Trenton News

TRENTON - The state Assembly took a step Friday toward putting a constitutional amendment on the November ballot that would change New Jersey's controversial bail system.

A government official in Pakistan says militants have killed an army captain and two soldiers in an attack in a tribal region near its border with Afghanistan.

Three persons were hospitalized after several thousand people tested their bravery by dashing alongside six fighting bulls through the slippery, rain-soaked streets of the northern city of Pamplona in the sixth running of the bulls at Spain's San Fermin festival.

So it is good news that Oakland has been granted $2 million, most of it from the Bergen County Open Space Trust Fund, to buy and raze six homes along the Ramapo River.

In this April 28, 2012, file photo, Tracy Morgan attends The Comedy Awards in New York.

While Times of Trenton reporter Mike Davis was experiencing Zumanjaro: Drop of Doom from 41 stories up with a Go Pro camera strapped to his hand, Times of Trenton photographer Martin Griff captured the experience at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson with both feet firmly on the ground.

The meeting was designed to educate the parent community on the upcoming standardized assessment that New Jersey students will be exposed to this coming school year.

Grady Blue III was arrested and charged with the shooting death of Naquan Ellis.

TRENTON - Assemblyman Reed Gusciora is calling on the state agency in charge of rebuilding the city's high school to do everything possible to maintain the building's historic elements.

The deficit in pension liabilities for public employees is the "big elephant in the room" for New Jersey's state budget, according to Montclair Republican Club President John Van Wagner.

Two months before the New Hampshire Republican Senate primary, Bob Smith was scrutinizing a shopping cart full of watermelons near the checkout line at Sully's Market.

JUNE 20: New Jersey Governor Chris Christie addresses the Faith and Freedom Coalition's 'Road to Majority' Policy Conference at the Omni Shoreham hotel June 20, 2014 in Washington, DC.

TRENTON - Amid the debate over taxes and pensions cuts, at least one aspect of the $32.5 billion budget that Gov. Chris Christie signed less than two weeks ago was virtually overlooked in the shuffle.

HAMILTON - A 24-year-old Trenton man who said his vehicle was shot at in Hamilton on June 29 told police he no longer wanted their assistance as his story became more muddled during attempts to piece together an evening in which he said he blacked out drunk several times.

Kareen White was arrested on a warrant for a gun violation on Tuesday and charged with two more gun violations, police said.

Jafar Lewis, a 26-year-old Trenton resident fatally shot Friday night, performing as hip-hop artist Young Farr last year.

The station on the Princeton campus serves a two-car train known as the Dinky that shuttles passengers to and from the larger Princeton Junction station.

For the last 25 years, Frank Fanning has participated in the weeklong Anchor House Ride for Runaways - even though he first joined the charity fundraiser as a way to honor a fellow firefighter fallen in the line of duty.

Would you like the chance to decide if New Jersey's 120 lawmakers should work full time and be barred from holding any other job while in office? Assemblyman Reed Gusciora is sponsoring a measure that would give voters that opportunity.

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