Trenton News

TRENTON - The triangular brick building at Cass and Adeline streets in South Trenton has seen better days.

L.A. Parker is a columnist for The Trentonian in our state's capital. He wrote such a strong piece on key players in the Bridgegate scandal pleading the 5th that I just have to share it.

In the wake of the death of a couple of inmates at the Burlington County Jail under mysterious circumstances, some residents are calling for the Attorney General to hold an independent investigation.

From left, Nolan Syers of Hamilton and his aunt Cheryl Kovacs, of Lumberton, NJ at Catholic Charities' Early Intervention Support Services, located on Cass St., in Trenton.

A man serving a 30-year prison sentence for robbery and kidnapping now faces accusations he tried to beat a female corrections officer to death in February.

A former state deputy attorney general who was involved in a fatal car crash after blacking out at the wheel two years ago may lose his law license, according to a report in the New Jersey Law Journal.

Before they killed him, the intruders bound Frederick Tucker's hands and feet with duct tape, beat him with a pistol and seared his hips and neck with the tip of a screwdriver they heated on his kitchen stove.

Prosecutors say retired Stuyvesant High School librarian Christopher Asch and auto mechanic Michael Van Hise aimed to turn disturbing ideas into deadly action, while defense lawyers say the men just thought up scenarios no more real than horror films or violent pornography .

Two Brooklyn brothers have pleaded guilty to being part of a group of men who used violent means in exchange for pay to force Jewish husbands to give their wives religious divorces.

TRENTON - A former Rider University student was sentenced to a three-year prison term for her role in a fatal 2011 hit-and-run, in which she struck a Trenton man and fled the scene.

Markquice R. Thomas, also known as "Tank," stood on Martin Luther King Boulevard near the intersection of Rossell Avenue at about 3:45 p.m. Sunday and fired a handgun several times at Joseph Gaines who was seated in the vehicle parked outside a memorial set up outside the club, the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office announced today in a statement.

The Oregon owners of a 22-pound housecat who trapped them in their bedroom after attacking their baby say they're not giving up on their pet and are getting it medical attention and therapy.

A key figure in a political payback investigation involving Gov. Chris Christie's administration has appeared in court to show she's not hiding from the scandal.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie's former Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Anne Kelly, right, talks with her attorney Michael Critchley, left, as they arrive in court for a hearing Tuesday, March 11, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. Attorneys for Kelly and former Christie campaign manager Bill Stepien were in court to try to persuade a judge not to force them to ... (more)

New Jersey Gov. . New Jersey Gov. . New Jersey Gov. . New Jersey Gov. By ANGELA DELLI SANTI Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. - A key figure in a political payback investigation involving Gov. Chris Christie's administration voluntarily came to court to watch lawyers argue over whether her subpoena from a legislative investigatory panel should be ... (more)

Montgomery High's 22 Chase Ta gos to the basket against Trenton High's10 Kenar Gulley in the first quarter of the NJSIAA Central Jersey Group IV Tournament final at Montgomery on Tuesday, March 11, 2014.

New Jerseyans are enrolling in Obamacare at a nice, steady pace, but they need to pick up the tempo in the final month of enrollment to meet the law's expectations, the program's advocates said Tuesday.

The final stage of construction for the U.S. Navy's Joint High Speed Vessel Trenton, the fourth ship to be named after New Jersey's capital city , started this week with a "keel-laying ceremony" at the manufacturing facility in Alabama.

A former high school librarian and an auto mechanic were deadly serious about plots to abduct, rape, torture and kill women and girls, prosecutors told jurors Tuesday, while defense lawyers said the men only shared vile fantasies no more real than horror movies or violent pornography.

A soldier dies for his country, his parents are presented with 2 Honor and Remember flags which they present to Bordentown City and the Veterans Memorial Committee is refusing to fly them at the city's Veterans Memorial.