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NJ.com
April 24, 2018
Jury selection begins today for the murder trial of a 21-year-old Jersey City man accused of fatally shooting a man in the city's Marion section in 2015. Marcus Mair, of Dales Avenue, is charged with murdering 21-year-old Donald Gadson, who was found by police officers on Oct. 16, 2015, outside a MarionÃâà...
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
Fewer hospitals in New Jersey earned an "A" for patient safety in the latest national report card released Tuesday. .... (Patti Sapone | NJ Advance Media) ... Both CarePoint Health-Christ Hospital in Jersey City and Virtua Memorial Hospital in Mount Holly slipped from an A to a C, according to the report.
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
Witnesses to a late-night fire on Bergen Avenue in Jersey City that displaced dozens said the blaze was like a scene from the 1998 blockbuster, "Armageddon." The inferno at 446 and 444 Bergen Ave. sent chunks of debris flying into the air, sparked flames so intense that firefighters needed to evacuate theÃâà...
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
A man and woman have been arrested and charged in connection to a March 18 hit-and-run that left a Jersey City woman seriously injured, authorities announced. Julius Smith, 39, and Shakira Stuckey, 38, both of Jersey City, were arrested last week following an investigation by the Hudson CountyÃâà...
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
A man and woman have been arrested and charged in connection to a March 18 hit-and-run that left a Jersey City woman seriously injured, authorities announced. Julius Smith, 39, and Shakira Stuckey, 38, both of Jersey City, were arrested last week following an investigation by the Hudson CountyÃâà...
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
New Jersey state Senate President Stephen Sweeney slammed the new contract for Jersey City teachers, saying the deal is "irresponsible." Sweeney blasted the Jersey City Board of Education in a statement on Friday for approving the agreement, which will increase district spending on teacher salaries byÃâà...
NBC 10 Philadelphia
April 24, 2018
First, Jared Kushner's big plans for a skyscraper in Manhattan fell apart. Now, it's the turn of his major twin-tower project across the river in New Jersey. Plans for a pair of gleaming, 66-story residential towers in Jersey City championed by Kushner when he was CEO of his family company are in danger ofÃâà...
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
JERSEY CITY — A much-ballyhooed effort by Mayor Steve Fulop's administration to increase affordable housing options in the city's upscale Downtown neighborhoods is running into trouble. The developers behind a planned 35-story, 432-unit tower on Marin Boulevard originally slated to include 87Ãâà...
WPIX 11 New York
April 24, 2018
JERSEY CITY, NJ — Police identified the body of a girl found in a suitcase along PATH tracks in New Jersey as a missing girl from Virginia. The exact cause of Te'Myah Layauna Plummer's death is still unclear, but police arrested her father in Puerto Rico. Travis Lamont Plummer was taken into custodyÃâà...
NJ.com
April 24, 2018
"What makes it even worse is that the Jersey City Board of Education wrote a blank check that taxpayers in every other school district in New Jersey are going to have to reach into their pockets to pay," Sweeney said. "That's because Jersey City continues to get $151 million a year more in state aid than itÃâà...
Patch.com
April 15, 2018
JERSEY CITY, NJ — The investigation into a baby's body found near the PATH tracks in Jersey City is ongoing, the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office told Patch. The HCPO is seeking the public's help in identifying the baby. "The investigation is ongoing and pending the medical examiner's report,"Ãâà...
NJ.com
April 15, 2018
Spring is here at last, and Jersey City residents took advantage of the beautiful weather today at the city's Harborside Atrium in Exchange Place. As part of the second annual Spring Festival, kids and families enjoyed a number of activities inside the Harborside Atrium, like arts and crafts and a bouncyÃâà...
Patch.com
April 15, 2018
A New Jersey physics teacher was detained this past week by ICE, even though he was given a death sentence in the Middle East and now faces likely deportation. Ahmed AbdelBasit Mohammad, a teacher in Union City, was seeking asylum in the United States because of what was described as brutalÃâà...
NJ.com
April 15, 2018
Phil Murphy is touting as he sells his first state budget proposal: devoting a few million taxpayer dollars toward improving New Jersey's downtowns and ... The program has invested more than $56 million in 187 neighborhoods -- such as cities like Newark, Jersey City, and Paterson and suburbs likeÃâà...
NJ.com
April 14, 2018
Consalvos said IXP has worked in New Jersey in places like Hightstown, Lawrence and Princeton, and outside of the state as well. The company came under fire in Danbury, Connecticut, where it runs the 911 dispatch center, by the local police union, which alleges that city's privatization of dispatching hasÃâà...
NJ.com
April 14, 2018
A 26-year-old man walked into a local hospital Wednesday evening with a gunshot wound shortly after a gunfire was reported in the Greenville section of Jersey City, authorities said. At approximately 6:30 p.m., police were dispatched to the area of Neptune Avenue and Old Bergen Road on reports of shotsÃâà...
NorthJersey.com
April 13, 2018
A teacher from Jersey City facing a death sentence in Egypt was detained by ICE officers last week, according to an online petition dedicated to helping him. Ahmed Abdel-Basit Mohamed, 33, a physics teacher at Rising Star Academy in Union City, was held at an Elizabeth detention center onÃâà...
NJ.com
April 13, 2018
JERSEY CITY — The City Council gave initial approval to a new demolition ordinance on Wednesday night. The move comes as Mayor Steve Fulop has ordered a six-month halt to almost all home demolitions in an effort to curb construction of "Bayonne box"-style homes. The order resulted in howls ofÃâà...
NJ.com
April 13, 2018
An early morning fire at a multi-family home on Garrison Avenue in Jersey City Wednesday displaced 10 residents, authorities said. The blaze, which was reported at 12:20 a.m., caused extensive damage to the second floor of 36 Garrison, Jersey City public safety spokeswoman KimberlyÃâà...
News 12 New Jersey
March 23, 2018
News 12 New Jersey spoke with six Monmouth County students who will be participating in the rally in Red Bank this weekend. The students say that they are ... Rallies will also be held in Asbury Park, Haddon Heights, Hoboken, Jersey City, Morristown, Newark, Ocean City, Princeton and Union County.
NJ.com
March 23, 2018
A man facing two counts of death by auto was drunk and driving recklessly when he caused the Jersey City crash that claimed the lives of two Union City residents last month, authorities said yesterday. Alex Torres, 32, of Union City, was driving with a suspended license on Feb. 11 at the time of the crashÃâà...
NJ.com
March 23, 2018
The three high school students were named Hudson County delegates for the annual competition after earning gold medals at the Jersey City Medical Center/RWJ Barnabas Health STEM Showcase earlier this month. ... N.J. Water Environment Federation/U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize Regional.
NJ.com
March 23, 2018
If you're looking for what is billed as delightful and devastating entertainment, then look no further than FM in Jersey City on Wednesday, March 28, where Lillian Bustle will provide a hand-picked lineup of her favorite Burlesque stars in Flipside Burlesque at FM. With acts ranging from classic to comedic,Ãâà...
NJ.com
March 23, 2018
A major accounting firm has given away 1,500 books to 720 kindergarten through fifth grade students at BelovED Charter School in Jersey City. Kids participated in a book fair, games and classroom reading parties with 80 KPMG employees, who volunteered their time on March 14 and made sure eachÃâà...
NJ.com
March 23, 2018
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NJ.com
March 23, 2018
JERSEY CITY — Metropolitan AME Zion Church will honor Martin Luther King Jr. on the 50th anniversary of his appearance at that church in 1968, days before his assassination. The civil rights leader spoke to 2,000 inside the Bergen Avenue church on March 27, 1968 as part of a tour of New JerseyÃâà...
NJ.com
March 22, 2018
People across the country are expected to join them at more than 800 "sister marches," including roughly two dozen in New Jersey. Marchers will gather in Newark, Morristown, Jersey City, Princeton and Asbury Park, among other towns. Larger marches are expected to take place in New York City andÃâà...
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