Trenton News

March 6, 2014: President Obama speaks during the "Women of Soul," in the East Room of the White House in Washington.

TRENTON - John Harmon, the president and CEO of the African American Chamber of Commerce of New Jersey, was officially installed yesterday as the new chairman of the board of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.

The former mayor Trenton has asked a federal judge to throw out his conviction on corruption charges and grant him a new trial.

HAMILTON -- The 2014 Hamilton St. Patrick's Day Parade benefitted from beautiful weather to draw huge crowds for the township's annual celebration.

One man was killed and several others were injured in a shooting at an illegal city night club early this morning, officials said.

A local fire official says the gas leak that killed a Ewing woman and devastated a housing development last week was not called in to the fire department for more than an hour, the Times of Trenton reports.

TRENTON - Deputy County Clerk Walker Worthy, who is also vying to win election as mayor of Trenton, said to quell crime in Trenton he would propose using technology such as surveillance cameras and gunshot spotter technology to make the city's streets safer.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, right, listens as New Jersey state comptroller Matthew Boxer answers a question Friday, Feb. 8, 2013, in Trenton, N.J., after Christie announced an executive order for monitors on the spending for Superstorm Sandy aid.

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President Obama will honor two Trenton, New Jersey police officers shot in the line of duty during an ambush last summer.

I will be testifying before the state Assembly Budget Committee on March 18th in Trenton, NJ.

TRENTON - New Jersey's nearly-defunct affordable housing agency has to start meeting again next week, or its board members will be forced into a courtroom to face contempt charges, a state appeals court ruled today.

Trenton will send more than $757,000 in state aid for the 2014-2015 school year, a 4.7 percent increase from the funds offered for the current school year, according to figures released Feb. 27 by the New Jersey Department of Education .

Jersey punks, it's time to look back. "No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens," the new must-read book from authors Amy Yates Wuelfing and Steven Di Lodovico, takes an exhaustive look at the history of the iconic Trenton club.

With talk coming out of Trenton in recent weeks about some top Democrats who want to discuss hiking the gas and millionaires' taxes , one legislator actually wants to lower a tax we all pay - but history shows the possibility of success is not high.

Gov. Chris Christie spoke yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting, where presidential candidates audition for the party base.

They say a mother knows, Rebecca House said today, and for 26 years she's never felt that her daughter is dead.

It's New Jersey's ONLY ALL LIVE -ALL LOCAL-ALL NIGHT SHOW, with me, Jersey Guy Ray Rossi - "el rey de la noche" - merely a guy with a microphone, transmitter, and internet connection.

An Assembly Transportation Committee hearing to discuss the mass transit mass confusion at the Super Bowl - postponed Feb. 24 because of what the committee chair termed a refusal to cooperate - is on again for Monday.

Michael M. Holman, left, and Dante Martin, right, both 18 of Trenton, are charged in the beating death of a Guatemalan teen during a robbery last month.