Trenton News

Governor Christie 's first ad for his reelection campaign makes the case that he's winning the war against New Jersey's property taxes, which are among the nation's highest.

TRENTON - Witnesses to a stabbing inside a city bar yesterday helped lead police to the suspect, who was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, authorities said.

Authorities spent nearly four hours on scene investigating a dead body found inside a car in the parking garage near the Trenton Train Station.

TRENTON - The gun that Gerald Murphy used to hold three children hostage inside a bedroom of a Grand Street home and keep law enforcement at bay for nearly 37 hours last weekend was a fake, the New Jersey State Police said yesterday.

When Paul and Colleen Villareal moved back to Mercer County 11 years ago, they left behind five restaurants they had owned and operated in Atlantic City.

Deacon Louis S. Esposito of Howell offers the Communion cup to a communicant during the Ordination Mass May 11.

State Sen. Richard Codey in this file photo. Codey wants to raise the tobacco purchase age to 21.

A photo of the most recent site plan of the Mrs. G redevelopment project for Route 1 at Bakers Basin Road.

Roberto Cruz, Jose Rivera and Kenneth Rivera all of Trenton were indicted on murder charges for the December 2012 shooting of Emilio Lopez.

The Community Service Club of Westfield High School was honored on May 15 in Trenton at the New Jersey State Board of Education's Annual Student Recognition Ceremony.

TRENTON - New Jersey's unemployment rate fell to to 8.7 percent in April, the lowest level in four years, the state Labor Department announced today.

In this Wednesday, April 24, 2013, photo, workers are seen at the construction of a new apartment housing complex in Trenton, N.J. In this Wednesday, April 24, 2013, photo, workers are seen at the construction of a new apartment housing complex in Trenton, N.J. Ground-breaking for new U.S. homes plummeted more than expected in April from an almost ... (more)

TRENTON - Carmenlita Stevens was already dead on a bedroom floor when the two calls came in from Trenton Public Schools asking about her children.

Danni Rivera, 29, of Rahway, pleaded guilty today to first-degree racketeering for running a drug ring based in Perth Amboy.

Edward Acosta, Timothy Miller and Tiffany Wright are charged in connection with a May 2, 2013 shooting in Trenton.

Ewing has proposed an ordinance that would restrict strip clubs, adult stores, tattoo shops and bail bonds businesses from a business district along Olden Avenue.

TRENTON - A small sliver of land tucked behind the Old Barracks and beside the Statehouse, which contains the remnants of more than 300 years of human activity, was reopened to the public yesterday as an historical site.

State funding for the Princeton Theological Seminary came under scrutiny when lawmakers meeting in Trenton for a budget hearing last week, questioned Secretary of Higher Education Rochelle Hendricks about the religious nature of the institution and the source of the funding.

A North Bergen man admitted Monday that he bribed an officer of Mariner's Bank in Edgewater with money and a rent-free apartment to renew a $3.5 million line of credit.

TRENTON, N.J. A child whose body was found in a New Jersey home following a dramatic 37-hour standoff this weekend died from stab wounds on the same day as his mother nearly three weeks earlier, authorities said Tuesday.