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Trenton woman scalds man with boiling water, cops say
Nina Sherman threw boiling water on a Trenton man, who was hospitalized with burns TRENTON - A Trenton woman was arrested after throwing boiling water on her boyfriend, hospitalizing the man with...
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Hamilton police blotter for Feb. 9-16
Crime in Hamilton for the week of Feb. 9-16 HAMILTON Feb. 9 Theft - 2000 block South Broad St. Theft - 3800 block Crosswicks/Hamilton Square Road Burglary/Auto - 700 block Daniels Ave. Burglary - 1500...
View ArticleCommittee considering Woodrow Wilson name meets with students
The committee is finishing up a series of interviews with community members about the former president's 'racist' legacy. PRINCETON - Some board members who are considering a change to the Woodrow...
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25 years after prison escape plot, appeal rejected
William Stovall plotted to blast his way out of a state prison in 1991 and was convicted of 10 crimes for it. TRENTON -- An inmate convicted of plotting to shoot and blast his way out of New Jersey...
View ArticleFBI takes over investigation into Trenton's payroll problems
The Mercer County Prosecutor's Office has passed the investigation onto the FBI TRENTON -- The FBI is taking over an investigation into Trenton's payroll problems. The Mercer County Prosecutor's...
View ArticleHamilton fire service, taxes a hot topic at council
Fire district elections are this Saturday and several of Hamilton's 9 districts have increased budgets and tax rates. HAMILTON -- Fire commissioners, fire chiefs and residents spoke in front of the...
View ArticleTowed cars, unplowed streets: Should Trenton refund residents for blizzard?
Councilman George Muschal said residents should be reimbursed after cars were towed, but streets were left unplowed Watch video TRENTON -- During the January blizzard that dumped nearly two feet of...
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County jail plan could save Mercer $20M, unions say it's a lie
The agreement with Hudson County calls for housing Mercer County inmates at a cost of $97 per inmate per day for the first year. TRENTON -- Mercer County could save $18 million to $20 million in the...
View ArticleLive fire training to be held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst
Marines will be holding exercises through the weekend Watch video JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST -- That rumble you may feel and hear over the next few days coming from the base over the next few...
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Robbinsville student tackles first project leading school nonprofit chapter
In November a Robbinsville High School sophomore started the ONE Project Youth Council Club and in January completed her first community service project. ROBBINSVILLE -- After being independently...
View ArticleBe ours: Hamilton 5th graders give Valentines to cancer patients
On Feb. 12 fifth graders at Langtree Elementary School in Hamilton delivered Valentines to cancer patients as part of a year-long project bringing awareness to cancer. HAMILTON -- On and around...
View ArticleVintage photos of the Great Depression in N.J.
From 1932 through 1935, unemployment in the U.S. never dipped below 20 percent. My parents, who are 90 and 91 years old, experienced the hardships of the Great Depression and I bore witness to many of...
View ArticleShame on Princeton University president for defending Perry | Letters
Today's letters: criticizing Princeton University Professor Imani Perry I have been following the ongoing saga of Imani Perry, the African-American studies professor at Princeton University. Poor...
View ArticleN.J. civil rights leader, friend of MLK gets her own day
Friday will be "Edith Savage-Jennings Day" in her native Trenton Watch video TRENTON -- Trenton native Edith Savage Jennings, who counted Martin Luther King, Jr., as a close friend and had a penpal in...
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North Jersey restaurant news: Fine dining is not done
Trend-spotters might find more illumination on the flip side. The sudden shuttering of three exceptional restaurants in Jersey last year -- Ursino in Union, Thirty Acres in Jersey City and David Burke...
View ArticleDinky riders lose 2 appeals in longtime Princeton train feud
The appeals were the latest in a series of efforts by local commuters to protest the train station's move. PRINCETON - A state appellate court has rejected two appeals from a group of commuters who...
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N.J. woman admitted beating mother-in-law to death, prosecutors say
Tasneem Diwan appeared in court Thursday on charges that she killed her 73-year-old mother-in-law TRENTON - An East Windsor woman admitted to police that she bludgeoning her mother-in-law to death in...
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N.J. man charged in hoax over missing 4-year-old son
Police from four separate towns spent hours tracking down a supposedly missing 4-year-old boy who didn't exist TRENTON - A Trenton man has been charged with creating false public alarm after police...
View ArticleTrenton mayor breaks silence on payroll problem being investigated by FBI
Mayor Eric Jackson stressed that employees would not be affected TRENTON -- Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson, speaking for the first time about the city's payroll issues, said officials took immediate...
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Princeton professor's Holocaust book draws criticism from Polish officials
Jan Tomasz Gross, a Princeton U. professor, made international headlines this week after the Polish government threatened to strip him of an award PRINCETON - Historians are rallying behind a...
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