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Jersey City Fire Department responds to fire at Ellis Island. Jersey City fire officials say operations at Ellis Island have been widely disrupted by a transformer fire .

"Our Watering Places - The Empty Sleeve at Newport,'' Harper's Weekly; private collection; Star-Ledger file photo Illustrations by American artist Winslow Homer will be the focal point for today's "Studio Station'' event hosted by the Jersey City Museum at nearby Van Vorst Park.

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Diane Beeny was among the New Jersey Citizen Action protesters this afternoon outside AIG in Downtown Jersey City.

Mark Middleton, 41, of Bayview Avenue in Jersey City, led police on a wild chase while pouring suspected cocaine out of his car window and was arrested at Gates and Princeton avenues, where he lost control of his car, police said.

The Jersey City man whose girlfriend and son were kidnapped from this home on Clarke Avenue has been arrested.

WomenRising Inc. and Hudson County Community College will hold a candlelight vigil tonight as part of a domestic violence awareness event.

Months after a wide-ranging federal corruption sting netted dozens of public officials and turned local political campaigns inside-out, 82 seats in the Legislature are up for grabs.

Gov. Jon Corzine greets supporters at the International Brotherhood of Boilermakers Local #28 in Bayonne earlier today.

A piece of the World Trade Center returned home yesterday morning when the USS New York made its voyage up the Hudson River.

Crystal Kelly appears in Central Judicial Processing Court in Jersey City today on charges she broke into a Danforth Avenue home and watched television, assaulting the homeowner when he tried to throw her out.

"On the national level you have sharp and divided partisanship, particularly over stimulus issues or healthcare issues and now foreign affairs.

The cover of today's Jersey Journal has a picture of Assemblyman Anthony Chiappone next to the words "I'll win." Chiappone, indicted along with his wife in August by the State Attorney General's Office for allegedly cashing staffers' checks for his personal and campaign bank accounts and subsequently stripped of his legislative committee ...

Police arrested a driver early Saturday who appeared to be so drunk that neither police sirens nor the impact of crashing into two vehicles was enough to rouse him from his slumber, police reports said.

Can you guess which Jersey Journal Political Insider once wore a mask to scare folks in Journal Square? Fear not, though, he's not expected at tonight's Halloween costume contest for kids at the Loew's in Jersey City.

Another New Jersey newspaper has made its endorsement in the state's gubernatorial election.

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Muhammad Khalid, 55, of Jersey City, is accused of running a counterfeit check ring, cheating banks out of $75,000. A Jersey City man has been arrested on charges he ran a counterfeit check ring that bilked banks in Hudson County and elsewhere out of more than $75,000, officials said.

"T he Mikado" is coming to Jersey City's Landmark Loew's Jersey Theatre. The opera, which will be performed by The Ridgewood Gilbert & Sullivan Opera Company, will be staged at 2 p.m. Sunday at the theater, at 54 Journal Square.

A Jersey City boy has been sentenced as an adult to six years in prison for putting this gun to a man's head during a robbery.