Bayonne News

Bayonne Medical Center charges the most expensive prices in the nation, according to information from the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

The Hoboken Relay for Life will take place today from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at Pier A, Hoboken.

A Newark man was charged with shoplifting and hindering apprehension after he was caught by store security putting items into a shopping cart and leaving the store, police said.

A fraudulent article purporting to have been published by The Journal of Commerce was being circulated at Global Terminal and New York Container Terminal in the Port of New York and New Jersey on Friday.

The Bayonne Board of Education has given 21 teachers notices that their services will not be needed when the new school year begins in September, an official said today.

The Rosary Altar Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church will hold a flea market on Sunday, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., rain or shine at 99 Broadway in Jersey City.

Consignment shops once were thought to be the territory of vintage-clothing fans and thrifty shoppers.

A Jersey City man was pickpocketed while sleeping at the wheel of his tan Lexus early this morning because the robber needed money "for the kids and the lights," police said.

"The City of Bayonne and the Bayonne Urban Enterprise Zone are happy to bring back farmers' produce and other farmers market merchandise to our community for another year," Mayor Mark Smith said in a statement.

Thinking that she wouldn't be able to conceive again after being diagnosed with cervical cancer, Maria Villar prayed to God for help.

There will be a Domestic Violence Educational Support Group for Bayonne residents for those in need of resources or self-esteem building or interested in developing healthy relationships or seeking emotional support.

The U.S. Coast Guard has approved an application to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge, seen here in August.

BAYONNE - A Bayonne man who had just gotten off a light rail train was jumped from behind and robbed of expensive, trendy headphones early yesterday morning, police said.

The mood is hushed and people are speaking in whispers at Mayor Jerramiah Healy's packed campaign headquarter at Oakland Avenue and Fleet Street in Jersey City Height where people are inputting vote tallies and a screen at the front of the room shows candidate Steven Fulop with 48 percent of the vote and Healy with 42 percent at 8:30 p.m. At 8:30 ... (more)

New Jersey City University awarded 1,258 undergraduate degrees and 430 graduate degrees this morning at the commencement ceremony held at the IZOD Center in the Meadowlands in East Rutherford.

Illegal logger inside Gunung Palung Nat'l Park. This national forest is one of the last protected refuges for orangutans.

Baby Yadira weighed in at 2 pounds, 7 ounces and could fit in the palm of her mother's hand.

Bayonne has entered into an agreement with the Port Authority in which the Port Authority will pay the city $1.5 million per year in lieu of taxes for two properties it purchased, officials said.

A for-profit company that owns three hospitals in New Jersey unveiled a new identity as an integrated health system with plans to offer a Medicaid plan and sell insurance on the state exchange about to launch under the healthcare reform law.

A Bayonne man was arrested this morning after police found him in possession of marijuana and Percocet in a public housing parking lot, police said.