Trenton News

Vasil "Billy" Heisler, in Burlington County court on the first day of his trial.

TRENTON - A 73-year-old city resident was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday for torching his rooming house in 2009 to punish his noisy neighbors.

Harry "Ron" Riskie probably didn't know he'd still be a municipal official today when he was first elected to serve as a Woodbury councilman in 1979.

Catholic leaders across the country and in New Jersey are condemning the Obama administraton's new birth control policy that would force religious schools and hospitals to provide their employees with free contraceptives.

A Jackson man, who is employed as A school bus driver was arrested by federal agents early this morning for using his home computer to distribute child pornography, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced.

Authorities are seeking information about the random attack that sent a township woman to the hospital with a broken jaw and shocked neighbors in a quiet Old York Village neighborhood.

On the heels of a district court's ruling that California's Proposition 8 violates the constitution, Red Bank Councilman Ed Zipprich called for Gov.

TRENTON - Police are still trying to sort out exactly what happened Wednesday night after they found an empty home with a room full of blood and a victim who changed her story twice.

As usual, we review high temperatures of yesterday.A They were in the mid to upper 40s, as expected, with 45 in Trenton and 48 at Newark Liberty Airport.A Again, way above the normal high of 41 to 43.

Assemblyman Robert M.Gordon, D-Bergen, testifies before the Assembly State Government Committee during an ethics reform hearing at the State House lastApril.

Gov. Christie called for the resignation Wednesday of a top official of the state's largest teachers' union for making a seemingly dismissive remark about poor children in failing school districts.

Why is a super wealthy corporation that made $3 Billion in profit last year being given a $250 Million tax credit to build a shiny new corporate office building in Newark? They can afford $3.5 Million for a TV commercial during the Superbowl but not their own office building? They need subsidies from the Taxpayers? Prudential Insurance wants a new ... (more)

TRENTON Gov. Chris Christie said Thursday that he will support his two nominees for the state Supreme Court regardless of whether the New Jersey State Bar Association rules that they are qualified or not qualified.

It may seem strange or unbelievable to many people but I don't have a cell phone, computer, iPod or... WESTFIELD - Though nearly two weeks remain before Gov.

FILE PHOTO: Trenton School Superintendent Raymond Broach speaks during a press conference before a tour of the Jefferson School on Stuyvesant Avenue on Tuesday, September 13, 2011.

Merrill Osmond, solo artist and lead singer of the Osmonds, together with his son Justin, will join a host of state dignitaries at the Jersey's Hope for Hearing Kickoff 2012 rally on Monday, Feb.

The way this came about was an email that was sent to me by a frequent contributor to the show that said, in effecta why should cops even bother going after the killers of gang bangersa since they chose the life they led and aren't really victims.

Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno, left, greets Anita Van Heeswyk, deputy mayor of Cape May Point during the 20th Annual Mayors' Legislative Day held at Statehouse Annex in Trenton earlier today.

February 8 - Today activists protested one of several planned regional workshops by the American Petroleum Institute in Trenton, NJ, countering the oil and gas industry association's event discussing the development of hydraulic fracturing with a recommendation of their own: ban fracking entirely.

Two city men who allegedly shot a Trenton couple as they lay defenseless in bed were arrested by federal authorities in Michigan yesterday afternoon, the U.S. Marshals service said today.