Trenton News

Partly blaming unrest in the Middle East on President Barack Obama, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said Saturday that Obama has not spoken firmly and forcefully on Israel's behalf and that the country no longer trusts it has the full support of the United States because of him.

MTV officials say Jenni Farley welcomed her first child, daughter Meilani Alexandra Mathews, early Sunday afternoon in New Jersey.

New donations from Times readers, including $1,000 from an anonymous benefactor from Ewing, have helped bring the total raised for the 2014 Times-Kiwanis Camp Fund to $14,289 to date.

In the closing days of June, two men died bloody deaths on the streets of Trenton.

Oil, natural gas and diamonds from Africa, flowers and emeralds from Colombia - the possibilities are endless for Trenton local John Harmon, who has come a long way from overseeing a residential mortgage unit for Bowery Savings Bank.

From left, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner and Justices Jaynee LaVecchia, Barry Albin, Anne Patterson and Faustino Fernandez-Vina attend a ceremony at the War Memorial in Trenton.

Analysts are offering a tempered endorsement of the concept of two North Jersey casinos being championed by a number of state Democratic lawmakers, but they cautioned against overestimating returns in an increasingly saturated region for gambling.

TRENTON - The state Assembly took a step Friday toward putting a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would change New Jersey's controversial bail system.

A government official in Pakistan says militants have killed an army captain and two soldiers in an attack in a tribal region near its border with Afghanistan.

Three persons were hospitalized after several thousand people tested their bravery by dashing alongside six fighting bulls through the slippery, rain-soaked streets of the northern city of Pamplona in the sixth running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival.

So it is good news that Oakland has been granted $2 million, most of it from the Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund, to buy and raze six homes along the Ramapo River.

In this April 28, 2012, file photo, Tracy Morgan attends The Comedy Awards in New York.

While Times of Trenton reporter Mike Davis was experiencing Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom from 41 stories up with a Go Pro camera strapped to his hand, Times of Trenton photographer Martin Griff captured the experience at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson with both feet firmly on the ground.

The meeting was designed to educate the parent community on the upcoming standardized assessment that New Jersey students will be exposed to this coming school year.

Grady Blue III was arrested and charged with the shooting death of Naquan Ellis.

TRENTON - Assemblyman Reed Gusciora is calling on the state agency in charge of rebuilding the city's high school to do everything possible to maintain the building's historic elements.

The deficit in pension liabilities for public employees is the "big elephant in the room" for New Jersey's state budget, according to Montclair Republican Club President John Van Wagner.

Two months before the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary, Bob Smith was scrutinizing a shopping cart full of watermelons near the checkout line at Sully's Market.

JUNE 20: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's 'Road to Majority' Policy Conference at the Omni Shoreham hotel June 20, 2014 in Washington, DC.

TRENTON - Amid the debate over taxes and pensions cuts, at least one aspect of the $32.5 billion budget that Gov. Chris Christie signed less than two weeks ago was virtually overlooked in the shuffle.