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New Jersey gay rights activists are urging the mayor of Newark to investigate an execution-style murder that occurred in August as a possible antigay hate crime.

A group of lesbians from Newark, N.J., attacked and stabbed a straight man in downtown New York City early Friday morning after the man apparently came on to one of the women.

United Parcel Service has denied health care coverage to civil union partners in New Jersey, according to Newark's local newspaper The Star-Ledger. Although the company offers equal benefits to married couples in Massachusetts, whether straight or gay, it denies coverage to partners in New Jersey civil unions because state law does not call them "spouses."

A former aide to ex-governor Jim McGreevey of New Jersey claims he had sexual trysts with McGreevey and his now-estranged wife while they dated before the governor took office. Theodore Pedersen detailed multiple trysts in interviews Sunday with The Star-Ledger of Newark and the New York Post. McGreevey's former driver and traveling aide disputes claims by Dina Matos McGreevey that she did not know about her husband's homosexuality when she married him in October 2000.

Former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey said he, his wife, and a male aide engaged in sexual threesomes, contradicting a denial issued hours earlier by his estranged spouse. In an e-mail to the Associated Press, the first openly gay governor in the U.S. said Monday that published reports by former campaign aide Teddy Pedersen are true. In interviews posted online Sunday night by The Star-Ledger of Newark and the New York Post, Pedersen said he had consensual sex with the couple for about two years before McGreevey became governor. He said he had contact only with Dina Matos McGreevey during the trysts and was not sure whether McGreevey was gay.