Trenton News

Chief Scott Jenkins of the Hightstown Fire Department pets Essex, a 5-year-old American Curl cat as the Hightstown Animal Welfare Committee donates 24 oxygen masks for dogs and cats to the Hightstown Fire Department and First Aid Squad this week.

Passengers get off the Dinky at Princeton Station for one of the very last times before the platform was shut down at its former location.

TRENTON, NJ Acting Attorney General John J. Hoffman announced that a former top official of the East Orange Water Commission pleaded guilty today to conspiring to manipulate testing of the agency's water supply to falsify results and report lower levels of a regulated contaminant in the drinking water supplied to customers.

TRENTON - Leroy Brown may not be from Trenton, but the 12 employees in his small trucking and hauling business are.

For several decades a DuPont ammunition plant in Pompton Lakes, NJ has leaked pollution into the groundwater and chemical gases have seeped into resident's basements causing cancer and other health disorders.

Isaac Broome's "Baseball Vase," created for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, is part of the New Jersey State Museum's exhibit "New Jersey on Display: World's Fairs and the Garden State.

Mark your calendar for RealShare NEW JERSEY on September 11 at the Hyatt Regency in New Brunswick.

Norway's intelligence service says it has been warned of an imminent "concrete threat" against the nation from people with links to Islamic fighters in Syria.

A Mercer County man was among 14 people who were charged in a second round of arrests in "Operation Predator Alert," a joint operation by the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice and ICE Homeland Security Investigations that has targeted offenders in New Jersey who used a file-sharing network to download and distribute child pornography, Acting ... (more)

Linda Leonard, a administrative assistant with the Four Diamonds Fund, welcomes Penn State football players and coaches to the Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital on Wednesday.

Under the terms of the plea deal, accepted by Mercer County Superior Court Judge Mark Fleming, Phobus Sullivan, 30, of Monmouth Street, pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated manslaughter stemming from the Dec. 14, 2010, shooting death of 21-year-old West Ward resident Andrew Leonard.

The men, who were arrested from February to this month, were charged with possession of child pornography.

TRENTON - Prosecutors are awaiting test results to see whether a driver was impaired when the dump truck he was driving pushed a car into Colonial Lake last week, killing a Trenton man.

TRENTON - An event that helped city residents and their families get outdoors on warm summer nights has returned this summer thanks to the help of a city resident and a number of generous sponsors.

The concert is scheduled for Sept. 13 in the Walnut Creek Amphitheatre in Raleigh.

White Pass and Yukon Railroad President John Finlayson tells The Associated Press that the injured are being treated at a clinic in the tourist town of Skagway, about 100 miles northwest of Juneau.

As part of Trenton's government makeover, the newly elected mayor has appointed a new top cop, and he has big plans for the department.

Actor Eric Stonestreet predicts that one day, it's not going to take an act of courage for an openly gay person to play in the NFL.

TRENTON, N.J. The New Jersey Turnpike Authority wants a Florida pizza shop to pay a big toll for using a logo similar to the iconic Garden State Parkway's green and yellow signs.

AvalonBay's attempt to have a Mercer County Superior Court judge order the town of Princeton to sign off on a demolition plan and issue building permits for its planned 280-unit rental complex was denied Tuesday.