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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo received tentative support from legislative leaders Monday for his plan to finally sideline the Long Island Power Authority, which has been criticized for high rates and questionable response in disasters -- most infamously including Superstorm Sandy.
A former New Jersey Yeshiva teacher changed pleas in the middle of his trial Monday, admitting that he sexually abused a boy he met while working as a camp counselor.
Police in Plainfield, N.J., on Saturday were looking for a father who beat and gravely injured 3-month-old infant on Friday night.
A hostage situation persisted in Trenton, N.J., Saturday morning, after a woman and a child were found dead inside a home.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie had no mercy for a spider that crawled up onto his desk as he spoke to a group of children late last week.
A man suffered broken legs Monday morning two assailants carjacked his sport-utility vehicle and him over in Newark.
Police in upscale Ridgewood, N.J., busted a massive house party this weekend, and 17 teenagers were hauled off in handcuffs.
A taxi driver and another man were hospitalized early Sunday after they were both stabbed in Paterson, N.J.
Carrie Ruffner, 34, was found alive in Millington, three miles away from her home. Ruffner was spotted by Sgt. Aaron Buerstetta of the Long Hill Police Department, ending three days of of intensive search and rescue efforts.
The Rev. Michael Fugee submitted his request and it was promptly accepted by Newark Archbishop John Myers on Thursday evening.
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A New Jersey state assemblywoman is among those calling to have Newark Archbishop John Myers held accountable, after a once-accused pedophile priest suddenly popped up at Colts Neck Church youth retreats.
Horrifying allegations were revealed Wednesday in the case against 13 people accused of with smuggling dozens of young Mexican women into New Jersey and forced into prostitution in New York and New Jersey.
A Gallup survey on stress in America conducted from January to December 2012 and just released this month found that among those in the Tri-State Area, 43 percent of the people surveyed in Connecticut answered yes to having stress.
A former Essex County teacher of the year was spared prison time Monday, after admitting to having sex with a 15-year-old student.
Two seventh grade girls at Paterson School 27 in New Jersey have pleaded not guilty to making terroristic threats, after allegedly threatening to kill their classmates in a video posted online.
Police issued a warrant Monday for a suspect in a fatal shooting in Bloomfield, N.J.
Advocates for victims of child sexual abuse rededicated a monument in Morris County, N.J., Sunday that has twice been the target of vandalism.
A northern New Jersey man broke into a liquor store and got into a fight with police just hours after he was released from jail, authorities said Sunday.
Investigators have been questioning whether New Jersey priest once accused of child sexual abuse may have violated an order never again to work with children.
A New Jersey mother was charged this week with lying to multiple people and saying her son had cancer – including the 9-year-old boy himself.
A dance was canceled at Readington Middle School in New Jersey Friday night, after reports of threats stemming from a ban on strapless dresses at an eighth grade dance scheduled for later.
Police in Bloomfield, N.J., were investigating a shooting that left a man dead early Saturday.
A man's body washed ashore Saturday morning at a construction site in Edgewater, N.J., police said.
The American Lung Association is out with its "State of the Air" survey, which grades every county in the nation on its air quality and ozone levels.
