The line of mourners at the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul stretched around the block as Philadelphia prepared to bid farewell to Jerry Blavat Saturday.
Oklahoma's new attorney general wants to slow the pace of lethal injections as the state is set to execute nearly one person each month through the end of the year.
Life for chef Joe Brown changed dramatically on May 23, 2013. That day, customers were eating lunch inside Melange @ Haddonfield, his restaurant on Tanner Street. He spotted two police officers and two agents from the state of New Jersey, seeking to collect nearly $72,000 in back taxes.
Prosecutors say a man has been sentenced to 25 years in prison in a New Jersey slaying that occurred less than a year after he was acquitted of a separate homicide a dozen years ago. Hudson County prosecutors say 31-year-old Anthony Shuler of Jersey City was sentenced to the term Thursday in…
For now, customers can still get snapper soup with sherry on the side at the Cherry Hill Diner, a place where servers call you “hon” if they don’t know your name.
A federal judge put on hold parts of New Jersey’s new firearm law that restricted where guns can be brought, even for people with permits to carry the weapons.
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy invited a national political spotlight in his state of the state address, taking implicit aim at GOP rivals who criticize blue states for being “woke” while also calling for “responsible” government. Murphy marked his fifth state of the state Tuesday be…
A federal judge put on hold parts of New Jersey’s new firearm law that restricted where guns can be brought, even for people with permits to carry the weapons.
A man who helped set fire to a police vehicle in New Jersey’s capital city during protests against racial injustice following the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis has been sentenced to more than two years in federal prison. Kadeem Dockery was the last of four men sentenced to prison terms in connection with the May 31, 2020 riots in Trenton. The 31-year-old Trenton man received a 27-month term Tuesday, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Prosecutors have said Dockery lit an explosive device and tossed it through the open front driver’s side window of a Trenton police vehicle. He then removed his shirt and gave it to another man, who tried to stuff it in the car’s gas tank and ignite it.
New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy invited a national political spotlight in his state of the state address, taking implicit aim at GOP rivals who criticize blue states for being “woke” while also calling for “responsible” government. Murphy marked his fifth state of the state Tuesday before a joint session of the Democrat-led Legislature, which faces an election this year and as jockeying ahead of next year’s presidential contest unfolds. He didn’t mention Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, a potential 2024 White House contender, by name but alluded to his recent second inaugural when he said Florida is where “woke goes to die.” Murphy questioned whether such a statement means anything.
The state is accepting pre-applications to join the waiting list for the statewide Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher Program, which helps low-income residents pay for good housing.
A 6-year-old student intentionally shot and critically wounded his first-grade teacher in a Virginia classroom.
New Jersey has become the first state in the country to require public schools to teach media literacy to K-12 students as a way to combat misinformation, under a bill signed Wednesday by Gov. Phil Murphy.
For years, Carleen Roberts avoided learning how to cook. Her husband, James, happily prepared meals for their family, or they went out to a nearby restaurant or ordered takeout.
The image of a cute little mutt named Nipper, cocking his head to hear “His Master’s Voice” emanate from a vintage record player, once belonged to a Camden company that for much of the 20th century made the music, radios, phonographs and TVs that helped introduce America and the world to new…
We asked Santa to get to the bottom of some age-old Christmas mysteries.
A Camden County school district plans to equip its schools with a new tool: bullet-resistant portable shields to protect teachers and students in the event of an active shooter in the building.
GLOUCESTER CITY — A Delaware River town proud of its blue-collar history, its Irish heritage and its rough edges has been named “the cheapest place to live” in New Jersey.
A Camden addiction clinic has agreed to pay the federal government $3.15 million in civil and criminal penalties to settle a federal case alleging it made money illegally through a kickback scheme with another company providing methadone medication for its patients.
From its Camden headquarters, Hopeworks has trained and found jobs for 1,000 web designers, GIS analysts and other budding professionals — most of them young people of color — since 2000.
After backlash from educators and mental health advocates, New Jersey has backed down — for now — from a plan to eliminate school-based youth services programs that provide counseling to thousands of students in 63 districts, including Camden.
The digital alerts that debuted on Garden State highway signs last month may have displayed a bit too much Jersey attitude.
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An employee of Delilah’s Gentlemen’s Club in Philadelphia who stormed the Capitol with a pair of aspiring New Jersey Proud Boys pleaded guilty Tuesday to her role in the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Growing up in South Jersey, Army Maj. Jasmine Walker Motupalli set her sights on attending the U.S. Military Academy at West Point — mainly to spare her parents the cost of a college education.
Burlington County’s Willingboro Township has renamed the Levitt Parkway as Veterans Parkway in a tribute to those who served in the nation’s military and rebuking a piece of institutional racism in the township’s past.
About 20% of North Carolina residents have medical debt that is in collections, making it the state with the fourth-highest level of unpaid medical debt.
Sue Berkowitz’s son was born in 1993 with a heart defect. Three years later, Berkowitz and her husband lost their health insurance when her nonprofit employer lost its funding. Private insurance denied her 3-year-old son health coverage because of his pre-existing condition.
The country’s medical debt crisis is at its most dire in several parts of Texas, which is home to three of the worst 10 U.S. counties for medical debt, according to data analyzed by the Urban Institute.
Medical debt has become a nationwide crisis, with 13% of U.S. adults impacted by past-due medical bills, according to data collected by the Urban Institute, a Washington, D.C., public policy think tank.
Last November, a central New Jersey developer announced a plan to build three warehouses on nearly 2 million square feet of farmland in Pilesgrove Township, Salem County.