Hudson County News

Bayonne doctor Robert Rubino was chosen as the OB/GYN of choice for the second year in a row by the "Top Doc" issue of New Jersey Monthly.

Two Hudson County employees from Bayonne face up to 18 months in prison and have agreed to permanently give up public employment after pleading guilty to doing home improvements for a church without being licensed or registered with the state, officials said.

Hudson County is the subject of the state's first known pay-to-play lawsuit. CFG Health Systems is accusing the county of circumventing the law when it awarded a contract for medical services at its corrections and juvenile detention centers to a campaign donor and former employee.

Hudson County vaccinations are being delayed due to a lack of doses being delivered to vaccination spots.

Marcus Pettiford of Jersey City was convicted this afternoon in a brutal armed robbery of a local market.

Hoboken University Medical Center cut the ribbon last Thursday on an expanded Center for Maternal Fetal Medicine .The center has Hudson County's first 4-D ultrasound machine, according to today's Jersey Journal.. Holland Tunnel delays out of Manhattan last night cleared-up after emergency construction repairs snarled traffic.

Gov. Jon S. Corzine called Governor-elect Chris Christie from his Statehouse office today to discuss the transition of power.

In a year in which corruption turned many New Jersey political campaigns inside out, there were few surprises in the state's Legislative races Tuesday night.

Hoboken's acting mayor is going to get the job full-time. Democrat Dawn Zimmer has been declared the winner of a special election to fill the vacancy left when former Mayor Peter Cammarano resigned three weeks into his term after his arrest on corruption charges.

Hudson County residents who are wanted on non-violent felony or misdemeanor warrants and who have no history of violence are welcome to participate in the Fugitive Safe Surrender program running tomorrow through Saturday, officials said.

Voters are heading to the polls to elect 82 members of the Legislature months after this summer's massive federal corruption sting turned some political campaigns inside out.

Crystal Kelly appears in Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City today on charges she broke into a Danforth Avenue home and watched television, assaulting the homeowner when he tried to throw her out.

Hudson County GOP chair Jose Arango says 160 volunteers hitting the phones and 45 going door-to-door for Republican gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie and other GOP hopefuls in Hudson County With the race for governor to be decided at the polls on Tuesday, county Democrats and Republicans are hitting the pavement in what both sides are calling ...

The cover of today's Jersey Journal has a picture of Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone next to the words "I'll win." Chiappone, indicted along with his wife in August by the State Attorney General's Office for allegedly cashing staffers' checks for his personal and campaign bank accounts and subsequently stripped of his legislative committee ...

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine says he has no plans to increase tolls or lease toll roads.

A Jersey City boy who was 16 when he held a gun to a man's head during a robbery was sentenced to six years in prison yesterday even though he is still a juvenile, officials said.

H alloween festivities have been going on all week and are continuing tonight and tomorrow throughout Hudson County.

New Jersey's recent corruption sting is turning local political campaigns inside out in places touched by the scandal.

Isidro Aleman, a Las Vegas man wanted in Jersey City on charges of credit card fraud, has been caught, police said.

Hudson County officials cut the ribbon yesterday on Hudson County Plaza, the new headquarters for county services located on Cornelison Avenue in Jersey City.