Trenton News

Interview with newly-sworn Trenton Mayor Eric Jackson on his first full day in office.

Dante Picott was sentenced last week after he pleaded guilty in January to a 10-count indictment that included charges of kidnapping, robbery and multiple aggravated sexual assault offenses, admitting that at 1:30 a.m. on May 2, 2012, he choked and punched a woman into unconsciousness before dragging her behind a row of bushes to conceal her from ... (more)

TRENTON - In an effort to reach the estimated 40,000 women who could be receiving free food as part of the state's WIC program, which provides nutrition to pregnant women, children and their families, state health commissioner Mary O'Dowd announced a new advertising campaign while touring a WIC clinic in Trenton this morning.

At the kickoff a week-long series of events to celebrate WIC's 40th Anniversary and promote WIC benefits such as vouchers for fresh produce at farmers' markets, and nutrition and breastfeeding classes, Maritza Raimundi-Petroski, right, WIC Director of Family Support Services, speaks with Kelly Mannherz, WIC Program administrator, Mary E. Oa Dowd, ... (more)

TRENTON -- A Trenton man was arrested and charged with theft for allegedly filing nearly $19,000 in bogus damage claims in connection with Superstorm Sandy, authorities said today.

Q: I can hardly stand to fly because the person sitting behind me always punches their seat-back entertainment screen so hard I can feel it through the seat into my back.

TRENTON - Down the hall from his office, a photo of each of Mercer County Prosecutor Joseph L. Bocchini Jr.'s predecessors hangs on the wall.

Graduates give a thumbs up as they enter the War Memorial in Trenton for the Thomas Edison State College graduation ceremony, in this file photo.

New donations from Times readers, including a gift of $350 from Hamilton Jewelers of Princeton, have helped bring the total raised for the 2014 Times-Kiwanis Camp Fund to $16,084 to date.

Youth outreach group Urban Promise Trenton's Street Leader program cleans up Mill Hill Park in Trenton recently.

Megan Kanka was raped and strangled by a twice-convicted sex offender across the street from her home in Hamilton Township, N.J., in July of 1994.

Assemblywoman Bonnie Watson Coleman , center, is shown in this file photo with Mercer County Executive Brian Hughes, left, and Mercer County Democratic chairwoman Liz Muoio.

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.