Trenton News

CHRIS CHRISTIE sometimes compares governing New Jersey to parenting. He did it again last week when asked at a town hall meeting about pending legislation to limit firearm magazine capacity to 10 rounds.

TRENTON - The land where famed steak house Pete Lorenzo's Cafe once stood will be turned into a parking lot, at least for the next three years, while developers work to tie up loose ends on plans for an apartment and office building.

New Jersey State Prison in Trenton. State corrections officer Elegia Then was going about her job one Saturday last month, letting prisoners out of their cells to shower, when she was jumped and beaten.

Now that disgraced Trenton Mayor Tony Mack has finally been forced out of office, the spotlight has returned to Trenton's economic future and the question of how the struggling capital city can leverage regional and national trends to experience the type of revitalization that we are seeing in Newark, New Brunswick and Jersey City.

Former Police Director Jim Golden, who is running for mayor in the May municipal election, announced he is going to be running on a slate with three at-large council candidates.

The right clay, a nearby waterway and access to a workforce helped businessmen combine practicality and aesthetics to turn 19th century Trenton into a city known worldwide for pottery.

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The corner of Rosa Parks Boulevard and 12th Avenue qualifies as one of the city's crime hotspots.

MERCER COUNTY -- The Trenton and Robbinsville St. Patrick's Day Parades kick of simultaneously in separate events this afternoon in Mercer County.

Speaking before the New Jersey Law and Public Safety Committee in Trenton, N.J., on Thursday, 9-year-old competition shooter Shyanne Roberts spoke in opposition to a proposed bill that would further limit magazine capacity to 10 rounds.

Wide angle view from the bench in a courtroom in the Mercer County Criminal Courthouse in Trenton on South Warren Street.

Richard Kachmar is sworn in as Trenton city clerk by deputy clerk Cordelia Staton.

The verdicts in Christopher Asch and Michael Van Hise's conspiracy trial came a year after a conviction in a headline-grabbing case of a police officer accused of plotting abductions and cannibalism.

TRENTON - New Jersey homeowners' tax bills increased less than 2 percent for the second year in a row, a celebratory Gov. Chris Christie announced Thursday at a town hall in Mount Laurel.

Trenton resident Jim Golden speaks at a Trenton City Council meeting at City Hall on Thursday, December 6, 2012.

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.