Matt Rainey

Photojournalism: News/Features

Ed Cubberly is a part-rime artist known for creating the Hannibal Lecter mask in "The Silence of the Lambs" and the goalie mask worn by NY Ranger Mike Richter, among others. Mr. Cubberly also works in "lifecasting," the process of making sculptures from three-dimensional molds of the body.
  
Frank and Judy Adamouski stand together at the grave of their son James in Arlington National Cemetery. Parents of Black Hawk pilot killed in Iraq, Frank and Judy are one of an apparent increasing number of Gold Star families who turned to Freedom of Information Act to navigate their way through through the fog of a controversial war and the loss of loved ones.Capt. James Adamouski, 29, of Springfield, Va./Savannah, Ga. died 04/02/03 in Black Hawk helicopter crash near Karbala Gap in Iraq. He was piloting. The military account has changed from friendly fire to hostile fire to pilot disorientation. In days after the crash, his father had FOIAed the maintenance records....took more than a year for him to get them...now the theory is that it was friendly fire, based on his conversations with crew in other helicopter on the mission. The funeral for CW4 John Priestner, Apache Pilot killed in Iraq, 182 Battalion, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade has just ended behind them.
  
     
  
The nuns, Sr.Mary Henrietta Iroghumg, Sr. Mary Victur Egbokg, Sr. Mary Victoria Loeka and Sr. Mary Obi Oraka say their goodbyes and embrace Msgr. Granato near the front door of the Rectory as he exits Tueday after Mass. The Last mass celebrated by Msgr. Granato at St. Lucy's Church, Newark is held Tuesday morning. The monsignor, who is 80 and spent 54 years at the church, he must move out upon the orders of the diocese of Newark.
  
A young boy looks to his hand in awe after shaking it with U.S. President Barack Obama during a Newark, NJ campaign rally for NJ Governor Jon Corzine.
   
     
  
Iyanna McDuffie of Rahway, NJ is one of a Kidney Chain. She received a kidney recently and is healing. Her daughter and parents have been very supportive. On Thursday, she visits Newark's Beth Israel Medical Center for a check up. While waiting for Dr. Sadanand Palekar, Director of Renal Transplant to arrive, Iyanna kisses her daughter Adia.
  
Sharonda Melvin, the mother of a 17 year old killed Saturday at MLK Blvd and Kinney St. in Newark, NJ is comforted at home Sunday afternoon surrounded by family members Angela Gainer (left), Chante Gedeon (center) and Sharon Melvin (right).
  
     
  
Kelly Loughney of NorthHunterdon High School is the West Jersey Girls Basketball Player of the Year, 2009.
  
Jolaine Graziano of Hopatcong looks lovingly up at her boyfriend Sgt. Brian Moreland of Hopatcong, NJ as he readies of board a bus at Picatinny Arsenal to head to California for training. 25th U.S. Marine Reserve G Company out of Picatinny Arsenal says goodbye to family and friends Tuesday morning as they head to California for training in preparation for deployment to Iraq.
  
The daughter of a shooting victim collapses in a friend's arms on Elizabeth Ave after hearing her mother was murdered during a drive-byshooting at Meeker and Elizabeth streets in Newark, NJ.
     
  
Watching caterpillars on the wall of a barn that is next to the playground are Leah Mack, Maelle Rosser, Sofi Ayling and Skyler Mack. Five families seeking a holistic-approach to early education in what they consider a high-pressure academic environment have started their own private school in a Methodist church in Gladstone. With 13 children enrolled in the K-2 school, the state-licensed school plans to add a grade each year. Private tuition runs $6,600 a year and the school is seeking more students. The parents who run the school come from writing, film and other creative industries.
  
An Edison, NJ firefighter runs accross a berm at the Shell Gasoline Tank Farm in Sewaren, NJ moments after a 40,000 gal tank of gasoline was struck by two lightning bolts. The fire raged for three days.
   
     
  
Thousands participate in a candlelight vigil at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA the evening following the deadliest mass shooting in U.S history.
   
  
Gyro Bob's serves up some pretty good gyros, falafel, Greek salads and hot dogs. Owned by a wizened, colorful, somewhat hard-of-hearing old guy named Bob. Bob's named is actually Chris Dimitrios.
     
  
Members of the A co. 2nd 113th Infantry out of Newark, NJ run an obstacle course at Fort Indiantown Gap in Pennsylvania.More than 3,000 NJ Army National Guard troops are training at Fort Indiantown Gap near Harrisburg, PA focusing on marksmanship, urban warfare, convoy and combat lifesaving.
   
Kala Jenkins (age 9) (center), the daughter of murder victim "Rocky" Jenkins sits in Essex County Court during the sentencing of her father's killer Edward Peoples. Seated with her are Medina Kenkins (left) a niece and Faja Jenkins (age 13) (left center behind), "Rocky" Jenkins other daugther. Edward Peoples of Newark, NJ is sentenced to 65 years in prison before Essex County Superior Court Judge Michael Ravin . In the court were the victim, "Rocky" Jenkins' family including his parents and his daughters. Edward Peoples tried everything to avoid a murder conviction, including spiriting his girlfriend out of state, going on the lam and convincing a friend to testify he wasn't there.
   
Robert Song (age 5), and his dad Robert Song of Lake Mohawk, NJ catch snow on their tongues near the lake.
     
  
   
Two teens died in a car wreck at this spot on Rt. 519 near Fox Farm Road in Lopatcong Twp., NJ. Friends (l-r) John Hager, Eric Miller and Steve Moore gather at the crash site .
   
     
  
The villagers of Ahuehuetitla, Mexico move through town enroute to the cemetery on the edge of the village to bury 14 year-old Juan Manuel Calixto with his paternal grandmother. The teen was shot and killed in Passaic, NJ defending a fellow gang member. His family flew him home for burial.
  
  
Gulfport, MS resident and buiness owner Eric Barthelemy stands on 14th St. in Gulfport with a shovel and broom before heading down the street to his french cafe to try to clean it up. Scenes of devastation run along the entire coastline in Gulfport and Biloxi Mississippi Thursday following Hurricane Katrina.
     
  
New Jersey Galvanizing has been in business since 1902 and family owned. Robert Gregory (right) owns the business. Mr. Gregory's brother Samuel (left) is the company's attorney.
  
Boo Young and her daughter Jessica (age 14) clean clothing they found in the trees by using broken water pipes at a destroyed gasoline station accross the street from a destroyed Dennys on the beachfront in Biloxi, MS. The family stayed at a nearby home further inland during the storm and returned to their home completely destroyed.
  
Making snow angels outside their building along Dr. Martin Luther King Blvd. in Newark, NJ during a snowstorm are Shoataisa Jones (age 9), Tamika Boynes (age 5) and Shanik Austin (age 6).
     
  
Lenny Hengst takes a short break in catching and loading straw on the wagon Tuesday. The baler throws the bales onto the wagon every ten seconds, and each wagon holds approx 175 bales. Farming in 90 degree weather in Warren County, NJ. The Hengst boys, father Ray (age 80), and his sons Jr. and Lenny bale straw in one of their fields at R. Hengst Farm in Mansfield Twp. Ray has owned the 600 acre farm since 1954.
  
The 50th Annual Labor Day Parade in South Plainfield, NJ.
  
Israeli Soldiers watch wargames in the valley below an ancient volcano on the Golon.
     
  
Heavy fog hangs in the air above Round Valley Reservoir Wednesday afternoon. Playing some football on the beach after a half day of school are Samantha Beadle (age 13), Ryan Beadle (age 7), Brandon Puc (age 7) and Max Mead (age 7). Callie the dog chases after the kids.