New Jersey

BERGEN COUNTY, NJ — A New Jersey rappper was found shot dead in an SUV in suburban New Jersey. He was also shot before the SUV was torched along with his body. The rapper, Kampane, real name Rhian Stout, was so badly burned it took a day for police to identify the body. The New York […]

ROCKAWAY TOWNSHIP, N.J.— Police say there was more on the menu than Munchkins and lattes during the late shift at a Dunkin’ Donuts in northern New Jersey. A 29-year-old female is facing prostitution charges after police say she took breaks to provide sex in exchange for money. Rockaway Township police launched an investigation known as […]

The Obama administration, leading non-profits and business experts gathered at Rutgers University’s Newark campus on Monday for the Urban Entrepreneur Summit to help minority entrepreneurs find ways to foster wealth within their communities. The event was a rare forum that allowed minority entrepreneurs to witness personal narratives of other successful minority entrepreneurs and obtain fundamental […]

NEWARK, N.J. — 19-year-old Rasul McNeil-Thomas was charged with murder yesterday for killing an off-duty police officer in a drive-by shooting. The Westward Patch reports: William C. Johnson, 45, a 16-year veteran of the Newark Police Department, who was assigned to the communications division, was unarmed and not working when he was shot shortly before 10 […]

NEW JERSEY –Finding a major part of the the 2011 budget proposal to be unconstitutional, the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the Christie administration to increase education aid to the state’s poorest school districts  by $500 million in the coming year. The New York Times reports: While the additional aid ordered by the court was […]

TRENTON, N.J. — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said he will not defy Tuesday’s state Supreme Court ruling to increase aid to low-income school districts, but called the decision legally faulty and bad education policy. He said it will be up to the Legislature to decide how to do it as it wrestles with the […]

SECAUCUS, N.J. — The new face of the Cavaliers is 14 years old, wears a bow tie and has battled disease since birth. Nick Gilbert looks nothing like LeBron James, but on Tuesday night he brought back all the hope that left Cleveland right along with its franchise player last summer. The Cavaliers got a […]

HADDONFIELD, N.J. — Track and field legend Carl Lewis finally found a court willing to help him get into the race for the New Jersey state Senate — but there’s a chance his run will be fleeting. A three-judge panel of the Philadelphia-based U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that Lewis’ name should […]

ATLANTIC CITY, N.J.– Larry Bogan knows precisely how much it costs for a bus ticket from Atlantic City back home to Pompano Beach, Fla.: $126. Unfortunately, that’s $126 more than he has at present. And so instead of cooking in a restaurant or driving a tractor trailer for someone like he used to do, Bogan […]

New Jersey — The abduction of 19-year-old Nadirah Ruffin brought a community together in hopes of finding her and bringing her back home. But the same can’t be said for revealing who the killer is. “Please come forward,” Atlantic County Prosecutor Ted Housel said Thursday afternoon during a news conference. “Now is the time to […]

TRENTON, N.J. — Nine-time Olympic gold medalist Carl Lewis should be allowed to continue his bid for the New Jersey Senate because Republicans have failed to prove he doesn’t live in the state, a judge ruled Wednesday. Administrative Law Judge John Schuster III recommended that a petition to strip Lewis’ name from the June primary […]

TRENTON, N.J. – A former Rutgers University freshman who prosecutors said used a webcam to spy on his roommate’s same-sex encounter was charged Wednesday with a hate crime and accused of deleting tweets and texts to cover up his tracks. Dharun Ravi, 19, was indicted in Middlesex County on 15 counts including bias intimidation and […]