Trenton News

For the last 25 years, Frank Fanning has participated in the weeklong Anchor House Ride for Runaways - even though he first joined the charity fundraiser as a way to honor a fellow firefighter fallen in the line of duty.

Would you like the chance to decide if New Jersey's 120 lawmakers should work full time and be barred from holding any other job while in office? Assemblyman Reed Gusciora is sponsoring a measure that would give voters that opportunity.

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File photo of the Mercer County Criminal Courthouse at 209 South Broad Street in Trenton.

TRENTON - Technical difficulties are preventing a city man accused in the June 2012 shooting death of Trenton resident Wilfredo Rivera to see crucial video evidence in the case as he considers a plea deal that would include a 24-year prison sentence.

TRENTON - A defendant accused in the April 22 shooting at a Galilee Baptist Church funeral stated he was one step ahead of a judge Wednesday when the judge decided not to lower the man's bail requirement.

TRENTON - Police arrested an 18-year-old city man on a weapons possession charge after a foot chase on Saturday night, after the man pulled a handgun from under his shirt and ran when he noticed a patrol car pulled up beside him on the 800 block of Stuyvesant Avenue.

You may have heard of Kickstarter.com , the website that allows would-be filmmakers to solicit donations to help fund their movies.

Knowell Desmond and Zaire Smith are both charged with murder in the killing of Rasheen Jones on East Stuyvesant Avenue on July 23, 2014.

This year New Jersey observes the 350th Anniversary of its political establishment in 1664.

The Princeton Police Department has arrested a Trenton woman for several thefts that occurred in the Princeton homes where she was employed as a cleaner.

TRENTON - The Trenton Museum Society, which supports the Trenton City Museum located in Cadwalader Park, will host a cabaret-themed benefit this Friday to raise funds for the museum.

Dr. Bette Simmons, vice president of Student Development and Enrollment Management at County College of Morris , and Robert Lipka, director of customized training solutions at CCM, recently received the Community College Spirit Award from the New Jersey Council of County Colleges .

File photo of two workers for the Diocese of Trenton righting an overturned tombstone in St. Mary's Cemetery.

TRENTON - Two city men were arrested on multiple drug charges Monday following a raid on three city properties that yielded $12,000 in cash and more than $16,500 in drugs.

TRENTON -- A Trenton woman was arrested and charged Monday night after she stabbed another woman in the back of the head, police said today.

The Rose and Louis H. Linowitz Charitable Foundation, a longtime supporter of the Times-Kiwanis Camp Fund, has pledged that it will match the next $5,000 raised for this year's campaign.

American composer and self-proclaimed "bad boy of music" George Antheil was born today 114 years ago in Trenton, New Jersey.

Seismic research ship cruising off New Jersey Government agencies, universities won't say if ship has started sounding sea floor Check out this story on app.com: http://on.app.com/1maBl84 The seismic survey ship Marcus C. Langseth is scheduled to conduct operations east of Barnegat Light as part of a long-running scientific study.

The Port Authority fast-tracked the hiring of a law firm with strong ties to Governor Christie and gave it millions of dollars in legal work after the Christie administration pressed officials to hire the firm in 2010, according to internal agency documents and two sources familiar with the firm's selection.