Marlton

There is no doubt that Bernard A. Nesbitt killed his ex-boss. There is only doubt about why he did it. That was the message that emerged on the opening day of Nesbitt's trial yesterday before Burlington County Superior Court Judge Paul R. Kramer. Nesbitt, 39, of the 7200 block of Sommers Road in the West Oak Lane section of Philadelphia, who was a stockbroker with Graystone Nash, is accused of beating his boss, Paul E. Arnone, to death after a quarrel in the firm's Marlton office on Sept.

READING - A Burlington County man convicted of severely injuring his Bucks County girlfriend by driving off as she hung onto his pickup truck has been sentenced to five to 20 years in state prison. Michael Morrone, 22, of Marlton, was convicted March 25 of aggravated and simple assault and related offenses. Berks County Court Judge Thomas Parisi also ordered him Monday to pay $2.2 million for medical expenses. Authorities said he dragged Christine McGhee of Warminster with his truck in a Kutztown University parking lot after the two had argued at a party in December 2008.

Two Marlton teenagers were forced to drive at gunpoint to Philadelphia on Monday during an early-morning carjacking, the second in a month at the Marlton traffic circle, police said. The teenagers were uninjured. Jason Darigo, 18, and a 17-year-old passenger had stopped at a traffic signal at about 12:30 a.m. at the circle, where Routes 70 and 73 intersect, when a man with a handgun forced his way into the car, said Lt. Thomas Bresnen of the Evesham Township Police Department. The man held Darigo and his passenger, whose name was not released, at gunpoint and ordered them to drive to the Kensington section of Philadelphia.

Besides any other distinctions she may receive in her life, week-old Jacquelyn Grace Kurth already has received the distinction of being the last baby born in the delivery room at Garden State Hospital in Marlton. Jacquelyn Grace, who was born at 11:08 a.m. last Wednesday, became the last in a line of 20,442 babies born at Garden State Hospital since 1973. Almost immediately after her birth, all of the obstetric and pediatric services of the West Jersey Health Systems were consolidated at West Jersey's Eastern Division in Voorhees.

Two armed men robbed a Marlton bank, and in what police said was an unrelated crime the same day, a man was sprayed with pepper gas and robbed as he was preparing to enter another Marlton bank. Vitali Soukatch, 24, of Runnemede, was walking to a Summit Bank branch office at Greentree Center and Route 73 at 2 p.m. Monday when a man wearing dark clothing and a knit cap approached him, police said. After spraying the pepper gas into Soukatch's face, temporarily incapacitating him, the robber grabbed an undisclosed amount of money and fled, police said.

A body recovered from the Delaware River was identified yesterday as a man who killed his wife in their Marlton home and then committed suicide by jumping off the Delaware Memorial Bridge. Walter Buczynski, 59, was executive vice president of Fieldstone Mortgage Co., which until 2006 was one of the biggest subprime lenders in the nation. On Jan. 19, police found his wife, Marci Buczynski, 37, dead of a broken neck in the master bedroom of the couple's Evesham Township house.

Not to look a gift horse in the mouth, but for some reason the Cropwell Shopping Center in Marlton has been blessed with a history of attracting chefs with superior skills to its main restaurant, whatever the cuisine. First was Fish du Jour, followed by Ristorante Ghizzano and since May 1 Avanti Gourmet Ristorante Italiano, a somewhat pretentious name for a supremely good northern Italian restaurant. Avanti's claim to fame lies in the astonishing culinary accomplishments of Salvatore Composto, whose dishes are made with the freshest ingredients and which sparkle in incredibly lush sauces.

Iowa University senior Mike Devlin has managed to escape the facelessness often associated with being a football center. Turn to any preseason publication and you're likely to find the 6-foot-3, 280-pound senior from Cherokee High in Marlton listed as a first-team all- American. Yet Devlin, a former Inquirer first-team all-area lineman in 1987, wasn't reflecting on the preseason honors following Saturday evening's 24-14 upset loss to North Carolina State in the 10th annual Kickoff Classic at Giants Stadium.

Michael Deets plans to vacation with his family again in Florida this year, but he will probably pass on the sailboating. Deets, 14, who will be a freshman at Cherokee High School this fall, is the son of Michael J. and Sue Deets of Marlton. Just a tad over a year ago, the young man was vacationing in Florida and crewing a sailboat with a cousin and his cousin's daughter when the sailboat went over. Deets was the only one who could swim and he saved the others, an act for which the Burlington County Council, Boy Scouts of America, awarded Deets its honor medal, which is given to those who demonstrate unusual heroism and skill or resourcefulness in saving or attempting to save a life at considerable risk.

Michael Deets plans to vacation with his family again in Florida this year, but he will probably pass on the sailboating. Deets, 14, who will be a freshman at Cherokee High School this fall, is the son of Michael J. and Sue Deets of Marlton. Just over a year ago, the young man was vacationing in Florida and crewing a sailboat with a cousin and his cousin's daughter when the sailboat went over. Deets was the only one who could swim, and he saved all three of them, an act for which the Burlington County Council, Boy Scouts of America, awarded Deets its honor medal, given to those who demonstrate unusual heroism and skill or resourcefulness in saving or attempting to save a life at considerable risk.

Charlie Beatty was the last person to imagine his teddy-bearish image gracing billboards in South Jersey. But once the Cammarata brothers (Filippo, Max, and Tony) had lured the affable wine guru from Canal's Bottlestop to WineWorks, their snazzy store in Marlton, they spread the word with roadside flair. "Charlie's got a new shirt," shouted the billboard, telling motorists of his new home. "His impact has been unbelievable," said Filippo. Beatty has added to their already large selection of 800 labels and brought along his huge and devoted clientele.

An Evesham policeman who found body hair in his bagel sandwich last year has sued the deli where he bought it and the cook who admitted sabotaging it as payback for a previous run-in with the officer. Jeremy Merck, 30, a six-year veteran of the department, alleged in the suit that Good Foods to Go was negligent for failing to keep its premises safe and for failing to properly examine the sandwich that Ryan J. Burke served him on Feb. 20, 2010. The Marlton deli also failed to properly hire, train, and supervise its employees, the suit alleges.

Social studies teacher Jeanne DelColle has climbed pyramids, trekked through jungles, and put in time on archaeological digs. But as thrilling as her world travels have been, this dedicated educator says there's nothing quite like the feeling she gets when students tell her she has inspired them to become teachers. "You're so proud," said DelColle, 40, of the Burlington County Institute of Technology's Westampton campus. "You're like parent-proud. " On Wednesday, she was given even more reason to be proud.

Chief Warrant Officer Kevin Ellicott's nightmares can be tough to explain. But Sierra understands. "She's actually woken me up when I was having one," says the 43-year-old Marine, whose peppy black Lab puppy is "helping me find my new normal. " Sierra is enrolled in the new Semper Fido program at K-9 Basics Dog Training & Clif Wyck Kennels in Marlton, where I checked out an open house Saturday. K-9 co-owner Lisa Berg says a Good Morning America story inspired her to establish Semper Fido in November 2010 with Ellicott's help.

G WYNETH PALTROW was no fan of her late, Philadelphia-raised grandmother Katharine Danner . Paltrow used a four-letter word that rhymes with "hunt" to describe her maternal grandmother during an interview Tuesday on E!'s "Chelsea Lately. " "She tried to poison my mother against me, but it didn't work! Because I have a great mother," Paltrow said, complimenting her actress mom, Blythe Danner . "She [Paltrow's grandmother] must not have been very happy and must have had a lot of pain, because she was mean as hell," Paltrow said.

People around here are serious about hair (see: Jerseylicious ). As is true in the central New Jersey milieu of that "reality" TV show, getting a new 'do can be a theatrical experience in South Jersey, too. A salon in the 856 or 609 area code can offer Jerseylicious -style mash-ups between melodramas and musicals. But at Moxie Blue, "we're a no-drama zone," Licha McLennan says, standing amid the buzzy hum of the Marlton salon she owns with her husband, Danny. " Jerseylicious doesn't do our profession any good.

With the first lanes open on the overpass at the former Marlton Circle, new businesses are springing up next to dirt mounds and bulldozers. An upscale food market, an Italian bakery, and other enterprises have appeared in a shopping center across from the boarded-up Olga's Diner at the still-fractured intersection of Routes 73 and 70. The $63 million project will elevate north-south Route 73 above Route 70, both popular Jersey Shore routes,...

When Joe Dimond was a Marine staff sergeant in Iraq in 2006, one of his men, Ryan S. McCurdy, was killed by sniper fire while saving the life of another Marine with whom he was standing guard in Fallujah. Now, Dimond works for a Marlton company that is selling to the Army and Marines a product called McCurdy's Armor - a Lego-like system of fortified wall panels named for the dead Marine. It allows troops to set up a guard post in 10 minutes, he said. "Our biggest competitor up to now has been sandbags and plywood," Dimond, who was in the Marines for 10 years, said Friday in an interview from Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, where he was training Marines to use the kits.

NaviGATE, a Villanova management-consulting firm, said David W. Baker and Christina Kelly had joined the firm as senior managers. Baker, who will lead the firm's business-optimization practice, was a program-management office manager and the life-sciences operations manager with Avanceon L.P., a global manufacturing-system integrator. Kelly, who will lead naviGATE's human-capital management practice, had been a senior HR consultant for Towers Watson & Co. in the firm's change-implementation practice.

A Marlton man who downloaded and shared child pornography was sentenced Friday to 15 years in prison after authorities found thousands of pictures and videos on his computer. Evan C. Corbett, 35, appeared this week for sentencing before U.S. District Judge Robert B. Kugler in Camden, in whose court he had pleaded guilty to the charges. In addition to prison, Corbett was sentenced to five years of supervised release, and must register as a sex offender. Corbett was arrested in August 2009 as a result of an investigation that started in Germany into the worldwide dissemination of child pornography on the Internet.