3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (639+ words) A bill that would strengthen rental protections for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking in New Jersey advanced Thursday in the Assembly Community Development and Women’s Affairs Committee. The bill, A4218, would prohibit landlords from refusing to rent to…...

2+ week, 12+ hour ago   (371+ words) A Prospect Park councilman pleaded guilty to racketeering, money laundering and official misconduct in connection with an illegal gambling operation tied to the Lucchese crime family, state law enforcement officials announced Friday. Anand U. Shah, 44, pleaded guilty before Superior Court Judge…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) Phillipsburg’s first female police officer has accused other cops in the Warren County town of sexually harassing her since she joined the department more than two years ago. In a three-count lawsuit filed earlier this month in Morris County Superior…...

3+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1665+ words) Editor’s note: This story is the first in an occasional series examining what it costs to operate New Jersey’s prisons, jails, and youth correctional facilities, what drives those costs, and the impact on taxpayers, staff members, and incarcerated people. If…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (1227+ words) Nine people who say they were sexually abused as children by a counselor at the Boys and Girls Club of Hudson County cannot continue their New Jersey claims against the national Boys and Girls Clubs organization, the state Supreme Court…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (318+ words) A former senior state corrections officer admitted Tuesday to taking thousands of dollars from prisoners’ friends and associates in return for smuggling tobacco and other contraband into Northern State Prison in Newark. Christopher Santana, 33, of Hackensack, pleaded guilty to a…...