Trenton News

Sheena Johnson, center, outside the Trenton Marriott an hour after her release from the Mercer County Correction Center Saturday.

The archaeological site known as Petty's Run was discovered in the shadow of the Statehouse during an expansion of Thomas Edison State College in 1996.

Carmenlita Stevens with her son Quavon. Both were murdered April 25 prior to a standoff with a man who used Stevens' children as hostages, police said.

TRENTON - Capital Health has pulled back on a plan criticized by some health care advocates that would have closed the city's last remaining birthing center and moved the services to the organization's new medical center in Hopewell.

A teacher pleads his case before the Employee Residency Review Committee in Trenton.

During the week prior to the Memorial Day weekend, Mercer County Clerk Paula Sollami Covello reminds Mercer County residents that the Clerk's office offers free Veteran ID cards.

Funeral services have been held for the New Jersey woman and boy whose bodies were found in their home after a 37-hour hostage standoff last weekend.

An astonishing video was posted on Saturday of a hearing to discuss new gun control laws in New Jersey .

From left,Trenton Mayor Tony Mack, accompanied by his attorney, Mark Davis, leaves the Clarkson S. Fisher federal courthouse in Trenton after attending a noon status conference on Monday, March 4, 2013.

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.