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05.18.14
VOLUME 135
NUMBER 118
SINCE 1879
ADVICE E11
BUSINESS AA6
CLASSIFIED D1
LOCAL A3
LOTTERIES A2
OBITUARIES A18
OPINION AA4
PUZZLES E9
SPORTS C1
WEATHER C11
GOING FOR THE TRIPLE CROWN
NEXT, THE BELMONT
California Chrome wins the Preakness, two weeks
after capturing the Kentucky Derby. A win at
Belmont next month would make him horse
racings first Triple Crown winner since 1978.
SPORTS, C1
HEALTH OFFICIALS SEE POSSIBLE 3RD MERS INFECTION IN U.S. PAGE 1B
Surrounded by spectacular, rugged landscape, An-
gola prison is in the middle of nowhere, tucked into an
isolated corner of southeast Louisiana along the Missis-
sippi River, 25 miles from the nearest town.
Angola, a nickname for the 134-year-old Louisiana
State Penitentiary, is one of the nations most notorious
prisons and the states death row, where life for most
inmates will end either by lethal injection or age and
hopelessness.
It was here, against the backdrop of an overcast sky
on April 25, that James A. Churchill touched down in a
small plane at an air strip within the 8,000-acre com-
plex. Churchill, 70, a retired chief of the Ocean County
Prosecutors Office, had flown in to solve a case that
had dogged him for almost 30 years. A bearlike man
with a white beard and a soft-spoken nature, Churchill,
then a prosecutors lieutenant, had last faced Maria
Marshalls killer in 1987.
Churchill had come out of retirement for the same
See CLOSURE, Page A10
James A. Churchill (right), in 2000. PRESS FILE PHOTO
Admission by
killer-for-hire
brings closure
Triggerman in Marshall slaying
confesses to retired investigator
By Erik Larsen @Erik_Larsen
It is time for a change. Last week, we
re-launched our website APP.com
with a fresh design, easier navigation, a
plethora of photos and a variety of videos
that will make keeping up on New Jersey
news much easier.
If you regularly visit our website, ex-
pect an entirely new experience. Take us for a test
drive. We think youre going to like the clarity, the re-
vamped look and the ease of use.
In January, print readers received expanded local
coverage with a host of new features, as well as the in-
clusion of a daily section of USA Today, additional
sports pages from USA Today and USA Life on Sunday.
Now, our digital readers will benefit from a bold new
FRESH LOOK, EASE OF USE
Welcome to the new,
improved APP.com
See APP.COM, Page A17
By Hollis R. Towns @Tweeter23
ASBURY PARK It sounds like a sweet deal: build upscale,
luxury townhomes overlooking the waterfront, sell them for
nearly half a million dollars each and get off the hook from
paying school taxes for 30 years. Thats the agreement mas-
ter developer iStar Financial inked with the city in 2012, hop-
ing to unlock waterfront development that had been stag-
nant for several decades.
Instead of school taxes, the deal calls for waterfront residents to
pay a special assessment that funds infrastructure such as sewers,
roads and streetlights for the development of more than 2,000 wa-
terfront residential units over the next decade.
But heres the problem: The city is stuck with its back against the
wall as residents criticize municipal officials for handing developers
tax incentives that they believe shortchange the schools. The citys
leadership argues that it had no choice. It was either satisfy the devel-
opers quest for the tax breaks or leave the once-blighted, crime-infes-
ted waterfront at a standstill.
We did these (tax incentives) because the waterfront was boarded-
up buildings and empty lots, City Councilman John Loffredo said.
We needed to incentivize people to come here and invest in Asbury
Park.
The iStar agreement is one of 15 payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agree-
SCHOOL WORRIES
ASBURY
PARK TAX
BREAKS:
BOON OR
BURDEN?
By Nicquel Terry @NTerryAPP
See BREAKS, Page A13
Some
taxpayers
want
developer
deals halted
Tax incentive agreements in Asbury Park
apply to (from top) Asbury Towers, the
Vive townhomes complex and the former
Steinbach building. PRESS FILE PHOTOS
SUMMIT FOR SUCCESS
Scan the QR code to see a video of the Asbury Park
Press-sponsored forum at which ideas were presented to
improve the citys schools.