Mercer County News

When it comes to being a professional musician, there are plenty of challenges, especially when it comes to marriage.

Pharmacy manager Steve Ettman stood in the quiet, mostly empty parking lot of the Westside Plaza shopping center yesterday and announced he was "thrilled." Moments earlier, Mayor Douglas Palmer, Sen.

A former Bridgewater-Raritan Regional High School art teacher was charged with exhibiting obscene material to a minor and child abuse after, police said, he showed a pornographic video to two Hightstown High School students and made sexually aggressive comments to them during the past four months.

The three Mercer County Republican freeholder candidates blasted the county government for spending taxpayer money on a festival they call "redundant" and "frivolous." With fireworks and celebrations in several Mercer County towns, freeholder candidate Joe D'Angelo said, last Saturday's Freedom Festival at Mercer County Park seems like a duplicate ...

With the primary elections now past us and the general election still seemingly far in the future for most folks, the hot topic in New Jersey politics centers around who will be chosen to represent the major parties in the newly created post of lieutenant governor.

Peter A. Inverso, recipient of the Legacy of Fatherhood Award listens to Dr. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr.

The second annual CASA Kids 5K, held last month at the Princeton Pike Corporate Center, helped the organization raise both funds and awareness of the needs of abused and neglected children.

State Police are investigating the death of a Mercer County man whose body was found in Bass River State Forest near Route 539 Monday evening.

A Mercer County man was killed by a River Line light-rail train Saturday night while walking along the tracks near the township station off Route 130.

Two events this past weekend here served as much-needed antidotes to the senseless violence that took the life of 13-year-old Tamrah Leonard last week.

Mercer County coaches Kip Harrison . Brian Giallella and Tom Brettell react as Philadelphia Catholicis Joe Aloia is picked off at first base in the first inning of the Carpenter Cup quarterfinals played at Meiklejohn Stadium at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Jim Blanda to Lead Camden County Improvement Authority For Immediate Release: June 17, 2009 Contacts: KEN SHUTTLEWORTH 472-8837 Directors of the Camden County Improvement Authority have promoted Jim Blanda to the position of executive director to oversee the county's economic development efforts.

Jealousy over a spectacular coat is the touchstone for conflict when the hit musical, "Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," comes to Mercer County Community College's Kelsey Theatre.

For the third year in a row, Art All Night is inviting folks to stay up way past their bedtimes enjoying, creating and buying art.

Due to overwhelming demand, Mercer County will hold a second Passport Day for area residents 2-7 P.M. Wednesday at the Hopewell Township Municipal Complex, 201 Washington Crossing -- Pennington Road in Titusville.

At 10:30 tomorrow morning, a column of tan combat boots stretching as far as the eye can see will step off from the World War II memorial on West State Street and march into a Trenton downtown that will be transformed into New Jersey's version of the Canyon of Heroes.

Investigators seized five pounds of marijuana from a Falls Township apartment Monday night as a Trenton police drug investigation unfolded.

"We and our folks from the HMFA were really shook yesterday by the attack on one of our own," County Executive Brian Hughes told about 75 workers who assembled for one of two sessions yesterday morning.

A 16-year-old has become the first confirmed case of swine flu here, according to the county health department.

Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency employee Chris Niemann, 48, was stabbed at least three times in the upper back and leg by an unknown assailant who robbed him of a cell phone, $50 in cash and a key to his state-issued vehicle.