New Jersey Gun Buyback Program Branching Out
Fresh off a pair of recent success stories in our region, New Jersey's "Guns For Cash" buyback program is branching out.
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Fresh off a pair of recent success stories in our region, New Jersey's "Guns For Cash" buyback program is branching out.
Authorities have collected hundreds of weapons during a weekend gun buyback program in New Jersey's capital city.
A central New Jersey man who fatally stabbed his ex-girlfriend and seriously injured her new beau has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
Gov. Chris Christie is again urging Congress to approve $60 billion in storm aid for states including New Jersey that were hit hard by Superstorm Sandy.
"I need 30 minutes with any of these top officials, and I can show them at least 12 mistakes Mr. Dalton's office made in the first 24 hours," an uncle of the 12-year-old murder victim says.
Trenton police say a man was killed when his car struck a tree on a major highway in New Jersey's capital city on Christmas morning.
Trenton authorities say two people were killed and four others were wounded during a violent night in New Jersey's capital city.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie was still pleading on Monday afternoon with residents of New Jersey's barrier coastal islands, saying they could place their lives and their families at risk if they don't leave.
The decision allows the county to bypass many civil service rules for a year to get the force up and running.
A program that benefits at risk children in and around Trenton got a shot in the arm this week from a former mayor.
Trenton police say two men and two women were "hanging out" on the porch of a city home when two people walked up to them just before 3 a.m. Saturday and started shooting.
In addition, 14 staffers previously demoted are being restored to supervisory positions.
Twenty-five year veteran sergeant Nadir Nassry is said to have recruited trooper Joseph Ventrella for the escort of luxury vehicles that, at times, exceeded 100 miles per hour on the Garden State Parkway.
Despite lower than expected revenues, Governor Chris Christie wants taxes cut, and says he won't sign a budget without one.
Can you get a third grader to tell you a secret? New Jersey education officials are trying to do just that -- on a standardized test.
New Jersey's state comptroller has reviewed the inner operations of the Delaware River Port Authority, saying his office has found a pattern of waste and mismanagement that cost the bi-state agency millions of dollars over a number of years.
The state assembly is ready to take a full vote on the plan as soon as next week.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie is sticking to his guns on the issue of same-sex marriage, but wonders why its proponents are sticking to theirs.
It's a $124-million-per-year, state and federally funded program that provides assistance for low-income families in need of child care.
Just hours before a new legislature was taking office Tuesday in New Jersey, state legislators wrapped up the old session by approving a long list of proposals that are now subject to action by the governor.
The plan, submitted last week to the New Jersey Civil Service Commission, calls for the layoff of 108 police officers and supervisors which, when paired with 42 job cuts in other departments, will save the city about $5½ million.
Officials at New Jersey Transit have approved the second half of a federally funded project that will, when complete, link the popular River Line light rail service with the not-so-popular Atlantic City-to-Philadelphia rail line.
Democratic state senators, needing some Republican support to override the governor's vetoes, got none.
Democrats in the New Jersey state senate were trying, with little early success, to mount overrides of more than three dozen line-item vetoes that Governor Chris Christie made in the budget.
New Jersey governor Chris Christie has unveiled a draft of a new energy master plan for the Garden State which looks, in some ways, like the one it is designed to replace.
