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Democratic borough council candidates Brandis A. Puryear and Travis Amaker are making residents aware that the New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) mobile unit will be making a visit to Roselle, stopping at Borough Hall, 210 Chestnut Street, on May 6, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Although widely known as progressive crime fighters, whoContinue reading “New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission mobile unit will visit Roselle on May 6”

Gun violence is still a major public health concern in the United States, with firearm suicide and homicide accounting for the majority of gun deaths that might have been prevented if it was more difficult for people to get their hands on these deadly weapons. In 2020, 70,555 people died by suicide and homicide withContinue reading “Firearm scarcity can stop many deaths”

Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst has postponed the Power in the Pines Open House and Airshow, tentatively scheduled for May 2022. Due to recent and ongoing demands at Joint Base MDL, base officials decided that it is in the best interest of all involved to postpone the airshow until 2023. “Over the last year, JB MDL supportedContinue reading “Joint Base MDL postpones 2022 Power in the Pines airshow”

by Dana DiFilippo, New Jersey Monitor Citizens can now investigate the demographics of their police departments in a new public database unveiled Thursday by the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office. The police diversity dashboard is intended to increase transparency, two years after state lawmakers passed a law requiring agencies to work toward making their staff asContinue reading “N.J. police officers are overwhelmingly white and male, data shows”

Attorney General Merrick Garland must resign for failing to take action against disgraced former President Donald Trump and his co-conspirators for trying to overturn the 2020 presidential election and other federal crimes, according to progressive Democrat Lisa McCormick. McCormick is asking New Jersey residents to sign a petition sponsored by the public interest organization FreeContinue reading “New Jersey progressive Democrat joins movement to fire US Attorney General”

Environmental lawyer Steven Donziger was freed on Monday after 993 days of detention, including 45 days in prison, and he is back in the fight against Chevron over the oil company’s liability for pollution in the Ecuadorian rainforest. Chevron, which has refused to honor a 2011 Ecuadorian court order to pay $9.5 billion in compensationContinue reading “Steven Donziger is back in the fight to force Chevron to pay for its pollution”

Global economic prospects have been severely set back by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a crisis that unfolds even as the global economy has not yet fully recovered from the pandemic, as well as greed that is unnecessarily driving up prices. “In the matter of a few weeks, the world has yet again experienced a majorContinue reading “Global economic prospects suffer setbacks from war, pandemic & greed”

United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, and United States Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.), a member of the House Ways and Means Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner Charles Rettig expressing concerns about higher IRS tax audit ratesContinue reading “Lawmakers urge IRS to stop unfairly auditing low-income Americans”

Hudson County Prosecutor Esther Suarez said three Jersey City men were arrested in connection with a scheme to defraud Uber and Lyft. Suarez said Muhammad Khan, 21, Haq Khan, 24, and Yasir Raza, 34, were arrested after attempting to defraud the ridesharing companies. The three allegedly attempted to collect insurance proceeds for fictitious accidents theyContinue reading “Jersey City conmen tried to trick taxis with totaled Tesla”

Tombstones were knocked over and cracked in half in Quaker Old Friends Cemetery in Mansfield, off Route 206 in Burlington County, after vandals deliberately destroyed the monuments and grave markers. Mayor Marcial Mojena of Mansfield Township says vandalism to the headstones has been going on for several years but the Burlington County Republican did not explainContinue reading “Mansfield Mayor Marcial Mojena troubled by toppled tombstones”

After this publication reported that Roselle Mayor Donald A. Shaw purchased a home in Elizabeth with his wife Kimberly M Sharrock-Shaw and that the family agreed the property would be used as their principal residence as a condition for borrowing $627,288 from a state-licensed mortgage bank, the cowardly official has refused to come forward toContinue reading “Mayor posts bizarre Jay-Z response after being caught in residency fraud”

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.) was cited for trying to bring a loaded gun through TSA at Charlotte Douglas International Airport, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department confirmed with Queen City News (QCN). The exact citation has been classified as a “weapon law violation.” According to the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the loaded Staccato 9mm handgun was detectedContinue reading “Madison Cawthorn is a dangerous fool”

Monmouth County police are searching for the gunman who fired a weapon at an unidentified person in Asbury Park, causing serious injuries overnight. Police released few details other than that officers responded to reports of shots fired in the 600 block of Pine Street shortly before midnight. When police arrived at the scene, officers foundContinue reading “Police probe Asbury Park shooting”

Police in Trenton are investigating a shooting incident that injured a firefighter. The firefighter was wounded around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night after being struck by one of two stray bullets that pierced the back of the firehouse at 460 Calhoun Street in Trenton, where Fire Company 1: Engine 1 is headquartered. Police say one bulletContinue reading “Trenton firefighter grazed by bullet”

A double shooting in Burlington County left one man dead and a woman injured, after two gunmen wearing hooded sweatshirts and masks approached the vehicle and opened fire. The victims were found in a car around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday along the 200 block of Ivy Road in Edgewater Park Township. The Burlington County Prosecutor’s OfficeContinue reading “Double shooting in Burlington County killed 23-year-old man, injures woman”

Ever since Sir Ronald Ross discovered malaria parasites in an  Anopheles mosquito in 1897, controlling insect vectors has played an increasingly important role in reducing the burden of the disease. For decades after World War II, indoor residual spraying (IRS) with insecticides was the only weapon against mosquitoes and proved a blunt and reasonably effective instrument for protecting peopleContinue reading “COVID-19 sparked a rise in the global burden of malaria during 2020”

A traffic snarl caused by Assemblyman Reginald W. Atkins has angered residents and former elected officials who are calling out the politician for his arrogance after he shut down municipal roads for the grand opening of his new office. “Please explain to me the genius of the 20th district legislators closing down 1st Avenue inContinue reading “Assemblyman angers area advocates”

On Nov. 16, 2017, U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez stood outside a Newark courthouse and thanked his lawyers, his Senate colleagues Cory Booker and Lindsey Graham and his children, for sticking by him through an 11-week federal bribery trial. ‘Bribery Bob’ survived an indictment in which the Obama administration accused him of benefiting from about $1Continue reading “‘Bribery Bob’ Menendez buying a seat in Congress for his unaccomplished son”

Two New Jersey brothers have been charged with fatally shooting a grandmother who was celebrating her 63rd birthday on her front porch in Newark last year and was killed as she rushed to protect her grandchildren from gunfire. Debra Derrick, 63, was killed more than a year ago on March 11, 2021, according to aContinue reading “Killer siblings charged for shooting courageous Newark grandmother”