Track & Field's Fab 50: Ranking N.J.'s top male athletes, Nos. 1-30
Who is the best of the best in New Jersey track and field? NJ.com tries to answer that question this season with the brand new Fab 50 individual male rankings. Check back each week for five new...
View ArticleVintage photos of bars and watering holes in N.J.
Sociologist Ray Oldenburg described bars as "a third place, different from home or work, where people could escape but still be part of a group." As I looked through the oldest photos in this gallery,...
View ArticleNew heroin/opiate task force in Mercer County sets agenda
The newly-formed Heroin/Opiate Task Force of Mercer County (HOTFMC) held a press event recently to discuss its initiatives. HAMILTON -- Last year, 55 people died in Mercer County from a heroin or...
View ArticleThese are the 37 best county college students in N.J., group says
New Jersey's "All-State Academic Team" will be honored Thursday in Trenton. TRENTON -- The best and brightest students at New Jersey's two-year colleges will be honored Thursday in Trenton. The New...
View ArticleSoftball: A public No. 1 in the NJ.com Top 20 for May 5
Softball: A public No. 1 in the NJ.com Top 20 for May 5
View ArticleMan arrested moments after shooting mother, girlfriend, police say
Keith Jones, 49, was arrested and charged with attempted murder in shooting that sent two to a local hospital TRENTON - A Trenton man was arrested minutes after police say he shot his mother in the...
View ArticleMillionaire executive convicted of tax evasion, prosecutors say
Steven Turner, a controller for UPS, was convicted of not paying $248,000 in taxes TRENTON - A millionaire executive with United Parcel Service was convicted last week of not paying $248,000 in taxes,...
View ArticleOff-Broadway play about all-black hoops team comes to Trenton
"Kings of Harlem" will take the stage at the Patriots Theater at the Trenton War Memorial on Friday TRENTON -- "Kings of Harlem," an off-Broadway play about the first black-owned, all-black...
View ArticleN.J. Supreme Court reinstates man's attempted murder conviction
Lee Funderburg was convicted of attempted murder and related charges in 2012 and sentenced to 13 years in prison. TRENTON -- The state's highest court on Thursday reinstated the attempted murder...
View ArticleTour, sail on N.J.'s official tall ship A.J. Meerwald
The A.J. Meerwald will be at Trenton's Waterfront Park through Sunday, May 7 TRENTON -- A.J. Meerwald, the state's official tall ship normally docked at the South Jersey shore, took a trip up the...
View ArticleN.J. legislators call for meeting over Princeton battlefield
Two state lawmakers are requesting a meeting with the Institute for Advanced Study to discuss a Princeton Battlefield development PRINCETON - State legislators, who have worked for months to stop...
View ArticleMasked robber holds up pharmacy with taser, flees with pills
The robber fled with Xanax and Percocet pills, police said. HAMILTON -- A masked robber jumped the pharmacy counter at the Rite Aid pharmacy in Yardville Wednesday evening while brandishing a taser,...
View ArticleTrenton's plan to float $4.7M bond for unpaid taxes gets initial OK
The city owes $4,697,528 in taxes to the IRS and state after it became the victim of an embezzlement scheme TRENTON -- Trenton's plan to float a bond to repay the state and federal government $4.7...
View ArticleTake this week's NJ.com Local News Quiz
Do you have a perfect score in you this week. Welcome to this week's NJ.com Local News Quiz, the only online quiz that determines how well you know the biggest New Jersey news stories of the past...
View ArticleMarijuana should be legalized, taxed, & regulated; Friends of the West...
May 6 Letters to the Editor NJ police made nearly 118,000 arrests for marijuana offenses between 2010- 2014. In 2014 there were almost 25,000 marijuana arrests which is the 2nd highest since 2013....
View ArticleIndian-born Deepak Chopra comes back to New Jersey
New age alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra was guest lecturer at Grounds For Sculpture in Hamilton. New York Times best-selling author and alternative medicine advocate Deepak Chopra may have...
View ArticleYour comments: Ranking N.J.'s top 25 high school sports dynasties
From Cape May to Mahwah, New Jersey is chocked full of some of the best high school sports programs. But who's the best ever? We tried to figure that out From Cape May to Mahwah, New Jersey is chocked...
View ArticleTrenton fires back against NJ Weedman's complaint
Ed "NJ Weedman" Forchion filed a lawsuit against the city and last month, the city hit back with a motion to dismiss TRENTON - New Jersey's resident "Weedman" and the city he lives in have been locked...
View ArticleWhere to eat now in N.J.: The 10 hottest restaurants for May
A classic Atlantic City dining establishment, a new farm-to-table restaurant, and barbecue in Rumson headline this month's hot restaurant list NJ.com has launched a new regular feature, "Where to eat...
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