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Felicia Grasso goes through 100 pounds of sugar a week at her bakery, Sophie Sophia.

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Actors Shakespeare Company at New Jersey City University will present "Shakespeare on Screen: Throne of Blood," the final event in a series of free screenings of films based on or inspired by a play by the world's most famous playwright.

Samuel Clemens liked to tell his audience something about numbers by saying, "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." On Thursday, Mayor Jerramiah Healy once again rattled off FBI stats -- collected from local police numbers -- to back his constant assertion that crime has dropped "significantly" since he took office in a ... (more)

Flames leaped and smoke billowed from the second-floor windows of a building off Journal Square that suffered heavy damage during an afternoon blaze today.

The Communipaw Avenue Block Association is a group of concerned residents and business owners working to restore the Jersey City Lafayette area to a clean, healthy, safe and drug free environment.

Anthony Shafer hugs his bride-to-be, Nicole Spano after winning last year's "Jewel of the Mile" diamond scavenger hunt hosted by Hoboken Gold & Diamond Exchange.

A parking lot on Monticello Avenue in Jersey City, across the street from the West District Police Station.

Stevens Cooperative School, which has locations in Hoboken and Jersey City, has announced it has expanded summer programs.

The seven-year long legal battle over ownership of the Sixth Street Embankment in Downtown Jersey City is edging closer to its conclusion, with the City Council on Wednesday night unanimously approving a settlement deal that would allow the city to purchase most of the historic structure.

Movers were seen moving items in and out of an old firehouse at 38 Mercer St., Jersey City, where "Jersey Shore" stars Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi and Jennifer "JWoww" Farley will live during the filming of their reality spin-off show.

One victim needed help rescuing her son and grandson who she hadn't seen in 8 years due to the Liberian war.

Carlos P. Campos, accused of committing a triple homicide in Harrison last summer, has been indicted by a Hudson County grand jury on three counts of murder.

A friendly war of words will unfold on the stage of New Jersey City University's Margaret Williams Theatre in Jersey City on Saturday when Hudson County's finest young spellers face the bright lights, and each other, in an attempt to spell their way to Washington, D.C, The Jersey Journal reports.

The Jersey City-based theater group's next installment of Jersey Shorts, a reading of funny or inspiring short stories, will feature some of the artistic community's stand-out women for "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun." "There's a lot of stories about women's experiences," said Executive Producer Clay Cockrell.

A 15-year-old Jersey City boy has been charged in connection to a fatal stabbing in The Heights last night.

Jersey City councilwomen Nidia Lopez and Viola Richardson embracing in November 2011 before Richardson was sworn-in as a councilwoman at large.

Haute Peruvian cuisine is a bit of an oxymoron as the basics of the dishes are fairly pedestrian.

The Jersey City Redevelopment Agency initiated court proceedings to take the house Ibrahim Ibrahim bought on Ocean Avenue in Jersey City.

Jersey City-based Clara Construction has been fined more than $46,000 by U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for alleged safety violations at a local work site.