Category Archives: New Jersey News

A Denville man remained jailed Thursday after authorities seized more than 100 containers of homemade explosive material from his residence, prompting evacuations and a multijurisdictional investigation that prosecutors said carries “national significance.” Joseph Rizos, 37, a registered Republican voter from Avondale Road, was arrested June 24 following a motor vehicle stop and the execution ofContinue reading “Denville Republican jailed after 100 homemade explosive devices seized from”

A Latino civil rights group is suing a Pennsylvania-based property management company for denying two residents of Camden County, New Jersey, access to rental units based solely on their immigration status and other protected traits. It is the second time the group has sued the company. MALDEF (Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund) andContinue reading “Civil rights group is suing Autumn Ridge Apartments for violating discrimination law”

The quiet, wooded hills of Blairstown were painted with the hellish glow of an inferno in the earliest hours of Tuesday morning, a blaze that consumed not just a home on Mohican Road, but a towering legacy of American grit, art, and community. The news strikes like a physical blow to the gut, a savageContinue reading “Beloved Blairstown residents found unconscious, victims of a fiery conflagration “

A 39-year-old Barnegat Township man was charged with assaulting an officer after he allegedly rammed his van into a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent in New Jersey earlier this week, according to prosecutors. Eduardo Cruz Garcia was charged by criminal complaint with assaulting a federal officer while the officer was engaged in official dutiesContinue reading “Man charged with ramming car into ICE agent in New Jersey”

On the afternoon of Aug. 12, 2026, the moon will drift in front of the sun. It will not block it entirely, here in New Jersey. But for about an hour and a half, a small, dark bite will appear to take a nibble out of the sun’s upper edge. And you are invited toContinue reading “For 91 minutes in August, New Jersey will view a partial solar eclipse”

Nearly eight decades after serving aboard the Battleship New Jersey during World War II, 101-year-old veteran Paul Robbins returned Monday to the vessel where he spent some of the most formative years of his life. Robbins, believed to be the last surviving World War II sailor who served aboard the historic battleship, traveled from hisContinue reading “Last World War II veteran returns to Battleship New Jersey after 80 years”

by Nikita Biryukov, New Jersey Monitor A legislative panel approved legislation Thursday that would direct the state’s energy regulators to begin soliciting bids for new nuclear power plants in the state. The Assembly’s utilities committee approved the legislation in a unanimous vote despite concerns from some that it would saddle ratepayers with further cost increasesContinue reading “NJ Assembly panel advances bill aimed at nuclear power expansion”

by Sophie Nieto-Munoz, New Jersey Monitor After a week of escalating clashes between federal immigration agents and protesters outside a Newark detention facility, Gov. Mikie Sherrill announced Friday that New Jersey State Police would take over the area outside of Delaney Hall and establish protected protest zones in an effort to “cool things down” andContinue reading “Gov. Sherrill implements protest zones to ‘cool things down’ at Newark detention center”

Let’s get one thing straight right off the top: the American Medical Association’s political arm, AMPAC, is spending your money like a riverboat gambler with a stolen wallet. And tonight, that money is flowing straight into the Democratic primary campaign of Dr. Tina Shah. That’s the same organization, friends and neighbors, that fought the veryContinue reading “PAC wants voters to choose Dr. Tina Shah to pull the plug on Medicare”

by Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor Seton Hall University doubled down Thursday on its yearslong battle to keep secret a 2019 report on how the school handled a priest’s sex abuse of seminarians, asking a state appellate panel to reverse a lower court’s order to disclose the report and related records. Patrick Papalia, an attorneyContinue reading “Seton Hall University renews secrecy bid in priest abuse cases”

Three people are accused of turning stolen trucks and passenger vehicles into inventory for a criminal marketplace that operated with the cold efficiency of a small business and the moral discipline of a pickpocket. Prosecutors say the operation moved stolen vehicles through storage lots, residences and commercial properties across New Jersey, scrubbing identities from enginesContinue reading “Three people were arrested in operating an auto theft trafficking ring”

Two months. Sixty-eight votes. A nation on fire—war, inflation, a justice system in collapse—and where is Congressman Tom Kean Jr.? No one knows. But we know he isn’t working. We know he’s been active, however—trading stocks while his constituents twist in the wind. And the only thing more pathetic than his absence is his contemptContinue reading “America needs & deserves representatives with the courage to show up”

There is a particular kind of political candidate who arrives at the door of a progressive district carrying credentials so misaligned with the job description that the sheer audacity of the application functions as its own argument against it. Rebecca Bennett is that candidate, assembled from components that would make perfect sense in a differentContinue reading “The wrong résumé for New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District”

The fight over a proposed data center in this rural Sussex County township turned violent Thursday night when an Andover Township police officer, who was identified as the mayor’s son, grabbed a resident, shoved him toward a doorway, and then slammed him to the floor, although the man offered no physical threat, video recorded atContinue reading “Secret Andover Township data center scheme triggers fireworks amid denials”

With the Democratic primary in New Jersey’s 7th congressional district now just weeks away, the race to challenge one of the nation’s most vulnerable Republican incumbents is taking a negative turn. Evidence suggests that candidate Michael Roth is planning to launch a wave of attack ads targeting the Democratic frontrunner, Rebecca Bennett, as a newContinue reading “Is Roth planning attack on Bennett in New Jersey’s 7th congressional district?”

The peach bud that should be swelling with promise right now is brown and brittle. It hangs from a branch in Salem County like a small, dead bell. John Hurff has been farming these trees for more than 40 years, and he cannot remember a spring that felt quite like this one. “The peaches areContinue reading “New Jersey drought may impact on agriculture, particularly parching peaches”

Among U.S. metro areas with populations of 200,000 or more, Trenton recorded the nation’s worst foreclosure rate in January 2026, with one filing for every 1,087 housing units, according to ATTOM, a leading U.S. property data platform and analytics provider. Nationwide, there were a total of 40,534 U.S. properties with foreclosure filings, which include defaultContinue reading “Trenton is tops in housing foreclosures as residents complain about deed theft”