Trenton News

TRENTON - New Jersey's nearly-defunct affordable housing agency has to start meeting again next week, or its board members will be forced into a courtroom to face contempt charges, a state appeals court ruled today.

Trenton will send more than $757,000 in state aid for the 2014-2015 school year, a 4.7 percent increase from the funds offered for the current school year, according to figures released Feb. 27 by the New Jersey Department of Education .

Jersey punks, it's time to look back. "No Slam Dancing, No Stage Diving, No Spikes: An Oral History of the Legendary City Gardens," the new must-read book from authors Amy Yates Wuelfing and Steven Di Lodovico, takes an exhaustive look at the history of the iconic Trenton club.

With talk coming out of Trenton in recent weeks about some top Democrats who want to discuss hiking the gas and millionaires' taxes , one legislator actually wants to lower a tax we all pay - but history shows the possibility of success is not high.

Gov. Chris Christie spoke yesterday at the Conservative Political Action Committee meeting, where presidential candidates audition for the party base.

They say a mother knows, Rebecca House said today, and for 26 years she's never felt that her daughter is dead.

It's New Jersey's ONLY ALL LIVE -ALL LOCAL-ALL NIGHT SHOW, with me, Jersey Guy Ray Rossi - "el rey de la noche" - merely a guy with a microphone, transmitter, and internet connection.

An Assembly Transportation Committee hearing to discuss the mass transit mass confusion at the Super Bowl - postponed Feb. 24 because of what the committee chair termed a refusal to cooperate - is on again for Monday.

Michael M. Holman, left, and Dante Martin, right, both 18 of Trenton, are charged in the beating death of a Guatemalan teen during a robbery last month.

History is a bland subject for many people. On the other hand there are those of us who treasure the photos and newspaper articles and stories from ages past.

Poet, performance artist, playwright , and novelist Ntozake Shange was born Paulette Williams on October 18, 1948, in Trenton, New Jersey.

With the Christie administration doing almost nothing to promote new health insurance options available to the uninsured through the Affordable Care Act, a coalition of non-profit and advocacy groups Wednesday announced its statewide enrollment goals and the launch of a grassroots campaign to reach them.

When the proposal for Camden came, there were other naysayers, who said 'Well, you did it in Newark, but can you do it in Camden?' CAMDEN - At a ceremonial groundbreaking for a new "renaissance" school that will bear his family's name, Democratic powerbroker George Norcross III, with Gov. Chris Christie sitting just a few feet away, took the ... (more)

Three vehicles left idling outside Burlington County homes weren't idle long. Authorities say thieves made off with two unattended vehicles in Westampton.

It's New Jersey's ONLY ALL LIVE -ALL LOCAL-ALL NIGHT SHOW, with me, Jersey Guy Ray Rossi - "el rey de la noche" - merely a guy with a microphone, transmitter, and internet connection.

The appointment of David Hespe to succeed outgoing Education Commissioner Chris Cerf is one of the issues to be addressed at today's state Board of Education meeting.

Rev. Canon John Sosnowski, right, marks the sign of the cross on the forehead of Joseph Gresko across from the Trenton Transit Center on Wednesday, March 5, 2014.

Earlier this week, Trenton has been discussing a tax hike, that would raise the gas tax as one of the ways to help balance the budget.

Kathleen Dieal says she can't afford to live in the county she works for. With a weekly pay of less than $600, Dieal commutes from Trenton to her job at the Monmouth County Division of Social Services that she says is "understaffed."

Council members decided to amend the agenda for their regularly scheduled meeting to include the action of appointing Muschal to the interim post.