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…...

1+ week, 21+ hour ago   (1352+ words) The Office of Public Integrity and Accountability was created to restore New Jerseyans’ faith in government and the criminal justice system. Eight years later, the office is being disbanded. The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office is eliminating OPIA as a…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (805+ words) New Jersey’s top health official is urging families to check their vaccination records as the United States experiences its largest measles outbreak in decades and neighboring Pennsylvania reports the country’s first measles deaths of the year. No active measles outbreak…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (791+ words) Two Trenton residents were killed, and eight other people were wounded when multiple gunmen opened fire on a crowded block party in Trenton’s East Ward early Sunday, according to the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office. The shooting happened shortly after midnight…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1569+ words) Wait times of several hours to see a doctor. Grueling overnight shifts for resident physicians. Patients lying in hallways because there aren’t enough beds, and ambulances being diverted. At a long-awaited state hearing Thursday evening, residents lined up to testify,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (871+ words) State officials will not fund the construction of a new visitor center at Princeton Battlefield this year, disappointing historical preservationists and leaving the Mercer County site without a dedicated space for telling the battlefield’s story ahead of the battle’s 250th anniversary....

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, 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…...