited a mutation in a gene, BRCA1, that puts her at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

A Camden man died early Sunday after being shot several times in his car and then crashing the vehicle while trying to flee from the gunfire, according to police. Rayshine Burks, 24, was shot in his gold Buick Century in front of Center Food Market at the intersection of Henry and Royden Streets around 12:30 a.m., the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. He drove away but crashed into a tree after two blocks, police said. He was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

  A Camden man died early Sunday morning after being shot multiple times in his car and then crashing the vehicle while trying to flee from the gunfire, according to police. Rayshine Burks, 24, was shot in his gold Buick Century in front of Center Food Market at the intersection of Henry and Royden Streets around 12:30 a.m., the Camden County Prosecutor's Office said. He drove away but crashed into a tree after two blocks, police said. He was taken to Cooper University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Friday morning went terribly awry for two Camden schoolmates and friends, boys 11 and 12 years old. The 12-year-old was at his home in the Crestbury Apartments when, around 8 a.m., the 11-year-old, who does not live there, shot him in the face, said Jason Laughlin, spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor's Office. The two boys, whose names were not released by authorities, both attend the H.B. Wilson Family School, according to school board President Kathryn Blackshear. Only one shot was fired, authorities said.

The New Jersey Education Law Center has gone to court to try to reverse state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf's decision to approve the KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy Renaissance school in Camden. In a filing in Superior Court on behalf of some city residents and regional organizations, the law center, which represents students in failing school districts, says the KIPP application does not follow the law with regard to three of its five proposed schools. In March, Cerf signed off on an agreement between the Camden Board of Education and the nonprofit to build five partly private, partly public schools in the city.

A woman was stabbed to death Tuesday in Camden apparently by the former boyfriend against whom she had obtained a restraining order a week ago, officials said. The suspected assailant, identified as Jose Quinones, 36, of the 600 block of North 9th Street, also suffered stab wounds, but survived and was undergoing surgery Tuesday afternoon at Cooper University Hospital, authorities said. The Camden County Prosecutor's Office said Madaline Morales, 27, was found stabbed at a home on the 500 block of North 9th Street, in North Camden, about 9:30 a.m. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

A Rowan University student died 13 hours after being hit by a car early Friday on campus. Police suspect alcohol may have been involved in the accident. Matthew J. Uhl, 22, a senior entrepreneurship major from Little Egg Harbor, N.J., suffered massive head trauma after a driver from Connecticut hit him on State Street around 12:30 a.m., Glassboro police said. Friends took to Twitter earlier in the day sending messages of support, using the hash tag #prayformattuhl, with biting references to drunken driving.

Two New Jersey state troopers were taken to a hospital after an allegedly drunken driver struck their cruiser while they were at an accident scene on I-676 in Camden on Saturday morning. The troopers, from the Belmar barracks, were investigating the accident about 3 a.m. and had stopped their car in the road when another car struck theirs from behind, police said. Both troopers were in the car, which sustained extensive damage, police said. The troopers complained of pain and were taken to Cooper University Hospital, where they were treated and released, police said.