New Jersey Local News

Jersey Alerts Hudson County Woman Charged with Illegally Voting in Federal Election and Unlawful Procurement of U.S. Citizenship

A Hudson County woman, who is a naturalized citizen who immigrated to the United States from the Dominican Republic, was charged...

Oct 7, 6:06 PM · Statewide, Hudson NJBallot N.J. Local Candidates' First Closing Money Reports Land as Daniel's Law Fight Returns to Court

Monday opened the last month of New Jersey's local money season: new 29-day reports h...

Oct 5, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Air Force Airman Sentenced to 121 Months’ Imprisonment for Receiving Child Pornography

An Airman with the United States Air Force was sentenced today to 121 months’ impri...

Oct 7, 5:52 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot NJ School Funding Review Reaches South Jersey as Premiums, Tax Caps Squeeze District Budgets

The state's 15-month funding review opens Monday in Blackwood as health premiums rise...

Oct 4, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Former Amtrak Employee Sentenced to 20 Months in Prison for Conspiring to Defraud the Amtrak Health Care Plan and Conspiring to Communicate Extortionate Threats

A former Amtrak employee was sentenced today for his role in a health care fraud sche...

Oct 7, 5:10 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot New Jersey Has Until November 9 to Replace its Lieutenant Governor

Governor Mikie Sherrill has 45 days from Dale Caldwell's resignation to make the appo...

Oct 3, 12:00 AM · Caldwell, Essex Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts AG Davenport: Former Senior Correctional Police Officer Sentenced to Three Years in New Jersey State Prison After Smuggling Contraband into Northern State Prison

Attorney General Jennifer Davenport announced the sentencing of a former New Jersey D...

Oct 7, 3:12 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Opioid settlement money is covering police costs in some N.J. towns. Who's checking the spending?

Edison told the state it spent $1,179,981 in settlement money on police personnel cos...

Oct 2, 12:00 AM · Edison, Middlesex Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts TWO MEN CONVICTED IN MURDER OF PATERSON WOMAN JASMIN WEL

A jury convicted Jefersson Gonzalez and Elvis DeJesus in the December 2021 killing. A...

Oct 7, 2:54 PM · Paterson, Passaic NJBallot New Jersey Nuclear Task Force Holds First Meeting; Reactor Solicitation Not Yet Issued

Thursday's meeting reviewed a draft charter and established five subcommittees. The s...

Oct 2, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Attorney General’s Office Investigating Crash Involving Serious Injuries in Linden, N.J.

The Attorney General’s Office is investigating a multi-vehicle collision that occur...

Oct 6, 8:40 PM · Linden, Union NJBallot Thousands Lose NJ FamilyCare Eligibility as Federal Medicaid Overhaul Begins

The federal budget law's first cut hit New Jersey's Medicaid program on Oct. 1, endin...

Oct 1, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Former TD Bank Employee Pleads Guilty to Accepting Bribes, Laundering $4.8 Million to Colombia

Gerardo Aquino, 40, of Hollywood, Florida, pleaded guilty to accepting bribes and fac...

Oct 6, 1:48 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Atlantic City Sheraton to Lay Off 99 Workers as NJEDA Reviews $79M Tax Credit Request

Ninety-nine workers lose their jobs Thursday at the Sheraton Atlantic City Convention...

Sep 30, 12:00 AM · Atlantic City, Atlantic Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts MAN DIES AFTER DOWNTOWN NEWARK SHOOTING; PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE INVESTIGATING

A man shot in downtown Newark on October 5 later died at University Hospital. The Ess...

Oct 6, 12:32 AM · Newark, Essex NJBallot State: No Landfill Link to Keyport Indoor Air; Benzene Found in Union Beach

Four months after residents began logging cases, the state's first sampling results d...

Sep 29, 12:00 AM · Union Beach, Monmouth Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Box Truck Overturns Near Paterson Plank Road Ramp in Moonachie Area

Original Jersey Alerts video recorded at approximately 3:12 p.m. shows a damaged box...

Oct 5, 9:16 PM · Moonachie, Bergen NJBallot Governor Sherrill's First Housing Plan to Debut at Atlantic City Conference

The recommendations ordered up in Executive Order No. 17 are scheduled for delivery a...

Sep 28, 12:00 AM · Atlantic City, Atlantic Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Former Employee of Industrial Company Sentenced to 32 Months in Prison for Computer Attack and Extortion

A Kansas City, Missouri man was sentenced to 32 months in prison for crimes related t...

Oct 5, 5:07 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Ocean City's new beach, a nor'easter and an old question: Who pays for the repair?

Federal rules could let Washington pay to repair the north-end sand the Army Corps' c...

Sep 28, 12:00 AM · Ocean City, Cape May Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Newark Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Fatal Shooting of Man in a Wheelchair

Newark, N.J.-Essex County Prosecutor Theodore N. Stephens, II announced today that Sh...

Oct 5, 2:48 PM · Newark, Essex NJBallot New Jersey's $71 Million Food-Stamp Cost Share Starts Thursday, With Counties Paying Most

New Jersey budgeted $71 million for the first year of a federal cost shift that start...

Sep 27, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts AG Davenport, DEP Commissioner Potosnak Announce Two Natural Resource Damages Settlements

New Jersey Attorney General Jennifer Davenport and Department of Environmental Protec...

Oct 5, 12:02 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Eight N.J. Counties Under Emergency Order as Nor'easter Peaks Sunday

A State of Emergency spans eight counties after Shore flooding swamped streets, cut p...

Sep 26, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Pennsylvania Man Sentenced to Seven Years in Prison for Attempted Aggravated Sexual Assault

Attorney General Jennifer Davenport, the Division of Criminal Justice, and the New Je...

Oct 2, 5:51 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Stockton Releases 27 Rehabilitated Terrapins Into Reed's Bay at Restored Galloway Park

Twenty-seven healed terrapins went back into Reed's Bay behind Veterans Memorial Park...

Sep 25, 12:00 AM · Galloway, Atlantic Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Two Individuals Plead to Roles in $11 Million Bank Fraud Conspiracy

Two more defendants have admitted to their roles in an $11 million conspiracy to defr...

Oct 2, 4:25 PM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Fall Foliage Map Is Out in NJ as Drought Warning Hits Month Ten

The state's fall foliage forecast went out this week, into a New Jersey where the dro...

Sep 24, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts BOYD AVENUE FIRE KILLS JERSEY CITY WOMAN, 90; THREE INJURED

Prosecutors identified Zenaida Mojica, 90, as the victim. Two residents and one firef...

Oct 2, 1:35 PM · Jersey City, Hudson NJBallot Vineland Data Center Fined $1.07 Million; Secaucus Mayor Wants Pause on Data Centers

New Jersey fined a Vineland data center a record $1.07 million for 62 unpermitted bac...

Sep 23, 12:00 AM · Hackensack, Bergen Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts Massachusetts Man Convicted of Laundering $1.2M from Internet-Enabled Romance Scams

A Massachusetts man was convicted on September 28, 2026, for his role in a multi-year...

Oct 2, 11:23 AM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot What New Jersey Law Says About the Credit Card Surcharge on Your Receipt

New Jersey's 2023 law caps credit card fees at sellers' actual costs and requires not...

Sep 22, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ Jersey Alerts AG Davenport Challenges EPA’s Rollback of Power Plant Pollution Limits

Attorney General Jennifer Davenport joined a coalition of 25 states, counties, and ci...

Oct 1, 9:58 AM · Statewide, New Jersey NJBallot Toms River Faces New Sanctions Bid After Township Devices Go Missing in Shul Suit

Twenty of the 49 township devices tied to a five-year RLUIPA case cannot be found, th...

Sep 21, 12:00 AM · Toms River, Ocean Opens original source ↗ NJBallot Former Trenton Water Works Collector Sentenced to Three Years for Falsified Tests

New Jersey voided 1,660 Trenton Water Works sampling events after collector Cesar Lug...

Sep 20, 12:00 AM · Trenton, Mercer Opens original source ↗ NJBallot New Jersey Robotaxi Bill: Waymo In, Tesla Out — Drivers Demand a Say

A three-year pilot would put driverless cabs on New Jersey roads but bar camera-only...

Sep 19, 12:00 AM · Union, Union Opens original source ↗ NJBallot New Jersey Asks Supreme Court to Rule on Prediction-Market Sports Bets

New Jersey's petition asks the justices to decide whether prediction-market platforms...

Sep 18, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ NJBallot Wonder Files WARN for 533 New Jersey Workers; Corporate Layoffs Began One Day After Notice

According to the Parsippany Daily, the September 15 filing set corporate-office separ...

Sep 17, 12:00 AM · Parsippany, Morris Opens original source ↗ NJBallot Bergen County Opens Investigation Into Flooded Paramus Half Marathon

About 250 runners ran through knee- and waist-deep water in Paramus on Sunday as flas...

Sep 16, 12:00 AM · Paramus, Bergen Opens original source ↗ NJBallot New Jersey Property Tax Relief Payments Are Out; Here's What Changed This Year

ANCHOR payments started Sept. 15, most within 90 days of filing. The June budget chan...

Sep 15, 12:00 AM Opens original source ↗ NJBallot What NJ Transit Riders Face When Portal Bridge Cuts Return This Fall

Five weeks of single-track rail work starting October 9 will see service cuts near 62...

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