The defense attorney for Jade Ransom, who's accused of murdering a Dover man in 2008, will have a month to investigate a state witness' claim that the crime was part of a gang initiation, a Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday.

To the Editor: Randolph Councilman Gary Algeier, in support of scrapping the Council on Affordable Housing, wrote, 'Even the most vociferous housing advocates understand that affordable housing should primarily be located in proximity to mass transit.' He says this would be more reasonable.

The problem of homelessness in Morris County is not extensive. But given the fact people can get down on their luck anywhere, it does exist.

Evidence littering the shoulder of Kinnelon Road, where two girls were struck and killed by an alleged drunken driver four years ago, showed the driver never braked, swerved or tried to avoid the teens, an accident reconstruction expert testified today in the trial of the driver.

Two teenage cousins who were hit from behind by a car as they walked along a road in Kinnelon each died from multiple blunt force trauma from the impacts, a medical examiner testified today in the trial of the driver.

A hospital physician testified today she treated Eugene Baum for alcoholic pancreatitis and prescribed Librium for his withdrawal from alcohol, less than two weeks before Baum drove drunk into two cousins in Kinnelon.

It's usually a cause for alarm when government says it's going to put together lists of people.

Michael Alesandro had gone to the end of the driveway to get his family's mail when he saw the two girls walking on the shoulder of Kinnelon Road around dusk on April 20, 2006.

DOVER - Route 15 motorists will no longer pass under Route 46 starting Friday night, the state Department of Transportation said today in announcing the latest step in a 3-year bridge replacement project.

RANDOLPH - An elderly woman who sang in the Mount Freedom Presbyterian Church choir died in a house fire on Wednesday morning.

Testimony in the trial of a drunken driver accused of running down two teenage girls in Kinnelon in April 2006 began today in Morristown with a resident who found the girls shortly after the crash on Kinnelon Road.

An elderly woman died and a firefighter was injured in a two-story house fire this morning in the Randolph Township.

On Jan. 12, at 4:21 p.m., police arrested Edward L. Beston, 32, of Boonton on an outstanding contempt of court warrant.

Earlier this month, in the wake of the attempted bombing of an American jetliner on Christmas Day, President Barack Obama announced that Newark Liberty International Airport will be among the first of many to receive body scanners - for security.

Richard Olsen, Evelyn Karpack and Bill and Rosemary Harrington are on their third mile by the time the smell of freshly brewed coffee begins to waft through Rockaway Townsquare on a recent morning.

Philip Maenza was almost teary eyed as he thanked Mayor James Dodd and the Dover Board of Aldermen after saying his goodbyes last week at town hall.

On Thursday, Jan. 21 at 6 p.m. the Cub Scouts in Dover will be holding registration at First Memorial Church, 51 W. Blackwell St.

DOVER - Two Morris County residents are scheduled to receive awards for their contributions to Hope House, the social services agency substance abuse counseling, HIV/AIDS services, among other sources of help.

The veteran chairman of the state Highlands Council, John Weingart, has been replaced by a former West Milford mayor who has long sought to limit development in a town that has the single-most Highlands acreage.

The state Senate on Monday approved three of Gov. Jon Corzine's judicial nominations to Morris County's Superior Court, the state's legislative office confirmed Tuesday.